Month: August 2017

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– Blizzard Leads ATVI to Better-Than-Expected Earnings

Blizzard scored big for ATVI in Q2, accounting for 42% of this quarter’s revenue. King performed well too with 35% of revenue and Activision bringing in the final 23%. In addition to leading revenue generation, Blizzard is also the only one of the three that saw year-over-year growth in “player engagement”, the new metric that many companies use now to account for success.

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– Heavy Metal Machines Update Introduces New Arena Map

Heavy Metal Machines has been updated with a brand new arena called The Temple of Sacrifice. During a match, all vehicles start at the same point before setting off to deliver a bomb to the opposite side. There are obvious and not-so-obvious paths and shortcuts as well as the ability to shove your opponents around or even to push them into the Crusher.

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MeleeItOnMe release the new recommended ruleset for Super Smash Bros. Melee

With issues swirling around modded controllers, mid-set coaching and ledge-grab limits, the high council of Super Smash Bros. Melee has finally met to discuss a new recommended ruleset for the game. Voted on by members of MeleeItOnMe, this new ruleset is open to amendment, so don’t expect certain elements to be set in stone.

First off, competitive Melee will continue to use NTSC or PAL version 1.02 with the use of a standard memory card. That means no using modded versions of Melee to fix dash-backs, shield-drops and Firefox angles. By extension, no hardware modifications that fix these issues can be used either, so Arduino controllers are out of the question. Shield-drop notches and cosmetic controller mods are still allowed.

One of the biggest questions going into this new ruleset was the question of the Smash Box and other box-like controllers. On a vote of four to one, the MeleeItOnMe leadership panel voted to tentatively ban controllers like the Smash Box and the B0XX, with the reason being given that “the use of a GC controller is somewhat intrinsic to what [they] consider ‘playing Melee.’” This may be subject to change — I certainly hope it will — but controllers of this type will not be allowed at tournaments that follow this ruleset.

Mid-set coaching is also banned with this rule-set and warm-up periods before games are now restricted to 30 seconds using Melee’s in-game timer. For the entire rule set, a breakdown of how the panel voted and an explanation for certain rulings, go to MeleeItOnMe’s official website. You can also find details on how to propose amendments to the ruleset on the official ruleset PDF.

Source: MeleeItOnMe