Hi-Rez brought down the house during DreamHack Valancia in Spain with a triple helping of big news items. First off, Paladins is getting its 30th Champion named, Jenos, a new support champion. Hand of the Gods: SMITE Tactics, the themed CCG set in the same universe as SMITE, is entering open beta beginning today. Lastly, SMITE is headed for big changes to core game features with Project Olympus..
– Crusaders of Light Launches with $400K Dungeon Raid Event
NetEase has officially launched Crusaders of Light in the App Store. The Google Play / Android version is anticipated to launch on July 20th and on Facebook Gameroom later this summer. Crusaders of Light is a persistent fantasy MMO with an open world, diverse quests, guild features, dungeons and 40-player raids.
Hedlok mode coming to ARMS alongside Max Brass in today’s update
As you may already know, ARMS is getting its first DLC character today in the form of Max Brass. In addition to this however, ARMS is also getting a new mode focusing on a previously-unplayable boss character. Previously only encountered as the boss of several single player modes, Hedlok now gets its own dedicated multiplayer mode.
In an interview with Eurogamer, ARMS producer Kosuke Yabuki talked about the mode. “There is a new versus mode where in a fight between two or three players there’s a Hedlok mask players battle over, and when you get the mask your own character can turn into Hedlok,” he explains, “If one player turns into Hedlok it’ll be up to the other players to take him down.” He further clarified that Hedlok mode would not be limited to one-on-one versus mode, but that it would be available online and in every multiplayer mode as well.
In addition to Hedlok Mode and Max Brass, ARMS’ new update also includes a few balance tweaks. While Yabuki didn’t go into specific details, he promised that the changes are being made so that characters don’t feel any “less good” than before.
Source: Eurogamer via Siliconera
PG Stats release their own Super Smash Bros. for Wii U character tier list, based on votes from the PGR v3 panel
With the PGR v3 concluded, the PG Stats team have released a Smash 4 character tier list, decided by the panel that helped formulate the recent global rankings. Based on recent results and trusted opinions from 35 experts, you can find this tier list below:
Bayonetta and Diddy were tied for first, with both characters scoring a total of 9.94 on the 1-10 ranking. If you compare to the 4BR Tier List from back in March of this year, there has been very little change among the top tiers. The only massive leap has been with Rosalina, who has risen from eighth to fifth place. You can thank the combined performance of Kirihara and Dabuz for that resurgence.
DK has seen the biggest change in position, moving 13 places from 28th to 15th. Samus has also flown up the list, shifting from 40th to 30th. For the entire breakdown of how the panel voted, the scores can be found here.
Sources: PG Stats; Smashboards
– Dead by Daylight Gift Key Sweepstakes (Round 2)!
MMORPG.com has been given all kinds of special gift keys for Dead by Daylight – the all new multiplayer (4vs1) horror game where one player takes on the role of the savage Killer, and the other four players play as Survivors, trying to escape the Killer and avoid being caught, tortured and killed. Enter this sweepstakes now for a chance to win one of the four cool in game prizes!
– Tunnels & Trolls Adventures to Launch on August 17th
MetaArcade will be launching Tunnels & Trolls on August 17th to coincide with its presence at Gen Con 50 in Indianapolis. It will be launched on the App Store and Google Play on the 17th and later for PC / Mac / Steam. Tunnels & Trolls Adventures “brings new and classic quests to life from the second RPG ever published”.
New Marvel vs. Capcom: Infinite gameplay footage from PlayStation Underground
Since the week of E3 and CEO 2017, we haven’t really seen much in the way of new gameplay footage for Marvel vs. Capcom: Infinite. This is something that has left more than a few disappointed, considering that the gameplay is the best thing about the game in its current state. But now we finally have some new, direct feed, gameplay footage.
The new footage comes from Sony’s own PlayStation Underground. The footage in question (which seems to have been shot at E3) goes over both the publicly downloadable Story Demo, as well as the versus demo that was shown at E3 and CEO. Capcom’s Peter “ComboFiend” Rosas chimes in on the latter, where he shows the PlayStation Underground’s Ryan Clements the ropes and tries his best to not beat the him up too hard.
At over 20 minutes long, there’s quite a bit of footage to pore through here. Alongside explaining the game’s systems such as the Infinity Surge and Infinity Storm, as well as the optional easy combos, we also get to see some characters we didn’t get to see much of in previous footage, such as Ryu and his new moves such as his new Evil Ryu banishing level 3 hyper, and his Sen Hadouken beam special. Additionally, we get to see just how much the damage difference between auto combos and regular, manually performed, combos is (it’s a lot).
Source: PlayStation Underground
Splyce signs Rene “RyanLV” Romero to their fighting game roster
Picking up another Ryan who is amazing at Marvel vs. Capcom, Splyce have signed current number two on the Curleh Circuit–Rene “RyanLV” Romero–ahead of Evo 2017. With victories at CEO 2017, West Coast Warzone 6, Final Round 20, Frosty Faustings IX and SCR 2017 to name but a few, Splyce have certainly picked a winner in RyanLV.
A new fighter is #OnTheHunt. RyanLV @lowtierRyan joins Splyce for the final UMVC3 EVO and beyond. https://t.co/f5acXcaBur pic.twitter.com/niW9uLjy49
— Splyce (@Splyce) July 12, 2017
With set wins over all previous Evo champions for Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3, RyanLV looks to be the player to lift that trophy on Sunday morning. He joins fellow Ryan and Marvel god, Ryan “Filipino Champ” Ramirez as part of Splyce’s fighting game roster. We could even see a Splyce vs. Splyce final, should the spirit of Marvel look favorably on the two Ryans.
Source: Splyce
Splyce signs Rene “RyanLV” Romero to their fighting game roster
Picking up another Ryan who is amazing at Marvel vs. Capcom, Splyce have signed current number two on the Curleh Circuit–Rene “RyanLV” Romero–ahead of Evo 2017. With victories at CEO 2017, West Coast Warzone 6, Final Round 20, Frosty Faustings IX and SCR 2017 to name but a few, Splyce have certainly picked a winner in RyanLV.
A new fighter is #OnTheHunt. RyanLV @lowtierRyan joins Splyce for the final UMVC3 EVO and beyond. https://t.co/f5acXcaBur pic.twitter.com/niW9uLjy49
— Splyce (@Splyce) July 12, 2017
With set wins over all previous Evo champions for Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3, RyanLV looks to be the player to lift that trophy on Sunday morning. He joins fellow Ryan and Marvel god, Ryan “Filipino Champ” Ramirez as part of Splyce’s fighting game roster. We could even see a Splyce vs. Splyce final, should the spirit of Marvel look favorably on the two Ryans.
Source: Splyce
Plan your weekend with the official Evo 2017 streaming schedule!
For those who are unable to attend Evo in person, you’ve got quite the weekend’s viewing ahead of you! Starting this Friday at 10am PDT, all of Evo 2017 will be streamed over five separate Evo Twitch channels, alongside the Tekken, CapcomFighters and NetherRealm streams.
If you want to get your Multitwitch ready, here is the schedule for each channel:
- The core Evo channel will be streaming a variety of games across Friday and Saturday, with it hosting the Top 8s for every game, starting with KOFXIV on Friday.
- Evo1 will be dedicated to Super Smash Bros. Melee.
- Evo2 is for Super Smash Bros. for Wii U.
- Evo3 will be streaming Guilty Gear Xrd REV 2 on Friday, before switching to Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3 on Saturday.
- Evo4 will be streaming KOFXIV on Friday, followed by BlazBlue: Central Fiction on Saturday.
- Evo5 is dedicated to The Jump Off.
The NetherRealm, CapcomFighters and Tekken Twitch channels will be dedicated to their respective games on both Friday and Saturday. Sunday finals will kick off at 7:45am PDT with Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3, with Street Fighter V planned to round off the night at 7pm PDT. That’s over 12 hours’ worth of fighting games on Sunday, so I hope you have your snacks ready.
Remember, Street Fighter V finals will also be broadcast live on ESPN2!