The Initiative

Twitch Introduces 350 New Community Tags for Race, Sexuality, Gender, and More

Popular streaming platform Twitch has implemented over 300 new stream tags creators can use to identify with their communities. | TwitchPopular streaming platform Twitch has implemented over 300 new stream tags creators can use to identify with their communities.The announcement was made on Friday, May 21 on the official Twitch news blog. According to the post, the tags were created to "celebrate" streamers and their associated communities. These include several topics such as race, gender, mental health, ability, sexuality, and much more. They will go live next week and are,

PlayStation Talents Bringing Aeterna Noctis on PS4 and PS5 in December

Releasing December 15th. PlayStation Talents is a relatively low-profile program Sony uses to help small studios in Spain bring their games to consoles. The latest game from the initiative will be Aeternum Game Studios’ Aeterna Noctis, which will release on PS4 and PS5 on December 15th, 2021. Aeterna Noctis is a gorgeous 2D adventure built around fast-paced combat and puzzle-platforming. According to a PlayStation Blog post, players will take on the role of the King of Darkness, will put their skills – including dashing and teleportation – to the test

Sportsbet.io and Arsenal FC Launch Augmented Reality Matchday Programme

[PRESS RELEASE – Please Read Disclaimer] May 13th, 2021, Tallinn, Estonia — The new augmented reality matchday programme uses the latest AR technology to let fans bring the players into their living room. The creative concept aims to leverage Sportsbet.io’s matchday rights with the Gunners digitally, recreating the magic of matchday at home. Augmented Reality Matchday Programme The activity brings to life all the components of a traditional matchday programme with an innovative twist and includes Captain’s Notes from a virtual Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang alongside player profiles, quickfire interviews, footage from

Sega Announces Ambitious ‘Super Game’

Top GamesSega is the latest games company to chase the dragon of never-before-seen scale. | Photo courtesy of SegaSega announced plans to create something it's calling a "Super Game," during an earnings call this week. The company said the game would take between three and five years to create and would be an FPS made by a European studio, but provided few details about the game itself.Sega already has its European studio Creative Assembly working on an unnamed new sci-fi FPS, and it's possible that's the super game in question.

Sony Trademark for Xbox Exclusive Sunset Overdrive Discovered

A recently discovered trademark filing reveals that Sony may be planning to publish the 2014 action game Sunset Overdrive on the PlayStation. While the game was originally published by Microsoft, it’s owned by developers Insomniac Games, which was acquired by Sony in 2019. The trademark was filed on April 26, according to the listing. The listing was spotted by my favorite Twitter source, Nibel. In case you didn’t remember, Sunset Overdrive was one of the few Xbox One launch exclusive titles. It was also one of the very few titles

Sunset Overdrive Trademark Registered by Sony

Sony owns the rights to Insomniac’s IP. Sunset Overdrive may not have seen the kind of success that other Insomniac works like Ratchet and Clank and Spider-Man enjoy, but as anyone who’s played it would tell you, it was a legitimately excellent game that deserved way more recognition than it got. The future of the IP has been in doubt for a long time now, and even though Sony picked up the ownership of the property back when they acquired Insomniac Games, there was no clarity on whether they intended to do anything with it.

Floppy joins Cloud9 Blue Valorant

- Advertisement - A familiar face but on a different game, Floppy sticks to Cloud9. Cloud9 on Twitter have confirmed the addition of Ricky “floppy” Kemery to their Blue Valorant  Division. As reported earlier by TalkEsport and RushBMedia, floppy has made his switch to Valorant and would replace Skyler “Relyks” Weaver on Cloud9 Valorant Men’s roster, dubbed as “Blue”. The 21-year-old North American was initially a part of the Colossus, a CSGO project which was initially handled and run by Henry “HenryG” Greer before the initiative was stalled as Cloud9

Code S: Trap & Zest advance to RO8, playoff bracket set

The round-of-sixteen concluded with Group D, where Trap and Zest prevailed over sOs and Armani to clinch the final two playoff spots. Top seed Trap advanced in first place with a perfect 4-0 map score. In his initial series against Armani, he took game one with an unexpected all-in, and then took game two with a hanbang-style mid-game attack. Trap went on to safely navigate his way out of a potentially tricky winners' match against sOs, with his vigilance protecting him against sOs' repeated attempts to go for hidden Dark

Cloud9 Valorant: Relyks departs, floppy to fill in

- Advertisement - We might soon see Floppy on C9 Blue Valorant. Cloud9 on Twitter have announced that they have parted ways with Skyler “Relyks” Weaver from their Valorant Division on a mutual note. Relyks who laid the foundation of C9’s Blue Valorant division alongside Tyson ‘TenZ’ Ngo who recently joined Sentinels will no longer feature in the team’s starting five. According to a report from RushBMedia, he might soon be replaced by Ricky “Floppy” Kemery who recently had been a part of the Colossus, a CSGO project which was

Misfits Gaming Group Creates New Advocacy Platform, ‘Women of Misfits’ 

Florida-based esports and entertainment company Misfits Gaming Group (MGG) announced Thursday the launch of a new women’s advocacy program called “Women of Misfits.” With an approach that will focus on the four core pillars of mentorship, development, network and advocacy, the program will bring on a guest speaker each month to educate those in attendance and tell their story. The platform will be curated and led by women executives at MGG. MGG has already confirmed its first four guest speakers which are Chris Evert, 18-time Grand Slam singles champion and