Month: May 2016

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ArcadeStream Announces ‘Road to Evo’ Tournament in Seoul on May 28; Winner Earns Round Trip Ticket to Evolution 2016

Drakefang, owner of ArcadeStream, the primary gaming center in Seoul that houses Street Fighter V events, has announced a special tournament for all players in Korea and nearby regions. At stake for this event is a round trip ticket to Evolution 2016.

For a 10,000 KRW entry fee (roughly $10), players will square off in a 128-player, double-elimination bracket, for the winner-takes-all prize. While SpiritZero already held one such event in Anyang, South Korea earlier in the month, there is a slight difference in this event. While foreign players could compete in the SpiritZero event, they could not earn the trip to Evo even if they won; only Koreans could. ArcadeStream, on the other hand, has opened their tournament to anyone within the region who wants to try to earn passage to the Las Vegas-based tournament.

Already confirmed to be showing up to this event is a smattering of players from the US, such as RagingStormX, as well as a plethora of players who cut their teeth on other games, such as Verna, MadKOF, and Lacid of King of Fighters fame, M. Lizard of Street Fighter IV fame, and 200won, who is famous from his play in Tekken Crash last year.

For those in Seoul and surrounding regions, this may be your chance to get to Evo. For everyone else, the event will be streamed live starting at 1:00 PM KST, Saturday, May 28th (12 AM EDT Saturday/9 PM PDT Friday, May 27th) on ArcadeStream’s Twitch channel.

Source: ArcadeStream

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Elder Scrolls Online: PTS Is a Growing Concern

There is a glaring problem with The Elder Scrolls Online and it’s rarely brought up as a concern. This issue isn’t present in just ESO, it is an ongoing concern throughout the entire MMORPG genre. In this week’s column I’m going to hold off discussing The Dark Brotherhood a bit and talk about something that I think we need to try and rectify or provide ideas to Zenimax and other companies. Let’s discuss Test Servers and the incredibly low population of people that utilize them.

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Check Out this King of Fighters XIV Footage from Stunfest

For many King of Fighters fans, Stunfest was hype not because of any competition, but rather the fact that the latest build of The King of Fighters XIV was playable at the event. This allowed many European KOF players to give the game a spin and figure out how it plays.

The game itself was featured on stream and players seemed eager to try stuff out, allowing for what may be the most extensive streamed showcase of the game to date.

For those who missed it, Grave Lee has uploaded some footage from the first day of Stunfest divided into three videos. The footage below is mostly of casual sets with players trying to figure stuff out, at the same time however, this sort of footage is what helps us learn a lot more about the game.

Source: Grave Lee

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Black Desert Online: The Plan is to Release All Awakenings at Once But Not Soon

Black Desert Online’s CM_Tytyes has gone on record on the community forums to tell players that the plan, at least for now, is to release all “Awakenings” at the same time. Part of the concern has been that releasing them one or a few at a time would create imbalance in PvP. In addition, the NA-EU specific nature of the BDO regional client requires adaptation to suit differences between the Korean version and the NA-EU version.