XSplit Takes Us Behind the Scenes of Evo 2016’s Broadcast with Spooky, Offcast, and Farp

This year’s edition of Evo was the biggest one yet, with the finals day being at the Mandalay Bay Events Center arena and broadcast over multiple streams, including ESPN.  With this, the amount of work necessary to actually get the event footage to viewers all over the world also increases.

XSplit takes us behind the scenes of Evo 2016’s broadcast, with the help of some of the FGC stream pioneers that they’ve picked up over the years –Product Manager for XSplit Broadcaster Victor “Spooky” Fontanez, Support Manager Louis “Offcast” Vigil, and Senior Production Engineer Yu Sheng “Farp” Tan.

Spooky, Offcast, and Farp take us through the things that they needed to take care of to make sure that Evo 2016’s broadcast went off without a hitch. This includes tripling the amount of set ups that used and providing local language broadcasts for viewers around the world. At the same time, they also talk about what Evo means for the fighting game community and why it’s important for the streams to be on point.

Source: XSplit

The Secret World – Surfing the World on a Doomboard

The Secret World players have a new challenge ahead of them. Between now and September 21st, players need to complete seventy challenges to earn the awesome Doomboard, a “Hell-themed Hoverboard” that, through completion of the event, can be earned for free.

See Mai In Action in Dead or Alive 5 Last Round with This New Gameplay Trailer

We’ve already read about how Mai Shiranui retains a lot of her 2D moveset in the move to 3D in Dead or Alive 5 Last Round, now we get to see her in action. Team NINJA has just dropped a new trailer for Mai and her upcoming appearance as a guest fighter later in September.

As with their previous character gameplay trailers, this new trailer for Mai showcases a good number of combos that she’ll be capable of when the joins DOA5 Last Round’s cast. This includes some of the special cancels that are unique to her, as well as some of her aerial combo follow-ups.

Mai will arrive in Dead or Alive 5 Last Round sometime in September. Meanwhile, a location test for the arcade version featuring her is currently taking place in Japan at Sega Akihabara Building No. 1, Sega Kagurazaka, and Club Sega Shinjuku Nishiguchi.

Source: Team NINJA

Wizard101 – The Maturing Wizard

For as long as I can remember, I was always playing some type of videogame. Some of my earliest adventures were with Pajama Sam, Spy Fox, Putt-Putt, and the Backyard Sports crew. From there, I gravitated towards the consoles of my childhood – the Game Boy Advance, GameCube, and PlayStation 2 to name a few. But it wasn’t until I became a new student at Ravenwood that I truly experienced a game like no other.