Culture is King

MARCH 10

Hi fam, during a weirdly quiet week of gaming the spotlight dough goes to D O double G, the Street Fighter community getting hit and Steam reaching juicy numbers. Let’s go.

Made by Franco

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🎤 Culture is King

‍FaZe Clan x Snoop Dog. Fucking huge. To be honest, it wasn't a surprise and that’s when you know how big they are. FaZe is at a point where everything is possible, and when you see it, it just makes sense.

Snoop has been heavily involved in commentating gaming and streaming for a while now. He is really influential within the crypto community and his network is culturally relevant af. This ain’t just another celebrity clout injection, this takes FaZe to a new next level.

I’ve seen FaZe announce crazy stuff in the last couple of years, but I believe this one will be the one that makes a true difference in terms of community. By the way, it’s not really a collab, Snoop is part of FaZe now, board of directors type shit.

💣 Games’ Hub
GOTHAM KNIGHTS — Announcement
LOST ARK — Stats
GRAN TURISMO 7 — Guide
DEAD SPACE — Livestream
THE HOUSE OF THE DEAD — Trailer

🎞️ Film x Gaming

Sony is trying to bring God of War to Amazon Prime.
Netflix hires a new Head of Gaming: Roberto Barrera. He worked 11 years for PlayStation.
China’s promotional art for Uncharted.

🥊 Street Fighter License: Explained
A few days ago the Street Fighter community got a lil shaky. This is why:

Capcom announced a mandatory Street Fighter V license for all tournament organizers, with new guidelines and rules. Fun.
The reaction: negative, obviously. The guidelines did not bring anything to improve the esports scene, only more control over the prizes, merch and who can host events. I mean, they have the right to do it, but that’s how you do it? The marketing and legal teams should have come up with a more community-driven way to go about things. Camouflage it with new esports incentives or announcements, not just bad news.
The response: Capcom saw how the entire community were memeing the shit out of them and released a response, which pretty much says that they will review the license new changes and might think about not implementing some of them… lmao.

📖 Read of the Week
How the Super Smash Bros. World Tour Affects the Esports Scene, by Rango.

📈 Stats of the Week
Steam numbers:

Steam hit 132M Monthly Active Players in 2021, compared to 120M in 2020.
69M Daily Active Players, compared to 62.6M in 2020.
Player spending on games rose 27% compared to 2020.
Full year in review: here.

🍞 Events’ Recap
PlayStation’s State of Play brought some warm bread for us to take a look at.

🏆 Esports Highlights

LCS Mid-Season Showdown will have a live audience.
The most popular esports tournaments in February.
F1 One team Brabham enters esports racing.

🖲️ From the Tech Streets
My knowledge on technical PC stuff is non-existent but I can at least let you know when is the cool shit coming out for you to spend money. Nvidia’s RTX 3090 Ti will launch on March 29th.

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Elder Ring: best player, worst player.
Throwback photo to PlayStation 2 launch.
How is this PC even possible?
Relive Windows 98.
Everything announced at Apple's “Peak performance”.

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BUNDLE FOR UKRAINE

733 creators put together a bundle that contains more than 570 games + comics, books and other stuff. You can get it all with a min donation of $10. Everything will be donated to the International Medical Corps and Voices of Children in Ukraine. Raised so far: $3.4M.

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