Now THAT’S what I call a pro-gamer move! The good folks at Riot Games have promised to donate all proceeds from battle pass purchases to Ukraine! That means all the battle passes from League of Legends: Wild Rift, Valorant, Teamfight Tactics and whatever my MOBA-virgin brain can interpret Legends of Runeterra as falling into! The donation period of battle passes will include those between March 5th to 12th. Proceeds from the League of Legends ‘Bee skin’ line will also be donated at this time.

Riot has also donated one million USD between three non-profits: International Medical Corps, The Polish Red Cross and Médecins Sans Frontières, which sounds like a plotline from Metal Gear Solid and translates to ‘Doctors Without Borders’.

“The war in Ukraine has caused an expanding humanitarian crisis […] Since it began, we’ve heard from players around the world that they want to help—and so do we… All proceeds from both Riot’s donation and the player fundraiser will directly support humanitarian relief in Ukraine and other affected areas.” – Riot Games in public statement.

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Graphic card-making company Nvidia was recently hacked by a Ransomware group that stole data, resulting in the company’s brief temporary closing.

In addition, parts of Nvidia have been ‘compromised’ due to coinciding with Russia’s own cyber warfare in addition to it’s… You know… Let’s just say the only Crazy Russian Hacker you’ll find me praising is this guy!

On the bright side, the group that hacked Nvidia has found itself getting hacked back in a fitting Karmic twist of fate. The attack is still being investigated.

Whodunnit? And more importantly, Whydunnit? Wouldn’t you like to know! Though I can’t be too mean, that’s something we have in common. The Ransomware group ‘Lapsus’ who claimed responsibility for hacking Nvidia, has posted screenshots threatening to release proprietary source code and directory listings, holding that information at a… Ransom (roll credits).

Nvidia hasn’t confirmed if it was behind the counter-hacking of Lapsus, though that hasn’t stopped them from accusing the company of being responsible.

What’s next? Well, there are optimistic and pessimistic likely outcomes to this. On the one hand, a similar cyber attack on Nvidia’s GeForce has seemingly confirmed a number of new games in development (or at the very least seemingly so). On the other hand, hacking groups like this have also caused company shut-downs (as was the case with Koei Tecmo). I’m leaning towards the positive end of the spectrum here, but time will tell.

Product Poems:

Apex Legends. Cokemilk Champions! Racing too? Hell yeah bro!

Gran Turismo 7. Vrewm. Shooty shooty bang-bang? Doom

There was once a young woman called Aloy, who’s south-end faced west like McCoys! Surely forbidden, so purely well-hidden, till coming under Lottie‘s employ.

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