Month: February 2017

Canada Cup 2016 was one the biggest and best events on the tournament circuit last year. With lots of players in attendance for Street Fighter V, Tekken 7, and The King of Fighters XIV, the event also held one of the largest Super Street Fighter II Turbo tournaments in North America in a long time.

This year, tournament organizer Lap Chi Duong intends for to be even bigger than it was in 2016. The event will again return to Toronto, Ontario at the Hilton Hotel near Pearson International Airport, and will be held from October 26th through the 29th. On top of that, Duong has reserved a ballroom 30% larger than the one used last year, which will make more room for every game at the event.

Venue Secured for Canada cup 2017, at the Hilton airport. 30% bigger grand ballroom. Save your dates Oct 26-29th.

— Lap Chi Duong (@lapchiduong) February 7, 2017

Further, for all you Super Turbo fans, the main organizer for the ST tournament last year–David “Atari” Bibona–stated that Super Turbo at Canada Cup aims to be bigger than last year’s 73 players, which featured international players from Japan, Spain, and France alongside the United States and Canada.

ST will be BIG at Canada Cup again- save the dates! https://t.co/uyUm3XXKL2

— Atari (@AtariFGC) February 9, 2017

Sources: Lap Chi Duong (Twitter), Atari (Twitter)

Throughout the years, Evo has had something of an interesting history regarding console versions of Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3. The game was originally played on PlayStation 3 before eventually going to the community-preferred Xbox 360 version. Now, with a new console port, alongside the fact that it’s once again going to be on the Evo main stage, the question of which version of the game will be played arises.

In a recent tweet, Evo head honcho Joey “Mr. Wizard” Cuellar announced that the recent PlayStation 4 version of Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3 will be the one played at Evo 2017.

We will be using the PlayStation 4 version of Marvel for the grand finale of UMvC3 at Evo 2017! #Evo2017

— Joey Cuellar (@MrWiz) February 8, 2017

The decision to use the PlayStation 4 version should come as no surprise. It has generally been well-received, and has already been confirmed for use in other major tournaments such as CEO 2017, as well as last weekend’s Undefeated. Though there were some initial concerns on whether or not it had any additional lag, the only sort of lag that has been found happens during the “super flash” when a Hyper move is activated–something that only minimally affects gameplay.

Source: Joey Cuellar (Twitter)

NetherRealm Studios recently hosted one of their “Watchtower” streams for Injustice 2. As part of this, they made a number of announcements regarding the game’s current closed beta. The biggest news is that Black Canary will be joining the playable cast in the beta sometime this weekend. Black Canary was recently announced this past weekend via a trailer first shown by IGN.  Those interested can check out the existing gameplay footage of her in action.

In addition to this, NetherRealm mentioned that the fourth wave of Injustice 2 beta codes would be released at about the same time that Black Canary would become playable.

Regarding the beta itself, NetherRealm also hosted a small question and answer portion to address some player concerns. They clarified that they were looking into ways to improve certain things, such as getting into competitive mode. You can read a recap of these over on community site Test Your Might.

Source: NetherRealm via Test Your Might