For their latest Ultra Street Fighter IV player spotlight, Olympic Gaming turns to New York, one of the biggest hotspots for fighting games in the East Coast to take a look at one of their rising stars – Jeron Grayson, better known as Empire Arcadia’s Hiro.
In their video spotlight, EMP|Hiro demonstrates his skill with M. Bison and Chun Li against notable players such as John Choi, Liquid|Nuckledu, Boloflex, and more.
You can watch the video below, after which be sure to check out the interview in the description on YouTube.
The folks over at Level|Up Series have just gone live with the beginning of Wednesday Night Fights’ fourth 2014 season, broadcasting from the newly-renovated Super Arcade in Walnut, California. Some of SoCal’s top talent will be in attendance to compete in Ultra Street Fighter IV, Tekken Tag Tournament 2, and Injustice: Gods Among Us.
In addition to the tournaments, Wednesday Night Fights will also feature another intense Ultra Street Fighter IV grudge match, this time between BROKENTIER’s Jay “Viscant” Snyder and Low Tier God.
Feel free to visit the venue tonight or in the future if you’d like spectate or participate in any of the games available. The address has been included below.
Super Arcade
1211 N Grand Avenue
Walnut, CA 91789
The stream is currently live below, but feel free to visit Twitch if you prefer to chat. Full online brackets will be made available through Challonge.
The winter months are just around the corner and that means that it will soon be time to tuck those t-shirts away and break out the always-fashionable seasonal sweater collection to keep warm. If you’ve grown weary of your old standbys from past years, maybe a Street Fighter-themed sweater from the UK-based Yellow Bulldog will be just the spice your sweater collection needs to carry you into the new year. This stylish rendition of the classic battle between Ryu and Ken depicts exactly what happens when two Hadoukens collide: a lovely snowflake forms.
But we all knew that already. Right?
If you’d prefer to keep your love for Street Fighter as your own little secret, then perhaps Yellow Bulldog’s line of character-inspired socks will be more to your liking. Sold as a three pair set, these socks sport the colors, national flag and name of three different fighters: Ryu, Ken and Blanka. These are currently the only fighters available for foot coverage. Blanka stands out as a rather interesting choice when the remaining World Warriors may have been more readily recognizable. Maybe green is just a good sock color.
If these products have piqued your interest, follow the links below to check out more images and details surrounding the products.
The sock collection and sweater are currently available for pre-order and will begin shipping on November 7th. Yellow Bulldog offers international shipping as well.
The Ultra Street Fighter IV tournament at the Fall Classic 2014 represented the final Capcom Pro Tour qualifier for the United States. As such a good number of top players were in attendance fighting for that final slot such as SnakeEyez, EG|PR Balrog, EG|Ricky Ortiz, EG|KBrad, Twitch|Mike Ross, eSports Max|Tampa Bison, PIE|Smug, r/Kappa.FGC|Pepeday and RZR|Xian.
For those who missed the action at the event, top 16 matches have now been uploaded onto the Capcom Fighters YouTube channel. We’ve shared the finals matches from these below, you can check out the rest over at the official playlist.
Winners Finals
Losers Finals
Grand Finals
For the complete results of the Fall Classic 2014, head on over to our coverage hub.
With BlazBlue: Chronophantasma now updated to ver.2.0 in Japanese arcades, players have been putting in some early work with new character Celica A. Mercury. While she’s been part of the story for some time, this new version of the Arc System Works fighter marks the first time Ms. Mercury has been playable, and she’s already proving to be an interesting addition to the BlazBlue roster.
Over the past few days, a smattering of videos have been uploaded to Nico showing a variety of basic and high-damage combos for the fighter, who teams up with her partner Minerva for a variety of attacks. If you’re interested in doing some research before the update finds its way to consoles, these videos should be the perfect way to start.
Special thanks goes out to Jourdal for making us aware of these videos in the first place. You’ll find his uploads below the original videos.
Capcom recently announced Street Fighter Puzzle Spirits, an upcoming mobile game which combines puzzle elements with the Street Fighter universe. Sadly, the title is not a reboot of the Puzzle Fighter series in spite of obvious similarities. Instead, the game, as you’ll see in the footage below, involves matching colored orbs to perform various attack strings against opponents in a touch screen-friendly environment. Fans of modern puzzle games will be quick to recognize similarities to Puzzle Quest as well as the popular mobile game Puzzle and Dragons.
The available footage suggests a decently-sized roster which incorporates fighters from Super Turbo all the way up through Street Fighter IV. As with most modern mobile games, Puzzle Spirits will be available free of charge and will offer in-game options to drop some cash if players so desire, though details surrounding such in-app purchases currently remain a mystery.
Capcom plans to release Street Fighter Puzzle Spirits to Japanese audiences for both iOS and Android devices this winter.
Red Fight District is back for a third round. Hosted this year at Dhoem Dhaam in Amsterdam, Netherlands, RFD is known for bringing in a few players as guests each year. This year’s guests are Evil Geniuses’ Justin Wong of the US and Meltdown’s Luffy of France.
If you want to catch the tournament action, check out the streams from ARMSHOUSE and Hadoken.eu below.
While the entire scene is sure to shift to the Wii U version upon its release next month, the Smash community has been providing some early glimpses of how early Super Smash Bros. 4 competition is shaking out by way of the recent handheld release. One of the first high-profile tournaments to include the game, KTAR X, wrapped up this past weekend, and we now have replays to check out courtesy of CLASH Tournaments.
In addition to the usual singles and doubles tournaments for Super Smash Bros. Melee and Super Smash Bros. Brawl, this regional event also featured some great matches in Super Smash Bros. for 3DS courtesy of competitors like Jtails and Nairo, the former sticking with Diddy through much of the event and the latter switching between Robin and Little Mac as the need arose.
We won’t go into too many details in the effort of keeping spoilers to a minimum, but one simian fighter in particular is looking to be a mighty strong contender in this new game’s early days.
You’ll find all of the finals matches below, but more are available in the official playlist if you’re in need of further footage.
