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Blizzard associate product manager Healingstat discusses success of The Great Push, crowdfunding WoW events, and plans to improve future competitions

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Blizzard Entertainment hosted its first one-off tournament for World of Warcraft, The Great Push (TGP), last month. Over 10,000 players on more than 2,100 teams participated in this event, which featured a prize pool of $20,000. While the competition was fierce, only six teams advanced to the final stage, where they had 15 hours over the three-day weekend to push dungeon keys as high as they could.  Echo won it all in the final minute of the event by using an infinite misdirection bug. They faced backlash from members of

Far Cry 6 Will Transition to Third-Person Perspectives All Throughout the Game

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The Far Cry series has always been experienced through the first-person perspective, but in recent trailers and gameplay footage of the upcoming Far Cry 6, we got to see protagonist Dani Rojas through a third-person perspective as well. In an interview with Gamespot, Ubisoft confirmed that they’ll be using this perspective all throughout the game to give players a chance to appreciate Dani better as a character, and also enjoy any cosmetic changes they may have applied. Ubisoft stated that the camera will shift to third-person mode during certain points

Fintech Firm Mercuryo Locks In Esports Partnership

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Swedish esports organization Ninjas In Pyjamas (NIP) has partnered up with cryptocurrency infrastructure firm Mercuryo. The partnership will take during Counter-Strike’s BLAST Premiere Spring Finals from June 15-20. Greetings, Gaming The team at Mercuryo cited a number of commonalities between esports and fintech that allowed this partnership to be a natural fit; forward-thinking perspectives and problem-solving abilities are critical in both worlds, and two major pillars that Mercuryo CEO Petr Kozyakov cited directly. “In gaming, this set of skills can secure victory. In the financial industry, they help drive innovation”,

13 Sentinels: Aegis Rim is an Underrated Masterpiece

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2020, despite all of its delays and other issues, was quite the hyped year. Even without all of the acquisitions and next-gen console launches, it offered some seriously big releases like The Last of Us Part 2, Ghost of Tsushima, Demon’s Souls, Animal Crossing: New Horizons and so on and so forth. Of course, it also saw the release of some stellar indie games like Streets of Rage 4, Spelunky 2, Ori and the Will of the Wisps, Hades and The Pathless. Among all of these titles were a number

DIG Soligo: ‘I want to become someone who … can actually be able to be the difference-maker on the team’

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With April showers come May flowers, and for the best teams around the world, so too comes the Mid-Season Invitational, the first international League of Legends tournament of the year. For most of the professional League players around the world, however, April falters lead to no competition in May. Instead, they’re faced with the prospect of a long offseason, a time to reset and prepare for the summer season and the World Championship. For the Dignitas players, despite being a surprising playoff participant in the 2021 LCS Spring Split, the

Arcturus announces $5 million in seed funding to scale its Volumetric Capture offering

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In Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality News May 7, 2021 – Arcturus, a provider of software solutions for post-production and streaming of volumetric videos, has recently announced a USD $5 million seed round led by BITKRAFT Ventures. According to the company, the funding will be used to scale its software development team, focus efforts on sales growth, and expand Arcturus’ product line with an emphasis on live streaming features.  Other investors that participated in the round included: HBSE Ventures; NTT Docomo Ventures; Build Ventures; Co-Founder, Co-Chairman, and former Co-CEO of

The 21 Best Dinosaur Games Ever Released

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Dinosaurs! Everyone loves the scaly beasts! Or are they even scaley? I can barely keep up with that particular part of canon anymore. Brontosaurus never existed, all my favorite dinosaurs actually looked a whole lot different, tyrannosaurus rex was ate carrion and didn’t hunt – or did he? Anyway, we are gathered here tonight to celebrate video games that feature dinosaurs. Those beloved ancient beasts, staple food of any healthy boy’s diet. Or girl’s diet. Not that love for dinosaurs would be gender specific. Dinosaurs are a huge thing in

‘It’s Trash’: Glow Up Games CXO Latoya Peterson on the State of Diversity in Games

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Latoya Peterson is tired of the games industry ignoring Black women, and now she's ready to do something about it. | Photo courtesy of Glow Up GamesThe video game industry is as prone to systemic oppression as any other. Developers of color, and perhaps particularly Black developers, face an uphill battle for employment, let alone creative expression. With this series of features, DBLTAP hopes to highlight the creations of Black developers working to tell their own stories through games in this monthly series. Check out our previous entries here.Issa Dee