Gaming
BUSTA Launches the First of Its Kind GameFi Platform on Binance Smart Chain
BUSTA (https://busta.gg/) announced the launch of its GameFi platform – the first of it’s kind to be built on the Binance Smart Chain (BSC). BUSTA will be home to multiple games and tokens with many ways to earn. Players can “be the House” by staking and holding $BUST and earn rewards as people play and trade. The BUSTA platform also contains a decentralized exchange (DEX), staking pools where investors can stake $BUST from day one, affiliate/partner programs, and is governed by a decentralized autonomous organization (DAO).
BUSTA is kicking off its launch with their flagship game BUSTA CRASH, a progressive jackpot game similar to the grandfather of crypto crash games – Bustabit. Users can place bets with BNB (or partner tokens in future), watch the multiplier curve increase exponentially, and then click the stop button to claim their winnings before the game “crashes”. The longer the round, the more they can win; however, if the game crashes before they exit, they lose their bet.
Existing iGaming and DeFi projects offer single/limited-purpose platforms with little utility or benefits for the participants beyond their base functions. To change that, the BUSTA founders created a circular business model that benefits players, investors, stakers, traders, affiliates, and partners, all while tapping into a multi-billion dollar industry. The ecosystem is designed so that each component benefits the other and as each increases in popularity and volume, the whole ecosystem and community reaps rewards.
The five primary components of BUSTA are:
- iGaming Platform: Features multiple games like BUSTA CRASH, a progressive jackpot game.
- Trading and Staking Module: BUSTA contains its own niche DEX and yield farm for trading and staking $BUST as well as partner tokens.
- Affiliate Program: The program has a novel approach to growing the user base via referral links, where both parties benefit from a constant stream of passive income from play, trade and farm activity.
- Partnership Portal: Partners can list tokens on the BUSTA platform for constant burn pressure for the partner’s native token, which is provided by automated revenue collection and distribution flow.
- Degenerator Decentralized Autonomous Organization (DAO): BUSTA’s DAO allows the community to control the majority of the ecosystem through a voting process.
“We are taking iGaming and DeFi to the next level, as there’s just so much untapped potential with the technology available that people aren’t utilising yet.” said Neil Apestrong, Project Lead at BUSTA. “We’ve taken advantage of that and intricately designed our ecosystem in a way that makes our games fun and rewarding to play, incentivises holding and staking our $BUST token, and allows our community to grow exponentially, all while playing an incredibly active and powerful role in the operation and further development of BUSTA.”
The gaming platform will release a few more games “in-house” by core team members, but will also look into acquiring entire game companies or offering deals to wire up third party games to the BUSTA tokenomics. This allows the platform to expand both horizontally and vertically, and expanding to multiple other chains like Ethereum and Solana are also attractive expansion options.
BUSTA games will be provably fair and generate a small amount of revenue for the platform in the form of the House Edge. The House Edge is then distributed throughout the ecosystem via smart contracts to benefit the community and $BUST token holders. All of the games will draw their winnings from the BUSTA Bankroll. This Bankroll pool will be funded initially from the presale, then be automatically and perpetually topped up further with a percentage of the House Edge and by users staking their own BNB into the bankroll pool for direct yield rewards in the form of BNB and BUST tokens.
The launch of BUSTA’s iGaming platform will be followed by the $BUST IDO (initial DEX offering) on August 24. With the scope of the BUSTA ecosystem the company will host multiple IDOs simultaneously, on both Starter, a decentralized fundraising platform for the Binance Smart Chain, and CyberFi Samurai, a new era of capital funding for the future of DeFi.
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HLTV Awards returns to Belgrade on January 9, 2027, adding Lifetime Achievement honor
HLTV will stage the HLTV Awards presented by 1xBet in Belgrade, Serbia on January 9, 2027, returning to the Sava Center. The company said more than 1,000 players, industry professionals, creators, and fans are expected to attend.
HLTV also confirmed Dust2 creator David Johnston will feature as an award announcer. HLTV linked the booking to the 25th anniversary of Dust2.
For 2026, HLTV is updating its Hall of Fame process and eligibility rules. Four players will be inducted again, with “at least two and up to three” slots reserved for players from the Counter-Strike 1.6 and early eras. HLTV also removed the former “neo rule,” allowing players to be inducted for their playing careers even if they remain active in other roles such as coaching.
HLTV is adding a Lifetime Achievement Award, which will be decided by the Hall of Fame Board. The ceremony will also move Community Awards onto the main stage show for the first time, rather than the pre-show segment.
Separately, HLTV will kick off the 2027 Awards season with an invite-only “HLTV Awards by 1xBet Launch Party x GRID” in Cologne during the Major. HLTV said industry members can apply for an invite to the ceremony via its awards page.
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Asia
S8UL’s League of Legends roster qualifies to represent India at Asian Games 2026
S8UL Esports’ League of Legends roster has qualified to represent India at the Asian Games 2026 in Aichi-Nagoya, Japan, running from September 19 to October 4. The organisation said the team secured qualification through the regional qualifiers after winning the National Esports Championships (NESC) 2026, described as the official national qualification tournament for the Asian Games.
S8UL said the roster competing under India’s banner is Akshaj Shenoy (Kat Bot), Aakash Shandilya (Infi), Sanindhya Malik (Deadcorporal), Mihir Ranjan (Lotus), Ahmed Shahid (Nero), and Rahul Bisht (Bob). The regional qualifiers featured 14 teams across a group stage and a split stage, with top performers advancing to the Asian Games main event.
In Group B, the team went unbeaten against Jordan, Sri Lanka, and Kazakhstan to progress, according to S8UL. In the split stage, it lost to Vietnam, Hong Kong, and Saudi Arabia but did enough to secure a berth. India will now face opponents including Japan, Chinese Taipei, and Vietnam at the main event.
Four players—Kat Bot, Infi, Deadcorporal, and Lotus—were also part of India’s League of Legends contingent at the Hangzhou Asian Games 2023, where S8UL said the team finished fifth.
Akshaj Shenoy aka Kat Bot, captain of India’s League of Legends team, said, “Qualifying for the Asian Games is a proud moment for all of us. We knew the regional qualifiers would be extremely competitive, and every match demanded complete focus. For many of us, this will be our second Asian Games, which makes this qualification even more special because we understand the level of competition that awaits us. We are grateful to S8UL for believing in this roster and providing us with the support, stability, and opportunities needed to keep improving as a team. Representing India is always an honour, and we’ll do everything we can to make the country proud in Aichi-Nagoya.”
S8UL co-founder and CEO Animesh Agarwal aka 8Bit Thug added, “Representing India at the Asian Games is among the highest honours an athlete can achieve, and seeing our League of Legends roster earn that opportunity is incredibly special. This team has demonstrated resilience, discipline, and a willingness to continually improve, qualities that are essential for success at the international level. At S8UL, our goal has always been to create pathways for Indian athletes to compete on the biggest stages in the world. We have no doubt they will give their all when they step onto the stage in Aichi-Nagoya and compete for the nation with pride,” S8UL also noted that Gurashish Singh (Soul) and Prateek Bhaunt (B Haunt) previously qualified for the Asian Games in Tekken 8 and Street Fighter 6 after winning at NESC 2026.
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Gaming
Geckos Games Launches Momentum – The Most Adrenaline-Charged Live Sports Game Ever Built
Geckos Games launched Momentum, a patent-pending real-time sports prediction game unlike anything in the market. THRILLZZ Free Social Sportsbook gone live as the exclusive launch partner on the opening day of the world’s biggest Soccer tournament.
Five Minutes. One Question. Pure Adrenaline.
Every five minutes of a live match, Momentum asks players one question: which team has the Momentum right now? Not who will win the game. Not what the final score will be. Who has the upper hand – this minute, on this pitch – based on every pass, attack, and pressure play happening in real time.
Makes it different from anything that has come before: the Momentum shift on a single event. A yellow card. A saved shot. A dangerous run. Every on-field event recalculates the balance – and players watch their position move with it in real time. It is not a black box. Players see each event land inside the game – the moment it happens on the pitch.
Then comes the timer. As the five-minute window counts down to zero, the tension becomes almost unbearable. Players who are in the win zone are watching every second, knowing a single event in the dying moments can flip everything. The last few seconds of every round are unlike anything else in sports gaming – raw, unscripted, impossible to put down.
Zero Latency. Official Data. Real Stakes.
Momentum is powered by an official match data with zero latency. Every event flows instantly into the game engine. There is no delay, no approximation. What players see is what is happening on the field right now.
This is not a simulation. It is not a simplified model. It is live sport, translated into a game in real time and that distinction is everything.
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