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other than all the obvious dumat news that game news this week starts the latest from Blizzard overwatch launched an open beta on the third of May and ran until the eleventh and Blizzard has officially stated that the beta period brought in 9.7 million players in that period for some comparison competing FPS arena hero action team game RPG thin battleborn brought in two million people on its five-day open beta in April overwatch wasn't all Blizzard gave us to talk about however following the acquisition of MLG in January we were all left wondering what Activision Blizzard's eSports announcement would be and now the chairman of Activision Blizzard media networks Steve bornstein has spoken out on the topic bornstein was previously the CEO of ESPN and launched the NFL Network and will be leveraging that experience with the activision blizzard's freshly announced a Facebook partnership to stream the company's major eSports titles that will include Call of Duty hearthstone heroes of the storm and even Starcraft 2 or what's left of it anyway one of the companies at first shows to be streamed on the Facebook live platform will be the esports report Activision's take on ESPN's SportsCenter in addition to eSports news the esports report will contain real-time statistics with live programming this feature will bring viewers statistics that update live during the tournament the first event to make use of these features will be MLG anaheim and the Call of Duty World League starting on june twelfth star wars battlefront has sold over 14 million copies since its november launch though the pc audience has declined significantly now after an investor call EA announced a new battlefront title in 2017 major information about the game has yet to be revealed like the title for instance or the release date or the setting of the timeline or really anything else of note because the title isn't on the list of EA's game slated for the 2017 fiscal year March is when ea's fiscal year ends and in addition to this battlefront announcement EA has announced the upcoming Star Wars titles that will use details from other upcoming Star Wars films including rogue one and an untitled Han Solo film the main series will also be included on top of a new battlefront sequel EA has announced their plans to release a new star wars game every year for the next four years this news to coincides with respawn entertainment's recent confirmation that they're working on a third-person action-adventure star wars game further some small amount of footage has been leaked recently concerning a Star Wars RTS game as well after a period on vimeo the footage was taken down was of course uploaded to youtube taken down and I'm sure that process has repeated EA has yet to make any comment on the game and there's no Star Wars RTS that's been officially announced by the company but if the game still lives and if it's actually going to be made it will be the first Star Wars RTS since empire at war released ten years ago but that's enough Star Wars news ea wasn't the only one with major investor reports this week Ubisoft had its own call that announced their plans through March 2017 most of their upcoming games are already known including it watchdogs to Ghost Recon wildlands and southpark the fractured but hall and for otter however these four titles are being joined by an as-yet-unnamed game the unnamed title won't be a sequel either but an entirely new triple AI p we've been disappointed by new at Ubisoft ip's in the past here at GN like watch dogs for obvious example where I tore it apart for 30 minutes but a big game company taking risks on a new franchise is always exciting news and hopefully it actually works out so that's all for this week's game news check out the doom coverage if you're interested in that type of thing definitely a very pretty looking game if nothing else and as always pay Charlie commercial video at check out linked in the description below for more information we'll see you all next time