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Minnesota RØKKR sticking with 2021 roster heading into Call of Duty: Vanguard

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Time Stamp: September 9, 2021 6:04 PM - Modified On: September 9, 2021 - Published By:
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The Minnesota RØKKR will enter the 2022 Call of Duty League season with the same starting four it ended the 2021 season with, the franchise announced today.  With Minnesota’s lineup of Standy, Attach, Priestahh, and MajorManiak, the team finished fourth at last month’s CDL Playoffs and won the Stage Five Major after a historic reverse sweep of the Toronto Ultra. Minnesota and Toronto, along with 2021 CDL champions Atlanta FaZe, are the only teams in the league expected to retain the same lineup heading into CoD: Vanguard.  RØKKR COO Brett

T1’s COO John Kim dies

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Time Stamp: July 16, 2021 8:35 AM - Modified On: July 16, 2021 - Published By:
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John Kim, the COO of South Korean esports organization T1, has passed away today after being hospitalized on July 7 due to health issue. He was working with the organization since October 2019 and played an instrumental role in building T1. “It is with profound sadness that we inform you of the passing of our COO, John Kim,” T1 said in the announcement. “After being hospitalized on July 7 due to health issues, John passed away on July 16, 2021.” “John has been instrumental in building T1, worked tirelessly for

Ethereum Scaling Solution Polygon Partners Community Gaming to Support Instant Payments in E-Sports

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Time Stamp: July 15, 2021 6:46 PM - Modified On: July 15, 2021 - Published By:
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Polygon has partnered with Community Gaming in order to enable scalable E-sports tournaments. Built for grassroots tournament organizers, Community Gaming’s platform has been designed to  make it easier to develop custom e-sports tournaments within minutes with preconfigured payments. As noted in a release shared with CI: “Without any background knowledge of how wallets or smart contracts work, tournament organizers on Community Gaming can now seamlessly deploy their esports tournaments onto the Polygon network, allowing for instant player payments.” The Polygon team has developed what they claim is the “premier” Ethereum

WePlay! to organize a $100,000 CS:GO league for academy teams

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Time Stamp: July 7, 2021 9:31 AM - Modified On: July 7, 2021 - Published By:
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WePlay! has revealed the creation of a $100,000 CS:GO league for academy teams in partnership with Astralis Talent, FURIA Academy, Young Ninjas (NiP), Na’Vi Junior, mouz NXT (mousesports), BIG Academy, Virtus Pro Prodigy, and Fnatic, who will be announcing its academy team soon, according to HLTV. The competing teams in the WePlay! Academy League season one must have at least four players between the ages of 16 and 20 to participate in the tournament. The league will start on July 19 with an online round-robin group stage that will see

WePlay! announces $100,000 academy league

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Time Stamp: July 7, 2021 3:30 AM - Modified On: July 7, 2021 - Published By:
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WePlay! has announced the creation of an academy league in partnership with eight top organisations, with the event featuring a $100,000 prize pool and an offline playoff stage. Included among the invited teams are NAVI Junior, mouz NXT, and Young Ninjas, as well as Fnatic Rising, whose roster will be announced in short order, HLTV.org has learned. WePlay Academy League Season 1 will solely feature teams that have at least four players between the ages of 16-20, and kick off with an online round-robin group stage on July 19, from

Dream Games raises $155M at a $1B valuation as its Royal Match puzzle game hits a royal flush

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Time Stamp: June 30, 2021 7:00 AM - Modified On: June 30, 2021 - Published By:
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Istanbul in Turkey continues to prove itself as very fertile ground for casual gaming startups, which appear to be growing from small seedlings into sizable trees. In the latest development, Dream Games — a developer of mobile puzzle games — has raised $155 million in funding, a Series B that values the startup at $1 billion. This is a massive leap for the company, which raised $50 million (the largest Series A in Turkey’s startup history) only 3.5 months ago. This latest round is being co-led by Index Ventures and

Virtex Stadium is an Esports VR World Coming 2021

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Time Stamp: June 28, 2021 10:24 AM - Modified On: June 28, 2021 - Published By:
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Love watching esports but wish the viewing experience was more immersive? Well, that’s the goal of Virtex’s latest platform, Virtex Stadium. Envisioning a virtual stadium where friends can gather to watch the latest live esports matches, Virtex Stadium is slated to arrive later this year for PC VR headsets. Designed as a social virtual reality (VR) experience, Virtex Stadium will allow fans to watch matches in 3D at the centre of each stadium with each arena custom made for a specific videogame. Stadiums will be hosted on servers that can

NIP to field LNZ in BLAST Premier Spring Final, IEM Cologne Play-In

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Time Stamp: June 15, 2021 8:50 AM - Modified On: June 15, 2021 - Published By:
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Linus "⁠LNZ⁠" Holtäng will be NIP's fifth player in the final stretch of the current tournament season, HLTV.org has confirmed. This means that he will get the chance to play with the team on LAN as the Ninjas are slated to compete in the Play-In stage of IEM Cologne, which will be held in a studio environment next month. LNZ, who made his debut for NIP in IEM Summer after being promoted from the academy roster, will also take to the server in the BLAST Premier Spring Final, which will

Young Ninjas replace Mann3n with Ro1f

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Time Stamp: June 4, 2021 5:15 PM - Modified On: June 4, 2021 - Published By:
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Young Ninjas have added Kalle "⁠Ro1f⁠" Johansson to the roster to replace Tim "⁠Mann3n⁠" Isak, NIP has announced. A change of direction of the academy project saw the departing player be allowed to explore new opportunities as he "is ready to take the next step in his career," the announcement reads. "Honestly, the success of Young Ninjas came so much quicker than we ever anticipated," NIP COO Jonas Gundersen said in a statement. "We’ve had to take a step back and fully evaluate our goals, and the idea has always

Activision launches new in-house studio for mobile games

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Time Stamp: June 2, 2021 11:39 PM - Modified On: June 2, 2021 - Published By:
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The creator of Call of Duty has launched a new in-house studio dedicated to the development of mobile games, called Activision Mobile. According to a job listing that is looking for a senior producer, the studio is based in Santa Monica, California. It will create “the best AAA mobile games in the world.” The studio’s first game will be a mobile title in the Call of Duty franchise. The new Call of Duty mobile game is rumored to be Warzone Mobile. Its development was first confirmed in September 2020 through