Today is January 20th
"Microsoft buys Blizzard, Sony shares plummet"
Use the king of the past to blow up the cards that go to the future
Take a look at #Esports Circle# and #Today's Hot List#!
Part 1 # Recently esports circle #
TGA Tencent Esports Games 2021 Esports Association Awards Results Announced
On January 19, the Tencent Esports Games announced the 2021 Esports Association Awards, which were established by the TGA Tencent Esports Games Organizing Committee to recognize local associations that perform well in managing sports in 2021.
Among them, Jiangsu Shengjie SJG, as the provincial team representative team of the League of Legends project appointed by the Jiangsu E-sports Sports Association, won the following two most valuable awards for the Jiangsu E-sports Association in the summer and winter competitions of the 2021 "TGA E-sports Games" with the first place in the total points:
【League of Legends Project Provincial Team of the Year】 (1 seat only)
【League of Legends Project Annual Most Watched Provincial Team】 (Only this 1 seat)
Thanks to the trust and support of jiangsu e-sports association, Jiangsu SJG will live up to expectations, forge ahead, and strive to achieve better results in the next season! Come on SJG, come on "ShengJie SJG"
$68.7 billion!
On the evening of January 18, capital giant Microsoft released the news that Microsoft would buy game giant Activision Blizzard for $95 per share, with an all-cash transaction worth a total of $68.7 billion. After the completion of the transaction, Microsoft will become the world's third largest game company after Tencent and Sony in terms of revenue.
In fact, Microsoft has been in the game industry for a long time, as early as the turn of the century to establish and launch its video game brand - Xbox, with Nintendo and Sony in the field of console games, in recent years is more in the field of the game industry frequent action.
It first took the Parent Company of Bethesda for $7.5 billion, acquired the ownership of game IPs such as "The Elder Scrolls", "Fallout", "Unjust Murder Machine", "Evil Spirit Possession", and then spent $2.5 billion in September 2021 to acquire the classic sandbox game "Minecraft" development team Mojang and its "Minecraft" brand, and this acquisition of Activision Blizzard, but also a one-time Activision, Blizzard, King Studio and its franchises for its games, including World of Warcraft, Diablo, Overwatch, Call of Duty, and Candy Crush, are packaged into their own game ecosystem.
LPL kicks off Esports Super Week
LPL events officially set the schedule from This Friday (21st) to next Thursday (27th) as the Super Week of the Spring Festival Gala of E-sports.
The official is very particular about the schedule of the super week of the e-sports Spring Festival Gala, providing many opportunities to play the "grievance game". There is no doubt that high-talking competitions are the guarantee of traffic and ratings.
WBGvsV5, LNGvsFPX, RNGvsBLG are the last few games of the year, and the confrontation between old teammates and old clubs has always been the most popular schedule for players. Although RNG and IG will also meet next week, the five people of IG that year have left the team, and now RNGvsBLG is the new "esports Spring Festival Gala." ”
The Meta-Universe Comprehensive Experience Hall has been put into operation, which has strongly empowered the education & e-sports industry
Metarush brand and NetEase Games reached a deep strategic cooperative relationship, deep ploughing XR (VR/MR/AR) application scenarios, and officially operated the country's first Meta-Universe Comprehensive Experience Hall in Guangzhou, which is led by netEase Game Innovation Lab and operated by Yuan Thorn brand.
Metaverse comprehensive experience hall is different from vr experience hall is to bring users into a virtual world completely dependent on imagination, MR technology more emphasis on the interaction between virtual and real world, for users to create a new interactive hybrid experience, users can contact virtual objects at the same time to perceive the real world, so that users more immersive experience of the charm of the metaverse.
The first Chinese e-sports invitational tournament in France held an award ceremony
According to the "European Times" WeChat public account "East to West" news, on January 14, local time, the "First French Chinese E-sports Invitational Tournament" hosted by the Ecole Supérieure des Arts (ESLAP) held an award ceremony in Paris to award trophies, certificates and bonuses to the champions and runners-up teams that won the League of Legends and the Glory of Kings Competition.
The competition officially started on December 25, 2021 local time, and ended on January 10, the decisive victory ended, attracting a total of 28 League of Legends and King of Glory teams from France, the Netherlands, Italy and other European countries to participate, more than 400 Chinese students and the second generation of Chinese participated, of which the second generation of China accounted for nearly 60%, and the number of viewers exceeded 1,000.
The speech process of the 3rd Tokyo Esports Festival is open online on January 28
The third tokyo esports festival will be held online from January 28 to 30, 2022, and some of the guests and processes involved in the speeches have been officially announced, and many well-known people in the esports industry will participate in the story of the development of esports in Japan.
In order to encourage and promote the development of large-scale events in Japan, the 3rd Tokyo Esports Festival will be held simultaneously online and offline based on the consideration of the epidemic situation.
UAE releases major investments in Pakistan or becomes the next esports hub
Pakistan is ready to tap into the multibillion-dollar gaming industry, and EMI companies have announced investments in Pakistan, according to Islamabad.
According to the details, Sheikh Ahmed Al Maktoum visited Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan and discussed the gaming industry partnership in Pakistan and the UAE.
Sheikh Ahmed Al Maktoum also unveiled the esports festival last week. The investment was announced after the Technical Zone Authority approved the park's business license. PTI leader Zulfi Bukhari tweeted that Pakistan is becoming the next esports hub.
BLAST announces its plans for the 2022 event
Tournament organizers BLAST have announced their plans for the 2022 event. The Spring Tournament will be held online from January 28 to February 6. BLAST's concerns about travel restrictions and the pandemic led them to decide not to host the event offline. BLAST expects the tournament to return offline at the spring finals.
Pokémon Collection will enter esports
The MOBA game "Pokémon Collection", jointly developed by Pokemon Company and Tencent Games' Tenmei Studios, producer Hoshino Masaaki (13) issued an open letter on the 13th, saying that "Pokémon Collection" will enter e-sports.
Hoshino mentioned that Pokémon Grand Hunt has been included in the 2022 Pokémon World Championship (WCS) competition program, and the winning teams in the WCS season that begins around the world starting next year will participate in the World Championships that open in August. The total prize money is up to $1 million.
Part 2 # Today's Hot Search #
Minors play games for up to 14 hours during the winter holidays
Tencent Games announced that the 2022 winter vacation and Spring Festival holiday for minors is limited to playing time, up to a maximum of 14 hours.
The details are as follows: Combined with the Notice on Further Strict Management and Effectively Preventing Minors from Addicting to Online Games and the actual holiday arrangements, minors can log in to the game from 20:00 to 21:00 on January 21-23 (Friday, Saturday, Sunday), January 28 (Friday), January 31 to February 6 (Spring Festival holiday), and February 11-13 (Friday, Saturday and Sunday). Minors will not be able to enter the experience for the rest of the time, except for the maximum play time. Special reminder, of which January 29-30 (Saturday, Sunday) is a ban date.
The Year of the King's Glory Tiger defines the skin
On January 20, the Glory of kings official micro-release: January 25, the Year of the Tiger limited skin Tiger God Chronicle CG - "Collection! "Heroes Don't Go Alone" is about to hit hard!
How do contemporary young people celebrate the New Year?
Different ages, different ways of celebrating the New Year. For contemporary young people, one of the most important activities of the Spring Festival is to exchange gifts. Whether it is sending relatives and friends or sending yourself, the sense of ceremony of the New Year must be full.
The data shows that this year's sports equipment has become the first choice for young people in big cities, young people in Beijing like to send running watches, and southern consumers love to send somatosensory game machines. In addition, hot pot and script killing are also their new New Year's play. How are you going to spend this Spring Festival?
What is your favorite national comic in 2021?
2021 bilibili animation (Fan drama & Guochuang) annual inventory is freshly baked! In another year accompanied by B station dramas and domestic animations, we feel the truth, blood and emotion in the same world, and also inject imagination, dreams and creation into life. Come and see if your favorite anime is on the list~
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