End of 1st Season in Overwatch

Ranking Mode - or how Blizzard calls it: Competitive Play - was not available in Overwatch from the beginning. To fine-tune this rivalry within the rankings Blizzard has removed this option just before the release of its best-selling product. Competitive Play debut at the end of June (nearly a month after the appearance of Overwatch on store shelves). Despite the extra time to fix it, not all played as it should.

Now, however, with the scheduled for August 18 (to be more precise at 2 am) end of the first season, Blizzard will have another chance to make major changes. To start the second season - initially scheduled for September 6 - Competitive Play will be locked.

Some extra information: 

Each player who played the first ten meetings and was assigned to the appropriate rank, will receive a special icon. However, if any of you have succeeded for a moment to catch the Top 500 best players, then you can count on additional animated graffiti and another icon.

Battlefield 1: check out the upcoming arsenal!

Well, we have to admit that it is not quite how we imagined the reality of the First World War. But, ask yourself a question - does the games faithfully imitating the reality of the conflicts have any chances of commercial success? In this case, the subject is so innovative that the enormity of special effects will not even bother you.

 

Today released trailer is showing the weapons that will appear in BF1.  You can see rifles, shotguns, sniper rifles, pistols,  anti-tank rifles, grenades, machine guns. We will definitely !not get bored Meanwhile, waiting for the presentation of available vehicles.

Is the Dice a hint on Diablo 4?

Is it possible that Blizzard hid a hint on Diablo 4 in a box with a gifts on BlizzCon 2016? It is very likely. Meanwhile, one of the known YouTuber and streamers Kripparian, released the video online in which we can see these gifts:

As you probably know, buying such a box is possible, after purchasing a virtual ticket to BlizzCon, or participation in the event - which involves undoubtedly huge costs.

Therefore we explain what's going on in the plot of Diablo 4. Now, in a box with gifts is a bag of dices, like in D&D - D20, D8, D6, D4. Does D4 not associate with Diablo 4? Yes, of course it does! 

New Overwatch hero - Ana Amari

Representatives of Blizzard presented a new character, which is already available in the MMO shooter Overwatch - Ana Amari..

The woman is a sniper support, able not only to hurt her enemies, but also to heal comrades.

Additionally, it can lull opponents (interrupting ultimate attacks at the same time) and temporarily block the possibility for victims to be healed.

Hers ultimate ability is a significant short-term bonus to speed and damage dealt for an ally team member.

Blizzard also took care of the background of a new character. Ana is the mother of Pharah - one of the heroines of the original game. Furthermore, it is also one of the founders of the Overwatch. Shot by Reaper, she was considered dead.

Her full profile and her story you can find on official Overwatch page below:

https://playoverwatch.com/en-us/heroes/ana/

Also check out the introduction video of Ana Amari, you will not be disappointed.

Do not forget to record your gameplays of Ana from Overwatch - with Mirillis Action! of course :) 

Pokemon GOt sued!

Jeffrey Marder have had quite enough of trainers who were breaking on his premises to hunt rare Pokemon. American is entering the judicial path with Niantic, Nintendo, and the Pokemon Company.

Prosecutor states that the authors of the game put PokeStops and gyms in the area of private property or in public places. Let's agree that in churches or museums it is simply not proper to hunt Charizard. Of course, it is not difficult to guess that the authors have not received consent from any of the owners of such places.

The author of lawsuit complained also for Pokemon trainers who come to his house and ask if they could catch a pokemon in his yard. Some are not so cultured and do it without permission. Jefrey Marder is fed up with the situation, and the lawsuit seems to be the ultimate, but also the only possible solution to this problem. Below you can read the contents of the document:

Marder v Niantic Complaint 7 29 by CNET News on Scribd

GameSnap – never miss a gaming moment!

Have you ever had a really interesting moment in a game that you wanted quickly share with your friends? Creators of the Action! screen and game recording software  - Mirillis is now working on a new application for instant screenshots and short gameplay videos sharing. With GameSnap app taking instant snapshots and recording snaps will be easier than you think.

The world's first!

Hello!

We've been very busy since we wrote something here, but I think it was worth waiting for new blog entry. We are proud to say that we are the world's first screen recording software that allow it users to record their Full HD 60p videos directly into mp4 format in real-time. This is a huge thing for us. Read below to find out more about this totally new feature and other stuff that happened last month.

The world’s first HD video recording into .mp4 format in real time.

As we mentioned. Action! Screen Recorder is the world's first screen recording software that allow it users to record their videos directly to .mp4 format (even Full HD 60p with Intel® Quick Sync technology) in real time. What does that mean in practice? First of all you get from 10 to 20 smaller recording file size. Lowest CPU usage while recording, that means more free computer resources for other applications. See the image below for more details. Ignore the "Coming soon". This is already happening! You can download Action! Screen Recorder 1.11.0 now and try it for 30 days free with full functionality.

Will it run on my computer?

Some of you asked us this question on our facebook page. As you can see on the image above. This feature has been designed for Inte®l Quick Sync Video, because no one else provide similar technology that would allow us to support another producers such as AMD® or NVIDIA®, but that doesn't mean it won't happen someday. Most of 2nd and 3rd generation of Intel® Core™ processor family support Intel® Quick Sync Video technology. But "Will it run?"

To check that you have to do two step check.

• Step First. Go to Intel® Desktop Processors and choose your current processor. Then go to Graphic Specifications and see if there is a "Yes" near Inte®l Quick Sync Video.
• Step Two. Go to Intel® Desktop Chipsets and choose your current chipset. Go to Graphic Specifications and see if there is a "Yes" near Integrated Graphics.

If you received two "Yeses" then the MP4 (Inte®l Quick Sync Video) function should be available for you. If somehow it still is not available. Check out these two tutorials:

1. PCI-E graphic cards 
2. NVIDIA cards with Optimus technology.

New Action! versions

We released 4 Action! Screen Recorder versions since last entry. Two minor and two major ones. 1.9.1, 1.9.2, 1.10.0 and 1.11.0. 

Action! 1.9.1

With 1.9.1 there's not much to talk about. After we released 1.9.0 we found out that we made a small mistake cancel export pop-up window. Luckily for us we noticed this bug very quickly and fixed it afterwards. Here's the full update list:

• Improved performance of Windows 8 desktop and Windows 8 Modern UI Style applications recording
• Important GUI improvements (fixed problem with cancel export popup window buttons)
• Translations improvements

Action! 1.9.2

1.9.2 was a minor update but included few fixes that were bothering us for a long time. Finally we added support for graphics mod such as FXAA or TES. You were asking for this many times, now it's on. We also fixed a bug with Flash Player and Firefox browser that were causing Action! to crash. And we changed our installer to multi-language one. Full list of 1.9.2 updates below:

• Fixed recording of games with FXAA mode installed. In example: Alan Wake, Battlefield 3, Skyrim
• Fixed desktop region recording with region width set to 1280 and with video size set 720p (shifted video problem)
• Fixed Flash player stability problem (Firefox browser) with Action! Screen Recorder running
• Fixed problem with Skype stability with Action! Screen Recorder running
• User Manuals updated
• Small GUI improvements
• Multi-language installer added

Action! 1.10.0

1.10.0 was all about the audio. We added few things that professionals and amateurs too should appreciate. First of all we added an option to record microphone to separate audio track. From version 1.10.0 if you tick "Record microphone to separate audio track" box you will have an .avi file with video path, system sounds audio path and microphone path. We also added settings that allow you to select microphone input audio device and system sound input audio device. Full change-log here:

• Important fix for recording Windows 8 Modern UI Style applications
• Added option to record microphone into separate audio track (for video recordings)
• Added settings to select microphone input audio device
• Added settings to select system sound input audio device
• Fixed audio recording at 192kHz sampling frequency
• Small GUI improvements
• Stability improvements

Few more things about second audio path.

1. Sony Vegas users.
   If cannot import your .avi file into Sony Vegas check if your video audio is not 5.1. SV does not accept this type of audio path. To avoid this situation untick "Allow multi-channel audio recording" for games/videos that you think they may be 5.1.
2. Adobe Premiere users
   Somehow AP does not see our second audio path with microphone. Well a quick workaround for this is to export your second audio path from the original file. To do that you can use a free software such as Virtual Dub.

Action! 1.11.0

At this point of this entry you are probably know that 1.11.0 is a revolutionary version for us. Besides .mp4 recording we added few more options. One from the list is possibility to block Action! from monitoring selected applications. How to do that? Read the tutorial that we prepared for excluding applications. Second thing that is worth mentioning is YouTube file splitting. Many of you are verified YouTube users and were disappointed when Action! splitted your videos into parts. Now you can either decide how many parts do you want or if you don't want parts at all. Here's full change list:

• NEW FEATURE: Direct video recording to MP4 (H.264/AVC) format using Intel® Quick Sync Video hardware acceleration technology (max FullHD 60p!)
• NEW FEATURE: Direct video recording to MP4 (H.264/AVC) format using software encoding (max 480p)
• Improved MP4 muxing performance
• Maximum YouTube HD profile bitrate increased to 14Mbps
• Added option to enable/disable file splitting when exporting to YouTube (with parts duration settings)
• Added exclude list (possibility to block Action! Screen Recorder from monitoring selected applications) 
• Read tutorial.
• "Hide HUD on Action! Screen Recorder startup" option added
• Stability improvements

Dedicated tutorial and FAQ tabs.

Currently they are only available for Action! but we are going to expand them for our other products. You can find our tutorials for Action! here and the new redefined FAQ here.

We reached 3000 fans on our Facebook page.

From here we would like to thank you for being with us.We are really grateful for having such a dedicated fans. Our community is rising and that is mostly your work. THANK YOU!

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