Month: February 2017

The Capcom Pro Tour begins with Final Round 20, leading to the final 32 at Capcom Cup 2017.

As promised, Capcom has provided some more information on this year’s Capcom Pro Tour and Capcom Cup, via a new official trailer. According to this overview, there’s over $600,000 up for grabs in the Tour’s overall prize pool. In addition to confirmation of a last chance qualifier at Capcom Cup 2017, the trailer reveals that 2016’s champion Liquid|NuckleDu will be returning to defend his title.

According to the video, in order to qualify for Capcom Cup 2017 players need to be in the top 30 of the Capcom Pro Tour global leaderboard–making for 32 competitors heading for the Cup at the end of the tour, including the last chance qualification and the returning champion. The trailer also confirms the following new and returning stops along the tour, (some of which we knew already):

• Final Round 20 (Altlanta, GA)
• Combo Breaker 2017 (Chicago, IL)
• EGX 2017 (Birmingham, England)
• Ultimate Fighting Arena (Paris, France)
• CEO 2017 (Orlando, FL)
• TW Fighter 2017 (Taipei, Taiwan)
• NCR 2017 (Sacramento, CA)
• DreamHack Summer (Jonkoping, Sweden)
• SCR 2017 (Los Angeles, CA)
• DreamHack Austin (Austin, TX)
• Esports Festival Hong Kong (Hong Kong)
• Canada Cup 2017 (Toronto, Canada)
• Battle Arena Melbourne (Melbourne, Australia)

This is only a slice of the total stops on the way to Capcom Cup 2017, so stay tuned for more as they appear. The official CPT schedule page has not yet been updated, but we can expect more details soon.

Source: Capcom Fighters

With last December’s announcement of Marvel vs. Capcom: Infinite, more than a few fans have wondered is if Marvel’s existing cinematic universe would have any influence on it. A recent announcement by Marvel however confirms that this will not be the case.

Speaking to IGN at DICE 2017, Marvel Games Creative Director Bill Rosemann–regarding the teams behind the various Marvel games being made this year, including Marvel vs. Capcom: Infinite–assured fans that, “We want to give [developers] freedom to tell their story and we want to make it an original story.” He continues by saying, “We want all of our games to tell an original, all-new story, we want [our development partners] to have passion, we want them to put their stamp on the games. It’s their game. We want it to be their vision.”

However, he does state that they do consider where audiences are coming from regarding their familiarity with the properties, indicating that they will stick closer to the versions that most fans are familiar with. That said, he posits that Marvel Games’ goal is to never force a game’s development timeline to match up with any upcoming movie, TV show, or comic book. Rosemann stated that they’re now “Going to try to do the very tricky balancing act of trying to make a game that adapts a movie and get it out in the same window as the movie.”

With this, it seems that Marvel is committed to making sure that each and every upcoming game in their stable, including Marvel vs. Capcom: Infinite, is allowed to shine by not limiting them to any other existing project or story that Marvel is working on.

Source: IGN