Team NINJA Heading Up Dissidia Final Fantasy Arcade Development

During a closed press conference for the arcade release of Dissidia Final Fantasy, Square Enix announced that they have pegged Tecmo Koei’s Team NINJA to develop the upcoming title, which is set for release this fall.

Known for their work on the Dead or Alive series, Team NINJA will be heading into a rather different arena with Dissidia, shifting from one-on-one matchups to three-on-three arena battles featuring classic Final Fantasy characters like Terra Branford, Cloud Strife, Lightning, and newly revealed Final Fantasy Tactics protagonist Ramza Beoulve.

Square Enix also took the time show off Dissidia’s arcade cabinet, which sports a twin-stick design and traditional PlayStation directional and face buttons. Development is being built on PlayStation 4 hardware with help from Sony Computer Entertainment themselves, who hope to see the title ported to home consoles after at least one year in arcades.

Public testing is planned for various locations throughout Japan on the weekends of April 17 and 24, during which more footage is sure to surface.

Gematsu has translated a variety of gameplay details from multiple sources, so be sure to read their report for more information.

Sources: Games Talk, Inside Games, Famitsu, Gematsu, Doki Doki Kusoge, video courtesy of Square Portal

Derry Mathews to fight Ismael Barroso for interim WBA title

Derry Mathews (37-9-2, 20 KOs)  will fight Ismael Barroso (17-0-2, 16 KOs) on April 18 for an interim version of the WBA lightweight title.
Southpaw Barroso of Venezuela, has stepped in at short notice after Mathews’ challenge for Richar Abril’s WBA belt was called off for a second time. Champion Abril withdrew because of illness on both occasions.
“Barroso is a very dangerous fighter,” said Mathews. “Just look at his record, he’s banging people out left, right and center.
“I’ve seen some…

General: Maingear Ships World’s First X99 Gaming Systems

Maingear Ships World

Maingear has announced that it has shipped the world’s first ‘small form factor’ gaming systems based around the Intel X99 chipset Core i7 extreme edition processors. Designed for an optimal gaming experience, the new rigs take advantage of native support for Intel i7 5960X 8 core hyper threaded processor and ultra-fast DDR4 memory.

Kell Brook set to fight Frankie Gavin on May 30

IBF welterweight champion Kell Brook (34-0, 23 KOs) will fight Frankie Gavin (21-1, 13 KOs) on May 30 at The 02 Arena in London.
Unbeaten Brook will make the second defence of his title against countryman Gavin, on a card that also features two other world title fights – Londoner Kevin Mitchell (39-2, 29 KOs) challenges WBC lightweight champion Jorge Linares (38-3, 25 KOs), while Welshman Lee Selby (20-1, 8 KOs) takes on Evgeny Gradovich (19-0-1, 9 KOs) for his IBF featherweight title.
After…