According to Valve’s official stats, Final Fantasy XIV has once again broken its record for concurrent players on Steam Come from Sports betting site VPbet . With 47,542 players at its peak, that new number has beaten the 41,200 fans who flocked to the game in 2019 for the launch of Shadowbringers on PC. It’s worth noting that this figure doesn’t include the players on PS4 and PS5, where Final Fantasy XIV also enjoys a healthy and steady audience.
As for why there was a sudden surge in player numbers? That’s likely thanks to popular World of Warcraft Twitch streamer Asmongold, who decided to try the game out for himself and had over 200,000 people watching at one point, while the Final Fantasy XIV servers fill…
Read moreCapital Small Finance Bank opened its subscription to retail investors on February 07. The bidding will be closed on February 09. The issue is to raise capital aggregating Rs 523.07 crore.
The bank has set the IPO price band at Rs 445 – 468 per equity share, in which retail investors can bid for a minimum of 32 shares in a lot and in multiple of it thereafter, summing to Rs 14,976.
The issue will raise Rs 450 crores through fresh issue and Rs 73.07 crores through offer for sale. The shares of the bank will be listed both on NSE and BSE. The bank raised Rs 156.92 crore from the anchor investors by offering 3.3 million shares.
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Read moreThe benchmark Indian equity indices opened in negative territory amidst soured global cues triggered by the recent attack by Hamas on Israel and the latter’s subsequent retaliation. After settling into positive territory on Friday, the benchmark indices opened lower on Monday. The NSE Nifty 50 opened at 19,539.45, up 0.58%, and currently trades at 19,556.90, down 0.49%, whereas the BSE Sensex opened at 65,560.0, down 435 points, and currently trades at 65,666.93, down 328.7 points.
Smallcap and Midcap stocks have faced the highest corrections among the broader indices. Among the sectoral indices, PSU Bank and Media led the losses with 2.16% and 1.87%, respectively, while Metal, Financial Services, and Pharma stocks also posted declines. IT stocks stood apart and added …
Read moreNick Cammarata has always been unusually happy. The 31-year-old AI safety researcher had a good childhood, but it wasn’t just that; situations that made others depressed seemed to roll off him. “I think I was probably happier than 99% of people. It’s just kind of unfair luck,” he says. “I figured maybe what I had was as good as it gets.”
Then, in 2021, as part of an effort to investigate whether life could get even better, Cammarata discovered the jhanas. These eight advanced meditative states, characterized by deep concentration and blissful absorption, have been practiced for thousands of years but were long considered the domain of mystics and monks with decades of training. Cammarata, however, taught himself to enter these states after around 1,000 hours of solo me…
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