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Steam Early Access gained yet another entry today with the arrival of sci-fi action MMO ‘Pantropy’. During the game, players work to gather materials to construct fortresses and to craft items including mechs for tooling about the world. Players can even construct a large crew mech called the ZEUS. To celebrate today’s big day, the Pantropy team has released a brand new Early Access launch trailer.
Yesterday, QC Games raised a few eyebrows with the announcement that it would be migrating Dauntless to the Epic Games launcher and that the Epic Store would be the exclusive PC platform. After learning that the process to migrate to Epic, players expressed concerns that player information was being shared with Epic without their consent. However, this is not the case and QC Games have some clarification to offer to players.
Glory Kickboxing is starting the year in style by heading to Houston for the first time, with an event capped by a featherweight title fight between Petchpanomrung Kiatmookao and former champ Serhii Adamchuk on Friday.
Wizards of the Coast has announced the first details of the Magic: The Gathering Arena Mythic Invitational. This is the first major esports tournament for the digital game based on the tabletop series. Players will be competing for a share of the $1M prize pool, with the top player taking home $250,000. The event will be held in Boston, MA from March 28-31, 2019.
Fans of retro gaming will want to take notice: the latest Brook converter allows you to connect a PlayStation 4/PlayStation 3/PC controller to either the classic Sega Genesis (a.k.a. Mega Drive) console, or NEC’s TurboGrafx-16 (a.k.a. PC Engine) alternative. There are a lot of great games on these platforms that would benefit from the arcade-quality controls offered by a good fight stick, so you’ll want to check out the pre-order at Arcade Shock if you’re interested!
The long wait is over. The Super Converter for the Sega Genesis (aka Mega Drive in Japan) is almost here, allowing you to use hundreds of quality PS3 and PS4 control pads or arcade sticks to relive the retro classic gaming.
Play thousands of games from the huge library this system has to offer, from the Streets of Rage series, Gunstar Heroes, Contra Hard Corps, Golden Axe and much more.
Additionally, for the first time, Brook added another system, NEC’s TurboGrafx-16 (aka PC Engine in Japan), which has it’s share of memorable retro games, Bonk’s Revenge, R-Type, Splatterhouse and many others.
You can get this converter reserved for you for $49.95 USD. The converters are expected to ship sometime in May 2019.
Source: Arcade Shock
The BioWare Blog has been updated with a new post from Head of Live Service Chad Robertson. In it, he provides readers with some information about improvements that have been made to the Anthem demo client ahead of this weekend’s open event. “Those of you that played last weekend should see significant improvement in multiple areas over last week,” Robertson wrote. He begins by announcing that internal scale testing has gone well and that “we’re confident we are ready for the load we will see”.
The BioWare Blog has been updated with a new post from Head of Live Service Chad Robertson. In it, he provides readers with some information about improvements that have been made to the Anthem demo client ahead of this weekend’s open event. “Those of you that played last weekend should see significant improvement in multiple areas over last week,” Robertson wrote. He begins by announcing that internal scale testing has gone well and that “we’re confident we are ready for the load we will see”.
Rizin Fighting Federation is back and ready for a rousing 2019 campaign, with the promotion intent on matching or even surpassing the record set in 2018 for the most events, starting with Rizin 15 in April.
One of the components of the Season of the Dragon in Elder Scrolls Online is a 4-player dungeon called the Depths of Malatar. In a new article on the ESO site, the team provides a preview that “brings unique rewards to Tamriel’s undaunted adventurers”.
QC Games has sent out the latest class trailer from Breach, its co-op RPG dungeon brawler. This time, attention is focused on the Pyromancer, quite the fiery fellow.