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Dialuna, 7 November 2022 AWEMainta Gaming
Entertainment Esports
HBO officially announced Official challenge for
The Last of Us TV series release date
Pac-Man 99 announced
WITH Pac-Man 99 hitting 9 million downloads, Bandai
Namco announced that they will hold a Pac-Man 99 chal-
lenge. An Esport tournament with popular content creators
playing against their fans, in a battle-royale game.
It will begin as an online tournament and ultimately culmi-
nate in a physical event that will be announced in the future.
The event participants, content creators and top finished,
will participate in the finals in front of a live audience.
EARLIER this week, November 2, HBO officially announced
the release date for ‘The Last of Us’ TV series. The series Pac-Man 99 is available on Nintendo Switch. Pac-Man 99 is
will officially air on the 16 of January, 2022. There will be a battle royal game, where you fight to be the last ‘pac man’
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nine episodes and a new episode will be released weekly. alive against 98 other players.
‘The Last of Us’ series is based on a game developed by Business
‘Naughty Dog’ and was released in 2013 for playstation 3
with the same title. ‘The Last of Us’ is about the two main Twitter Gaming’s social lead laid off
characters, Joel Miller and a teenage girl named Ellie, in a
zombie infested world. ON October 27 , Elon Musk bought twitter for $44 billion,
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and later it was announced that he would fire 3500+ out of
I am unsure how much the series will follow the game story, the 7500 staff members. The layoffs are happening across
but Joel was hired to escort Ellie because some doctors twitter’s staff across the world. Shiraz, the gaming’s social
believe she may be the cure to the ‘plague’ and with Joel lead of twitter was one of those staff members. Shiraz has
and Ellie traveling together; they form a father-daughter worked for twitter for 9 Years
bond.
Shiraz wrote “I always tried to champion Creators and
Joel will be played by Pedro Pascal and Ellie will be played Gaming internally to the best of my ability no matter how
by Bella Ramsey. Both actors acted in another HBO series, small or big you were” days before the layoffs.
Game of Thrones. Although both were never really in the
same, as Pedro died earlier in the series and Bella came Although the mass layoffs are still happening, a lawsuit was
later on in the series. filed against the company.
The suit filed in San Francisco U.S District Court alleges that
This is one of the series that’s in my ‘To watch list’ for the company violated federal and state law, which states
2023. that ‘mass firing requires 60 days of notice’.
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