Month: December 2015

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Beefy Smash Doods Break Down Westballz’ Super Smash Bros. Melee Input Speed

Anyone who has played a fighting game knows that there are periods in which the amount of inputs being sent from the player to the game climb to incredible levels. In some titles, this number is more pronounced than others; typically speaking, the faster the game, the more inputs required to succeed.

With this in mind, it only makes sense that a game as quick as Super Smash Bros. Melee would see top players pumping out hundreds of inputs per minute. In a recent video, the Beefy Smash Doods team analyzed footage of Tempo Storm’s Westballz throwing down in some high-stakes matches to see just how fast his fingers go when controlling Falco.

While their final numbers likely run quite close to being spot-on, Melee does occasionally involve some hidden inputs which would be impossible to count solely from in-game footage. That said, Westballz is still alarmingly fast.

The team produced a similar video for Alliance’s Armada back in August, so be sure to check that out as well.

Source: Beefy Smash Doods

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WWE Superstar Xavier Woods Mentions Evo, Final Round on Raw

By now, it’s no secret that WWE superstar Xavier Woods has at least a passing interest in fighting games. When he’s not breaking faces and playing trombone as part of two-time tag team champions The New Day, he can be found producing content for his video game channel UpUpDownDown, which frequently features professional wrestlers slugging it out in our favorite competitive genre.

But while he’s been known to belt out the Final Fantasy victory tune on television, Woods has never (to the best of my knowledge, anyways) paid homage to fighting games in the same way. Never, that is, until tonight.

Earlier this evening, Woods and New Day teammates Big E and Kofi Kingston opened Raw with a segment dedicated to the WWE’s current heavyweight champion, Sheamus. This, of course, included some jabs at previous title-holder Roman Reigns, who lost the belt to Sheamus only a few minutes after being crowned champ. His reign (wink) was so brief that The New Day missed it entirely while they, as Woods put it, were preparing for Evo and Final Round.

That’s right, he gave a shout out to two of our community’s largest events in front of nearly 20,000 people in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, not to mention countless fans watching the segment from home.

Does this mean we’ll see Woods at fighting game tournaments next year? Will Evo feature an appearance by WWE 2K16? Maybe not, but you have to admit this is pretty cool.

Source: WWE via Joel Ortiz