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Watch: DrDisrespect joyously welcomes TimTheTatman to YouTube Gaming

Reunited, and it feels so good.

When Herschel “Guy” Beahm IV, a.k.a. DrDisrespect heard the news that Tim “TheTatman” John Betar was leaving Twitch for YouTube Gaming, he was beaming from ear to ear.

The two content creators are good friends, but they have been unable to play together since Beahm’s ban from Twitch last year. Until now, that is, as Betar’s move to YouTube means the two of them can finally reunite.

“Timmy Tenders is coming over to over to YouTube, huh, Champs,” Beahm said during a Monday YouTube stream. “Come on, get over here, Timmy! Get in here!” Barely able to contain his joy at the news.

Check out the heartwarming welcome from Beahm for yourself below.

Betar is likely just as excited over the news as he publicly stated how much he missed playing with Beahm. Hopefully, the two are in for many new adventures from now on.

Written by Kyle Campbell on behalf of GLHF. 

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‘League of Legends’ is hosting an interactive heavy metal show

What, you’ve never been in a virtual mosh pit before?

League of Legends is about to put on a virtual heavy metal concert with its in-universe band Pentakill. Yes, you read that right! Fans will even be able to influence the show as it happens. 

So how does this online shindig work, exactly? Well, fans need to head over to the concert’s Wave page on September 8 at 1:00 PM PT / 4:00 PM ET to participate as it happens. Concert-goers can make choices that will impact what happens on stage in real-time while chatting with other attendees. Though if you would like to watch rather than participate, there are options to view it on YouTube and Twitch as well.

“We’re excited to continue to push the envelope in music and storytelling with Pentakill,” said Toa Dunn, head of Riot Games Music said in a statement. “With our partners at Wave, The Mill, and We Are Royale, we have set out to showcase what the future of virtual entertainment experiences can be.”

The whole event is a sort of countdown to Pentakill’s newest album Lost Chapter, which will be on all the big streaming platforms right after the concert is over.

Written by Kyle Campbell on behalf of GLHF. 

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China is further limiting video game play time for minors

Efforts to curb gaming addiction in the country reach extreme measures.

China now forbids minors from playing video games for more than an hour on Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays, Forbes reported Monday. Meaning anyone under 18 years old can only play for three hours a week. 

These new rules are even tighter than the previous ones, which allowed minors to play video games for a total of 1.5 hours per day. All of this is part of an ongoing effort by China to curb video game addiction in minors, and video game companies like Tencent have to abide by them. 

“Minors will be restricted at the account level using the existing real name registration and anti-addiction system,” Daniel Ahmad, a senior analyst at Niko Partners, said on Twitter. “For reference, there are around 110 million minors in China that play video games today.”

Ahmad also claims that roughly 2.6 percent of Tencent’s players are younger than 16 years old, so these rules likely won’t affect the actual gaming companies too much. Even though that’s still a lot of people under heavy restrictions.

Written by Kyle Campbell on behalf of GLHF. 

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YouTube Gaming signs Twitch superstar TimTheTatman

Yet another big content creator signs exclusive streaming deal with YouTube Gaming.

YouTube Gaming is signing exclusive streaming deals with Twitch stars left and right, with the latest being Tim “TheTatman” John Betar. As was the case with DrLupo only days before, Betar claims the move will allow him to spend more time with his family.

“When I started, I had no family obligations, and I could stream a lot of hours,” Betar said, via Business Insider. “The reality is, now that I’ve got my wife and my son, it’s hard for me to stream as much as I did beforehand.”

Betar made news of his move to YouTube official with a trailer chronicling some of his, well, former professional endeavors. Check it out for yourself below. 

Twitch actually commemorated Betar’s career on the platform with a lovely montage too.

With more than seven million followers, Betar is leaving behind a massive fan base on the platform. Betar’s audience will likely keep up with his escapades in games like Call of Duty: Warzone regardless, though.

“I’d say seven to eight out of 10 people coming up to me go, ‘Man, I love your YouTube,'” Betar said in the same Business Insider interview. “I have more followers on Twitch, but a lot of people day-to-day call me a YouTuber.”

Written by Kyle Campbell on behalf of GLHF. 

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Brendan ‘PlayerUnknown’ Greene leaves ‘PUBG’ for independent studio

The mind behind battle royale is moving on.

Brendan “PlayerUnknown” Greene, who many consider responsible for popularizing the battle royale genre when he created PUBG: Battlegrounds, has left the game and developer Krafton behind to form an independent studio. 

PlayerUnknown Productions, Greene’s new studio, is based in Amsterdam and will create open-world games in the years to come according to a press release. Thus far, the only project we know of that’s in development at the studio is Prologue, which has yet to resurface since its announcement in 2019. 

“I’m so very grateful to everyone at PUBG and KRAFTON for taking a chance on me and for the opportunities they afforded me over the past four years,” said Greene in the same press release. “Today, I’m excited to take the next step on my journey to create the kind of experience I’ve envisaged for years. Again, I’m thankful for everyone at KRAFTON for supporting my plans, and I’ll have more to reveal more about our project at a later date.”

Check out the teaser trailer for Prologue for yourself below.

Greene certainly left an indelible mark on the video game industry with PUBG: Battlegrounds. There would likely be no Apex Legends, Fortnite, or Call of Duty: Warzone had he not come up with the concept of battle royale as a game type in the first place.

Hopefully, Prologue makes just as big of a splash whenever it comes out.

Written by Kyle Campbell on behalf of GLHF. 

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The top 10 games to play on your phone right now

Go to your app store and download these ASAP.

For many, mobile games don’t exactly have a glowing reputation. Thanks to bombardments of in-game ads and a penchant for bleeding players’ wallets dry, it’s no wonder that many in the gaming community turn up their noses at smartphone games.

Yet where early iterations of mobile titles focused on cheap gimmicks and greedy cash grabs, our trusty mobiles now play host to some of the best gaming experiences out there.

In fact, with smartphones getting increasingly more powerful every year, some of the best console and PC interactive experiences have slowly found their way onto the two dominant mobile platforms – Android and iOS.

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Without further ado then, here’s a selection of some of the greatest mobile video games that you can enjoy anytime, anywhere.

Controversial ‘tap-strafing’ move in ‘Apex Legends’ is getting removed, and pros aren’t happy

Respawn Entertainment announced that come patch 10.1, tap strafing will be no more.

Respawn Entertainment announced plans to remove “tap-strafing” from Apex Legends in an upcoming patch. The controversial movement technique is wildly popular as of late, and while it’s technically an exploit, many don’t see it as a problem considering it takes loads of skill to pull off. 

So what is tap-strafing, exactly? Basically, it’s a maneuver in Apex Legends that lets you change direction midair in a pinch without slowing down at all. Imagine zipping around corners as if momentum was never interrupted, and that’s tap-strafing. 

Unless you’re a seasoned Apex Legends player, any footage of tap-strafing is hard to recognize, but the below video should give you some idea of how it works.

A significant point to consider here is that this technique was community-discovered, not intentionally implemented by developer Respawn Entertainment, and therefore an exploit. So come patch 10.1, tap-strafing is getting removed from Apex Legends.

“After much consideration and debate, we’ve decided to remove tap-strafing from Apex Legends,” said Respawn Entertainment in a statement on Twitter. “Our reasoning: It’s inaccessible, lacks readability/counterplay, and is exacerbated by movement abilities.”

The reaction from most Apex Legends pros is, well, not particularly kind — ranging from nasty comments hurled Respawn Entertainment to advocating that players should play something else in protest. The blowback is downright bananas. 

Some of the tweets below contain NSFW language, so read ahead at your discretion.

Written by Kyle Campbell on behalf of GLHF. 

Halo Championship Series announces partnered esports teams for ‘Halo Infinite’

Nine teams will be ready to compete when Halo Infinite comes out.

Halo Infinite has everyone from casual fans to massive content creators going wild over its esports potential, and several big teams just announced partnerships with the Halo Championship Series. 

343 Industries and Microsoft are already putting Halo Infinite’s competitive scene front and center by partnering with some big names from the esports world, well ahead of the game’s December launch date. Though the Halo Championship Series isn’t franchising like, say, Overwatch League does — the teams will just work with Microsoft and 343 Industries to help Halo Infinite grow as an esport. There will even be open events for anyone to compete.  

“These Teams are investing significant funding into the Halo ecosystem and we want to ensure that the Halo ecosystem can give back financially to them,” said Tashi, Halo Esports Lead at Microsoft, in a blog post on Halo Waypoint. “None of the investment funding is going to us, it’s all going to the community! Part of why these teams were selected was because they wanted to be a part of the Halo community for the long haul.”

The partnered teams include:

Check out the slick trailer announcing the partnerships for yourself below.

Safe to say with names like these, the Halo Championship Series isn’t playing around.

Written by Kyle Campbell on behalf of GLHF. 

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Iceland rumored to host 2021 League of Legends World Championship Series

The Mid-Season Invitational was in Iceland, so why not Worlds?

Riot Games recently announced that the 2021 League of Legends World Championship Series would be moving from China to Europe, and it looks like Iceland might be hosting the event.

While Riot Games have yet to confirm if Iceland is where the tournament will play out, a Dot Esports report claims that will be the case. Given that several big League of Legends events have taken place in Iceland, including the Mid-Season Invitational back in May, it’s not hard to believe Riot Games would return for the 2021 League of Legends World Championship Series.

One thing’s for sure, though: shifting the event from one region to another is due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.

“We figured 2020 would be the hardest Worlds we’ve ever produced,” said John Needham, Global Head of Esports at Riot Games, in a press release. “With vaccines being distributed worldwide this year, we anticipated a return to some sort of “normal” in 2021. Well, unfortunately, this hasn’t been the case. With the Delta variant, travel restrictions and COVID protocols have been even MORE complicated to navigate in 2021 than they were in 2020.”

You can watch Needham’s complete statement about moving the 2021 League of Legends World Championship Series from China to Europe below. 

Like everything else in the world these days, COVID-19 continues to make live esports events challenging. Hopefully, by the time the 2022 League of Legends World Championships happen in North America, there will be some semblance of normalcy.

Written by Kyle Campbell on behalf of GLHF. 

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Watch: Hilarious ‘Resident Evil 3’ mod adds ‘Among Us’ astronaut

You got Among Us in my Resident Evil.

Modding is a big part of PC gaming. Be it fan patches that fix bugs in games, helpful gameplay tweaks, or silly stuff like adding the astronauts from Among Us to Resident Evil 3; there’s something for — wait, hold up, what was that last one?

Yup, there’s a mod for that, too. A user named ShiroeSora over on Nexusmods created a mod replacing Resident Evil 3’s hulking Nemesis monster with the cute yet devious astronauts from Among Us. You might be asking yourself: why would someone do this? Well, because playing Among Us is downright terrifying once the finger-pointing with friend factor kicks in. It’s also hilarious!

Check out a clip of the little red astronaut rear-back in a furious rage with their flamethrower for yourself below.

What’s especially funny is the official Among Us twitter account even had a laugh over this mod.

It’s always great to see game developers embrace fun mods like this.

Written by Kyle Campbell on behalf of GLHF. 

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