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WePlay! announces $100,000 academy league

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

How to watch Minecraft Championships (MCC) 15

Time flies by when you have something to look forward to each month, and that has been the Minecraft Championships (MCC) for a decent chunk of Minecraft fans. The scene may have felt a little less exciting when the event was on a break, but SMP servers were able to keep the fans occupied until the prime time Minecraft event came back for its second season. Though previous events were streamed on Twitch, the last iteration of MCC, Pride 2021, was sponsored by YouTube Gaming. Due to this sponsorship deal, the admin stream was on YouTube. It looks

Nintendo Revives Its Developer Interview Series, Formerly Known As Iwata Asks

Sometimes, Nintendo does really charming things, and they don’t necessarily have to be games. Case and point: Iwata Asks, the interview series in which the late president of Nintendo and game industry legend, Satoru Iwata, would interview Nintendo developers about their games or Nintendo’s hardware. The series stopped following Iwata’s untimely passing in 2015, but it was a good idea and always shed some light on how Nintendo and its developers approach the art of making games. Apparently, Nintendo thought so, too, because the company has recently revived the series

What is the 180-degree rule in streaming?

There are numerous technical aspects to streaming that can make it seem complicated and setting up your camera is certainly among them. Many content creators use one webcam directed at their face and focus their stream on video games. But for more creative individuals, the use of multiple cameras, angles, and scenes is a tactic that could help you stand out. If you intend on using multiple cameras, however, there are some basic techniques that you should follow, especially if you’re using two people in a scene. The 180-degree rule

Why mousesports decided to jump on the academy train

For mousesports, the process of building an academy squad began not with reaching out to talented prospects, but with finding the right person to lead the team from the sidelines. The German organisation put its trust on Dennis "⁠sycrone⁠" Nielsen to coach the team, called mouz NXT (an intentional misspelling of the word "next") — a fitting name for a project aimed at unearthing the champions of tomorrow. The 25-year-old Dane took on his first coaching gig after playing for — and leading — teams like Singularity, North Academy, Sprout

Cyberpunk 2077 Devs Are Satisfied With Current Performance State

For years CD Projekt Red was a game development studio that couldn’t fail in plenty of players eyes. They were building up so much steam and hype after their previous release of The Witcher 3. Fans knew that their next game would be a futuristic RPG and for years we didn’t get any insight about the title. Eventually, the developers finally offered some insight into the game and we eventually got teasers, trailers, streams, interviews, along with breakdowns of gameplay mechanics. This continued to hype up the launch of Cyberpunk