Fuel, Dragons advance to OWL s May Melee final
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08 May 2021, 18:05 GMT+10
The Dallas Fuel edged the Shanghai Dragons 3-2 in the winners-bracket final of the Overwatch League s May Melee on Friday, but the Dragons fought back through the losers bracket to earn the other championship-round berth.
The winners-bracket final, which featured a tie, lasted six games, the third consecutive six-game series for Shanghai.
The Dragons dropped to the losers bracket, where they swept the Florida Mayhem 3-0. Earlier Friday, the Mayhem defeated the Chengdu Hunters 3-1 in the first round of the losers bracket.
The championship match is set for 9 p.m. ET on Saturday.
The winner of Ed Boon s poll asking which fighting game needs a comeback the most will probably surprise you Posted by Steven Dreamking23 Chavez • May 8, 2021 at 1:36 p.m. PDT • Comments: 104
Update: Ed Boon s poll asking which fighting game franchise is in need of a comeback has ended with over 130,000 votes cast and one series taking up almost 50 percent of the responses though it may not be the one you d expect. Original story and poll results follow.
Co-creator of the Mortal Kombat series, Ed Boon, took to Twitter this morning to prompt fans with a very interesting question. The NetherRealm Studios director is currently asking his fans (at the time of writing this) what fighting game needs a comeback the most.
A timeline of Mortal Kombat ripoffs from the 1990s
NetherRealm’s winning formula kicked off a gold rush that never panned out
Graphic: James Bareham/Polygon
did.
In a five-year span, video gamers in arcades and their homes were overrun by fighting games that followed the same format: battles to the death, often organized by some supernatural being; a sinister announcing voice commanding players to execute a helpless opponent; gratuitously brutal finishers that seemed designed to provoke outrage and controversy, and secret moves with inside-joke meanings.
Here is a timeline of nine unapologetic
Mortal Kombat ripoffs. It’s noteworthy how many of them had launches that were scrubbed, and how many are linked to a platform’s demise in the late 1990s.
Overwatch’s April Fools’ Day joke is an evil universe version of the game
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Overwatch’s experimental mode has always been a way for Blizzard to try out new things and see what might work well without fully committing to a set of changes. For this April Fools’ Day, the developer is running an experimental card that’s
way different. This is live now in
Overwatch, if anyone wants to see a dark mirror version of the FPS where Mei is an unstoppable, enormous tank, Sigma can fly, and D.Va can drop her mech down from the skies and crush anyone unlucky enough to be in its shadow.
Wednesday, 10th March 2021 at 3:32 pm
The WoW 9.0.5 Patch Notes are here, with the developers from Blizzard sharing a lengthy blog post to explain what’s what in this new World of Warcraft: Shadowlands update.
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The eighth major expansion pack for World of Warcraft, Shadowlands first arrived on our computers back in November 2020, marking the sixteenth anniversary of the original WoW game.
This week’s WoW 9.0.5 update is a fairly major rejig to the Shadowlands expansion pack, and the full patch notes should make interesting reading for fans. Keep on reading to learn all!
When is the WoW 9.0.5 release date?