Month: May 2016

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General: Epic Tavern – Keeping Adventurers Hydrated

Fantasy RPG tavern management sim, Epic Tavern, is being readied for release in 2017. Players take on the role of a tavern boss that supplies food and drink for adventurers and sends them on their way to find quests that will alter the world. Owners can choose their establishment to be a den of villainy or a beacon of hope for the world.

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General: The Top X Steam RPG Trends That Need to Go Away

Steam is the go-to place for PC gamers. Unfortunately, it wades into its own version of Fallout 4’s wasteland. For every good game, there are 100 bad, side by side in every category. Sure, you can sort and filter, but none of it seems quite as good as it should be. Here are the RPG Files top five trends we wish would go away.

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Bandai Namco Releases Details Surrounding ‘Tekken 7: The King of the Iron First Tournament – North America’ Tour

Back in February, Bandai Namco began what would become a year-long tour of North America, bringing Tekken 7 to conventions and major fighting game community events for fans of the series to show what they’re made of. Prior to today, many details surrounding this tournament tour remained shrouded in mystery, but now we’ve got the full scoop on what to expect moving forward.

Each stop on the tour will feature a $3,000 prize pool with the final event boasting $20,000 in cash prizes. The winner at each stop along the way will qualify for the finals event, the date and location of which are still forthcoming. The full schedule follows below.

Date Location Event
February 19-21 Portland, OR Wizard World
March 18-20 Atlanta, GA Final Round
April 1-3 St. Louis, MO Wizard World
April 29-May 1 Des Moines, WA NorthWest Majors
May 6-8 Minneapolis, MN Wizard World
May 27-29 Chicago, IL Combo Breaker
June 2-5 Philadelphia, PA Wizard World
June 17-19 Sacramento, CA Wizard World
June 24-26 Orlando, FL CEO 2016
July 29-31 Columbus, OH Wizard World
August 5-7 Orlando, FL Wizard World
August 18-21 Chicago, IL Wizard World
August 19-21 Philidelphia, PA Summer Jam X
September 9-11 Richmond, VA Wizard World
September 23-25 Austin, TX Wizard World
October 14-16 Southern California SoCal Regionals
October 28-30 Toronto, Canada Canada Cup
November 4-6 Pittsburg, PA Wizard World
TBD TBD Tekken 7: The King of
the Iron Fist
Tournament 2016 North
America Final

So far, five players have qualified for the final showdown: Geesemaster (Wizard World Portland), Circa|Anakin (Final Round XIX), Brawlpro (Wizard World St. Louis), Mr. Naps (NorthWest Majors 8), and ZTS (Wizard World Minneapolis).

When Mark “MarkMan” Julio contacted Shoryuken with this information, he also made it a point to direct our attention to an important rule in place for the tournament tour, which states that “[q]ualified champions cannot compete in future ‘TEKKEN 7: The King of the Iron Fist Tournament 2016’ events after qualifying unless they relinquish their qualifying spot.” This should help encourage plenty of new faces to make themselves known in the Tekken scene.

For more information regarding this series of events, as well as a complete list of rules, you can visit the Tekken 7: Tournament Rules page.

Source: Bandai Namco with a tips from GamerDWreck and Jerry M.