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DreamHack Opens Registration for the DreamHack Winter ’16 Smash Championship

Building off their successes with previous Smash Championships, DreamHack has just opened registration for the Winter Smash Championship, which boasts a sizeable prize pool of $30,000 for any Melee players wishing to make the journey to Sweden. The tournament will take place between November 24-27th at Elmia, Jönköping, Sweden, with players needing to buy a general DreamHack ticket in order to enter the event. The actual Super Smash Bros. Melee brackets will be played on the 25th and 26th, so entrants can spend the other two days time enjoying the rest of this massive gaming festival.

You can now register over on the DreamHack website, with further details of the actual bracket timings becoming available in early November. Last year’s DreamHack Winter was quite the event for Melee, with Liquid|Hungrybox achieving a landmark victory over Alliance|Armada on the PAL version of Melee and in Armada’s home country. After the incredibly close set at this year’s Evo between Hungrybox and Armada, DreamHack Winter ’16 may be the place where Armada can redress the balance of power. It also provides TSM|Leffen with a large tournament within Europe where there will be competition that will truly test his mettle, as American players will no doubt make the journey to Sweden to win this coveted trophy.

DreamHack is not just home to Melee, as Street Fighter is used to having a big presence at DreamHack events in the past. Street Fighter players may want to keep their eyes on tickets for DreamHack Winter, as it could be the possible location for the European Regional Finals of this year’s Capcom Pro Tour.

Source: DreamHack

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Trove: 360 Games to Take Trion’s Voxel Phenomenon to China

Trion Worlds has announced a partnership deal with China’s 360 Games to bring its voxel-based hit, Trove, to that country’s market. Trove will arrive in China in 2017 with a fully localized version that will include all current content and custom content created specifically for the Chinese market.

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General: THQ Resurrects Itself as THQ Nordic

Nordic Games has sent out a press release to announced its reincorporation as THQ Nordic. The reincorporation comes after 2014’s buy out of the THQ trademark by Nordic Games where it has been held as an “in name only” part of the company. THQ Nordic has plans to align IPs gained in the acquisition with “the very best development resources to expand upon them”.