Month: September 2015

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Capcom Worked Closely with Middle Eastern Distributor to Develop Street Fighter V’s Rashid

Apart from the EX series’ Saudi representative Pullum Purna, the overall Street Fighter franchise has had a dearth of Middle Eastern characters since it hit the scene decades ago. Fortunately, the next installment will work to correct that by featuring Rashid, a newcomer who was revealed earlier this morning during a presentation at GAMES15 in the United Arab Emirates.

While it would be easy to slap a character together based on regional assumptions, Capcom took a smarter route akin to Bandai Namco’s inclusion of Shaheen in Tekken 7 and got involved with those intimately familiar with the culture.

According to IGN Middle East, Rashid’s creation was a collaborative effort between the developers in Japan, their counterparts at Sony, and Pluto Games, who works as Capcom’s distributor throughout the area. Combine this with their commitment to provide the region with a complete Arabic localization, and it’s pretty clear Capcom is doing all they can to give back to the local communities who have supported them.

“It’s always been great for me to see all the events and fighting game community stuff that goes on in the Middle East and of course I’ve had lots of you invite me to come play with you over the years,” Capcom’s Yoshinori Ono said in his message to IGN readers. “With Street Fighter V, we’ve added this brand new character [Rashid] who [hails] from the Middle East. I really hope you enjoy playing as him and try and make him the best Street Fighter character out there.”

With the huge rise in Middle Eastern fighting game tournaments, it’s hard to deny Capcom made a smart decision when creating Rashid for Street Fighter V. Diversity is rarely a bad thing, and it’s great to see inclusivity spread to such a fantastic group of fans.

Street Fighter V is scheduled to launch for PlayStation 4 and PC sometime in March 2016. Our previous Rashid coverage can be found here.

Source: IGN Middle East

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Catch Up on the Most Recent Changes to Super Smash Bros. for Wii U

Although the 1.1.0 update to Super Smash Bros. for Wii U went live some time ago, catching all the minute changes that Nintendo throws into the game can be a time consuming task. Luckily, Vitamin ZK took the time to wade through the seas of sameness to find the few tweaks that were made. In the videos below, you’ll see side-by-side comparisons of the 1.0.9 and 1.1.0 versions of altered attacks and abilities.

The changes include minor frame adjustments to things like Marth and Lucina’s landing recovery after a handful of aerial attacks as well as their Dolphin Slash special, and some slight knockback changes for Dr. Mario, among other things. A good deal of the changes were slight, but the patch did include some larger tweaks, too, like the removal of Pikachu’s ability to create infinite combos through the use of custom moves.

To get a better glimpse at exactly what changed, be sure to check out the videos below. The characters who received a larger number of changes have been given their own videos, while the rest received a place in the compilation videos.

Source: Vitamin ZK via D1

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5 Things We Learned from the Eorzean Census

A few days back, Square Enix released slides for the Eorzean Census on the following Lodestone post. I had quite a bit of fun just looking over each bit of information, figuring out WHY certain things were the way they are. While I don’t really have any answers for that, I thought it might be nice to discuss my 5 favorite takeaways from the Eorzean Census.

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Newcomer Rashid Joins Street Fighter V Cast

If you’ve been keeping up with Street Fighter V news this week, you’ve certainly seen Yoshinori Ono’s collection of teaser screenshots for the newest addition to the game’s roster. Since the screens went live, we’ve all been trying to determine if those tornadoes belong to a certain Final Fight vet. We can now officially lay that question to rest: they don’t.

Just moments ago, the Blanka-toting Capcom rep revealed that Rashid will be joining the cast. While information surrounding the fighter is limited, we do have a trailer available for viewing.

Click to view slideshow.

Source: Emiratendo via Wonkey, Bas Gros Poing and Teddie