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FIFA 22’s next-gen free upgrade will only be available for players who buy the Ultimate Edition

A next-gen upgrade will only be available for the digital-only Ultimate Edition of EA’s newest version of FIFA, which costs $99.99 on a limited pre-order offer. Electronic Arts has updated its Dual Entitlement system rules for FIFA 22, announced yesterday and launching Oct. 1. Players who buy the Standard Edition of FIFA 22, which is significantly cheaper and costs $59.99, won’t earn a free next-gen upgrade. This is a big change compared to what EA did for FIFA 21, which offered the free next-gen upgrade to owners of all editions

NEO: The World Ends With You Gets New Trailer All About Shibuya

Today Square Enix released a new trailer about the upcoming JRPG NEO: The World Ends With You. This brief video celebrates the game’s setting, Tokyo’s bustling Shibuya district, where many among the local youth love to gather and mingle. To do that, Square Enix placed the characters of the game in locations of the real Shibuya, followed by a few glimpses of gameplay. You can watch it below. [embedded content] If you want to see more about NEO: The World Ends With You, you can enjoy the original announcement, plenty

Harena Data introduces its new ‘COGNISAT’ cognitive Virtual Reality analytics platform

In Virtual Reality News July 8, 2021 – Harena Data, an esports community aggregator, has recently revealed its new cognitive analytics platform ‘COGNISAT’. The platform combines sport specific virtual reality- (VR) based analytics with video game metrics from GYO Score (an esports and gaming data analytics platform) and computer-based soft skill cognitive metrics and performance profiling into a common data set. According to the company, the data set provides a comprehensive cognitive view of a traditional or virtual athlete and helps athletes, recruiters and coaches to better understand the athlete

WePlay! to organize a $100,000 CS:GO league for academy teams

WePlay! has revealed the creation of a $100,000 CS:GO league for academy teams in partnership with Astralis Talent, FURIA Academy, Young Ninjas (NiP), Na’Vi Junior, mouz NXT (mousesports), BIG Academy, Virtus Pro Prodigy, and Fnatic, who will be announcing its academy team soon, according to HLTV. The competing teams in the WePlay! Academy League season one must have at least four players between the ages of 16 and 20 to participate in the tournament. The league will start on July 19 with an online round-robin group stage that will see

Dream donates $140,000 to LGBTQIA+ charity with proceeds from Pride month streams

The internet’s largest Minecraft creator Dream has kept his promise of giving back to the LGBTQIA+ community during pride month by donating $140,000 to charity. Dream had promised his community at the beginning of June that all money earned through streaming during Pride month would be used to help LGBTQIA+ youth and on the final day of the month, he shared the news of the life-changing donation. This is being donated to the Trevor Project an LGBTQIA+ charity dedicated to LGBTQIA+ youth. You can read more and donate here: https://t.co/4jBYTFKPrdHappy

Concussion Legacy Foundation Canada to Host $10,000 Fortnite…

TORONTO (PRWEB) July 01, 2021 Concussion Legacy Foundation Canada (CLFC) is proud to announce its upcoming Brains and Brawn campaign. The campaign will feature a two-week livestream fundraiser along with a two-day online Fortnite tournament with total prizing of $10,000. CLFC is a Registered Canadian Charity whose mission is to advance the study, treatment, and prevention of the effects of brain trauma in Canadian athletes, military personnel and other at-risk groups. “Teaching young people about brain health and performance, by leveraging the powerful engaging medium of video games, can have

Kjaerbye retires from CS:GO

Markus "⁠Kjaerbye⁠" Kjærbye has announced that he is taking a step back and retiring from Counter-Strike at an elite level, leaving behind the HYENAS project he was competing with while on FaZe’s bench. The Danish rifler is stepping away from the game at the age of 23, but despite his youth, he leaves some impressive accolades to his name, which include becoming the youngest Major MVP at ELEAGUE Major 2017, which he won at the age of 18 with Astralis, and making the top 20 players of the year list

Minecraft Championship (MCC) raises over $300,000 for charity during Pride 2021 event

Minecraft Championship (MCC) Pride 2021 has come to an end. The event was a massive success for Noxcrew and the 41 players involved during the two hours the festivities were live. After Aqua Axolotls won in a nail-biting finale, and after 20-vs-20 Dodgebolt to end the fun charity event, the team over at MCC pulled in over $300,000 for charity. The money will be going to Trevor Project, the world’s largest suicide prevention and crisis intervention organization for LGBTQ+ youth, in the U.S. Of the $300,000 donated, $100,000 of it

Noxcrew reveals exclusive Minecraft Championships (MCC) Pride 2021 winners coin

Ahead of the next Minecraft Championships (MCC) event, MCC Pride 2021, Noxcrew has unveiled a special prize that will be given out to the victorious team.  Typically, the main prize for any MCC competition is a special Championship Coin, and this time, the coin is going to be themed around Pride.  MCC Pride 2021 will be hosted in partnership with YouTube Gaming and The Trevor Project, a nonprofit focused on suicide prevention efforts among LGBTQ+ youth, as a special event on June 26.  Noxcrew is running the event outside of

LEC power rankings: 2021 Summer Split week one

The LEC shifted pretty heavily after week one of the 2021 Summer Split, with several teams rising from the dust to post shocking records. Misfits and Astralis surprisingly dominated the conversation during the split’s first week, while the recently-established triple threat of MAD Lions, G2 Esports, and Rogue quietly stewed in the background, all finishing with respectable winning records on the week.  But there are eight more weeks on the board for the LEC and it’d be downright foolish to prematurely judge the landscape of the region after just three