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Mid-year recap on HLTV Confirmed with smooya

Owen "⁠smooya⁠" Butterfield will guest on the upcoming episode of HLTV Confirmed, S5E49, to talk about his journey with Movistar Riders and share his opinions on top teams and recent news. The mid-year recap show will focus on what we witnessed so far in 2021, as our guest alongside Chad "⁠SPUNJ⁠" Burchill, Milan "⁠Striker⁠" Švejda, and Zvonimir "Professeur" Burazin discuss the best team, roster change, match, and more. smooya joins the show at 20:00 Roster news, including Astralis signing Philip "⁠Lucky⁠" Ewald and extending with Lukas "⁠gla1ve⁠" Rossander, Luis "⁠peacemaker⁠"

Cardano DeFi Project Spores Raises $2.3 Million in Funding Round

It was a tough week price-wise in the cryptocurrency market. The total capitalization lost around $100 billion as every single coin from the top 20 is in the red. Some lost more than others, but we’ll get to that later. Kicking it off with Bitcoin. It had a relatively calm week, and even though it’s down about 3% over the period, it’s still not as bad as a lot of the altcoins. BTC was trading at around $34,000 last Friday, and apart from a brief positive spike on Monday, it

LEC power rankings: 2021 Summer Split week 5

Just three weeks remain on the 2021 LEC Summer Split schedule and the playoff field is starting to formulate. Apart from some unlikely races shaping up in the middle of the standings, the LEC is looking pretty familiar to fans of the league.  But the next three weeks of the regular season will determine which League of Legends squads advance to the postseason and who goes home early. With just three games separating the top seven teams in the league, we could realistically see the entire LEC shift between now

Judgement Series Facing Retirement After PC Release Conflict

A recent hire is putting SEGA's Judgement series in jeopardy after a lengthy disagreement over PC release rights. / SEGAA recent hire is putting SEGA's Judgement series in jeopardy after a lengthy disagreement over PC release rights.SEGA's latest installment in its Yakuza spin-off series, Judgement, managed to sign major Japanese celebrity Takuya Kimura to star in the upcoming Lost Judgement game. Unfortunately, acquiring this supernova of star power might be the franchise's undoing, as the developers behind the title and Kimura's talent agents seem unable to reach a consensus regarding

Heroic: “We’re no longer satisfied with being a top-ten team, we’re aiming at the title every time”

Heroic are about to enter the opening round of IEM Cologne, which will see the Danish side attempt to prove doubters wrong after a vocal part of the community has been questioning the Danish team's improved results over the past year since the competition moved online. Casper "⁠cadiaN⁠" Møller & co. are set on a collision course with Spirit in a match scheduled for Friday at 13:30 in the opening round of Group B, which also features Natus Vincere, Renegades, FURIA, Vitality, Astralis, and FaZe. Heroic enter Cologne on the

Valorant Ruination Bundle Details Leaked

ValorantThe Ruination Bundle, which is based on League of Legends lore, will soon be making its debut in Valorant. / Photo courtesy of Riot GamesDetails of the unreleased featured bundle coming up next to the Valorant Store has been leaked.According to ValorLeaks on Twitter, the League of Legends-inspired Ruination Bundle will be making its rotation into the featured section of the Valorant Store on July 8. Here's everything we know about Valorant's upcoming Ruination Bundle.VALORANT will be receiving a Ruination Bundle based on League of Legends. | #VALORANT ~ We