Everyone has a fighting chance
The first big public taste of anything coming with Guild Wars 2’s Heart of Thorns expansion is today. ArenaNet is opening up the new PVP mode Stronghold for one 24 hour period today to presumably gather feedback and metrics from its many adoring fans. But the question is… will you be playing?
The Triad Wars site has been updated with a forward look at the next patch. In it, the team details several of the key components that they’ve been working on to include in the patch.
The Dying Light team has posted on the game’s Steam page that the long-awaited developer tools have been released. Players can now access the tools and start building their own game content.
The Ultimate Fighting Championship has announced a featherweight contest pitting Mike Wilkinson against Alan Omer for its June 20 UFC Fight Night “Gustafsson vs. Teixeira” card at the 02 World Arena in Berlin.
The Elder Scrolls Online Crown Store will be updated on April 16th with several new items including the limited time offer for the Senche-Leopard mount at 2500 Crowns. The mount will be available through April 20th when it will be removed from the Crown Store after regular maintenance.
It feels like everywhere you turn these days, there’s another zombie themed something-or-another being shoved in your face. Personally, I blame The Walking Dead since it seems as if the entire pop culture theme arrived en masse when it debuted on AMC in 2010. In gaming, we’ve seen more than a few zombie-themed RPGs and pseudo-RPGs lately. Not to be left behind, MMOs have embraced the undead apocalypse too. Big studios and indies have taken to the new genre with wild abandon.
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Rafael Carvalho may have gotten a victory over Joe Schilling at Bellator 136, but he did not make it out of their middleweight co-headlining bout unscathed.
We’ve all been there: you spend hours trying to beat your buddy in a game of Mortal Kombat, finally see their character helplessly dazed before you, and feel an immense desire to seal the deal by ripping them limb from limb.
But, oh no! You forgot the fatality inputs!
Rushing to the pause screen, you leave yourself with scant few seconds to pull off the motions necessary to complete the nasty finisher, allowing your opponent’s body to unceremoniously flop to the ground as a testament to your failure. You may have won the match, yes, but the embarrassment of this missed opportunity will haunt you forever.
If you recently picked up Mortal Kombat X and found yourself experiencing flashbacks to those dark periods of adolescence, never fear, because NetherRealm Studios has including an option for easier fatality inputs in their latest title that’s sure to do just the trick.
Of course, you can access them through the game’s Krypt by collecting currency during your time training up your skills, but why do that when you can drop some extra cash into your PlayStation Network or Xbox Live account and receive them immediately? Both online platforms are currently offering downloadable content that unlocks easy Fatalities in increments of five for a measly dollar or thirty for the reasonable price of five bucks. What a steal!
Oh and, fun fact, if you still can’t quite get the hang of Fatality inputs when these easy methods run out, you can always buy more. Yes, you read that right…they’re disposable.
All joking aside, this isn’t the worst use of microtransactions we’ve seen in the video game world or even in the fighting game genre (don’t worry Street Fighter x Tekken, we’re not gonna go there), but it’s still a little weird to see tactics like this make their way to the console market. I’m eagerly awaiting what they will think up next.
Special thanks to Jeff Gerstmann for bringing this to our attention.
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