Vietnam

Due to COVID-19 Restrictions, Vietnam Will not be Represented at Worlds 2020

The League of Legends World Championship will start in Shanghai on Sept. 25 with 22 teams instead of the  24 teams initially set for the competition. The qualified teams from Vietnam have withdrawn from the competition, citing a re-entry barrier back into Vietnam due to COVID-19 precautions, according to Vietnamese news site Gamek. The report came down as teams were competing to qualify for Worlds 2020 during the summer Vietnamese Championship. Vietnam has had 1,040 confirmed cases of COVID-19, with 32 deaths (from Jan. 24 – Aug. 31), according to

Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare/Warzone Season 5’s New Operator Is Based On A Real-Life Soldier

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare and Warzone's new Season 5 update introduced a new Operator named Marcus "Lerch" Ortega. It's now been revealed that Lerch is inspired by the real-world soldier Tony Sentmanat, who served in the US Marine Corps and later as a SWAT team member. He now runs his own tactical and firearms training company called Real World Tactical.After leaving the armed forces, Sentmanat worked as a correctional officer before becoming a law enforcement officer where he spent a good portion of his career in SWAT. His bio

Season 5 of Ubisoft Entrepreneur Labs has begun, revealing 8 chosen startups

Based in Station F (Paris), Ubisoft launched the newest season of their startup program, led by the Ubisoft Strategic Innovation Lab. The program is oriented around supporting innovative startup products and services by providing them expert assistance and access to world-class facilities.  Season 5 of this series will be focused over social entertainment, as evidenced by statements made by the Program Director of the Ubisoft Entrepreneurs Lab Catherine Seys’ on the 9th of January, 2020. She laid out the foundation for the 5th Season by saying – “We want to

Da 5 Bloods Review: Spike Lee’s Netflix Jungle Thriller Is A Powerful History Lesson

Spike Lee has been one of America's most important and prolific filmmakers for over 30 years, but like all directors with long and diverse careers, he has experienced various levels of critical and commercial success. Prior to 2018, his last major box office success was 2006's heist thriller Inside Man, but the success of Blackkklansman was a very welcome reminder of Lee's immense gift as both a fiery social commentator and consummate cinematic craftsman. For his next movie, Lee has teamed up with Netflix to deliver the sprawling and powerful

New Call Of Duty Could Be Reimagined Black Ops In Cold War

Like usual for the Call of Duty series, this year's game has apparently leaked ahead of its official announcement. While Activision has already confirmed a new Call of Duty is coming this year, it hasn't shared any details whatsoever, and we'd usually know by this point in the year when the next game would be releasing and what it would be called. However, according to a tweet that has since been corroborated by Eurogamer, this year's game will be called Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War. So far, Activision

Kardiachain Sets Sight on the $2 Billion Vietnamese Esports Market

KardiaChain on May 21, 2020, announced its plans of expanding into the lucrative, multi-billion dollar Vietnamese eSports market. Consequently, they have launched the KardiaChain eSports Incentive Platform which is a prediction game for Garena’s Arena of Valor (Liên Quân) tournament on the Vietnamese mobile phone MOBA game. Garena is the largest game portal in South East Asia. Fans will now be allowed to punt on match outcomes using KardiaChain’s KAI tokens.  KardiaChain and Their Mission The decision was borne out of necessity. Because of COVID-19-related disruptions, the blockchain project, in a blog post,