Everyone has a fighting chance
From my first Early Access preview to my pre-launch Early Access Review, a lot has changed. Has Neowiz finally addressed the concerns players had leading up to their official launch, or is their new Free to Play conversion on their official western launch a too-little-too-late situation? With mild trepidation of what I may find, I return to Bless Online for my definitive Bless Online Launch Review.
Yair Rodriquez earned a win over Chan Sung Jung last Saturday night at UFC Denver, knocking the Korean senseless with a no-look upward elbow strike. The dazzling technique led some critics to claim the Mexican was “lucky” to land the killer blow.
Next January’s Ultimate Fighting Championship flyweight title fight between champion Henry Cejudo and his bantamweight challenger T.J. Dillashaw could be the last of its kind.
It seems that the explosive community reaction to the announcement of Blizzard’s mobile-only Diablo Immortal has gone viral and even entered the mainstream. Domino’s Pizza Malaysian branch recently trolled Blizzard on its Facebook page with an image of a man dressed similar to the BlizzCon attendee who asked whether or not the announcement of Diablo Immortal was an “out of season April Fool’s joke”. It doesn’t stop at just a picture either.
Vladimir Tokov, the younger brother of 185-pound contender Anatoly Tokov, has signed with Bellator MMA.
It’s one of those “where were you when” days as it’s the tenth anniversary of World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King. WotLK was the second expansion to World of Warcraft and is touted by many as the best of Blizzard’s creations.
After months of silence, the Project Genom team has posted to the game’s Steam page that it is making the move to SpatialOS. The game had been “restarted” in May 2018, but had run into technical issues that couldn’t be solved quickly. As a result, several months went by with no game updates and falling sales. However, the company has invested new funds into SpatialOS technology and has plans to reignite development.
Last week marked the launch of the Lost Ark open beta in South Korea, but it’s not gone quite as smoothly as Smilegate may have wished. As one of the more keenly anticipated titles, it comes as no surprise that players flooded in both from South Korea, but also a tsunami of players from China that caused server issues and more. To address player concerns, the team took to a Q&A (thanks, MMOCulture!) to answer the most pressing questions from the community.
With the launch of Fallout 76 mere days from now, the team is on record to thank its community and its B.E.T.A. testers for their input and support. In addition, readers get a tiny peek at what lies ahead post-launch. “We have an incredible list of updates we’ve begun work on,” the letter begins.
The Funcom financial call is over and it’s been a great year for the company anchored by the success of Conan Exiles. In fact, Funcom “is free of any interest-bearing debt as of 4 October 2018 for the first time since 2009”. The report also included a peek ahead at a number of titles in development.