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General: Overwatch Anchors Strong Q2 2016 with 15 Million Players

Overwatch is as big a success as it has seemed for the past several months since launch. During today’s Activision-Blizzard investor call, the company revealed the numbers of players along with the news that revenues are up 50% year-over-year and a quarterly record of $1.14 billion, slightly over revenue totals for the same quarter in 2015.

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ESL Sponsors Qualifiers for Brooklyn Beatdown Street Fighter V Tournament

Street Fighter V players will have multiple opportunities to qualify for ESL’s Brooklyn Beatdown tournament, including an online tournament series for North America, Brazil and Europe.

Southern California’s Wednesday Night Fights will host their own series of qualifier tournaments, with the winning player earning a fully paid trip to New York City for the October event.

The top eight participants of WNF each week will each receive ranking points towards the finals event. Last night’s tournament was the first qualifier, and the series will culminate the final event deciding the winning player on September 21.

Brooklyn’s Next Level Arcade also announced that they will be giving away weekend event passes–for ESL One and Brooklyn Beatdown–to participants at their weekly Next Level Battle Circuit tournaments and weekend events. Based on tweets from the arcade, the passes wont be given exclusively to the winners.

ESL’s Brooklyn Beatdown Open Cups–their series of online qualifiers–will continue online, with the top two placers each week earning a spot in the regional finals later this month. The North American final will be held Aug. 23 and includes four qualifiers so far: Chris Tatarian, XsK Samurai (winner of Capcom Pro Tour Online Qualifer #1), MikeandIke12, and Yuudai.

The European and Brazilian regional finals will be held online August 28 and August 31, respectively. For the full schedule of Open Cups ahead of the regional finals, visit ESL’s website.

Brooklyn Beatdown will be held at the Barclays Center October 1-2, during ESL One New York. The tournament will be open entry with a player cap of 1024, and a prize pool of $75,000.

Sources: ESL; Next Level (Twitter)

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General: Elder Scrolls Legends Open Beta Begins

Fans of the Elder Scrolls and of TCGs will be happy to hear that the open beta for The Elder Scrolls Legends has officially kicked off. The game can be downloaded from the official site where you can also read articles about deck building, game basics and much more.

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Overwatch: World Cup Teams to be Selected by the Community

The Overwatch community will soon be instrumental in the selection of national representatives to represent their nations at Blizzcon 2016 and the Overwatch World Cup. Blizzard will nominate several players who have “distinguished themselves in the community” including pro players, community personalities and local players.

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Ralf, Leona and Clark Report for Duty in the Team Ikari Trailer for King of Fighters XIV

Prepare for explosive punches, devastating chops, and back breakers a-plenty as Team Ikari makes quite the entrance in this new King of Fighter XIV trailer. Along with showing off Ralf, Leona and Clark’s Super Special and Climax Special Moves, this trailer shows the team fighting on a brand new aircraft carrier stage–complete with military personnel watching as two people knock seven bells out of each other.

The Navy must have done an appropriate risk assessment, as jets are taking off and engineers are doing maintenance as normal in the background of the fight; it must be the lunchtime entertainment for everyone on the ship. I have to say that Ralf’s Climax Special is especially vicious, as he magically shoots flak out of his fists then punches someone so hard that they explode.

Source: PlayStation

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Jam Out to TheKoreanDrifter’s Hybrid Combo/Music Video for Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3

Marvel keeps on trucking, and so do the combo videos. Back for the 16th installment in the ‘Experi-Mental’ series, KoreanDrifter has released a combo video for Ultimate Marvel vs Capcom 3 which is half exhibition, half dance track. The video starts off fairly normal, showing off some cool loops for Akuma, and team combos using Amaterasu’s Veil of Mist, before going nuts with Level 3 setups–which sees Drifter carefully positioning himself to deal even more damage once the opponents exits the missing Level 3 animation.

If that wasn’t enough, the combo video then shifts into music mode, with the last three minutes of the video having combo hits timed to the beat of the song. This includes characters practically dancing to the music in split screen, hits being layered and pitch shifted to match the backing track, and some mental editing to send this combo video over the edge.

Source: TheKoreanDrifter