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DH Masters Fall: Season Finals Bracket Set

TL.net ESPORTS Profile Joined July 2011 1 Post The group stages of the DreamHack Masters Fall Season Finals have concluded, and we now move onto the eight-player, single-elimination playoffs. It's an all-European and Korean affair, and this time, the bracket draw sees the two power-regions of SC2 split the bracket almost perfectly in half.The start times for the playoffs are as follows:Quarterfinals: Saturday, Sep 19 2:00pm GMT (GMT+00:00)Semifinals & Grand Final: Sunday, Sep 20 2:00pm GMT (GMT+00:00)The winner of the Fall Season Finals will win $12,500 in prize money and

SwitchArcade Round-Up: ‘Monster Hunter Rise’ Announced, ‘Ori & the Will of the Wisps’, ‘Hades’, and Today’s Other New Releases and Sales

Hello gentle readers, and welcome to the SwitchArcade Round-Up for September 18th, 2020. Yesterday’s Nintendo Direct Mini had a lot of great games in it, and a few of them dropped immediately after the video. Of course the highlight was Capcom finally bringing some original games to the Switch in the form of Monster Hunter Rise and Monster Hunter Stories 2, but that was far from the only surprise in the video. We quickly summarize that video today before going into the mountain of new releases, and all I can

SwitchArcade Round-Up: ‘Mini Motor Racing X’, ‘Super Punch Patrol’, and Today’s Other New Releases, Plus the Latest Sales

Hello gentle readers, and welcome to the SwitchArcade Round-Up for September 17th, 2020. By the time you read this, Nintendo will have shown their latest Nintendo Direct Mini: Partner Showcase. As I write this, however, it is in the future. We will therefore have to bravely take on the monstrous task of covering whatever massive news comes from the presentation in tomorrow’s article. For today, we’ve got summaries of all of the newest games that hit the eShop today. Naturally, we’ve also got the incoming and outgoing sales to chronicle.

Twitch Versus Provides Tournament Organizers With New Toolset

Twitch announced Wednesday the creation of a suite of competition tools to benefit tournament organizers, players, and fans that goes by the name Twitch Versus. The end-to-end suite of competition tools has been designed to allow organizers using the Twitch platform to create, manage, and stream competitions with their communities in one integrated environment. The closed beta version of these tools launches today. With competition budgets of all sizes, the needs from one tournament organizer to the next often vary in scope and size. Twitch Versus is looking to “empower

Netflix CEO Talks Ads, Gaming, And An Employee Who Expensed $100,000 On Personal Vacations

Netflix CEO Reed Hastings has given an in-depth interview to Variety in which he speaks about why Netflix's business model is best suited without ads, if the company might ever get into gaming, and the employee who was reimbursed $100,000 before leaving the company.Regarding ads, Hastings said it's not a hard and fast rule that Netflix wants to avoid ads, but it just makes business sense to build the platform on a paid model versus ads."It's definitely not a rule. It's a judgment call… It's a belief we can build

The Rise of the Reaper: A Grim tale

Grim’s journey to become North America’s hottest commodity recently reached a crescendo when he was signed by Liquid, a deserved upgrade for the 19-year-old after he had consistently demonstrated incredible form as a part of Triumph since the start of 2020. One would think that the rifler had only recently broken into the upper echelon as he made waves against top level competition, but his path has been one marred with setbacks that have led to his route to the top being prolonged. Gaining a reputation as a star fragger

NVIDIA’s RTX 3000 cards make counting teraflops pointless

Sponsored Links Teraflops have been a popular way to measure "graphical power" for years. The term refers to the number of calculations a GPU can perform, but while it’s been on spec sheets forever, more recently the teraflop has gone mainstream, appearing in marketing messages found in the launch of consoles like the Xbox Series X. With GPU core counts reaching five figures, it’s nice to have a simple point of comparison. Unfortunately, teraflops have never been less useful.The term teraflop comes from FLOPs, or "floating-point operations per second," which

One for the future: mhL

mhL's introduction to Counter-Strike happened when he was just five years old, but unlike fellow prodigy Dmitry "⁠sh1ro⁠" Sokolov, the young Pole's interest for the game didn't last. mhL only really got into the game following the release of Global Offensive, in 2014, after being persuaded to try it by school friends. About 12 years old at the time, the game grabbed him instantly, with the scenes of Wiktor "⁠TaZ⁠" Wojtas and co. winning the Major in the Spodek Arena giving additional inspiration to take on the game competitively. "Before

Local vs Remote AR Multiplayer

Mobile AR now has both local multiplayer by Google and Apple and remote AR by ARnDAI, but the mechanics of AR multiplayer are different than that of traditional non-AR games. Here’s what you need to know.Local MultiplayerLocal multiplayer is called collaborative or shared AR. It can be integrated in your product using ARCore or ARKit, AR frameworks made by Google and Apple, respectively. Of course there are other solutions too, but those two are the most popular and most technically sound. This kind of interaction appeared about two years ago,

GTC Fall: Week 2 Recap & Week 3 Preview

by: TheOneAboveUThe results of Week 2 presented no surprises, leaving Dragon Phoenix Gaming and Jin Air Green Wings with an early lead ahead of the other contenders. However, the season is still in its early stages, and everyone still has a chance to catch up—especially KaiZi Gaming.Week 2 RecapPoints are awarded as follows:3 points for a 'normal' victory in a series that does not require an ace match2 points for a victory in a series that requires an ace-match1 point for a loss in a series that requires an ace-match0