Month: July 2016

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Super Smash Con Releases Its (Approximate) Entrant Numbers

With Super Smash Con gracing the Dulles Expo Center in just over two weeks’ time, head tournament organizer Robin “Juggleguy” Harn has released the approximate entry numbers for this Super Smash Bros. extravaganza. All tournaments have experienced growth, with Brawl receiving the smallest growth in entrants, going from 121 last year to 150 as of writing. Melee is at 930 entrants, making it the eighth largest Melee tournament of all time while Smash 4 has 1260 entrants, making it the third largest Smash 4 tournament, just after Evo 2016 and Genesis 3.

The breakout game of Super Smash Con 2016 is actually the original game, Super Smash Bros. 64. Entrant numbers have pretty much doubled, going from 154 last year to a whopping 310 at time of writing, making it the largest Smash 64 event in the game’s history. For a community that has been working its socks to keep alive, this is a massive achievement and I encourage everyone to watch the 64 tournament if they can. The commentary and sheer passion for the game shown at Genesis 3 was great to see and I hope more people flock to try out the grandfather of the series. You can check out some of the insane combos 64 players can pull off in this recent trailer, which also announced the special 64 Combo Contest which shall be held at the event.

There will also be the GEICO Gaming sponsored Smash Masters event, which will pit four of the world’s best all-round Smashers in a single competition to determine who is the Grand Smash Master. No matter what game you are attending or watching, each bracket looks stacked and it promises a wonderful weekend of Smash for all players.

Source: JuggleRob

 

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Digital Figure Mode Coming to Guilty Gear Xrd -REVELATOR- This Fall

Guilty Gear Xrd -REVELATOR- is getting an interesting new mode later this Fall.  This new “Digital Figure Mode” revolves around allowing players to pick up a series of digital statues of the games characters.

Players will be able to collect digital statues and then customize their figures poses, colors, and even backgrounds and place multiple characters together to create unique dioramas in game.

This new mode should appeal to both creative types who can express themselves with the dioramas as well as players who enjoy in game collectibles. As for how these digital figures will be unlocked, nothing as of yet has been detailed. However they’ll most likely come from playing the games multiple modes.

In the meantime, here’s the modes announcement from an abridged version of the trailer shown at Evo 2016.

Source: Arc System Works

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Fenrich Talks About His Views on BlazBlue Central Fiction

Famitsu posted an interview with top Japanese BlazBlue Central Fiction players, Fumi and Fenrich.

Fenrich, who plays Jin, is currently the number-one-ranked player in the arcades. The interview (translated by HiagoXYZ) talks about how Fenrich got started in BlazBlue and what his thoughts are on one of the new mechanics, Active Flow. Fenrich also talks about playing against his brother’s Ragna, the aspects of his gameplay that he’s working on, how to improve in BBCF, and his thoughts on which characters are strong.

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The last section is a reference to this screencap of a BBCF tier list, which contains Fumi and Fenrich’s opinion on the cast.

The original interview also has a section with Fumi.

Source: Jourdal, HiagoXYZ