Everyone has a fighting chance
Looking back at 2018, I can’t say if I have just one favorite game. I’ve played more great games this year than I can count, but there are some that stand out for sure. From MMOs to Single Player, my backlog of games to finish keeps growing, and I wouldn’t have it any other way. But if I had to pick just a handful of games as my favorites from 2018, this would be the list.
Blizzard will be rolling out a new program aimed at taming the sometimes wild chat that goes on during Overwatch League and Overwatch Contender matches. The company will be sending out a test balloon during the semi-professional Overwatch Contenders season. Those viewers who wish to participate in chat during matches will be required to tie their Twitch and BattleNet accounts together. According to Blizzard, doing so should yield “a more positive viewing experience”.
Blizzard will be rolling out a new program aimed at taming the sometimes wild chat that goes on during Overwatch League and Overwatch Contender matches. The company will be sending out a test balloon during the semi-professional Overwatch Contenders season. Those viewers who wish to participate in chat during matches will be required to tie their Twitch and BattleNet accounts together. According to Blizzard, doing so should yield “a more positive viewing experience”.
The Atlas Steam page has been updated with a lengthy post from the development team that provides players with the latest update notes alongside news about how technical and gameplay issues are being handled. “We’re going to continue to iterate at a very rapid rate, you can generally expect daily deployments and updates to both servers and clients, and sometimes even multiple if we feel like a change is significant enough to warrant it,” the letter reads.
The Professional Fighters League championship event press conference takes place Friday at 11 a.m. from Chase Square at Madison Square Garden in New York City.
Inklings side special in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate is their trademark Roller, which covers the ground with ink. Nintendo decided that the ink should interact with the physics of other special moves, and… perhaps you should judge for yourself if these interactions were intentional:
It would appear that the ink decreases horizontal distance traveled while either decreasing or increasing vertical distance. This seems to be selectively applied, however, on a move-by-move basis. Moves with slides appear to increase their slide distance dramatically, such as Meta Knight’s teleport, while others might get stuck all-together, such as Jigglypuff’s roll.
Source: Beefy Smash Doods
A couple of weeks back, right before Capcom Cup 2018, Street Fighter V: Arcade Edition received one of its more controversial additions: Sponsored Content. Now, just a couple of weeks after, the sponsored content is no longer available.
As of the time of writing, advertisements on stages and the loading screen have been turned off. At the same time, trying to select color 3-10 on an “Ad Style” costume will simply give the message “the sponsor is currently not available, so you cannot use the selected color.”
Some may speculate that this was due to the negative reaction to the sponsored content. However, the original posting for the Capcom Pro Tour shows that they were scheduled to run only up until December 25. Additionally, other in-game posts about the sponsored content state that they will “change intermittently”, stating that “if a sponsorship is not available at the time and you selected any colors from 3-10 of the Ad Style outfit in your battle settings, you will be forced to use colors 1 and 2.”
Of course, that’s not to say that Capcom isn’t looking at the feedback. After Capcom Cup, producer Yoshinori Ono sent out a tweet thanking the community for providing feedback, and that they would “consider how we can improve this new feature for players in the future.”
Source: Street Fighter V; Yoshinori Ono
For the longest time, Bandai Namco’s Katsuhiro Harada has been associated with Tekken, having been with the franchise from the very beginning. Now, Harada is set to take on a larger role in the company when it comes to their fighting games.
In a message to players of Dragon Ball FighterZ, SoulCalibur VI, and of course Tekken 7, Harada announced that he is now the leader and supervisor of Bandai Namco’s Fighting Game Esports Strategy team. As part of this, he confirmed that Bandai Namco is committed to helping expand the competitive scenes for these games, confirming that they are planning to have as many official tournaments for them as possible. This is on top of figuring out ways to continue to assist tournaments and community events in the future.
Of course, this doesn’t mean that he’ll stop being a producer: Harada stated that he will continue to be one on top of this new role moving forward.
Source: Katsuhiro Harada
If you’ve been a PC builder for any length of time, Team Group is probably a familiar name. They’ve been a mainstay in the industry for years. Today, we’re looking at their latest eye-catching set of RAM with the T-Force Gaming XCalibur RGB DDR-3600 kit. We have 16GB on the bench but does the performance live up to the flashy looks? Read on for our full review!
For fans of Dragon Ball FighterZ, the past week or so has been dominated by talk regarding the game not appearing in a number of upcoming tournaments. The popular theory is that this is because Toei Animation, the studio behind the Dragon Ball anime franchise, is blocking these tournaments.
Replying to a tweet from a fan, Toei Animation has responded to this speculation by stating that they aren’t the cause for these tournaments not hosting Dragon Ball FighterZ.
Apologies, but we have no knowledge about preventing DBFZ tournaments.
— Toei Animation (@ToeiAnimation) December 26, 2018
Of course, with this clarification, the question still remains of why Dragon Ball FighterZ isn’t at these tournaments. The possible explanation could lie in the fact Toei Animation is simply just one of the entities involved with the franchise, other companies are also involved in other various aspects of the franchise. Noted fighting game commentator and attorney David “UltraDavid” Graham has pointed out it could be an issue from one of these other holders.
Like I said, there are lots of rights holders involved. Could be a rights issue from some other angle instead
— Regular UltraDavid (@ultradavid) December 26, 2018
Sources: Toei Animation; UltraDavid