Month: February 2017

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Smash Summit Spring Player Selection Is Now Open

The Smash Summit returns for its fourth installment, simply rebranding itself as “Smash Summit Spring,” suggesting that this invitational may become a seasonal event in 2017. Of course with every new Smash Summit comes a new round of voting to see which six fan-selected Super Smash Bros. Melee players will join the ten pre-invited players for a weekend of top-level Melee.

The opt in stage is currently open, where players within the top 70 of the current MIOM ranking can put themselves for possible selection for Smash Summit Spring. Twitter nominations will begin on February 6th, with 20 possible players going forward to the voting stage on February 10th. From there, the fierce player voting period with begin on February 13th with the final two players being voted into Smash Summit Spring on February 17th.

In order to close the voting loopholes which caused a significant amount of controversy at Smash Summit 3, players can only get extra votes by buying items from the Smash Summit 2017 shop, rather than from any tournament compendium. This is to clamp down on fans having a large stock of votes available to use, due to purchases made via other tournament compendiums.

So far, players like LG|Ice, Duck, MSF|The Moon, VGBC|Chudat, MIOM|Kirbykaze, Android and Syrox have opted into the Summit voting, with more being added in the coming days. Keep checking the smash.gg page for Smash Summit Spring for the up to date player lists.

Sources: r/smashbros; smash.gg

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Crowfall – The Knight Given a Bit More Love

The Crowfall site has been updated with a new blog post to talk about changes being made to the Knight Archetype. Among other things, Knights will now use a single resource, with all powers and skills updated to generate and use stamina. A few new skills have been added as well.

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Blue Beetle Coming to the Injustice 2 Beta Today, Alongside New Wave of Beta Codes

It’s a big day for Injustice 2 fans: as alongside the confirmation of characters like the Flash, Bane, and Poison Ivy on the roster and the reveal of Black Canary, additional characters are being added to the Injustice 2 beta. In a not-so cryptic tweet from Ed Boon, he states that Blue Beetle will be joining the Injustice 2 beta later today. By this logic, it’s possible to expect other characters like Gorilla Grodd or Wonder Woman to also join the beta in future updates, as they have been playable in previous pre-release builds.

Don’t worry if you haven’t made it into the Injustice 2 beta, as Boon also announced that another wave of codes will be winging their way to certain lucky Injustice fans as well.

Source: noobde

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Elevate Signs Joseu “Grief” Herrera as Their First Killer Instinct Player

Getting back into the world of traditional fighters after a brief absence, Elevate has announced their return with the signing of Joseu “Grief” Herrera to the team. Having previously been a part of Mutiny eSports, Grief racked up some stellar placings in 2016, getting second at East Coast Throwdown, seventh at Evo 2016, fourth at CEO 2016 and fifth at Killer Instinct World Cup 2016.

He has yet to get on the board in 2017–but with a new sponsorship behind him, expect Grief to be tearing up brackets very soon. As players like F3|HollywoodSleep, Circa|Nicky, Thompxson and UA|Bass are establishing themselves as the combatants to beat in what remains of Killer Instinct Season 3, Grief has to be ready for anything as we head towards Killer Instinct World Cup in March. With a character pool including ARIA, Arbiter, Orchid and Sadira, Grief should be well equipped to fight anything that may come his way in 2017.

Source: ElevateGG

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Star Citizen – Emmy Award Winning Composer to Score Squadron 42

Around the Verse explores the art and tech behind the score for Squadron 42. Composer Geoff Zanelli (Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales, The Pacific, Outlander) walks us through his process, while Ross Tregenza and Lee Banyard discuss the technical challenges for the CIG Audio team. Sandi Gardiner and Josh Herman host this week’s episode, which also includes an update with Brian Chambers from Foundry 42 in Germany.