Month: January 2016

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Heroes of the Storm: $500K Pool for Collegiate eSports Champions

Blizzard has unleashed the first information about the 2016 Heroes of the Dorm tournament that will see students competing to win a share of $500,000 in tuition awards and other prizes throughout the competitive season. Coverage of Heroes of the Dorm will take place on ESPN Network with live coverage on both cable channels and online.

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Bandai Namco Possibly Prepping Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo’s Next Console Launch

Nintendo’s next gaming platform, codenamed Nintendo NX, may have a number of Bandai Namco Entertainment-developed products available at launch, including Super Smash Bros.

Bandai Namco worked closely with Nintendo on Super Smash Bros. for Wii U and 3DS, assigning Soulcalibur art and sound director Tetsuya Akatsuka and the entirety of the Tekken team to the project to assist Sora Ltd. and director Masahiro Sakurai.

These details come courtesy of Kantan Games CEO Serkan Toto, who has previously offered up early details on other Nintendo titles. He later clarified that he wasn’t sure if it was an entirely new Smash installment, opening up the possibility that Bandai Namco may instead be developing a port of the most recent release on Wii U.

As with all things related to the Nintendo NX, this news is merely a rumor and should be taken with a grain of salt. We’ll keep you updated as more information becomes available.

Source: Serkan Toto via Nintendo Insider

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Star Trek Online: Happy 6th Anniversary, STO!

Star Trek Online Executive Producer Stephen Ricossa has taken to the blog-o-sphere to pen a happy anniversary note to the game and to reflect on the past. Ricossa takes time to explore a bit of STO’s earliest history as well as a more lengthy look at 2015 and the big changes brought to the game via updates throughout the year.

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General: Minorities in Gaming – Theorizing Representation As Revolutionary

The question of representation in video games is not a new one, and continues to spark all kinds of discussions that range in topic and intensity. On one end of the spectrum, there are individuals and groups who advocate for the most possible diversity in gaming. On the other, there are camps who posit that there is no issue of representation in video games, or that it’s not a worthy topic of discussion.