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Street Fighter board game with collectible figurines punches through $400000 Kickstarter target in one day
Street Fighter’s precise combat doesn’t exactly feel like a natural fit for a tabletop game, but one Kickstarter project that turns the franchise into a board game with collectible figurines has proved a huge hit with would-be backers, bringing in nearly $750,000 in its first four days. In Street Fighter: The Miniatures Game you battle across a number of grid-based stages, each of which has destructible terrain and can support versus, free-for-all and team battle game modes.Every player begins by drawing two cards from their fighter’s battle deck and moving around the board. The distance they can travel depends on their character’s movement value. Then, the fun starts: you have two extra actions per turn, which you can use to move again, draw a card, or play a card. Cards can be strike attacks, projectiles, special attacks, or an event, and you roll dice to determine the success of your cards. If you get your angles right, you can bash your opponents into parts of the…
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Radical Heights – Reveal Gameplay Trailer
Welcome to Radical Heights, a free *X-TREME Early Access* Battle Royale shooter. Partake in high-stakes gunplay in a sunny SoCal dome as you loot for weapons, gadgets, cosmetics, and CASH that you take with you – win or lose! Survive to the end or risk it all in this irreverent action game show where everyone wants to be rich and famous!
Play for FREE starting April 10
GTA 5 estimated to be the most profitable entertainment product of all time
With an estimated 90 million copies sold across all platforms—PS3, Xbox 360, PS4, Xbox One and PC—GTA 5 is thought to have accrued somewhere in the vicinity of $6 billion since launch in 2013. As reported by MarketWatch (via RockstarIntel), this makes Take Two and Rockstar’s open world crime sim more successful than both Star Wars and Gone With The Wind—which are said to have made upwards of $3 billion, adjusted for inflation. Speaking to MarketWatch, Cowen analyst Doug Creutz reckons subsequent DVD and streaming sales might add up to $1 billion onto these films’ lifetime values. GTA 5, though, still sits above them. “I think it’s a wild outlier,” says Creutz. “I think maybe with the exception something Nintendo has made—Mario Brothers—but aside from that there’s never been a console game that’s sold so many units.”For perspective, Avatar is the highest grossing movie of all time having made
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Overwatch League-in-Review Stage 3 Week 1: The Sombra Meta
It’s a brand new Stage in the Overwatch League, and with that comes with yet another slight shakeup in the game meta. In just the first week of Stage 3, we started to see teams adopt a new approach to their attacking strategies with Sombra. Ever since the patch changes kicked in, Sombra’s gotten a lot more effective as an offensive hero, and we’re going to be seeing a lot more of her as the weeks go on. Here are the highlights from the past week in the Overwatch League.
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Zeraora reavealed as the latest Pokemon
A shocking discovery has been made in Alola! Get a first look at the Mythical Pokémon Zeraora in Pokémon Ultra Sun and Pokémon Ultra Moon: http://bit.ly/2Hl8T2D
