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15 Amazing Photos of Sold-Out eSports Tournaments

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1. Natus Vincere Takes on the Alliance



The International Dota 2 Championship has grown to become the highest-paying eSports tournament in the world. Above, fans have filled Benaroya Hall to capacity while they watch Natus Vincere take on The Alliance.


2. In the Heart of the Storm



This giant crowd assembled for a StarCraft II: Heart of the Storm DreamHack tournament that took place in in Tours, France. (Image by Adela Sznajder)


3. Absolutely Stoked for Blizzcon



The crowd goes wild during the opening ceremonies of BlizzCon 2010 at the Anaheim Convention Center. The famous StarCraft II Invitational took place at this event, with Genius of Team ZeNEX taking home the 1st place prize of $25,000.


4. Heroes of the Storm



Heroes of the Storm caused quite a stir recently when ESPN2 decided to broadcast the championship round of Blizzard's collegiate tournament for the game. Love it or hate it, eSports like Heroes of the Storm are taking the world by ... well, you know.


5. DreamHack Winter 2014



The opening festivities at DreamHack Winter 2014 were suitably lavish, considering it's the biggest computer festival in the world. Tournaments were held for a number of games, such as Counter-Strike: GO, Hearthstone, and League of Legends. (Image by Jennika Ojala)


6. League of Legends



Fans give a standing cheer for pro League of Legends players gathered in Athens, Greece. The Gazi Music Hall reached its full capacity with champions, junglers, feeders and more.


7. Raising Hell With World of Tanks



The Hellraisers team wins the final game of the World of Tanks Grand Finals 2015. This April event was held in Warsaw, Poland, as part of the Wargaming.net League.


8. MVP vs. Nestea



BlizzCon continues to be an astoundingly popular destination for eSports fans, with 2011's Starcraft II matchup between MVP and Nestea amassing a giant crowd of spectators. After a hard-fought tournament, MVP trounced the opposition and took home $50,000.


9. Intel Extreme Masters in Katowice



Top players from around the world gathered in Poland to compete in League of Legends and StarCraft II for the Intel Extreme Masters tournament in 2013.


10. A Battle to the Death in the City of Goodwill



You can feel the tension in this awesome shot of The Alliance versus Natus Vincere battle during The International Dota 2 Championship in Seattle, Washington.


11. Team Newbee Competes Like Pros



Don't let their name fool you: Team Newbee once won $5 million in The International Dota 2 Grand Finals. Above, they're pictured competing in another Dota 2 match during ChinaJoy 2014, held in Shanghai.


12. Moving Up In the World!



Schuyler Wireman can't contain his excitement when The Alliance wins first place during The International Dota 2 Championship in 2013.


13. The Coming of the Storm



It just came out in 2014, but the multiplayer online battle arena game SMITE has already skyrocketed to worldwide popularity. Team Titan coach Job Hilbers watches from the wings as his crew battles OMG from China at the SMITE World Championship in Atlanta.


14. Australian Fnatics vs. Swedish Ninjas



With the release of Global Offensive, Counter-Strike entered a new era of popularity with pro FPS gamers. The finals of the CS:GO ESL One tournament play out on giant screens as the Australians and the Swedes battle for the title of world champs.


15. The Sweet Taste of Victory



Kelly Ong Xiao Wei and Alex Garfield react with stunned disbelief when their team, The Alliance, won first place during The International Dota 2 Championship in 2013.


From: www.gamespot.com

Sony's E3 Conference Schedule X1 Is Highest Selling Console for April - IGN Daily Fix

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Sony reveals their E3 conference plans and NPD rates Xbox One the highest selling console for the month of April. Plus Mortal Kombat X top's the charts Guillermo Del Toro talks Silent Hills.

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Throwdown Ep. 35 Give the People What They Want

Added: 15.05.2015 23:17 | 6 views | 0 comments


This week's gaming topics consist of: *Bloodstaineds success and why developers should give fans the types of games they demand. *Konami saying its future lies in mobile gaming and how this is another sign of the companys steady decline. *How Microsoft is punishing those who leaked details about the HD remake of Gears of War. *April NPD numbers and how the Xbox One managed to outsell the PlayStation 4.

From: n4g.com

April 2015 NPD: Wii U sold approximately 43,000 units

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NE: Nintendo did not distribute a response to the April 2015 NPD data yesterday, though the company did share a few figures with GamesBeat. The site was told that, though the first four months of the year, Wii U hardware sales are up 15 percent compared to the same period in 2014. Unfortunately, that still doesnt tell us much. But thanks to a chart shared by creamsugar a person known for leaking NPD data its looking like Wii U sold approximately 43,000 units in the U.S. last month.

From: n4g.com

FIFA 16: here come the girls, if not the goals…

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FIFA 16, the latest entry in gaming’s biggest football series, is changing the record this year. Grown men are out, replaced with one-eyed, shaven-all-over monkeys. In a nod to the dev team’s love of Minecraft, balls are to become…squares. And pitches will be relocated to Diego Garcia, Pluto, and the surface of Pete from 30 Rock’s head. Yes!

Okay, it’s the same as it always was. Footballers whacking synthetic spheres in the general direction of a large netted rectangle. But! There are exciting changes afoot, with women players being introduced at long long long long (long) last, improved defending, new face scans, Harry freakin’ Kane, and, well, a whole lot more. But don’t just take our word for it. Take our great many words which follow your imminent click of the ‘>’ button…

Fed up with trick-sticking online trolls dribbling rings around your back four? Help is at hand. Er, foot. All the major changes made to FIFA 16 are defensive ones, and it’s welcome news. 25 new animations have been implemented to aid your defenders in one-on-one battles with skilful strikers, turning circles for players back-pedalling towards goal are tighter, and – best of all – you can break out of slide tackle animations (and instantly back to your feet) which a second tap of the same button.

Depending on their attributes, midfielders and forwards hustle back harder than in previous years, and players in all positions break on loose balls when appropriate – instead of looking lost when there isn’t an opponent in their immediate vicinity. Overall, it makes chance creation really difficult; but we’d rather that than fear conceding every time a foe crosses the halfway line.

While attacking changes aren’t as pronounced as defensive ones, those implemented do add variation and – crucially – give you some means of breaking down the competent-at-long-last back fours. Pressing R1 and X (on PS4), for instance, triggers a new driven pass which, when timed right, can be lethal in catching a full back out of position or splitting two previously faultless central defenders.

No-touch dribbling (hold L1) enables you to move your player without adjusting the movement of the ball, thereby fooling a tackling opponent if timed right, while dynamic crossing sees widemen delivering balls in behind defenders, with true whip. Shot trajectories have been flattened out, volleys reanimated, and a few new skill moves added – including Yannick Bolasie’s physics-defying flick debuted .

Last’s year’s tie-in with the Premier League saw more than 200 players facially scanned, right down to obscure West Brom youth prospects such as Kamar Roofe and Bradley Garmston. But a few who’d go on to have huge seasons slipped through the net – most noticeably Harry ’21 goals and 21,000,000 fantasy points’ Kane. As the above image confirms, he’s in this year.

It also appears that the entire league have been rescanned for this season in order to update hairstyles and facial fluff, with Leicester’s Jeff Schlupp and Everton’s Romelu Lukaku among those to share pics of their FIFA photo shoots on social media. Rumours persist too that the full French league is to feature, with PSG’s squad definitely scanned and Monaco promising a ‘range of benefits’ from its newly-announced partnership with EA Sports.

And mercifully, we don’t mean in the ‘ich liebe Sabine Lisicki für immer’ sense. Of the 12 female teams taking their bow in FIFA 16, it’s our longstanding Teutonic rivals who threaten to dominate the online scene. Only one player, left back Babett Peter, has an OVR of less than 80, and four boast OVRs of 86 or above (skipper and 2014 world player of the year Nadine Kessler is an astonishing 90).

My first game playing as the dainty yet fearsome Deutsch Frauen, against the almost-as-good USA, is a 9-0 win. (Nine!) It must be said that the all-ladies mode is excellent, with much less focus on speed and physicality than you’re used to from previous (all-male) years, which actively encourages finesse football. And it you’re one of those troglodytes moaning that you really don’t want to play as the women? Then, y’know, don’t play as the women. Duh.

Well, duh. No sports game developer is going to sit down at the big table-o-brainstorms and pipe up with “I know! Let’s make it look like an Atari Lynx game!”. But it’s worth noting that FIFA has taken another Yaya-Toure-sized stride forward in the cosmetics department. (No Mr Beckham, we do not wish to try your new cologne.) Randomised weather means you see more of upgraded effects such as heat haze or lightning during matches, and players look noticeably lass plastic-y thanks to new skin and eye textures and shaders.

Plus the introduction of women players has had a happy knock-on effect on blokeball too. New scaleable skeletons mean Peter Crouch no longer looks like he’s been stretched on a torture rack, ponytails behave like ponytails, and players track every single motion of the ball. So no more odd instances of your skipper volleying home while making eyes at number three’s wife in an executive box. (Sorry, John.)

The reason Sony sim MLB The Show has led the sporting pack for so long is it gets all the intricacies of baseball right in addition to the onfield stuff. And while it’s still no quite on par, this year sees FIFA 16 again move in a similar direction. For instance, referees in real life now use foam spray to ensure players keep ten yards back at free kicks – and now the officials in FIFA do the same.

And in addition to busting out a wealth of dandy moves, goalscorers can celebrate //into the TV// simply by making a beeline to the pitch-side cameraman after finding the onion bag. One frustration – as covered in our initial FIFA 16 preview – is not being able to specify which players go upfield for attacking set pieces, but generally the series is closing the gap on its bat-swinging counterpart.

For months it’s been rumoured that this might be the year where EA snaps up the Champions League license. That’s been quashed thanks to Konami locking in a new deal with UEFA for PES, but EA still maintains that big improvements to both career mode and Ultimate Team are on the way. It won’t elaborate, but we can speculate, and a novel job listing on EA’s website earlier this year throws up an intriguing possibility: specific storylines that take place outside of matches.

In April the company was looking for two ‘narrative designers’ who would “bring the player’s experience to explosive life in its story-telling mode… [capturing] emotional experiences that drive the story forward through non-linear storytelling techniques.” Juggling player contracts while managing our star striker’s Smash Hits Top Trumps addiction and trying to get just one member of the team to wear boots that aren’t blinding like the surface of the sun? By Joe Ledley’s beard, are we in.
April 2015 NPD: Wii U sold approximately 43,000 units

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NE: Nintendo did not distribute a response to the April 2015 NPD data yesterday, though the company did share a few figures with GamesBeat. The site was told that, though the first four months of the year, Wii U hardware sales are up 15 percent compared to the same period in 2014. Unfortunately, that still doesnt tell us much. But thanks to a chart shared by creamsugar a person known for leaking NPD data its looking like Wii U sold approximately 43,000 units in the U.S. last month.

From: n4g.com

9 Awesome Facts You Probably Didn't Know About The Witcher

Added: 15.05.2015 20:11 | 8 views | 0 comments




Polish fantasy writer, Andrzej Sapkowski, first wrote The Witcher as a short story in 1986 for the purpose of entering a magazine contest. He came third.




CD Projekt decided to develop a new engine, REDengine, to implement their vision for The Witcher 2.




The game's art design was inspired by the Slavic culture, with minor influences from Celtic, Germanic, and Scandinavian mythos.




CD Projekt released the Director's Cut patch on July 31, 2009 for The Witcher to North American players which removed censorship in the game, mainly revealing nudity on erotic cards.




The original music for The Witcher was composed by Adam Skorupa and Pawel Blaszczak. It released in 2007 and won "Best Fantasy Game Soundtrack" by the Radio Rivendell Fantasy Awards.




In April of 2009 CD Projekt RED announced that The Witcher: Rise of the White Wolf had been put on indefinite hold due to complications with Widescreen Games.




In The Witcher 2, protagonist Geralt was more than a 100 years old.




Dandelion's supposed real name is Julian Alfred Pankratz viscount de Lettenhove. But his original Polish name, "Jaskier", literally means "Buttercup." Not quite befitting of the womanizing bard.




Conan O’Brian reviewed The Witcher III: Wild Hunt on a Clueless Gamer segment.


From: www.gamespot.com

NPD: Xbox One Console Sales Outpace PS4

Added: 15.05.2015 16:00 | 14 views | 0 comments




Microsoft's Xbox One was the number one selling console during the month of April in the United States.

According to the latest NPD report, new-gen hardware sales continue to outperform that of their prior-gen counterparts. "After 18 months on the market for Xbox One and PS4, we are seeing cumulative hardware sales over 50 percent higher than the combined sales of Xbox 360 and PS3 at the same point in their lifecycles." With regard to Microsoft's stellar performance last month, corporate marketing VP Mike Nichols said, "As the best-selling console in the U.S. in April, fans set record April sales and engagement for Xbox One last month," noting that Xbox One console sales jumped up 63 percent versus April 2014. Additionally, Xbox Live's global user base grew in size by 24 percent. PlayStation 4 is still the overall leader in lifetime sales by a fair margin. Do you think Microsoft will be able to slowly catch up and perhaps even surpass the seemingly unstoppable PS4? Related Reading: Xbox One-Exclusive IP Reveal Coming at E3 Xbox E3 2015 Briefing Announced Gears of War Remaster Footage Leaked

From: www.gamerevolution.com

April 2015 NPD: Xbox One outsells PS4; Mortal Kombat X tops software chart

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After getting confirmation from Microsoft that Xbox One was the top-selling console in April, NPD released its full report.

From: n4g.com


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