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Summer Games Done Quick has come to an end now, having shown off some great speedrunning from some of the best in the speedrunning community. Now we wait another six months for the Winter event, but until then it’s worth talking about the event and its tally.
It’s likely that you didn’t manage to catch all of the event but all of the speedruns have been backed up onto the event’s Youtube channel so you’ll be able to catch up on the games that interest you at your own leisure. Of course, one part that everyone seems to have watched is when Bl00d_Thunder’s Bioshock run seemed to be taken over by an inopportune Windows 10 update; really a fairly clever little prank that allowed the livestream to not suffer consequences from the game’s cutscenes later causing copyright issues when uploaded onto Youtube.

The main point of any Games Done Quick event though is that these speedrunners are gaming quickly for the sake of charity and fundraising and this event saw them raising for Doctors Without Borders, and their current amount as of time of writing is almost $1.3 million – $1,298,479.44 if you want to be precise about it. The average donation was about $42.10 with the single largest donation being more than $59.5k.
As always it’s great to see people gaming for charity and giving something to those organisations that deserve the help and support.
July 10th, 2016 by |
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Every year Summer Games Done Quick broadcasts speedruns of video games, all in the name of fundraising for charity – and with many different channels for different languages to boot.
Speedrun is the art of finishing a game as quickly as possible, and often makes use of glitches and bugs within a game to skip chunks of game which is why older games are commonly seen on speedrunning channels. For those games that aren’t exploitable like this, speedrunning is instead a challenge of perfect timing of a chain of actions with one miss resulting in a longer time taken.
This time the charity in question that they’re raising money for is Doctors Without Borders, something that we can agree is a worthy cause.
If you’re interested to see what’s on the menu this time, the schedule can be found here. If you’re interested go and watch people destroy games (although not literally) and donate for a good cause. And if you’re not? Why not donate anyway? It’s still a good cause. 😀

July 3rd, 2016 by |
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Competitive mode finally arrived for Overwatch last week, much to the joy of players everywhere. However, in some that joy quickly turned to irritation when issues that hadn’t been prevalent within the PTR build began to have a knock-on effect on their enjoyment.
The first was that MMR points weren’t being awarded equally for Control maps, as they had been for Assault, Escort or Hybrid. Blizzard already issued a fix on Thursday for that one having quickly tracked down the issue behind it, but now more have begun to surface.
Another fairly large one concerns players who might have issues with their network connections during competitive play still receiving the Loss punishment, even if they managed to return to the match within the one-minute timeout window allocated for players with such problems. Obviously, this has not gone down well.
Responding to fans who were asking whether they could expect a fix soon, Game Director Jeff Kaplan said that they were working on it and that they should “have some fixes coming (hopefully) next week.”
Also on the cards is a new and fairer way to settle draws, as opposed to the current “Coin Flip” Sudden Death decision-maker which is considered contentious right now by the playerbase.

July 3rd, 2016 by |
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It has now been confirmed that ESPN is planning to broadcast the final top 8 bracket of this month’s Street Fighter V tournament at the Evo Championship Series in Las Vegas, live on ESPN2.
With over 5,000 entrants registered for the SFV tournament this year, and the final eight players will be competing for the first place prize on live television – a major step up from years past when eSports was still seen as something the ‘general public’ would never want to view. Coverage will begin on ESPN2 from 7PM PDT (10PM EDT / 3AM BST) on July 17 (18 BST) and will also be available online at WatchESPN or Twitch’s CapcomFighters channel, as usual.
“The Street Fighter V World Championship will be one of the must-see competitions from the Evo finals,” said John Lasker, VP of programming and acquisitions at ESPN. “We are always exploring ways to serve the growing and passionate audience of competitive gaming, and we look forward to delivering this event to fans.”
ESPN’s had a growing interest in the broadcast of eSports since last year, when they broadcast the Heroes of the Dorm tournament. At the time former TV and radio anchor Colin Cowherd was not a fan of this, famously saying that he would quit if he was ever ‘forced’ to talk about ‘kids playing games’. He was suspended from ESPN in July of last year and ESPN has since opened an eSports department of the news site; having already aired several eSports tournaments.

July 1st, 2016 by |
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Video game movies seem to be everywhere right now, with game series such as Assassin’s Creed and Five Nights At Freddy’s having rumoured projects in the works and in the case of the former, a lot of hype beginning to build around a film coming soon to cinemas. Minecraft is another such game to have a project attached, and now we have a speculative release date for it.
Minecraft: The Movie will release on May 24th… 2019.

The official Mojang announcement on the date says, “Yes, that might seem like a long time away, but it just so happens to be the right amount of time to make it completely awesome. And we all want an awesome Minecraft movie, right?”
Yes, that would be nice. Video game movie adaptions don’t exactly have a great reputation – they’re usually terrible and only few ever manage to beat that. Given Minecraft’s open-world, sandbox nature god knows what sort of a story they’re going to pull from it; but open world does mean a lot of possibilities as well so I guess we’ll wait and see.
People attached to the project so far include the LEGO Movie producer Roy Lee doing the production with his Vertigo Entertainment production compnay as well as Jill Messick also helping with production. Other than that, details are still sparse.
Well, at least we’ve some idea now of when we can expect to start seeing actual news about the film. Right?
June 27th, 2016 by |
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