Someone recently made a post on MMO-Champion asking whether a specific ability counted as “Active Mitigation” and he received a lot of misinformation. Apparently, many players have an outdated understanding of the term, and to make things worse, the most recently updated Wikis on the topic are 3-4 years old. Yikes! Since I’m so annoying such a helpful guy, I will clear things up.
With Street Fighter V’s release, there are going to be a lot of new players looking to pick up the game. There’s a plethora of tutorials available out there, but most of them are far too long and difficult for new players to digest. This guide aims to explain the game’s basic and intermediate mechanics as clearly and concisely as possible, in hopes to get more players in on the action.
IGN recently posted a new video showcasing Street Fighter 5’s F.A.N.G. in a first-to-five exhibition between Combofiend and Mike Ross. In addition to the usual entertaining banter between Peter and Mike, the video shows off how F.A.N.G.’s poison mechanics behave.
I would love nothing more than for Diablo 2 characters to make their way into Heroes of the Storm. Just for fun, I’ve been experimenting with a hero concept for the Diablo 2 Paladin, specifically that of a Vindicator variety (Smiter).
It’s probably more fun to view the image for the full flavor, but I’ll post my original text transcript below in case you’re interested in that.
If you’re only going to learn how to play one tank in Heroes of the Storm, make it Johanna. There’s really never a bad time to pick her, she’s good at everything a tank wants to be good at and she works well with any team composition. She has great displacement, crowd control, peeling, and she’s incredibly hard to kill thanks to her trait, Iron Skin. She’s easily the most effective tank in the game, overall. Other tanks can be more effective in certain situations, but no one fits into every team composition like our girl Jo does.
Over 11 million people concurrently watched the League of Legends World Championship last year, and LoL is only one game among many. DotA 2, StarCraft 2, Heroes of the Storm, and Counter-Strike all garner consistently high viewership, and fighting games like Street Fighter and Super Smash Bros. are steadily growing thanks to their strong grassroots communities.
But what about engagement? Looking further into the viewership statistics for LoL Worlds 2014, the average time watched per-viewer was only 67 minutes. Considering that the broadcast was over five hours long, it seems that most people aren’t paying very close attention to what’s happening. But this relative lack of engagement isn’t surprising, because League of Legends is a terrible spectator game.
Haunts from Capcom just announced both the character Dhalsim and the release date of Street Fighter 5 via a post on Capcom Unity:
Street Fighter V has a confirmed release date of February 16 in North America and Europe!
Dhalsim sports an amazing beard and is looking quite fantastic. He seems to have a new delayed float teleport and quite a few new tricks, check him out in the trailer below.
Diablo 3, for all its terribleness on release in 2012, has actually developed into a pretty good game over the last year or two. I give a lot of credit to the dev team for pushing through and making something good out of a project that could have easily been abandoned. Since the 2014 release of “Reaper of Souls” and the introduction of Seasons, I’ve logged in each Season had a blast creating a new character, finding the best items, and slaying demons with a few of my buddies. It’s pretty impressive that Diablo 3 can call me back at all, considering how it initially violated the franchise that I loved so much.
