Month: February 2017

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Michael Martin and BornFree Talk about Capcom’s Disconnect with the Community in Conversations and Fireballs

There is most certainly a problem between Capcom and the community it claims to be serving. Despite putting a lot of money into the Capcom Pro Tour and various events that it has sponsored, Street Fighter V itself has had a bumpy ride within the media due to various issues. Capcom lost a lot of good will with the community with the Season 2 changes, and everything is struggling in their relationship with the game.

Michael Martin sat down to talk about these things with Mark “BornFree” Sheridan on this week’s Conversations and Fireballs. Sheridan–who has a marketing degree–explains part of the reason the disconnect exists, and points his fingers primarily at Capcom Japan. They have had issues with adhering to deadlines in the past and buck passing to Capcom USA for promising things that they never kept.

Source: Yahoo Esports

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Get Up to Speed with Shun’ei with This Quick King of Fighters XIV Combo Guide

Shun’ei is a character in The King of Fighters XIV that is considered to be a difficult character to learn. Should you not have a firm understanding of that game series and its core mechanics, you will likely be lost in some of the key differences Shun’ei has from more simple characters.

That doesn’t mean you shouldn’t try, and this quick guide from Coliflowerz will certainly jump start your progress. The tutorial first starts with some of his most useful buttons, and exactly why they are good. Then it goes into some of his strongest and most viable combos. This could help you build a strong game with this character easily.

Source: Coliflowerz

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Huge Pokkén Announcement Confirms Season 2 World Championship Series, New Patch for Arcades

At the conclusion of the NicoNico stream for Tokaigi’s 2017 2on2 Tournament, Pokkén Tournament producer Masaaki Hoshino made two bombshell announcements.

The first was a video treat showing off the latest patch for Pokkén Arcade, highlighting a wide variety of changes. Briefly from the video, there was some wild new stuff: Machamp roll cancel 2X, Blaziken Divekick followup to Field Phase j.Y, Rotating Latios Beams, and more. As soon as a official video is made publicly available by Namco, we will update it here. Patch notes were shown and have now been translated by pentaoku, with version 1.5 scheduled for February 14th, 2017.

The more surprising announcement, however, was the announcement of the Pokkén World Championship Series 2017.

Outside of the the final championship itself being held in Anaheim, CA, details are currently scant. Even what version of the game WCS 2017 intends to be on is currently a mystery. It would seem particularly cruel to announce a World Series for the Japan-only arcade game, after all. Perhaps there’s another announcement in the near future for Pokkén fans around the world?

Sources: Tokaigi Stream; pentaoku; Pokken Official