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NetEase Games Acquires Goichi Suda Studio Grasshopper Manufacture

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Top GamesNetEase Games has acquired the studio behind the No More Heroes series. / Photo courtesy of Grasshopper Manufacture/NetEase GamesChinese conglomerate NetEase Games has acquired development studio Grasshopper Manufacture, the company announced Friday. Grasshopper Manufacture is best known for the games it's made with founder Goichi "SUDA51" Suda, including Killer 7, Lollipop Chainsaw and No More Heroes.This is the second time Grasshopper has been acquired. Suda founded the studio in 1998, and it remained independent until Japanese publisher GungHo Online Entertainment acquired it in 2013. GungHo Online's stake in the

Spacestation wins, established teams stumble in biggest matches of ALGS pro league debut

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Time Stamp: October 18, 2021 3:02 AM - Modified On: October 18, 2021 - Published By:
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Spacestation Gaming won day two of the North American ALGS pro league on Sunday, outperforming bigger teams like TSM, G2, and Cloud9, and leaving them tied with Sentinels on the ALGS leaderboard. Spacestation, a Utah-based organization, previously left the Apex scene in early 2020, but returned in 2021 when they signed Joseph “Frexs” Sanchez, Jay “Claraphi” Stanley, and Angello “Xenial” Cadenas. That squad placed 5th at the ALGS Championship, taking home a bit more than $35,000. Claraphi left in the summer of 2021 and Mark “Dropped” Thees, a former player

Nitr0 on NA VCT LCQ server issues: ‘We were having problems throwing our utility out’

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The North American VCT Last Chance Qualifier was supposed to be a pure clash of some of the best teams in the continent that haven’t made it into VALORANT Champions yet—but 100 Thieves’ Nicholas “nitr0” Cannella isn’t fully satisifed. The event has been tarnished with a plethora of server issues, a controversy surrounding COVID-19 tests, and overall playing conditions, which led Riot Games to postpone three matches yesterday in order to “implement solutions that will allow the LCQ to continue safely and without compromising competitive integrity.” 100 Thieves played two

Animator recreates Faker’s famous Zed outplay from 2013

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Time Stamp: October 4, 2021 6:23 PM - Modified On: October 4, 2021 - Published By:
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In 2013, SK Telecom T1 K’s Faker stunned the League of Legends community when he produced one of the most memorable plays in the history of the game. And now, a graphic designer named Miltfox has recreated it in animation. Faker’s outplay is unforgettable due to what was at stake during the grand finals of Champions 2013 Summer Split. It was SKT T1 K’s second split in Korea’s top-tier league and the team had their eyes set on their first possible championship. KT Rolster Bullets, the other squad in the

Main phase of ESEA Premier Season 38 finishes, 8-team playoff bracket set

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Time Stamp: September 28, 2021 6:34 PM - Modified On: September 28, 2021 - Published By:
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The 38th season of ESEA Premier: Europe in CS:GO is reaching its conclusion, as the tournament’s main phase has just finished. Four teams from Group A and four from Group B have advanced to the playoffs, which begin on Oct. 12 after IEM Fall Europe concludes. The best squad in Group A turned out to be Team BLINK, which managed to fall short only once in this stage, losing to Sprout in August. Sprout also survived the group stage, moving forward as the fourth seed. The second and third best

Decentralized Role-Playing Game Nine Chronicles Launches Arena Season 0

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Nine Chronicles, a massive multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) backed by South Korean blockchain company Planetarium and video game juggernaut Ubisoft is off to a flying start after launching Arena Season 0 on September 8th. The inaugural season, called Yggdrasil: The Alpha Season, will run until approximately October 6th, (ending once block number 2,463,999 has been validated) and allows players to win their share of 896,000 NCG tokens in prize pools along with rare and exclusive NFTs that provide players with in-game utility and built-in value. Why This Game Could

PUBG creator Brendan Greene officially leaves Krafron, forms PlayerUnknown Productions studio

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The original PlayerUnknown, Brendan Greene, is officially leaving Krafton to pursue other ventures with a new studio more than two years after originally stepping away from development on PUBG.  Greene and his team, PlayerUnknown Productions, which was originally founded as a sub-studio under Krafton’s PUBG Corporation, are splitting from their parent company to explore “systems needed to enable massive scale within open-world games.” Under his online moniker as PlayerUnknown, Greene developed a game that became a massive success and revolutionized a genre that is now commonplace in multiplayer gaming conversations.

TSM jungler Spica wins 2021 LCS MVP award

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Time Stamp: August 27, 2021 3:39 PM - Modified On: August 27, 2021 - Published By:
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In just his second full season as a professional League of Legends player, TSM jungler Spica has been awarded the 2021 LCS MVP award for his efforts throughout the season. This season, Spica led TSM to a first-place finish in the LCS regular season, where the team went 30-15. TSM gathered 18 wins in the Summer Split alone, tying 100 Thieves and Evil Geniuses for the most victories in the LCS during the second half of the season.  As for Spica, the sophomore jungler proved to be a workhorse for

Astralis’ director of sports: ‘We aim to be a real contender for the titles at stake this fall’

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Astralis didn’t advance to the ESL Pro League season 14 playoffs due to mixed results in Group A, leaving the competition with victories against Team Spirit and Bad News Bears but losses to ENCE, Vitality, and Heroic, the three teams that moved forward. And following the event, Astralis’ director of sports Kasper Hvidt evaluated the team’s performance and provided some insight into the road ahead for the CS:GO squad. “Needless to say, we didn’t get the results we wanted, but the team has done extremely well in a very short

How to watch the PMPL MY/SG season 4: Format, teams, and more

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Time Stamp: August 24, 2021 5:45 AM - Modified On: August 24, 2021 - Published By:
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The PUBG Mobile Pro League (PMPL) Malaysia/ Singapore (MY/SG) is here with a prize pool of $150,000. Twenty teams from the two countries will be locking horns from Aug. 24 to Sept. 26 to decide the champions. There’s a lot at stake in the event. Besides the prize pool, teams are vying for a slot at the SEA Championship where four slots to the PUBG Mobile Global Championship (PMGC) 2021 are up for grabs. The points of the fourth season will also be used to decide the region’s representative at