Vote to Play Happens This Week: Choose One of the September 2015 PS Plus Free Games

Sony is going to try something: give PlayStation Plus owners a bit more freedom with their free games lineup for September. Vote to Play will run from Thursday, August 13 at 8:30am PT/11:30am ET/4:30pm BST until Monday, August 24 at 8:30am PT/11:30am ET/4:30pm BST, and you get to vote which of these three PS4 games will go free come September:

Armello

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tOEelkJyn7U

Grow Home

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8l48inqInYE

Zombie Vikings

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ixUmHT3uGaU

The other two games that didn't win the vote will be given at a discounted price.

What will you vote for?

Sony did confirm more Vote to Play events will happen in the future, but don't expect this to be a monthly thing.

[Source: PS Blog US]

[UPDATED - He survived!]League of Legends’ Gangplank is now dead thanks to the game’s lore, no longer playable

A weird turn for Riot Games - killing off a character and making it not playable in the game. Everybody's favorite pirate Gangplank met his maker during the Bilgewater event in the hands of his nemesis Miss Fortune, leaving him MIA in the current character roster. Is this really the end for Gangplank? Probably not. [UPDATE] Gangplank didn't really die apparently. Act 3 has landed and Riot Games has reintroduced Gangplank with a new character design. He survived the assassination attempt, but lost his arm in the process. Here's the new Gangplank:

You can grab the new details of the new version of Gangplank here.

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It's interesting move by Riot Games to remove a character entirely for the sake of lore. Players are left scratching their heads and isn't so happy with the move, since I'm sure some of them paid for the character and his line of character skins. Here's what Riot Games has to say regarding his death:

Champion death is unprecedented in League of Legends, and we do not take it lightly. We encourage all Gangplank fans to remain calm for a few days until we can fully assess the situation. At this time, we are not addressing refund requests for him or his skins but please know that over the next several days we’ll do our best to make things right for everyone.

So yeah, remain calm.

Our take? He's going to be retooled and probably play differently once reintroduced, maybe as a ghostly figure? If not, only time will tell how Riot will address the players that invested on Gangplank.

[Source: League of Legends Board]

Smart Gets Serious with Clash of Clans, Tournament Announced with Over 2M Pesos Up for Grabs

You'd think Clash of Clash is mostly a casual game, a game that can't be taken into a serious competitive level. Well, it's hard to say that now with a straight face since the recently announced tournament for Supercell's famous Clash of Clans has over 2M pesos up for grabs for the best players in the nation. Gear up, because registration for Philippine Clash 2015 is now open. This is considered as the biggest Clash of Clans tournament in the country. Philippine Clash 2015 will be covering five regions in the Philippines offering over P2 Million worth of prizes. Qualifying Legs will happen in Metro Manila (Aug 2 at SM Light Residences); Southern Luzon (Aug. 8 at SM Lipa); Visayas (Aug. 23 at SM City Cebu); Mindanao (Sept. 5 at SM Lanang Premier Davao); and Northern Luzon (Sept. 18 at SM Baguio).

The tournament will be played in Royal Rumble format, which means all clans will play at the same time without rankings or groupings. The top two clans with the most number of trophies gained after six hours will advance to the Philippine Clash 2015 Grand Finals set on Sept. 26 at SM Mall of Asia.

Here's the breakdown of prizes:

Qualifiers 1st - Php 25,000 2nd - Php10,000 3rd - Php 5,000

Grand Finals 1st - Php 500,000 + Samsung Galaxy S6 + Smart Bro Pocket WiFi 2nd - Php 300,000 + Smart Bro Pocket WiFi 3rd - Php 200,000 + Smart Bro Pocket WiFi 4th - Php 100,000 5th - Php 70,000 6th - Php 40,000 7th - Php 30,000 8th - Php 25,000 9th - Php 20,000 10th - Php 15,000

Cosplay Competition, Supercell, Tutorials

Aside from the big Clash of Clash tournament, the event will feature a Clash of Clans Cosplay competition which offers P5,000 worth of SM gift certificates to the winner in each qualifying leg and P70,000 prize to the winner in the Grand Finals, which is considered as the biggest prize awarded in a local Cosplay contest.

Each leg of the Philippine Clash 2015 will feature other activities such as Clash of Clans tutorials if you need some tips, meet-and-greet sessions with the country's top clans, games, and raffle of gaming gadgets. During the finals, representatives of Supercell - the Finland-based game developer of Clash of Clans - as well as known Clash of Clans Youtube personalities Chief Pat and Galadon, are flying in to grace the Grand Finals of Philippine Clash 2015.

Released in 2012, Clash of Clans is an MMO Free-To-Play Strategy game for the iOS and Android platform, and is considered one of the highest grossing games in the app market today.

For the full mechanics of the competition and details of the Philippine Clash, visit http://smart.com.ph/pages/PhilippineClash2015 and check out Smart's official Facebook and Twitter for updates on the event.

Ken Masters joins Street Fighter V but isn't the Ken we all know

Ken Masters is the latest contender in Street Fighter V and we are liking the new look for the fiery world warrior. Aside from the new look, Ken Masters will have a more aggressive fighting style this time around. He will be a bit more flashy this time around thanks to his V-Skills providing extension to his combos. Ken's V-Trigger is called "Heat Rush", and his V-Skill is called "Quick Step".

At the end of the trailer, we were given a teaser of an upcoming character. Who is it? We are still trying to figure that out. Who do you think it is?

Batman: Arkham Knight PC Sales Suspended

  Planning to buy Batman: Arkham Knight? Well, we urge you to not get the PC version of the game. A series of issues has made it to a point that publisher Warner Bros. has suspended sales of the PC version, even urging disappointed consumers to make use of the Steam Refund or retail refund.

“We want to apologize to those of you who are experiencing performance issues with Batman: Arkham Knight on PC. We take these issues very seriously and have therefore decided to suspend future game sales of the PC version while we work to address these issues to satisfy our quality standards,” a Warner Bros. representative wrote on the publisher’s forums.

What issues? It's seems to be a lot, and with each consumer having different cases based on their PC's specs. Mainly, issues can range from crashes and freezes (experienced by players that pre-loaded the game), to FPS drops in certain areas in the game, especially when gliding or using the batmobile, and these are being experienced by high end Nvidia cards such as the GTX 980, and GTX 970. AMD users isn't getting a free pass with performance either, with reports of FPS drops going below 30. Steam adjusted the minimum requirements for Arkham Knight right before launch, also warning AMD users of possible issues. Manually editing some files are said to fix the FPS issue and bring it up to the 60 range. You can read the on-going Reddit thread about Arkham Knight for PC here.

Granted, these can be fixed through a series of patches,but you might have to wait a little longer or consider a different platform until the developers get everything in check.

Have you opt for the PC version, are the reactions to this version of the game that bad?