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Low tide, long sets. A first issue. Oceania's Street Fighter final, Evo France and a perfect finish in Japan, WoW Forever's free stress test, a fortnight of Brisbane Counter-Strike, and an Oceanian ticket to the Rainbow Six Osaka Major, plus a first AI desk led by Roblox's game builder trial in New Zealand.
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Fighting games.
Brackets, grapplers and the quiet maths of a close set.
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The long way round: elieatscrayons at the Oceania World Warrior final
A losers-bracket run to grand finals, capping a season spent near the top of the region's Street Fighter 6 brackets.
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Evo France goes to Dual Kevin, and Europe's last spots fill up
The final Street Fighter 6 Premier of the Capcom Pro Tour year, then two European regional finals a week later.
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Japan's fourth World Warrior goes to Zabuton, and the US run-in is still to come
A perfect last round in Tokyo's biggest online bracket, then what's left on the calendar before Capcom Cup 13.
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Online worlds.
Guilds, servers and the long hours between raids.
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WoW Forever arrives on a Thursday morning in Brisbane
Blizzard's new take on original Azeroth goes live globally on 4 November, Pacific time. Here's what that means on this side of the water.
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RuneScape sets the date: Jagex Accounts become required on 17 November
Legacy logins stop working on that date for RuneScape and Old School RuneScape. Here's what to do now.
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ESO's Season Two makes Skyrim free and adds solo dungeons
Greymoor joins the base game this week, and Markarth follows in November.
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Shooters.
Maps, LANs and the last few metres to the exit.
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FlyQuest go unbeaten at ANZC Locals Brisbane
Counter-Strike 2, one Brisbane weekend and a clean playoff run.
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A week later, NEXVOID stop the run
The Logitech G Pro Series in Brisbane, and the team that got past FlyQuest.
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ARC Raiders' PvE toggle test wraps up tonight
A week of servers with no player damage ends at 7 pm Brisbane time. Next comes a feedback survey.
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Oceania.
Aussie and OCE results, dates and servers. New pieces every day, plus every OCE story from the other sections.
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The OCE fighting-game calendar, from Sydney to Tokyo
Where Oceania's Street Fighter year goes next, with dates from the organisers.
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Materia notes: FFXIV's Oceanian data centre this month
A rough evening on the network, an Oceania leaderboard on the way and one travel limit that hasn't changed.
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ENTERPRISE take Oceania's ticket to the Rainbow Six Osaka Major
An Oceania League Stage 2 win over the Chiefs, and a full set of international qualifications this season.
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5 more OCE stories from today's other sections are on the OCE page.
All OCE storiesAI in gaming.
AI features in games, studio policy, tools, NPCs, anti-cheat and the people it affects. News only, always sourced.
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Roblox's AI game builder has been trialling in New Zealand
Roblox says Build, its prompt-to-game tool, has had more than 100,000 people try it since an alpha launch across the Tasman.
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Google and Unity launch Playground, a browser game maker run by prompts
It's an experiment from Google Labs, for adults in the US only for now, with Unity Spark to follow.
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Epic Games' CEO confirms a shift to AI in how it makes games
Tim Sweeney says Epic is retooling its developers for "maximum AI acceleration". Here's what has been reported so far.
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