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Wisdom Gaming Appoints Wade Penfold As First Vice President of Esports

MINNEAPOLIS (PRWEB) September 30, 2021 Wisdom Gaming, an emerging leader in esports production and content creation, today announced it has promoted Wade “Dreadnaught” Penfold as its first Vice President of Esports. Penfold joined Wisdom Gaming in 2020 as its Director of Esports and prior to, spent the last decade as a professional player, streamer and commentator for Apex Legends, Rocket League and Heroes of the Storm for the past decade. In his new role, Penfold will lead Wisdom’s competitive esports initiatives that include driving brand value through strategic partnerships, develop

Rumble Gaming Announces Adam Ivers as Chief Executive Officer

“When I think about the assembly of professional experiences that has brought me to this point, I could not be more thrilled to be a part of the trajectory of Rumble Gaming" - Adam Ivers LOS ANGELES (PRWEB) September 30, 2021 Rumble Gaming is excited to announce that Adam Ivers has been appointed its new Chief Executive Officer. Rumble Gaming is a global talent agency and media company that represents 700+ clients with a social media footprint of 700M+ followers. Rooted in Esports, Rumble Gaming bridges the gap between brands

Melty Blood: Type Lumina launches tomorrow, reveals Saber from Fate/stay night as final fighter

After being announced earlier this year, Melty Blood: Type Lumina has been getting consistent information dumps, character reveals, and gameplay trailers. The game is set to launch on Sept. 30, and to celebrate, fans got a glimpse of the fighting game’s final playable character: Artoria Pendragon, better known as Saber from the visual novel and anime series Fate/stay night.  This is a crossover between two of developer Type-Moon’s visual novel properties, as the company also worked on the Fate games, although the studio is taking only providing production assistance for

Most Valuable Pokémon Oreos

Pokémon collecting has always garnered plenty of interest and some hefty prices to match and this trend has continued with the recent collaboration between The Pokémon Company and cookie producer Oreo. The collaboration has brought 16 unique cookies with Pokémon showcased on the top and while these could get old and go bad, they’ve seemingly been pulling in large sums of money from collectors. Right now you can still purchase these in select stores and try your luck at finding rare and valuable Oreos. If you plan on selling them

This Emotional Final Fantasy XIV Fan Film Will Make You Smile & Perhaps Cry a Little

Today ToiToi Pictures released a new fan-made film to celebrate the recent 8th anniversary of Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn. You may already know this group of Japanese filmmakers for their amazing “Play Eorzea” and “Tomorrows” videos on top of plenty more released on the ZANEKONPU YouTube Channel. This time around, they came up with a 25 minutes short video titled “/emote” telling the story of a lalafell who doesn’t communicate via chat but instead expresses herself exclusively via emotes. On top of coming with amazing quality for a

New Fan-Made Film, Silent Hill: Road of Guilt, Is an Eerie Trip Back to Konami’s Iconic Lakeside Town

Grab your static-filled radios and rusty pipes! Yes, Konami’s iconic survival horror masterpiece, Silent Hill 2, celebrated its official 20th anniversary recently, and to coincide with the big date, directors – Leigh Thorne and Ruben Abreu – debuted their fan-made Silent Hill: Road of Guilt film project on YouTube. Go ahead and feast your eyes on the creepy new video down below: [embedded content] Clocking in at just over eighteen minutes, the short fan pic is a blood-splattered love-letter to Konami’s classic horror franchise, setting its sights specifically on 2001’s

Riot reveals new mage, tank, and assassin items are coming to League’s 2022 preseason

This year has gone by faster than many people might have expected. The summer is ending, the 2021 World Championship is almost here, and Riot Games is even showing off some of the new features that could be added to League of Legends during the upcoming preseason. In a recent State of Gameplay developer post, League‘s director of gameplay production Jeremy “Brightmoon” Lee said the team was planning to add a handful of new features to the in-game shop that should interest players of all kinds, including mage, tank, and

Shanghai Dragons and LIP apologize for ‘inappropriate language’ heard on broadcast

The Shanghai Dragons issued an apology today on behalf of DPS player Lee “LIP” Jae-won after the player used “inappropriate language” during a Sept. 22 Overwatch League playoff broadcast. LIP himself has also apologized.  After each game in the playoff bracket, which began on Sept. 21, league production airs the winning moment and includes player comms from the victorious team. Profanity is relatively common during these segments, but things escalated after the Shanghai Dragons’ victory against the Los Angeles Gladiators.  LIP, according to a community translator, called the Gladiators “loser

StreamElements raises $100 million in investment funding, plans to speed up development of tools for platforms

StreamElements is one of the leading providers in content creation and streaming engagement and monetization tools, and now, the company has raised $100 million in investment funding as it looks to accelerate development on new production, engagement, and monetization tools.  This round of funding was led by SoftBank Vision Fund Two, with additional new investments from PayPal Ventures, MoreTech, and existing investors such as State of Mind Ventures, Pitango First, and more.  StreamElements initiated its most recent round of funding with plans to develop new tools for streaming and on-demand