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Community Gaming raises $2.3 million in seed funding from CoinFund, Dapper Labs, and more

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Time Stamp: July 1, 2021 6:33 PM - Modified On: July 1, 2021 - Published By:
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The e-sports tournament organizer Community Gaming announced Thursday that it raised $2.3 million in seed funding. CoinFund, an investment firm that has shown an interest in non-fungible tokens (NFTs), led the round. Other notable investors include the NFT and digital rights unicorn Animoca Brands, Dapper Labs, and Multicoin Capital.  The Ethereum-focused software firm ConsenSys, which had led Community Gaming’s pre-seed round in 2020, also participated. “We are excited to have obtained support from major players in both the blockchain and gaming industries as we seek to bring web3 payment technology

Microsoft Flight Simulator Embraer E170, CRJ 1000, & F-35 Get New Screenshots; Grob 115E & Tijuana Airport Announced

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Time Stamp: June 28, 2021 2:07 PM - Modified On: October 29, 2021 - Published By:
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Today third-party developers have provided quite a lot of new assets and reveals about upcoming add-ons for Microsoft Flight Simulator, mostly focusing on aircraft. First of all, we take a new look at work-in-progress images and renders of the Embraer E170 from Ouroboros Jets, shared on the developer’s official Discord. The aircraft appears to be making steady progress, and a sweet bonus is that it’ll be completely free, despite the fact that Ouroboros is aiming for study-level simulation depth. Besides the E170 series, the developer is also planning to deliver

Mobile Legends: Bang Bang Professional League (MPL) heads to Brazil

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Time Stamp: June 27, 2021 10:15 AM - Modified On: June 27, 2021 - Published By:
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The Mobile Legends: Bang Bang (MLBB) Professional League (MPL) is expanding outside of Southeast Asia. Moonton announced yesterday that its premium esports league will be coming to Brazil. The company said the MPL Brazil will be arriving “soon.” Other details have yet to be announced. Currently, the MPL runs in four countries of SEA: the Philippines, Indonesia, Singapore, and Malaysia. Until 2020, Singapore and Malaysia were a unified region that was separated from this year. Despite being regionally focused leagues, the MPLs boast staggering viewership numbers. The seventh season of

All teams qualified for VALORANT Champions 2021

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Time Stamp: June 7, 2021 7:45 AM - Modified On: June 7, 2021 - Published By:
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VCT 2021, Riot’s first official tournament circuit for VALORANT, all boils down to Champions. The world championship will see 16 teams from around the world battle it out in a two-week-long tournament to decide the first VALORANT global champion in December. Throughout the year, stages consisting of Challengers and Masters events will provide teams with the chance to earn circuit points and qualify for the end-of-year tournament.  11 teams representing North America, Europe, Brazil, Latin America, Southeast Asia, Korea, and Japan will qualify for Champions via circuit points obtained over

Regional qualifiers for BLAST Premier Fall Showdown announced

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Time Stamp: June 7, 2021 6:49 AM - Modified On: June 7, 2021 - Published By:
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BLAST has revealed details regarding qualifiers for the Fall edition of the Showdown tournament, announcing eight regions and the majority of their partner organizers that will be in charge of running the show. Events such as Nordic Masters, Latin Power, and Fantasyexpo Cup return after being a part of the Spring circuit, with new additions being the Eastern Europe qualifier (replacing CIS), and the Chinese qualifier organized by Douyu. The qualifying tournaments will take place in July - September as an eight-team, three-day event. BLAST added a new qualifying region:

Sony to host Evo Community Series featuring more than 120 tournaments, $74,000 prize pool on PS4

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Time Stamp: June 1, 2021 2:33 PM - Modified On: June 1, 2021 - Published By:
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Sony Interactive Entertainment is ready to double down on Evolution Championship Series (Evo) events this summer, announcing several community tournaments today along with more details for Evo 2021.  Sony, which jointly acquired the Evo brand alongside Endeavor Group Holding’s RTS in March, will now run an Evo Community Series throughout the summer. From June 10 to Aug. 3, Sony is featuring more than 120 tournaments from around the globe in Evo-branded broadcasts. This will total more than 100 hours of broadcast time and will include $74,000 in total prizing, split

Sony is Hosting a Series of Smaller, PS4-based EVO Tournaments Before Evo 2021

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Time Stamp: June 1, 2021 1:47 PM - Modified On: October 29, 2021 - Published By:
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Sony announced the Evo Community Series, a series of more than 120 fighting game tournaments under the Evo branding, all set to take place before this year’s Evo Online, on the PlayStation Blog today. PlayStation will host 3 tournaments from June 3rd to August 3rd as part of the series. The console manufacturer bought Evo, formally known as the Evolution Championship Series, in a joint acquisition with RTS last year. The total prize pool from the PlayStation events will be $74,000. The first PlayStation-hosted tournament, FCC Arcade: Evo Edition will

VALORANT Champions Tour Masters 2 Reykjavík: Scores, standings, schedule, and bracket

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Time Stamp: May 25, 2021 8:31 PM - Modified On: May 25, 2021 - Published By:
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Two stages of global competition within the VALORANT Champions Tour has led to this: the first official international VALORANT LAN at VCT Masters Two Reykjavík. Months of open qualifiers and regional Challengers events have led to this first international clash in Iceland. Ten teams make up a grueling double-elimination that will play out across an entire week. The biggest trove of rewards is up for grabs, with each team competing for $600,000, the largest VALORANT prize pool yet, as well as a massive haul of VCT circuit points. There will

Twitch is Finally Introducing Local Subscription Pricing

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Time Stamp: May 18, 2021 4:00 PM - Modified On: October 29, 2021 - Published By:
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The change should make pricing more fair. The price of a tier one subscription on Twitch has long been $4.99 no matter where you’ve lived. Twitch has roughly translated that cost to other currencies, but it’s generally meant that folks in other countries have paid a lot more for a month’s subscription, or that the price is abnormally high given the cost of living in that area. Twitch is finally addressing the issue with local subscription pricing to try and level things out. “First up will be Mexico and Turkey