Games corner. It's finals night in Brooklyn, and one of the oldest grudges in indie games just got a sequel.
1. Worlds crowns a new champion tonight, and it won't be T1
Gen.G and Bilibili Gaming play the League of Legends World Championship final at Barclays Center tonight, which guarantees a first-time world champion either way. BLG got there by beating T1 3-1 — reportedly the first LPL team ever to win a Worlds knockout series against Faker's side, after thirteen straight losses, and the end of a three-year title run. Gen.G arrive off a 3-0 sweep of Invictus Gaming and their first final since 2017. However it lands, the years where you could pencil T1 into the final are over, and a region that spent a decade losing those series is now in the one that matters.
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2. Super Meat Boy is coming back, and the "+" is the part that worries me
Team Meat has announced Super Meat Boy Again+ for PC: the 2010 game, rebuilt with new art, new music, new cutscenes, new levels, new secrets and unlockables. The studio says the plus exists because fifteen years of players have already found everything and mastered everything, so there has to be something new to pull your hair out over — and no, they won't say what. No release date yet. I have muscle memory for levels that are about to stop being the answer, which is either great design or a personal attack.
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3. Britain is doing the maths on GTA VI's download and not entirely loving the answer
Openreach says the first night of GTA VI preloading pushed downstream traffic on its national network about 33% above an average Tuesday — 378 petabytes in a day — and it will be watching launch night for a download record. Ofcom's line is that the networks should cope, and that your contract guarantees a minimum speed if they don't. The game is also the most pre-ordered title in PlayStation and Xbox store history, which means an enormous number of installs unlock inside the same few hours on Thursday. Somebody in network operations is going to have a memorable week.
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