Month: July 2016

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Street Fighter V Balrog Faces Off Against His Street Fighter IV Iteration in desk’s Combo Exhibition Match

As has become customary for desk when new characters are revealed, the time has come for the Balrog comparison video! This time skipping the individual normal and special moves, desk focuses on a side-by-side comparison of the dirty boxer’s combos from Street Fighter V against what he had available in Ultra Street Fighter IV. As expected, he finds many similarities.

Also: as per his usual quirky sense of humor, desk was apparently inspired by Games Done Quick to speedrun Ryu’s trials, setting a “world record” of just under 42 seconds.

Check out our Balrog combo roundup for for some hard-hitting tools for the Crazy Buffalo. desk has also spent time on Street Fighter V’s Ibuki since her arrival.

Source: desk

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Gilberto Ramirez pulls out of title defence due to hand injury

WBO super middleweight champion Gilberto Ramirez (34-0, 26 KOs) has pulled out of his title defence against Dominik Britsch (32-2-1, 11 KOs) on the Terence Crawford-Viktor Postol undercard due to a hand injury.
Mexican Ramirez, who won the WBO belt with a one-sided points win over Arthur Abraham in April, injured his right hand during sparring on Tuesday night.
“Gilberto Ramirez sustained an injury to the third knuckle of his right hand after a punch to the head of his sparring partner,” said…

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General: Pokemon Go Now in Limited Release

Nintendo and Niantic Labs have a surprise for fans of Pokemon: Mobile title Pokemon Go has been released in Australia and New Zealand for both iOS and Mobile devices. Players in the US and Japan are being urged to wait to wait for their specific regional releases of Pokemon Go before downloading.

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Riders of Icarus: Review in Progress – The Right Game at the Right Time

It’s been a week or so since Riders of Icarus entered Open Beta (for Founders at least), and I’ve been finding it oddly cathartic and relaxing to delve into a new MMORPG that doesn’t seem afraid to let its Inspired-By flag fly. While a lot of Riders of Icarus is clich�d, the game’s got a certain sense of charm and I find myself wanting to log in regardless of knowing exactly where the adventure leads.

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Guild Wars 2: Returning to Tyria

I do not take a decision like returning to Guild Wars 2 lightly, especially when I have such a love/hate relationship with the game, but there is one overarching feature that may just overshadow all of my issues with the MMORPG, and some of these are pretty deep-rooted indeed.

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SMITE: Mac Version, New God & Summer Event Anchor Latest Update

Hi-Rez has released the Mid-Season Patch, a significant update, for SMITE that brings the newest member of the pantheon, Erlang Shen, into the game and kicks off the Summer of SMITE event. In addition, a number of gameplay changes have been implemented including changes to passives and some new items.

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General: Soul Ark Revealed, Creator of Ragnarok Leads Development

The original creator of Ragnarok Manwha, the manga/manwha basis for Ragnarok Online, is working on a new mobile game called Soul Ark. According to Steparu.com, the first playable demo for Soul Ark should be ready for presentation during G-Star 2016. Check out the video below to see it in action.