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Yu-Gi-Oh! Forbidden and Limited Card list (May 2021)

Just like with every competitive game, Konami has to put in additional work to make sure Yu-Gi-Oh! maintains a balanced competitive meta with the release of every few sets.  This is done through the use of a Forbidden and Limited card list that is constantly updated and makes sure that no card can be abused in a format for more than a few months at a time.  This ban list is broken down into three specific parts, with a fourth being included at the end of every update simply to

MADMONQ Raises $600K Seed Round

Czech esports supplement startup MADMONQ announced that it has raised a €500K EUR ($598K USD) seed financing round from investors, including poker player and esports professional Bertrand “ElkY” Grospellier, Twitch streamer Lex Veldhuis; content creator Radek “sterakdary” Starý, Lukáš “lastgameblitz” Křítek, Vojta Roček, and AdRock Ventures.  MADMONQ revealed that it intends to use the funding “to raise awareness around the need to prioritize health in gaming, new product development, scaling the team, and paving the way for Series A round, planned for late 2021.”  The company, which was founded in 2017, reported that it has achieved seven-figure revenue in 2020 and has been

Rivalry raises $20 million for sports and esports online betting

GamesBeat Summit 2021 #GBSummit returns with two days of content and networking designed for industry executives. April 28-29, 2021 Register Now Rivalry has raised $20 million for its business of sports and esports betting. The company has a mobile and PC platform that makes it easy to place bets on sports and esports matches. Rivalry’s average customer is 25 years old, and the company is going after esports and sports fans who are under 30. At the moment, Rivalry has an offshore gambling license with the Isle of Man, which

HP, Lenovo, Microsoft, to take the stage at the VR/AR Global Summit…

The theme of the Summit is “adaptability,” and it will showcase how companies are really embracing new technologies to keep business moving. PALO ALTO, Calif. (PRWEB) September 28, 2020 After organizing the VR/AR Global Summit ONLINE in June to help the industry move forward, with a turnout of over 11,000 attending live, the largest global ecosystem of VR/AR companies, brands, and professionals is going virtual again. The theme of the fall summit is “adaptability,” and it will showcase how companies are really embracing new technologies to keep business moving. In

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

The Twilight Zone Season 2 Skewers Some Of The Internet’s Favorite Targets

The Twilight Zone has always been political. Countless episodes of the original series tackled politics, directly as well as indirectly--from The Mirror, which parodied Fidel Castro, to The Shelter, which concerned the mutually assured destruction policies of the Cold War. Last year's Twilight Zone revival, publicly helmed by comedy and horror auteur Jordan Peele, trod a similar path, with mixed results (which is fine--there were episodes of the 1960s series that missed the mark as well). The reboot's second season, available now on CBS All Access, continues the tradition, and