A rebranded scholastic esports festival is turning gaming tournaments into a full pipeline for education and career development.
FORGE Scholastic Esports Championship details
Rally Cry and the Army National Guard are backing it.
The Boeing Center at Tech Port San Antonio hosts again.
The three-day event runs May 15-17, 2026.
FORGE Trials let partner-league teams qualify nationally.
Qualifier system and partner leagues
ECAC, EGF, and NECC squads can earn spots.
A formal competitive-ladder structure replaces old formats.
K-12 and collegiate players both get pathways.
Career panels and interactive exhibits round things out.
Rally Cry's growing military-adjacent lane
Rally Cry has been merging collegiate gaming with recruitment.
Their...
A full contract termination just landed on one of Brazil's most decorated League of Legends pros after police complaints piled up.
paiN Gaming axes TitaN
Alexandre "TitaN" Lima got dropped effective immediately.
paiN cited its core values as justification.
His suspension had been active since January.
Formal police reports triggered the final cut.
São Paulo police probe specifics
Three women filed complaints on 8 March.
One case allegedly involves a 16-year-old girl.
A second accuser says intimate footage got shared.
A third reported a non-consensual physical encounter.
Investigation background and timeline
TitaN's ex, Gabriela "Gabzuski" Zambrozuski, went public first.
Police had been looking into things since January.
Lima...
Automation data finally behaves like proper clips in Bitwig Studio 6, and that alone reshapes how arrangements get built.
Automation clips shake things up
Bitwig treats automation as draggable, loopable blocks.
Independent time-stretching and start times apply per clip.
Users can save them or feed MSEG modules directly.
Spread mode randomizes values across each pass.
Clip aliases keep edits synced everywhere
Linked copies share a single fingerprint across instances.
Editing one alias pushes changes to every duplicate.
Merge Duplicate Patterns locks identical clips together.
Make Unique decouples any alias on demand.
Project-wide key signature integration
A global scale setting feeds the Piano Roll directly.
Snap to Key locks note...
A massive feature dump just turned Devious Machines' side-chain staple into a genuinely different beast with Duck 2.
Envelope editor gets a full makeover
Brush tools let users paint ramp and step patterns.
Randomise functions generate fresh rhythmic ideas instantly.
New spline and 2D Bend curve shapes landed.
Shape copying works across Duck 2 and Infiltrator.
Multiband section leveled up hard
Three separate bands replace the old two-band setup.
Each band can carry its own independent envelope.
Crossover slopes offer 12, 24, or 48 dB/octave options.
Linear-phase mode tackles artifacts in parallel chains.
Trace Envelope and revamped Offset control
Trace Envelope auto-generates shapes from audio signals.
Side-chain input or imported...
Timestamped audio feedback just got its first dedicated iOS app, and it costs absolutely nothing to grab.
What Mix Notes brings to the table
David Thomas built it after finding zero simple alternatives.
Nashville-based mix engineer wanted streamlined audio markup.
Preset buttons cover level, tuning, and timing gripes.
Custom entries accept typed or voice-recorded notes.
How the annotation workflow runs
Tapping a button mid-playback drops a timestamped flag.
Engineers can revisit each tagged moment back in-session.
A stripped-down audio player keeps the interface minimal.
Device requirements and pricing
Mix Notes needs iOS or iPadOS 18.2 at a minimum.
iPhones and iPads are both fully supported.
The app is live and completely free...
Studio-grade audio processing just landed in Elgato's refreshed Wave lineup through a custom chip built by Lewitt.
What the Wave FX chip actually does
Lewitt engineered a dedicated DSP for Elgato's gear.
Onboard tools handle EQ, compression, and expansion.
Its anti-clip limiter mirrors Lewitt's Connect 2 tech.
A built-in vocal tuner and high-pass filter ship standard.
Wave Link software got a full overhaul
Elgato's reworked app brings native VST support.
Low-latency routing pushes one processed signal everywhere.
Streamers can pipe that output into any app directly.
Products packing the new processor
Wave:3 MK2 and Wave XLR MK2 are shipping already.
XLR Dock MK2 dropped at the same time.
Wave XLR Pro should hit shelves in Q2 2026...
A short illness just ripped away one of South African football's most recognizable superfans before she even hit 50.
Luyanda Mbuyazi's life and roots
Luyanda Mbuyazi grew up in KwaMashu near Durban.
Her AmaZulu obsession kicked off young.
Mbuyazi became a Moses Mabhida Stadium fixture.
Fans dubbed her the Usuthu Queen.
How she showed up for Usuthu
Decked in green and white, she'd lead chants.
Traditional songs and dancing were her signature.
Mbuyazi smashed gender norms in fan culture.
She recruited more women into the stands.
Her final weeks and hospitalization
Mbuyazi had been at a match weeks prior.
A rapid illness landed her in a Durban hospital.
She passed in the early-morning hours on Tuesday.
Her family requested space...
Three people got gunned down in a Mitchells Plain home by masked attackers, and a 15-year-old girl barely survived the ambush.
The Rocklands shooting breakdown
Sadia Madatt, Abubaker Alexander, and one unidentified man died.
Masked gunmen in a grey vehicle struck around 4:50 pm.
Sadia's father was a slain Americans gang leader.
Her teenage daughter caught a bullet but should recover.
Investigation status right afterward
Colonel Andre Traut confirmed zero arrests so far.
Anti-Gang Unit detectives grabbed the case immediately.
Ballistic testing on recovered cartridges is underway.
Tips go to Crime Stop at 08600 10111.
Cape Flats violence by the numbers
Western Cape logged 1,157 murders from October to December 2025.
Mitchells Plain...
A measly 1.1% annual GDP growth has South Africa's biggest trade federation calling the entire economic model broken.
Q4 2025 GDP snapshot
Fourth-quarter expansion hit just 0.4%, deeply underwhelming.
Agriculture absolutely carried 2025 with 17.4% growth.
Manufacturing shrank while construction nosedived by 7.8%.
Five consecutive quarters of growth still feel sluggish.
SAFTU tears into the numbers
Zwelinzima Vavi called the government's 1.6% forecast delusional.
Holiday-season spending should have juiced Q4 way harder.
Raw-material exports basically ship jobs overseas, per SAFTU.
South Africa functions as a warehouse for foreign-made goods.
Unemployment stays catastrophic
The narrow jobless rate sat at 33.2% in early 2024...
