Hearthstone, Hellfire Festival begins on the 10th and Riot Games, LCK cast expanded

Hearthstone, Hellfire Festival begins on the 10th and Riot Games, LCK cast expanded

Wannabe Challenge reveals special OST album

Com2uS (CEO Song Byeong-jun) announced on the 9th that it released an OST album with in-game background music at'Wannabe Challenge'.

This album contains 10 pieces of background music for each chapter of the game, and from the 8th, you can meet them through domestic and foreign music channels such as Melon and Spotify.

The game BGM of'Wannabe Challenge' is increasing the immersion of the game by developing a story that crosses past and present. Especially, from the scene of visiting the ties of the red thread to the piano melody that expresses the feelings of goblins, the emotion lines of the protagonists are solved as background music in the game.

Hero Ball Z, 1st trailer video released

Joy City (each CEO Jo Sung-won, Park Young-ho) announced on the 9th that they released the first trailer video of "Hero Ball Z" developed by Mojito Games (CEO Han Sung-hyun).

This video, which was first released through Joy City's official YouTube channel, captured the main story of “Hero Ball Z” in an animated style.

The trailer video ends with the scene where Abi Kyu-Hwan's situation unfolds all over the place by alien forces that invaded the Earth, and the heroes who lived their ordinary lives pull out tights again. Additional videos will show how heroes can protect the peace of the planet.

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Hearthstone, Hellfire Festival begins on the 10th

Blizzard Entertainment's Hearthstone begins the Hellfire Festival for four weeks from the 10th.

The Hellfire Festival includes events and rewards, battlefield content updates, and a free one-person adventure in Hellfire.

Hellfire Festival features 17 new heroes and four new heroes, including pirate patches armed with new hero abilities. In addition, users can watch the story of Arana Star Seeker in a free one-person adventure in Hellfire, consisting of a total of five chapters.

Arana Star Seeker appears as a new hero on the battlefield and provides a pre-experience from the 17th of the day for users with battlefield bonuses activated. From July 1, when Arana officially enters the battlefield, all users can play Arana.

In addition to this, the Battle of Fire Tavern is back. During a match with a randomly given deck, if you lose, the next match will use the deck that made you lose, so only one of the best decks will survive.

The main character in charge of finishing the lineup of the Felfire Festival is the Battle of the Iron Bar Tavern. In the ordeal of Hellfire, you pick out an Outland villain and use it as a pawn to compete with your weapon and take a place in the rusty legion of Mecca Jaraxus.

The final victory in the Infernal Trial One-player adventure earns the back of the Rusty Legion card, and when you complete all Infernal Trial achievements, you can get the Kael'thas Sunstrider Golden Legend card. In the Battle of Flame and Battle of the Iron Bar Tavern, the original card pack is awarded, and in legendary quests, up to nine dragon year expansion packs and the desolate Outland card pack are rewarded.

Riot Games expands cast of '2020 Woori Bank LCK Summer'

Riot Games announced on the 9th that it has expanded the cast of '2020 Woori Bank LoL Champions Korea (hereafter LCK)' Summer Split.

Riot Games plans to make 2020 LCK Summer Split with a lot of highlights by adding new perspectives from commentators and analytical desks.

First of all,'Lon' Nam Tae-yu and'Bitdol' Ha Kwang-seok, who were in charge of the existing analysis desk, and'Won' Heo Won-seok will join the analysis desk.

In addition to commentary Jeon Yong-jun, Sung-heon Seong, Hyun-woo Lee, Dong-jun Kim, and Seung-hyun Kang, ‘Warded’ Kim Bae-in joins the commentary. Kim Bae-in has been a member of the LCK analysis desk since the 2020 LCK Spring, and has also participated as a commentator since the second round, which was resumed online. In particular, he will play an active role not only as a Korean commentary, but also as an English commentator.

Along with Kim Min-a announcer, Lee Jung-hyun and Yoon Soo-bin announcer will also have new faces starting with the 2020 Summer Split. Announcer Lee Jung-hyun is in charge of K-League review and interviews with foreign players on GOALTV, and Yun-Soo Yoon is currently a meteorological caster at OBS.

Overwatch announces additional reorganization plans, including the abolition of the “Hero Rotation” competition

Blizzard Entertainment announced that it will abolish the “hero rotation” in the Overwatch Competition on the 9th, reflecting the feedback of Overwatch users from all over the world, including Korea.

Accordingly, the user can select a desired hero according to team tactics and individual play styles without any limitation of selection.

This additional reorganization is the second after the announcement in early May (the hero rotation is applied only in competitions between master and grandmasters with a score of over 3,500 points).

In response to this change, the Overwatch development team introduced a hero rotation to add freshness to the stuck meta in a related forum post (English), but various comments that the recent rapid balance update and experience mode showed the effect of inducing meta change. We thanked both the community that sent us and the players who saved the Overwatch even while applying the hero rotation.

The Overwatch League is operated by extending the duration of hero rotation to 2 weeks. Starting from the 19th week of the regular season starting on the 13th, starting with the four-week summer showdown qualifier and tournament, the prohibition period for heroes will increase from 1 week to 2 weeks.

According to the changed method, the prohibited heroes to be applied in the next two weeks are D.Va, Echo, Sombra, and Brigitte. However, during the final 3rd week of summer showdown (21st week of regular season) schedule and tournament period, the hero rotation is not applied.