Weekly Recap #222 Jan. 12th – Dirty Bomb, Core Masters, BLR & More!

A quick look and discussion for every major announcement and update during the week! This week we discussed updates from the following games: Dirty Bomb, PlanetSide 2, Firefall, Blacklight: Retribution, Transformers Universe, MapleStory 2, Core Masters, Heroes of the Storm, & SMITE!

Weekly MMO News summary for the week ending January 12th, 2015 (Jan. 5th – Jan. 12th).

Dirty Bomb’s closed beta made it’s way over to Steam:
http://mmohuts.com/news/splash-damages-upcoming-fps-dirty-bomb-now-exclusively-on-steam

PlanetSide 2 is now ready for it’s PS4 closed beta:
http://mmohuts.com/news/planetside-2s-ps4-closed-beta-arrives-january-20

Firefall previews content coming soon in their first major update for 2015:
http://mmohuts.com/video/firefall-pts-preview-january-2015

Blacklight Retribution gets a change over, zombie studios shuts down:
http://mmohuts.com/news/blacklight-retribution-changes-hands

Transformers Universe shuts down January 31st:
http://mmohuts.com/news/transformers-universe-shuts-down-january-31

New cinematic and world overview trailers for MapleStory 2:
http://mmohuts.com/video/maplestory-2-second-cinematic
http://mmohuts.com/video/maplestory-2-world-overview

A new teaser trailer and promo video pop up for Core Masters:
http://mmohuts.com/video/core-masters-teaser-trailer
http://mmohuts.com/video/bebe-returns-to-core-masters-stage

Heroes of the Storm ramps up for Closed Beta starting Jan. 13th:
http://mmohuts.com/video/heroes-of-the-storm-closed-beta-dev-walkthrough

Cognative Prime becomes the first ever Smite World Champions:
http://tinyurl.com/k9ybbyh
http://mmohuts.com/video/smite-battleground-of-the-gods-cinematic-trailer
http://mmohuts.com/video/smite-new-conquest-map-reveal-trailer

Check this out for lols:
http://mmohuts.com/video/smite-cosplay-esports-music-video

DizzyPW SWC cosplay highlights:
http://mmohuts.com/news/smite-world-championship-2015-cosplay-highlights

More news @ http://mmohuts.com/news

Thanks to everyone who stopped by the Dirty Bomb & SMITE Live Stream this past Friday! Come hang out Fridays 1:30pm – 8ish CST @ twitch.tv/jamesbl0nde