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Gaules partners with NBA, will broadcast games on his Twitch channel

Brazilian streamer Alexandre “Gaules” Borba Chiqueta has entered a new partnership with the NBA, he announced today. The former Counter-Strike player and current content creator is known as the Brazilian voice of global CS:GO tournaments. He’s also cast other esports titles, such as VALORANT. He has little experience when it comes to sports but has broadcasted youth Brazilian soccer matches in the past. Gaules will begin to stream NBA games on his Twitch channel amid the league’s playoffs starting on Wednesday, June 2 with the Atlanta Hawks vs. New York

FIFA 21 Pays Tribute to Murdered Player

FIFAKiyan Prince's new in-FIFA model shows how he might have looked at age 30. | Photo courtesy of EAKiyan Prince was a 15-year-old footballer in the academy at London club Queens Park Rangers when he was tragically murdered outside of his school. Fifteen years later, FIFA 21 will pay tribute to his memory by bringing his likeness into the game.Prince, whose early promise as a youth made him a likely candidate for national play, would have been 30 this year had a classmate not stabbed him in the heart in

Epic Games v. Apple: The start of the next big antitrust war for the iOS developer

It was a big day on March 12, 2018, in Cary, North Carolina, as Epic Games geared up for its next big announcement: Fortnite was coming to mobile. The battle royale title had grown significantly over the preceding months, transforming Epic into one of the biggest companies in the world.  The mobile launch added another layer to that rise and tapped into a larger audience than many PC or console games had lured in. The cultural phenomenon became apparent and Fortnite soon landed merchandising, music, and film collaborations, from hosting

CS:GO: RpK To Play Last Tournament With Vitality

The BLAST Premier 2021 will be Cédric "RpK" Guipouy’s last time playing for Vitality. The squad has made a tough decision. Especially considering RpK had helped bring Vitality to seven first-place finishes since becoming part of their very first CS:GO roster back in October 2018. Vitality has been struggling since the beginning of the year. They were eliminated in the Intel Extreme Masters 2021 — first by Team Liquid in the second round of Upper Bracket competitions. Then by Virtus.pro in the same round in the lower bracket. Vitality had

Geely Holdings’ LYNK&CO Sponsors LNG Esports’ LPL Team

Chinese esports organization LNG Esports said Friday that the organization’s League of Legends Pro League (LPL) team has signed a sponsorship deal with LYNK&CO, a joint automobile brand from Geely Automobile and Volvo. LYNK&CO will also act as LNG’s official automobile partner.  Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.  LNG Esports is owned by Chinese apparel giant Li-Ning. In China’s LPL, there is a simmering conflict between Li-Ning and LPL exclusive apparel sponsor Nike. For example, the LPL staff and fans can not refer to LNG Esports as Li-Ning

$10 billion in the kitty for Call of Duty: Mobile studio TiMi in 2020

Tencent backed TiMi Studios which has become famous by creating portable hits like Call of Duty: Mobile, MOBA Honor of Kings among others has acquired an astounding $10 billion in income in the year 2020, as indicated by a Reuters report. If one somehow happened to consider the income acquired by the organization, TiMi Studios has arisen as the biggest engineer on the planet. It is muddled regarding how the tag ‘world’s biggest designer’ finds a way into the plan of things yet in any case $10 billion income assortment

PayNearMe Simplifies iGaming Deposits and Payouts to Enable Operators…

Players want a simple and fast deposit experience, and when they don’t get it, they quickly move to an operator that makes funding accounts easy. PayNearMe makes deposits and payouts easy. “iGaming payments are hard. Managing deposits and payouts is a complex process that requires technology designed for the gaming industry. With billions of dollars in iGaming deposits at stake, operators can’t afford to lose players to poorly designed deposit and cashout experiences," Kaplan said. SANTA CLARA, Calif. (PRWEB) March 02, 2021 PayNearMe, the payments platform designed to manage the

Tencent Loses $42B in Market Value as Indian Stakeholders Weigh in on a Future Without PUBG MOBILE

The Indian government’s decision to ban the country’s most popular title, PUBG MOBILE was always going to have a ripple effect across the entire industry and the effects are already being felt. Having lost out on what was their biggest market for the game, Tencent has reportedly lost nearly $42B USD in market value in just two days since the announcement. This is the second-largest market capitalization loss for the Chinese conglomerate following a $66B loss spurred by an executive order against WeChat by the US, which was mostly regained

Sony invests $250 million in ‘Fortnite’ developer Epic Games

Sponsored Links Mike Blake / Reuters Sony is making a significant investment into Fortnite developer Epic Games. The $250 million deal will give the PlayStation maker a minority stake in the company, which is also makes the Unreal Engine developer platform. In a statement, the companies noted they have “an already close relationship,” and that the investment allows them to “broaden their collaboration.” “Epic’s powerful technology in areas such as graphics places them at the forefront of game engine development with Unreal Engine and other innovations,” Sony CEO Kenichiro Yoshida said