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Top 4 Video Games That Sparked Controversy In India
Indians take offence easily and tend to get defensive when their sentiments are hurt. The tricky part is that India is a diverse nation and what might offend some section of society might not offend another and vice versa. Most would remember the Coldplay’s Hymn for the Weekend video faced a lot of flak for cultural appropriation of Indian religion and culture. I agree that India was depicted in a rather dramatic manner but I thought people seemed to forget that it was just a music video, which everyone knows is a bit over the top. I know dismissing it by just calling it a music video is not doing the controversy justice as this is a mulit-faceted debate. However there is an insightful article on The Guardian that gets into the finer details of this matter. Moving back to the articl...
Paladins, The Free-To-Play Shooter Coming To PS 4
The latest team based shooter, Paladins: Champions of the Realm, is making its way to the PlayStation 4, after taking the PC community by the storm. Made by Hi Rez Studios, the creators of SMITE, Paladins is a fantasy-themed Free-to-Play title that saw quite a huge success on the PC, with more than 1 million players taking part in the first 10 days of the open beta. The official announcement can be found on the PlayStation US Blog. “Paladins: Champions of the Realm, the new team-based shooter from SMITE developer Hi-Rez Studios, is coming to PS4 — and you can sign up for the Closed Beta right now! Never heard of Paladins? It’s the new free-to-play fantasy-themed first-person shooter that’s taken the PC gaming community by storm. In its first ten days of open beta on PC, more than 1 m...
Smite 2015 Prize Pool Reaches Over 2.13 Million Dollars!
A tweet by Stewart Chisam, president of Hi-Rez Studios, announced that the prize pool for Smite’s World Championship has reached over 2.13 million dollars, surpassing League of Legends’ 2014 Championship’s prize pool. Crowdsourcing has propelled @SmiteGame past LoL’s 2014 Championship to become 3rd largest prize pool in eSports. pic.twitter.com/0gVlR4XTr4 — HiRezStew (@schisam) December 23, 2014 Unlike the League of Legends tournament, Smite’s World Championship utilized crowd-sourcing, donating portions of proceeds from in-game items towards the prize pool. Smite’s World Championship will be held in Atlanta from January 9 to 11 of next year. Smite is developed by Hi-Rez Studios and available for PC and soon to be released on Xbox One.