Nasdaq-listed esports entertainment company Allied Esports Entertainment announced that it has reached a definitive agreement with privately-held investment vehicle Element Partners to acquire Allied Esports’ poker-related business and assets, including the World Poker Tour (WPT). Element Partners will pay a total of up to $78.25M USD for WPT. If Allied Esports’ shareholders and regulatory bodies […]
Lara Croft Could Be Fortnite Season 5’s Next Hunter
A cryptic tweet from the official Tomb Raider account suggests Lara Croft might be the next character to join Fortnite Season 5’s formidable group of hunters. Epic needed to come up with something pretty special to top what it did with Fortnite last season. In fact, Fortnite’s Marvel season probably can’t be topped. Not until […]
Xbox Series S is in stock right now at Amazon UK
There’s still no sign of the PS5 and Xbox Series X but Amazon has got the Xbox Series S in stock now – even if it probably won’t last. Despite constant rumours of a major new delivery of stock there’s been absolutely no sign of the PlayStation 5 at UK retail since last year. The […]
Got $1500 To Spare? Then You Should Probably Buy This Massive Geralt Statue
If you didn’t treat yourself for Christmas don’t worry, there’s still time. Buy yourself this awesome Geralt statue, you deserve it. Every living room deserves an appropriate centerpiece. Yes, for the majority of those rooms, the centerpiece is the television. Whether it’s used for watching movies or playing games, if it’s switched on then the […]
Nearly 100K people watched a streamer destroy rare Pokémon cards
On Thursday, Chance “sodapoppin” Morris streamed the unthinkable live on Twitch: He dunked rare Pokémon cards in lube. And that’s not all — Morris also set plenty of cards on fire using a flamethrower, rolled cards in dirt, and blended cards in an effort to all-out destroy them. Nearly 100,000 concurrent viewers tuned in to […]
INTZ Head of Partnerships on Sponsorship Renewals for 2021
Brazilian esports organization INTZ announced a 100% sponsorship renewal rate for 2021. All brands that have been partnered with the team in 2020 have signed another year-long contract. This includes the internet services company ExitLag, Monster Energy, gaming chairs manufacturer DXRacer, Logitech, payments app PicPay, clothing brand Lupo, and supplements brand Whiz. Whiz sponsored INTZ […]
How To Get Zarude In Pokemon Sword & Shield, Even If You’re Late
Zarude is finally available in Pokemon: Sword & Shield globally, and needless to say, it’s about time. Japanese fans have been able to pre-order Zarude for months now by getting tickets to the latest anime movie, Pokemon: Secrets of the Jungle, and now it’s finally time for fans worldwide to get their hands on this […]
Twitch’s new Multiplayer Ads sound pretty good
Over the next few weeks, Twitch will be rolling out a new type of interactive video ad. These Multiplayer Ads are interactive videos that viewers can participate in. While most people roll their eyes or go do something else while the ad plays, Multiplayer Ads reward the streamer the more you watch. For viewers who […]
Remember When Woody From Toy Story Absolutely Roasted Xehanhort In Kingdom Hearts 3?
The Kingdom Hearts series is weird. Very weird. Perhaps the weirdest collection of video games ever made. It’s a franchise built on the idea that characters from the various Disney and Final Fantasy universes all co-exist in one shared multi-verse where they have to use some nebulous force of light to fight cloaked baddies who […]
Google’s AI lets users search language-agnostic knowledge bases in their native tongue
Entity linking fulfills a key role in grounded language understanding. Given a text mention of an entity (e.g., the word “helpful”), an algorithm identifies the entity’s corresponding entry in a knowledge base (such as a Wikipedia article). To extend its usefulness, researchers at Google propose a new technique where language-specific mentions resolve to a language-agnostic […]