Month: September 2016

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GamerBee Talks with Logan-sama about His Transition to Street Fighter V on the Jump-In Podcast

Zowie’s Bruce “GamerBee” Hsiang has been on a tear lately. The Taiwanese player–who has been one of the crowd favorites since his debut at Evolution 2010–had some difficulties in adapting to Street Fighter V, but has since won two premier events in Japan Cup and EGX in as many weeks.

Today, GamerBee sits down with Logan-sama for the sixteenth episode of the Jump-In Podcast. In this episode, they talk about Hsiang’s transition and breakdown the differences between the Street Fighter IV series and Street Fighter V. They also go over his matches with Ryan Hart, and his general strategy with Necalli. They also discuss why the Adon main gravitated toward Necalli in this iteration of the series.

Source: The Jump-In

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Release Date of BlazBlue: Central Fiction in North America Announced

It was previously announced that Aksys Games would be releasing the much anticipated Arc System Works fighter in early November in North America. They took that promise 100% literally, as we now have a release date for BlazBlue: Central Fiction: slated in North America for November 1st on the PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 3. Is that early enough in November for everyone?

The game will ship with a choice of Standard and Limited Editions, with the Limited Edition containing a copy of the game, a collector’s box, deluxe 100-page hardcover art book, mini Noel Vermillion Nendoroid figure, and 10-track BlazBlue Song Interlude III soundtrack. For pad players looking to get a nice pad to compliment the game, Aksys Games will also have an edition of the game that includes a HORI Fighting Commander available for sale on their website.

While we have known about the October 6th Japanese release date for a while, we are still waiting on word of the firm European launch of the title, which is still slated for sometime in November.

Source: Gematsu

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Learn to Deal with Blowbacks in King of Fighters XIV

Blowbacks in King of Fighters are an important mechanic that can define certain matchups. The ability to retaliate on block is powerful, and as such the techniques to deal with them are vital to playing the game at higher levels. YouTuber sigmaG19 put together this useful tech video showcasing ways to deal with blowbacks with several different characters, as well as ways that this technique was handled in past games.

There is also a great video by Gato Ray on blowbacks, covering options for nearly every character to punish blowbacks on block.

 

He even provided a helpful “blowback tier” chart describing how difficult to punish each character’s blowback is, and can be found here. For the most difficult to punish characters, he made this follow-up video featuring several punishes capable of reaching the opponent.

Sources: sigmaG19; Gato Ray; via tip from 6let

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Black Desert Online – Taking to the High Seas Preview

Our friends over at 2P.com have a nice Black Desert Online preview that features the naval combat coming in the next expansion to the NA / EU version of the game later in 2016. Players can look forward to sea exploration, large-scale naval battles, big bad sea monsters and much more.