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So, you’re finally able to set up your own office. You have the desk and PC but it’s still a little empty. Or maybe it’s your game den, man cave, or even your living room. You need something to fill that space that will grow with you. Enter the Gjemeni Couch: it features built-in device charging, easy assembly, and adapts into more than a dozen different positions. Let’s see if it’s worth the $999 MSRP!
Sean O’Malley has been suspended six months by the Nevada State Athletic Commission for a failed drug test prior to UFC 229.
The latest newsletter about Pantheon: Rise of the Fallen is now out in the wild with the great news that Linda “Brasse” Carlson has taken her dwarfy self to work with Visionary Realms. Many will remember Carlson as a driving force with both Sony Online Entertainment and Trion Worlds. Other positions have opened up as well, with the team culling through applications for both tech and art teams.
The Game Awards, hailed as one of the video game industry’s biggest celebrations, has revealed this year’s nominees — and several entries from the FGC world have made their way onto the list for 2018. From the press release:
Reaching over 18 million viewers in 2017 and hailed as “the Oscars of the gaming world” by the New York Times, The Game Awards will bring together game industry creators, esports champions, digital influencers and Hollywood names for a night of awards, exclusive game world premieres, new game announcements and musical performances, including The Game Awards Orchestra. The Game Awards is available to watch for free across almost every major mobile, desktop and console devices used to play video games.
Making an impact from the FGC this year are two prominent players from team Echo Fox: Dominique “SonicFox” McLean, and Hajime “Tokido” Taniguchi — two of the brightest stars in the competitive scene right now, certainly. Evolution Championship Series 2018 got a nod for Best Esports Event, and SonicFox’s side-switch against GO1 in Evo’s Dragon Ball FighterZ grand finals is an option for the Best Esports Moment. The Best Fighting Game category sees four big titles vying for votes: Street Fighter V: Arcade Edition, Dragon Ball FighterZ, BlazBlue: Cross Tag Battle, and the recently-released SoulCalibur VI.
Head over to The Game Awards site for the full list of gaming nominations — and to cast your own vote for your favorites. The nominees will be honored at The Game Awards on Thursday, December 6, at the Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles, at 9:00 PM ET (6:00 PM PT).
Source: The Game Awards [press release]
The Vindictus team is ramping up the excitement over the release of the game’s thirteenth hero, Grimden, with a brand new trailer to show off just what it is he can do. Grimden will be joining the fray on December 11th.
Magic: The Gathering Arena has been in open beta for several weeks. Over the course of OBT, players have been asking for an option to challenge their friends to TCG combat. The community asked and the developers have listened. Starting November 15th, players will be able to use the Direct Challenge feature to take on friends and rivals in 1v1 combat.
Lineage 2: Revolution mobile players will be able to enjoy some DC-themed content thanks to a newly announced collaboration between Netmarble and Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment. Super Heroes and Super-Villains from the Batman family will be entering the game in celebration of Lineage 2: Revolution’s first anniversary. Players will find “new opportunities for exciting interactions in open-world combat”.
As the new RaiderZ team continues its work revamping key components of the game, they wanted to show off some of the work in progress. In a new video, you can see a variety of systems currently undergoing retooling including the Evade System, UI changes, Character Creation updates and the starting point alterations.
X-Men (and X-Force) are the teams I want to assemble most in Marvel Strike Force, but the Brotherhood of Mutants is a close third and is getting a full rollout this month. FoxNext has released some information on how we’ll be unlocking the new team and we’ve been poring over what leaks we’ve been able to find on their kits, but the characters are finally here and it’s time to dig into them!
Fortnite has been patched to v6.3 that brings a bunch of big changes to both versions of the game. Battle Royale players will be able to take part in the Food Fight limited time mode and Save the World players will find practically a new game thanks to a plethora of improvements.