Guardians of Ember – Early Access to Begin in the Second Half of October

The Guardians of Ember Steam page has been updated with the news that Early Access will be ready to launch by the latter half of October. This is a slight delay but the team needed a bit more time to complete several internal tasks. In addition, the IndiGoGo campaign will also continue through October 10th and if a $20,000 funding goal is met, the Iron Man feature will make it into the game.

Arc System Works’ Limited Edition Guilty Gear Xrd -REVELATOR- Arcade Stick Now Available at Arcade Shock

Back when Guilty Gear Xrd first launched for home consoles a couple of years back, there were two special arcade sticks released for the game: a Tournament Edition 2 variant from MadCatz and Arc System Works’ own Guilty Gear Xrd-themed arcade stick. For Guilty Gear Xrd -REVELATOR-, Arc System Works and Sanwa Denshi are updating the latter arcade stick for this edition of Xrd.

This Guilty Gear Xrd -REVELATOR- Fight Stick features the same heavy duty form factor as the previous version. Its large top panel (perfect for resting big hands on) sports a full array for Sanwa Denshi parts for everything, including the control panel buttons on the upper left of the top panel. New to the -REVELATOR- version is the top panel art of series protagonist Sol Badguy, as well as three additional alternate top panel art pieces that users can swap in.

For those interested in picking up this super limited edition stick (only a bit over 300 made), Arcade Shock have brought a very limited number of these sticks over the the US. More importantly, they will be selling them at no markup whatsoever–the $220 price tag is a direct 1:1 conversion of the original Japanese price.

Expected shipping date for these is sometime in October. Interested folks can pre-order them now over at Arcade Shock.

Source: Arcade Shock

Neverwinter – Enter To Win VIP Subscription and Space Hamsters (PS4)!

MMORPG.com has partnered with Perfect World Entertainment to bring an exciting sweepstakes opportunity to our community! We are giving away 50 prize packages for Neverwinter on the Playstation4! The first 10 winners will receive a VIP subscription and a Miniature Giant Space Hamster ($18 total value). The next 40 winners will get the Miniature Giant Space Hamster ($8 value). This sweepstakes will end on Sept 25 @ 9PM EDT.

Capcom Pro Tour DLC Adds Over $90,000 to Capcom Cup 2016 Prize Pool

Alongside the recent announcement of the Necalli costume designed by Kazunoko and all of the new additions coming in the September 22nd update to Street Fighter V, Capcom have released the figures of how much money has been added to the Capcom Cup pot through the purchase of special SFV DLC.

You will remember at this year’s Evo the special Capcom Pro Tour bundle was announced, which included the Ring of Destiny stage, costumes for Chun-Li and Cammy (and now Necalli), as well as a special CPT default color scheme for all of the roster. While many did quarrel with the price of the DLC, Capcom have raised roughly $92,182 which will be added to the grand prize pool at this year’s Capcom Cup in December. The actual breakdown of the DLC sales figures means that a minimum of 30% of the DLC revenue goes to the prize pool, with 50% helping fund Capcom Pro Tour productions. This means that Sony receives a maximum of 20% of the DLC earnings, meaning that a minimum of 80% of the DLC profits go back into the CPT in one way or another.

As for the availability of this CPT bundle, the pack will actually go off PSN Store shelves in November, so the money can be tallied up properly and a exact figure can go into the Capcom Cup prize pot. It’s possible that once Capcom Cup is finished, the bundle will go back on sale to help fill the pot back up for Capcom Cup 2017. With the Ring of Destiny stage, there are also plans to integrate more tournaments into the background graphics via server maintenance–but at the moment, Evo and Capcom Cup are the only two tournaments whose logos appear on the screens on the back of the stage.

Source: PlayStation Blog

Runescape – 2017 Will Mark the Year of the Expansion

During this past weekend’s Runefest, Jagex made several big announcements, most notably that the company is bringing the expansion mentality into RuneScape. Starting in 2017, every three months, RuneScape will have a new area or region added to the game, something developers are calling a “new substantial part of the world map” and each will place an emphasis on exploration and discovery.

Watch The Highest Level of Street Fighter V to Date with These Japan Cup 2016 CPT Replays

Japan Cup 2016: the first Street Fighter V Capcom Pro Tour Premier since Evo 2016, took place this past weekend at the annual Tokyo Game Show in Japan. This invite-only tournament featured some of the best SFV players from around the world, making their mark in the Land of the Rising Sun this season.

Street Fighter veterans such as Zowie|Gamerbee and Secret|Poongko finally achieved higher placings (that were the norm for them in Street Fighter IV) after a rough start at the beginning of the CPT season. Meanwhile, up-and-coming talent such as Japanese Ken player Rinta gained a solid fourth place finish after taking down a lot of established players along the way. Young Rashid specialist, John Takeuchi, ended at a respectable ninth place following his landmark win at First Attack a few weeks ago.

There were also plenty of shocking upsets and eliminations, with players such as BSTlDaigo, Evil Genius’ Justin Wong and Ricki Ortiz and RZRlXian drowning in pools! These are players who have won multiple CPT Ranking majors this year and for them to not even make into the top 64 just goes to show tough this Premier tournament was in Japan.

Here are the Winners’, Losers’ and Grand Finals replays of the Japan Cup tournament. You can watch the rest of pools, top 64 and top eight matches in the source at the end of this post.

Source: Capcom Fighters

Path of Exile – The Exiled Tribune – The Atlas Manifesto, Patch Notes & Community Spotlight

This week in Path of Exile, the community once again had its chance to shine in the spotlight with the announcement of a new contest, a high octane Build of the Week, and a curated list of community art assets. Not to be outdone, the Path of Exile development team took to the airwaves with a series of videos to show off new microtransactions, provided insight into the latest patch and revealed plans for upcoming tweaks to The Atlas.