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GTC Fall: Week 6 Recap & Week 7 Preview (regular season finale)

by: TheOneAboveUGoing into the final week of the Regular Season of GTC 2020 Fall, our five playoffs teams have been determined. The order in which they will enter the final portion of the competition, however, is not yet set. #1 team Dragon Phoenix Gaming faces Jin Air Green Wings in the final week's top match and may yet lose their top position—and the direct ticket to the Grand Finals—to KaiZi Gaming in case Jin Air inflict DPG's first ever GTC loss on them. The Green Wings have a tentative grip

SwitchArcade Round-Up: ‘Donkey Kong Country 2’ Coming to Switch Online, ‘Active Neurons 2’ and Today’s Other New Releases and Sales

Hello gentle readers, and welcome to the SwitchArcade Round-Up for September 16th, 2020. In today’s article, we’ve got a few news stories to digest before we head on into the newest releases. It’s not a bad crop today, though not a terribly exciting one either. We finish things up with the usual incoming and outgoing sales, as we tend to do around here. It’s a bit of a breather today, but business is going to pick up in a big way tomorrow so enjoy it while you can. Let’s march!

GTC Fall: Week 4 Recap & Week 5 Preview

by: TheOneAboveUThe fourth week of GTC Fall delivered one of the greatest weeks of play ever, with arch-nemeses DPG and KaiZi giving us another Dark vs. INnoVation ace showdown, Alpha X proving they still got their groove in a critical match, Team LP almost achieving the impossible against a struggling Jin Air, and Invictus Gaming scoring a big win for the Chinese fans.Week 5 is upon us and provides BSG and Jin Air a chance to recover from Week 4's setbacks, while Alpha X have an up-hill battle to fight

GTC Fall: Week 4 Preview – KZ vs DPG

by: TheOneAboveUAfter a week-long break for DreamHack Masters: China, the GTC will return on September 7th with the fourth week of matches. And what a return it is! Top teams and arch-rivals DPG and KaiZi will clash, with KaiZi looking to finally score a victory over their nemesis in this tournament series.BSG and Alpha X also face each other in an important match, as the victor might be able to secure a temporary position ahead of Jin Air Green Wings. JAGW are likely to surge back in the latter half

SwitchArcade Round-Up: Mario Madness, ‘NBA 2K21’ and Today’s Other New Releases, the Latest Sales, and More

Hello gentle readers, and welcome to the SwitchArcade Round-Up for September 4th, 2020. As many of you probably know by now, there was some pretty big news from Nintendo yesterday that came in a bit too late for our article yesterday. Oops! We cover that today, along with all of the latest releases and fresh sales. It’s a really big one today as a result of all of that, so let’s just get on with it, shall we? News ‘Super Mario Bros.’ 35th Anniversary Direct Delivers the Goods Naturally, just

August Investment Recap: Fortnite Billions, BITKRAFTS $165M Venture Fund, and New Capital for Esports Organizations

August was a record month for esports investments. The Esports Observer tracked 16 investments raised by esports-relevant companies during the month. Disclosed investments accumulated to $2.78B USD, which is more than all seven previous months of 2020 combined, bringing the total sum of disclosed investments in 2020 to $4.34B.  The news of esports-relevant investments was headlined by the $1.78B financing round raised by Fornite developer Epic Games and the closing of BITKRAFT’s new venture fund at $165M. Financial terms were not disclosed for all deals highlighted in this article. Epic

Why I Just Spent $500 on a VR Headset

Plug me in: I want lightsabers! And something more…Image by Jazna Rossi from PixabayI don’t normally acquire. It prigs my financial and counter-consumerist conscience too much.But I’m no monk. I make exceptions from time to time. Especially when there’s the chance to play with lightsabers in virutal reality.So I just dropped $500 on an Oculus Quest VR headset.My hopes are high for joyful play, and something more impactful.The Joy of Lightsabers, Robots and Bullet TimeI’m lucky enough to have already had some gaming experiences in VR.Every time I’ve put on

Rookie retires

TheOneAboveU Profile Blog Joined February 2011 Germany3048 Posts According to a Tweet made by Team GP, their Korean Terran Rookie will retire today upon the end of his contract with the organization. I've heard before that Rookie was considering retirement if he didn't make it into GSL Code S, so it seems like he has indeed decided to move on with his life after failing to qualify again.Rookie started out on CJ Entus in 2016 and did his military service after the KeSPA team disbanded. He tried to come back

What I Learnt on My First Day in VR

Connection, immersion and a heartfelt pang I didn’t expect.Photo by Ricardo Gomez Angel on Unsplash“Hey man, would you like some water?”My friend is offering me a plastic water bottle. I reach out and take it a little cack-handedly, like I’m wearing thick ski gloves.“Go ahead, drink some,” he encourages.I bring the bottle up to my face and upend it. Water pours out over my face. I laugh.“That’s amazing!” I say.“Yeah, they’ve put water bottles and drinking fountains all over the place in here to remind people to drink water in