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Key esports sponsorships and partnerships, March 2021

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Each month, Esports Insider — in collaboration with polling and analytics platform YouGov — collates the period’s key sponsorship and partnership news in esports. YouGov’s expanded Global Fan Profiles (GFP) tool now enables sponsors, properties, and rights holders to monitor fan sentiment in esports on a global scale (32 key markets). The new GFP tool gives a view of fanbases around the world, providing data across 200 leagues, 50 events, 45 game titles and 2,000 teams in sport and esports. Subscribers can create side-by-side comparisons of individual game titles, leagues,

Sharks recall pancc after suspension

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Sharks have announced that Fillipe "⁠pancc⁠" Martins has been reinstated to the team after suspending the player on January 8 following sexual harassment allegations made by a teenage girl on social media. He will fill the void created by the departure of Raphael "⁠exit⁠" Lacerda, who was transferred to MIBR on Tuesday. The Brazilian player was initially suspended for a period of four to six months after making sexual advances towards a 16-year-old girl and requesting intimate photographs. His salary was cut as a result and he had to undergo

Empowered Voices Emblem Destiny 2: How to Get

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Top GamesThe empowered voices emblem is available for those who show their support. | Photo Courtesy of BungieThe Empowered Voices Emblem in Destiny 2. What is it, and how can players get it? Emblems in Destiny 2 are collectible icons and backgrounds for player tags. They're visible to other players in roster listings, match summaries, and more. Some are common, but others require difficult accomplishments and achievements to get. Then, there are others, like the Empowered Voices emblem, that require players to do specific things, some outside the game, to

Former Riot employee sues CEO for sexual harassment

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GamesBeat Summit 2021 #GBSummit returns with two days of content and networking designed for industry executives. April 28-29, 2021 Register Now In a case filed in January, former Riot Games employee Sharon O’Donnell alleges that chief executive officer Nicolo Laurent sent her suggestive propositions in text messages. O’Donnell detailed the complaints in her sexual harassment case against the executive in the Superior Court for the State of California in Los Angeles. O’Donnell claims that Laurent told her to “cum” to his house while his wife was traveling. He also mentioned

Avilo banned from ESL and DreamHack

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International Game Developers Association Releases A Statement On Abuse In The Games Industry

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Recently, many people within the games industry have come forward and spoken, openly and bravely, about their experience with abusers. The sharing of these experiences, which have often involved high-level game producers and developers, as well as streamers and journalists, has brought to light how the industry has sheltered many abusers, and has led to some action.Two Ubisoft executives have been suspended over abuse allegations, and the developer is reworking how it deals with employee complaints as it becomes clear that employees were not being adequately protected. Companies that were

Ubisoft Is Reworking How It Deals With Employee Complaints After Multiple Allegations

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Ubisoft CEO Yves Guillemot sent a memo to employees detailing how the company plans to rework its "solutions and tools [that] detect, report, and resolve any incident or serious problem" after numerous allegations against Ubisoft workers have come to light."I have gathered all of my direct reports to address this subject and your feedback," Guillemot wrote in a memo originally reported on by Business Insider. "I would like us to thoroughly review all of our systems so that these types of situations cannot happen again."Guillemot didn't specifically mention sexual harassment

Twitch Issues A Statement On Streamer Allegations While The Community Calls For A Blackout

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It could no longer be said that gaming is having a #metoo moment, but rather an ongoing #metoo movement. Amid a new wave of allegations surfacing on social media, those who have previously named their abusers are now demanding to know why the platforms that host known abusers' content have not acted to take them down--with Twitch at the center of the controversy.With multiple tweets claiming that Twitch has been given information on how some of their big-name partners are using that platform to abuse women, and chosen not to

Dying Light, Waylanders, Vampire Bloodlines 2 Devs Issue Statements Amid Chris Avellone Allegations

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Chris Avellone, a game designer who came to prominence in the '90s following his work on Fallout 2, has been accused of sexual assault and harassment by multiple women, according to Gamasutra. Avellone has worked as a freelance writer after leaving developer Obsidian Entertainment in 2015, 12 years after he co-founded the studio with fellow ex-Black Isle Studio employees. Multiple studios he has recently worked with have now spoken out about his involvement with their projects.Among the studios now addressing his work status is Paradox Interactive, which stated that none