Month: October 2014

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Injustice: Gods Among Us, Mortal Kombat, and More Marked Down on Xbox Live This Week

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Another week means another round of Xbox Live sales, and over the next few days fighting game fans have a handful of deals to look forward to from NetherRealm Studios.

Injustice: Gods Among Us, Mortal Kombat, Mortal Kombat vs. DC Universe, and Mortal Kombat Arcade Kollection have all been marked down by various amounts, allowing fans to pad their backlog while they wait for Mortal Kombat X to drop next year. Season passes for additional Injustice and Mortal Kombat content (kontent?) have also seen temporary price decreases.

You’ll find the full lineup of discounted items and their adjusted prices below.

These sales will last through October 13.

Source: Major Nelson

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Brush Up on Frame Traps, Resets, and Other Tools at Vega’s Disposal in Ultra Street Fighter IV

The road to character mastery is long. Things start simple enough with figuring out which buttons do what, how to put those buttons together to score notable damage, and how to go about safely committing to the button sequences without losing half of your health due to drops or poor decision making. However, what comes afterward, like frame traps and resets, separates the particularly good players from the decent players.

Below, you’ll find a video from MaskedNobleman7 that covers the advanced side of what Vega brings to battle in Ultra Street Fighter IV. The first half of the reel is dedicated to frame traps, with varying gaps to allow errant buttons of different speeds just enough room to be stuffed. Afterward, the video goes on to demonstrate some particularly dirty resets and ways to score a cross-up Ultra.

Should you find yourself at a standstill in your Vega training, this tutorial may be your ticket to higher levels of play.

Source: MaskedNobleman7

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Programmer Joseph McCullough Develops Chrome Extension for Sending Challonge Text Alerts During Tournaments

While Evolution’s integration with Guidebook over the past few years has provided players numerous resources to remind them of their pool assignments and starting times, the continued placement of responsibility on competitors themselves still results in a number of bracket issues, both high-profile and under-the-radar, whenever a new event rolls around. Thankfully, one programmer has taken it upon himself to give tournament organizers a useful tool to alleviate this friction.

Working in conjunction with Google’s Chrome web browser and bracket generator Challonge, Joseph “JoeQuery” McCullough’s extension allows organizers to attach a cell phone number to each tournament entrant, which they can then use to remind players of upcoming matches, give them a heads-up when they are on deck at their station, and more.

McCullough provides a more in-depth look at what this extension is capable of in the demonstration below.

While it lacks detailed instructions at this point in time, you can grab McCullough’s tool and try it out for yourself here. He mentions having used it to great success at a recent tournament in his local area, and hopes Challonge incorporates functionality like this in the near future to help everyone who uses their service.

Source: JoeQuery via Jose Rangel