Ring of Elysium players will be able to take part in an 8-week event to unlock epic cosmetics after today’s deployment of the Adventurer Pass Season 1 update. Over the incoming two months, players will be able to earn in-game items and participate in events to level up season-specific tiers. As more tiers are added, different rewards will be “unlockable”. Players will be able to earn glider and snowboard skins, player icons and portraits, lobby background music and more.
Wargaming has announced its partnership with Mad Head Games to develop a new type of title for the game giant. Pagan Online is an “intense action RPG” with plenty of hack-n-slash action all set in the pre-Christian era’s mythology. Players will face off against “hordes of savage enemies and ancient vengeful gods”. Wargaming is expecting Pagan Online to launch in 2019. Interested players are invited to head to the official site to sign up for beta testing events called “Trials”.
When EA’s Chief Design Officer Patrick Soderlund left the company in August, he did so to form his own company called Embark that will be “making games based on new and emerging technologies”. In a new press announcement, it has been revealed that Embark has received a huge influx of cash thanks to a strategic investment by Nexon. Nexon will own 33% of the company and will become the publisher for any titles developed in the future.
NCSoft has conducted a South Korean media day to announce a number of new games including the much-rumored Aion 2 as well as Blade & Soul 2. While many of the announced titles are MMOs, they are all mobile titles. NCSoft announced Aion 2, Blade & Soul 2, Blade & Soul M, Blade & Soul S, and Lineage 2M. No word was mentioned about “Project TL”, a game that MMOCulture likened to a reboot of Lineage Eternal.
Daybreak Games took part in an Extra Life campaign recently. Working with streamers encouraging donations to the campaign, and with a 100% matching donation by DGB, the company raised over $40,000 for the Rady Children’s Hospital. One of the hospital’s patients, 8-year-old Kellan Meehan and his two best buds joined DGB on November 2nd to participate in Game Day.
Daybreak Games took part in an Extra Life campaign recently. Working with streamers encouraging donations to the campaign, and with a 100% matching donation by DGB, the company raised over $40,000 for the Rady Children’s Hospital. One of the hospital’s patients, 8-year-old Kellan Meehan and his two best buds joined DGB on November 2nd to participate in Game Day.
Tsunehiro “Gachikun” Kanamori recently announced on Topanga TV that he is now a Red Bull Athlete.
Known as one of the best Sagats in Street Fighter IV and one of the best Rashids in Street Fighter V, Gachikun has always been one of the strongest modern Street Fighter players in the world. His recent accomplishments include winning South East Asia Major 2018 Asia Regional Finals, placing 4th at Evolution 2018, and winning Abuget Cup 2018.
It was always a question of when Gachikun would be sponsored, seeing as how he was the highest-ranked unsponsored player in the Capcom Pro Tour 2018 standings. Now, he has joined forces with Red Bull alongside players like Daigo Umehara, Bonchan, Snake Eyez, Luffy, and Bigbird. All of us at Shoryuken congratulate Gachikun on his sponsorship and wish him luck at Capcom Cup 2018!
It looks like fans won’t be able to ask Sakurai for anything for Ultimate, ever again!
While we already know the identity of Super Smash Bros. Ultimate’‘s first DLC character (Piranha Plant), there’s still a few more to be revealed… As such, many players are hoping (and pleading) for their favorites to be added into the game.
Well, it seems that any requests or pleading from fans may now be in vain — unless their desired character has already been decided upon. Masahiro Sakurai confirmed in a recent tweet that the roster of DLC characters for Super Smash Bros. Ultimate has been finalized. Specifically, Sakurai confirmed that selection of the DLC characters came entirely from Nintendo. He simply decided if a character in the selection was someone they could realize in-game.
Of course, this news may not sit well with rabid fans who want their favorite characters in. To them, Sakurai responded by stating “It’s great to dream about your favorite character joining the battle and I appreciate your passion, but please try to stay on topic when replying to tweets and refrain from flooding us, and other users, with requests when we’re not specifically asking for feedback. Thank you!”
Super Smash Bro. Ultimate launches on Switch on December 7.
A bug has been discovered in SoulCalibur VI that gives some characters access to meter-powered mechanics without having the requisite meter for it.
Voldo’s glitch seems to be the more serious one, as it allows him free use of both Soul Charge and Critical Edge. Based on the video below from MaxSWGA, it seems that during the transition from crouch dashing (while in his back-turned state) allows Voldo to use both of those mechanics.
Sean Appleby has done a bit more testing, and has discovered a number of things that bug allows — including multiple ways to combo into Critical Edge for free. These are detailed in the thread following the tweet below.
So this infinite meter bug with #Voldo is um something, not only can you just keep soul charging. You can even combo into super for no meter from certain launchers like WRB. The character I picked just had to be so busted hes gonna be tourney banned lmao #SOULCALIBURVIpic.twitter.com/DRIJmEpMq0
Tira’s glitch on the other hand was discovered at about the same time. This time, she can activate Soul Charge with only half a bar while in her Gloomy state.
With news of the Voldo SC/CE glitch, I figured maybe I'd spread this one too. Gloomy Tira can activate a Soul Charge with .5 meter. Not sure if it's intentional or not since it wasn't mentioned in her Combat Guides. pic.twitter.com/xf9hh2QRRh
Of the two, it’s the Voldo glitch that seems more game-breaking. In fact, Some TOs have already made using it grounds for disqualification in their tournaments. Meanwhile, there’s still some debate on whether Tira’s is something intentional or not.
Just in time for its November 6 launch on PlayStation 4, PC, and Xbox One, a new trailer has dropped for AOne Game’s Omen of Sorrow. While most launch trailers tend to just recap the known features of a game, this one actually reveals two new characters!
Revealed in this launch trailer are Arctorious, the ghostly “king at the crossroads”, and Thalessa, the invisible queen. The latter may be familiar to those following the game as she’s front and center in the cover art for it.
With their introduction, this leaves only one more character, who hasn’t yet been properly revealed.
In addition to the above trailer, AOne Games co-founder Sebastian Gana has also written a detailed write up of their game over at the PlayStation Blog.
Omen of Sorrow launches on November 6 for PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC. The physical edition launches on the same day in Europe, however North Americans will have to wait until November 20 for it.
