Mark “MarkMan” Julio Is Now the Fighting Game Community and Product Consultant for Razer

Mark “MarkMan” Julio is someone who has done a lot for the fighting game community; formerly with MadCatz–being instrumental in the development of their arcade sticks–MarkMan later moved on to both take care of Business Development for Evo, as well as act as the Brand & Community Advisor for Tekken at Namco. It seems, however, that MarkMan still has more to give as he has taken on yet another role with another company.

MarkMan has has recently announced that he is now working with Razer as their Fighting Game Community and Product Consultant. As part of this, he will be working closely with the peripheral manufacturer on all their new initiatives related to the fighting game community.

This is great news for both Razer and the fighting game community as a whole. While they’ve been quite on the fighting game front for most of the year, Razer has been continuing to support the community with their sponsorships and move to create products for the PlayStation 4 (the current, tournament standard console). Meanwhile, MarkMan’s passion for fighting games and contributions to the community are already well documented.

We here at Shoryuken wish MarkMan and Razer the best in this new relationship.

Source: MarkMan

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New Holiday Costumes Are on the Way for Street Fighter V, Alongside Other New Content

City in Chaos becomes… City of Cheer?

Now that we’ve hit December, Capcom has revealed 6 more premium costumes and a stage variant for the Winter holidays, in similar style to the recently-removed Halloween content. Check out the reveal trailer:

The new Holiday content features festive outfits for Ken, Karin, Juri, Zangief, Laura, and R. Mika; as well as a redecorated City in Chaos stage. According to Capcom-Unity, each premium Holiday costume will cost $3.99 / 3.99€ / £3.29, and will include colors 1-10. The Holiday stage will cost $1.99 / 1.99€ / £1.29, or 40,000 Fight Money. However: there will be a Holiday bundle that will include all of the content for the discounted price of $19.99 / 19.99€  / £15.99.

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No release date yet, though–it’ll be revealed at PSX. The Holiday content will only be available for a limited time on Steam and the PlayStation Store, ending January 17th.

That wasn’t all Capcom-Unity brought to the table today: we also got an official reveal on the Red Bull B-Boy and B-Girl costumes for Ryu and Chun-Li. These premium costumes will also run you $3.99 / 3.99€ / £3.29 each, with all the colors.

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All of this content will be playable in advance at the PlayStation Experience this weekend, at the Capcom booth. And to quote Capcom-Unity:

Also, if you tuned in to Red Bull Battlegrounds, the very first Season 2 character will also be unlocked for play.

The release date for the B-Boy/B-Girl costumes and this mysterious “first Season 2 character” will also be announced during PSX.

Sources: Capcom-Unity; Street Fighter