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Moonton Games, Singtel Reveal Mobile Legends Professional League in Singapore

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Eight teams will compete for a $100K prize pool in the inaugural Mobile Legends: Bang Bang Professional League in Singapore. The league will be jointly presented by PVP Esports, the esports operation of telecom Singtel, and developer MOONTON Games, with Singtel as a presenting partner.  The MPL Singapore will begin on April 3 with playoffs concluding on May 9. Along with Singtel, the announcement image shows several brand partners including Systane, Subway, EPOS, and Secretlab. Last week, it was announced that TikTok parent company Bytedance would acquire MOONTON. Coinsmart. Beste

Take-Two CEO Thinks You’re Ready For The PS5, Xbox Series X/S $70 Price Hike

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Ready or not. As always, when a new generation of consoles launch, it’s an exciting time. Last November saw the launch of the PS5 and Xbox Series X/S with lots of games to chose from. However, it wasn’t all happy times, as it also saw some publishers doing a price hike for next gen-only versions of games, such as 2K’s NBA 2K21 being $70. There was also Call of Duty, and Sony confirmed they, too, would be hiking up to $70 for their PS5-only titles (and apparently, was thinking of

Gamesmaker Nexters to Go Public Via Former MegaFon CEO SPAC

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 Transaction between Nexters, Kismet valued at $1.9 billion Tavrin: opportunity for European companies to get U.S. listing Nexters Global Ltd., the game developer behind Hero Wars and Throne Rush, is going public through a deal with a blank-check company started by former MegaFon PJSC head Ivan Tavrin. The transaction between Limassol, Cyprus-based Nexters and Tavrin’s Kismet Acquisition One Corp. is valued at $1.9 billion, according to a statement Monday. Kismet Capital Group will invest an additional $50 million in the deal. Tavrin, the founder of Russian media company UTH Russia Ltd. — now known as Media-1 —

soO: Putting Down the Boulder (for Now)

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by Mizenhauer“Everything ends badly, otherwise it wouldn’t end.”—Brian Flanagan“There is no real ending. It’s just the place where you stop the story.”―Frank HerbertIt’s the end of an era. soO has played his final season in Code S before starting his military service. Whether or not soO returns in the future, this moment was always going to be more of a gut punch than your average farewell tour. After all, no individual is inextricably linked to GSL’s flagship competition than its six time runner up.Maru challenged for that honor when he

GTC Fall: Week 4 Preview – KZ vs DPG

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by: TheOneAboveUAfter a week-long break for DreamHack Masters: China, the GTC will return on September 7th with the fourth week of matches. And what a return it is! Top teams and arch-rivals DPG and KaiZi will clash, with KaiZi looking to finally score a victory over their nemesis in this tournament series.BSG and Alpha X also face each other in an important match, as the victor might be able to secure a temporary position ahead of Jin Air Green Wings. JAGW are likely to surge back in the latter half

AT&T reportedly backs away from selling Warner Bros. Interactive

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Sponsored Links Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment For the time being, AT&T has reportedly decided against selling its Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment gaming division to another company. According to Bloomberg, the telecom concluded the unit was too valuable to ditch, even if a sale would have helped the company with its $165 billion debt load. When news of the potential sale first broke, CNBC reported the sale of the division could have netted AT&T as much as $4 billion. Several prominent video game publishers were reportedly interested, including Microsoft, Take-Two, EA and Activision Blizzard. Bloomberg reports two

The Good, the Bad, and Ridiculous of Proleague (Pt. 1)

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Edition 1: Samsung Galaxy, Mech and The Greatest of All Timeby MizenhauerStarCraft II's 10th anniversary sent the community on a collective nostalgia trip. For a certain generation of fans, SC2 Proleague might have been the first thing that came to mind. Between the thrill of ace matches, the rivalry between the teams, SPOTV’s excellent promos and the amazing fan support, Proleague was a competition unlike any other. Players of all sorts had their moment in the sun, whether it was a B-Teamer who stole a match with a strange build,

Liquid Rivalries: League of Legends

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The Yankees. The Lakers. The Patriots. The Red Wings. FC Barcelona. These are all legacy teams.At this point, they’re known for being known. Even people with next to no knowledge about the game have heard these names. And if you do know the game, you probably love some of these teams for elevating it and also hate them for dominating it. Any fan from the Curse days can probably remember how frustrating it was to be a step behind TSM so often. Then, when TSM was finally slipping up, it

2015: The Renaissance and Golden Age of Korean SC2

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by MizenhauerStarCraft II was always destined for great things.Its predecessor, Brood War, was the product of a bygone era where game developers weren’t concerned with balancing the game for full-time professionals, the concept of esports was mostly limited to a convention center in Mesquite, Texas and most people didn’t even have high speed internet. None of that mattered six-thousand miles away from Blizzard headquarters in South Korea, where Brood War became an unprecedented cultural phenomenon. An economic downturn, the proliferation of net cafes and high speed internet, and plain dumb