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Image Source : KRAFTON KRAFTON launches Road To Valor: Empires tournament, winner to get 10 Lakhs KRAFTON, Inc., the renowned South Korean video game developer, has recently unveiled the inaugural Road To Valor: Empires Open Championship, featuring an impressive prize pool of Rs 10 lakhs. The realm of strategy gaming in India has experienced a notable upswing in…

No more technical fixes yet Pokemon has been having…issues lately. Amid the last-second delay of Pokemon Home, and problems with recent raid events, another bug popped up that dealt with private tournaments. Well, the latter just got fixed, at least! This info comes from the official Japanese Pokemon account, which tweeted out the update details this week: “Updated data (Ver.1.3.1) for ‘Pokemon Scarlet Violet’ has been distributed. Fixed an issue where unintended behavior occurred in private official tournaments…

For the first time since 2017, The International, Dota 2's most prestigious tournament, will take place in Valve's hometown. The tournament will kick off with a group stage that begins on October 14th before moving to Seattle's Climate Pledge Arena on October 27th, the studio announced on Saturday. The Climate Pledge Arena, previously known as KeyArena, is the same venue where Valve held The International between 2014 and 2017. It's also the venue where Dota fans got to see one of the best plays in the tournament's…

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) and Singapore National Olympic Council (SNOC) have announced that Fortnite will be appearing at this year’s inaugural Olympic Esports Week. Set to run in Singapore between June 22-25, the Olympic Esports Week will see competitors arrive to take on in-game equivalents to a number of Olympic sports. As part of the week, the IOC has confirmed that Fortnite will be used to host a sport shooting tournament, with 12 players from the 2023 Fortnite Champion Series set to compete within…

A 96-year-old woman and her 85-year-old partner have won a Wii Sports Bowling tournament in France, taking home the competition’s trophy on behalf of their retirement home. The pair were competing at a tournament held by Gamers Assembly, which took place over the weekend (April 8-11). Jeanine (96) and Gilbert (85) were representing their retirement home at the competition, and managed to take home the tournament’s first-place trophy thanks to a well-placed strike from Jeanine (via Eurogamer). In the final round, Jeanine…

Yesterday, the first round of Overwatch League play in 2023 concluded with the league’s first-ever pro-am tournament. Seven amateur teams from the North American and EMEA regions qualified for the right to play against the professional Overwatch teams of the west. Most Contenders teams are sorely under-resourced. They’re usually made up of teens and young adults who practice and play alongside their school and work obligations. It is an almost impossible grind for Contenders players to maintain the level of skill needed…

TULSA, Okla. — University of Northern Colorado junior Andrew Alirez didn’t eat Mexican, Italian or processed foods this year. It was all in an attempt to win a national title. Well, his next several meals will be “something that tastes good,” because he reached his goal. No. 2-seeded Alirez (28-0) won the 141-pound national championship on Saturday night, becoming the first-ever champion in the modern era. UNC’s most recent titles came in the Division II days and in the 1960s before the NCAA created divisional breakdowns.…

SACRAMENTO —  Before he left the podium late Thursday night, Mick Cronin saluted someone several hundred miles away.“Jaylen Clark,” Cronin said, “we miss you, buddy.”Yes, the UCLA Bruins certainly do.Clark is their best defender, if not the nation’s best. He’s their emotional spark plug, following his takeaways leading to easy baskets with a muscled flex and a mighty roar.He has also become a galvanizing force, even while resting his injured leg back in Southern California as his team attempts this March march without…

SACRAMENTO —  No Furman here. No Princeton here. No late craziness or shocking weirdness or shining momentousness here.No Cinderella, only smashing pumpkins.UCLA was not going to lose its NCAA first-round tournament game to 18-point underdog North Carolina Asheville at the Golden 1 Center on Thursday night.No way. No how. Not for all the madness in the world. This was evident in the first three minutes, which went roughly as follows:UCLA layup. Asheville brick. UCLA two free throws. Asheville brick. UCLA trey. Asheville…

SACRAMENTO —  The only nervous moments came several hours before tipoff.A slew of massive upsets put UCLA on high alert against another Cinderella seeking a sprinkling of March magic.None would be found after an early Bruin blitz of baskets eased any lingering fears. UCLA would not go the way of Arizona or Virginia and get eliminated during the NCAA tournament’s opening day.The big question facing the second-seeded Bruins during an 86-53 first-round rout of 15th-seeded North Carolina Asheville on Thursday at the Golden 1…