Month: January 2018

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Guild Wars 2 – Love to Garden? You Can Now Through the Garden Plot Deed

Guild Wars 2 players can log in today to get hold of a special Customer Appreciation Package that includes a Black Lion Chest Key and a Black Lion Chest. Chests can contain some new items including two random drops, a guaranteed seasonal item and a Black Lion Statuette. Black Lion Chests can also contain baby griffons or mini yellow jackal pups. But most interestingly, there is a new Garden Plot Deed that you can add to your home instance.

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Here’s how to redeem your early access to the beta if you’ve pre-ordered Dragon Ball FighterZ in the EU

While the upcoming open beta for Dragon Ball FighterZ starts on January 14, those who pre-ordered will be able to play the game a day early.

For those players in the EU who have pre-ordered the game, Bandai Namco Europe recently sent out a reminder on Twitter for them to redeem their codes, so that they can gain early access.

Players who pre-ordered should go to this site. Here, they can enter their details, as well as the retailer code that should have come with their pre-order. Once this is done, they then need to link their PSN or Xbox Live accounts, again with their retailer code. This should allow them redeem their early access into the beta.

Take note that this is for European players only. Players in North America who pre-ordered the game digitally can simply download the client by searching for “Dragon Ball FighterZ Open Beta Early Access” on either the PlayStation Network or Xbox Live.

Source: Bandai Namco UK

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Overwatch – Twitch & Overwatch League Sign Multi-Year Media Rights Deal

Twitch and the OverWatch League have signed a multi-year media rights deal that will see every match in every season broadcast on Twitch. The games will be available to fans around the world, except for China. Twitch will be “the worldwide third-party digital provider” for all aspects of the Overwatch League including pre-season play, regular season games, playoffs and championship matches. Streams will be available in English, Korean and French.

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The Dragon Ball FighterZ open beta will have a practice mode

When Dragon Ball FighterZ had its first closed beta last September, it focused mainly on getting players matched up with each other. As such, it didn’t really have any safe place for players to try out characters, moves, and combos. With the new beta however, it seems that this won’t be the case.

In a recent Tweet, Bandai Namco South East Asia confirmed that the mode exists in Dragon Ball FighterZ‘s open beta.

With this, Dragon Ball FighterZ‘s beta follows in the footsteps of other fighting game betas such as those for Fighting Layer EX, Street Fighter V, and of course, Skullgirls: 2nd Encore‘s “endless beta” that also feature a practice mode.

Aside from helping test the game’s online play, betas such as that for Dragon Ball FighterZ, also allows players to learn more about how the game plays, in preparation for playing the full game on launch. As such, adding in a training mode is a great move by any company that’s beta testing their fighting games. [It is possible that “Practice (Battle Tutorial)” refers specifically to more of a trial mode than an open training mode, but which of the two are in the open beta has not yet been clarified. – Editor]

Dragon Ball FighterZ‘s open beta runs from January 14 to 15, with pre-orders getting early access on January 13. The game itself launches on PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC on January 26 in the West, and February 1 in Japan.

Source: Bandai Namco S.E.A.