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

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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

Netflix Reportedly to Offer Video Games, Hires Ex-EA Exec

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Top GamesNetflix has reportedly begun an expansion into video game development. / Photo courtesy of NetflixNetflix has hired a former Electronic Arts and Zynga executive, Mike Verdu, to lead the company's push into video games, per a report from Bloomberg.Verdu will take on the role of vice president of game development, reporting directly to Netflix's chief operating officer, Greg Peters, per Netflix. He was previously a Facebook vice president in charge of bringing games and other software to Oculus platforms.Netflix plans to offer its first games through its streaming platform

Nintendo reportedly using Switch OLED model to test markets, improve profit margins

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The new Nintendo Switch OLED model is going to add some nice, albeit small, changes to the popular hybrid console when it launches on Oct. 8. And in a new report from Bloomberg, it appears this was done as a way to improve the company’s profit margins and test a new part of an existing market.  Nintendo tends to release updated hardware at similar price points to the older models, while reducing the original’s cost slightly to show it is no longer the optimal version. This has happened with multiple

World of Warcraft Race to World First Sanctum of Domination leaderboard

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The World of Warcraft Race to World First (RWF) is underway and top guilds around the world are duking it out to see who can be the first to defeat Sylvanas Windrunner on Mythic difficulty in Sanctum of Domination. Complexity-Limit is looking to extend its streak of two RWF victories, but the European guild Echo won’t let them easily take it. The last RWF was tightly contested. Both Limit and Echo downed the final boss in Castle Nathria within 17 hours of one another, despite Limit having a slight head

Pokimane Calls Out Streamers for Promoting Gambling Sites

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Time Stamp: June 28, 2021 2:40 PM - Modified On: June 28, 2021 - Published By:
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Top GamesThe Game Awards 2018 - Arrivals / Alberto E. Rodriguez/Getty ImagesImane "Pokimane" Anys has joined the gambling stream debate by chastising the promotion of "sketchy" gambling sites. Pokimane discussed her opinion during a Just Chatting stream Saturday on Twitch. While browsing the LivestreamFail subreddit board, she came across a clip of fellow streamer Felix "xQc" Lengyel. The stream briefly took a turn toward the recent "gambling meta" from there—as xQc has been involved in defending it."I haven't been following the gambling meta," she said, "but the one thing that

Which cases should I open? The best CS:GO cases to buy keys for

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Time Stamp: June 26, 2021 12:40 PM - Modified On: June 26, 2021 - Published By:
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One of the biggest and most impactful economies around any game, the CS:GO skin market is an industry worth billions of dollars. As the skin market has grown, the value of some skins has ballooned from less than a dollar all the way up to hundreds of dollars over the years, with some skins sold on Steam or third-party sites for over two thousand dollars. If you’re looking to earn skins the traditional way, by opening crates with a key, you should know which cases give you the best chance

Cohh Carnage raises over $900,000 during birthday charity stream

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Time Stamp: June 25, 2021 11:09 PM - Modified On: June 25, 2021 - Published By:
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Twitch veteran and popular streamer Cohh Carnage raised more than $900,000 for charity during his birthday charity stream, which was all donated St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital. During the stream, fans donated more than $337,000, but for one massive donation, the donator couldn’t use the Tiltify system in place to donate and instead had to send his funds directly to St. Jude. After the stream concluded, Cohh announced that the person who donated had won the lottery and given around $600,000, bring the final total to $926,886.14. We confirmed this