Month: May 2018

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ARMS gets an ongoing free demo on the Nintendo eShop

2018 has been an odd year for adding enticements to games late in their life cycle. Ubisoft released a training mode for For Honor a year after its release, and now Nintendo is putting out a free demo for ARMS on the Nintendo eShop.

This follows multiple “Global Testpunch” events that allowed players to try the game, but this is the first demo with ongoing availability. Considering Nintendo is almost certainly mobilizing their current resources for Super Smash Bros., this could easily be a subtle way to remind people of the game before Spring Man or Ribbon Girl suddenly get Smash reveals. If that’s not the case, well, this is still a great chance to try out this quirky, stretchy fighter for free!

Source: NintendoAmerica

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– Maple Story 2 Closed Beta First Impressions

We all know the Maple Story 2 CBT has started and, as a long time player of the first MapleStory, I was lucky enough to get the chance to play this and write my impressions. I’m going to give you a rundown of my thoughts and things I noticed in the beta.

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Neverwinter – Ravenloft Module to Launch June 26 with New Location & Adventures

On June 26th, Neverwinter for PC will be taking players back to one of the most iconic classic D&D locations ever: Ravenloft. The new module, the game’s 14th, will include the “horror setting of Barovia” with a new campaign, the Barovia Adventure Zone, Tarokka Card Readings, Heroic Encounters, Castle Ravenloft end game dungeon, a “meaningful” day / night cycle and much more.

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Assessing the nerfs to Android 16, Vegeta, and Adult Gohan with Maximilian’s Dragon Ball FighterZ patch breakdown

The latest Dragon Ball FighterZ patch has been live for a bit, and among some new content and modes, it includes some balance changes. Though the changes aren’t huge, they do affect some of the most dominating characters in the game: Android 16, Vegeta, and Adult Gohan. Maximilian says in his breakdown video that the patch rather aims to adjust the meta, rather than be a big balance pass.

Maximilian starts out with the changes to Android 16, who no longer gets a full knockdown from the infamous command grab. While the opponent is still grounded, they are able to roll in either direction, which doesn’t allow the ‘droid to do a cross-up anymore. It’s a small but pretty significant change. Also, his heavy attack doesn’t go through projectiles anymore. Adult Gohan’s Machine Gun Kick doesn’t have as much frame advantage on block, which means it’s not as strong of a blockstring as it used to be. Vegeta (SSGSS) hasn’t received really big changes, but scaling on some attacks has been adjusted, and Bandai Namco applied many bug fixes.

Get yourself acquainted with the full DBFZ patch notes on SRK, and check out Maximilian’s thoughts below.

Source: Maximilian Dood

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Exceed Assault expands with online Under Night In-Birth Exe:Late[st] and Persona 4 Arena Ultimax exhibitions

If you haven’t heard of Exceed Assault, you’ve been missing out on a series of excellent exhibitions. Up to this point, they have been centered around BlazBlue: Central Fiction, but that’s looking to change. Get ready for some focus on Under Night In-Birth Exe:Late[st] as a new chapter of Exceed Assault unfolds.

On May 17th, LogicHole will showcase a special UNIST exhibition on Twitch. Each of the members listed in the poster will face each other in a FT5. The sets will be commentated by none other than HellaBrett and Tari, two very notable members of the UNIST community and knowledgeable players.

However, that’s not everything. For those who miss Persona 4 Arena, Exceed Assault will do an exhibition in Ultimax as well. That event will take place on May 24th on NYGamer’s Twitch channel.

In addition, the two admins of the BlazBlue: Cross Tag Battle Discord server, Chickzama and Bloo, will fight it out in each game in a FT5.

These community-based exhibitions are a great way to show support to these games, so make sure to spread the word and tune in during the broadcasts.

Source: @Chickzama