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last week EA suffered a leak about their next battlefield game and now it's blizzards turn this time the leak was caused by IGN's advertising for upcoming team shooter title overwatch and add was unintentionally posted ahead of schedule on IGN site displaying the text quote pre-order for open beta early access begins at may 3rd that information certainly sounds good considering it was an ad and it was just posted ahead of schedule and if it remains accurate those interested will be able to play overwatch again on my third blizzards hero based FPS title has already gone through a few closed beta trials and has worked toward improvement steadily and the official release date has been set for May twenty-fourth for a while now but now it looks like we may have the open and maybe free beta date for the game as well open beta is that segue into full releases have become somewhat standard for Blizzard releases in recent history including their new MOBA eSports giant ESL today announced that their content will now be streamed on a zoo boo hitbox and yahoo of all places in addition to twitch to start off with the intel extreme masters championship in poland from this past weekend it will be the first ever event distributed this way last year ESL one cologne to set the record for the most concurrent viewers on a single channel with the csgo stream reaching 1.3 million viewers at its peak this new multi-platform approach will allow ESL viewership to expand further Kickstarter has proven to be a resourceful tool for original video game innovators to come back into the world of game design we've seen recently with Richard Garriott and his shroud of the avatar a return from Ultima chris Roberts and his star citizen who heralds from Wing Commander and Warren Spector with the new Crowe fall game today the community funded return pathway yields at Mike coulis and Matt's Tosh log back from the depths of the duo's a 90s descent series descent arguably paved the way for games with six degrees of freedom still a rarity in gaming outside of the odd space game and recently these guys turned to Kickstarter to launch overload a modern take on the style of game they established over 20 years ago today the team is a part of revival games who launched a playable teaser for overload on PC and it's open to anyone not just backers so if you've got a bout of nostalgia or never played descent overloads are worthwhile download for a free trial of the six degrees-of-freedom style game revival games has a tentative release date set for March of next year that's 2017 which does mean that 2017 is currently shaping up to be a pretty heavy year in terms of game launches closing out today's news is raisers cortex software comparable in some ways to Raptors plays TV and add videos GeForce experience razor has added a quote game caster service to their software suite which is aimed at live streamers and is meant to give broadcasters a quick and dirty streaming solution built into software that they theoretically already use that's the concept anyway we're not sure how many gamers actually use cortex if you do certainly let us know because I'm curious what your experience has been like the streaming solution currently has two different packages the free version and the pro version and the two have massive differences users of the free version will get only 30 FPS streaming output and if they want to stream above 720p a discreet using raisers words watermark will appear on the screens is going to be a razor cortex watermark on that screen above 720p and of course who wants the stream at 720p the pro service starts at fifteen dollars for three months of access according to their own press release razor notes that feature set and pricing for in-game twitch chat and custom overlay images have not yet been disclosed or finalized that's all for the extra game news update for this week we know there's already been one on the channel for about a day now but it's just non-stop news which is cool so remember to subscribe for more content check us out on patreon the sport is directly GDC is coming up next week we will be there covering it live so tune in for that for sure thanks for watching I'll see you all next time