Month: February 2017

Posted on

Master the Street Fighter V Training Room with This Two Minute Tutorial from PugilistPenguin

After a short break, PugilistPenguin has returned with another of his helpful Two Minute Tutorials for Street Fighter V, this time on using the Training Room correctly. Many newer players see the Training Room as just a place to practice flashy combos, but its real asset is allowing players to simulate certain situations without the fear of lag or a pesky opponent to interrupt their practice.

Using his main F.A.N.G as an example, PugilistPenguin works through a set up that doesn’t seem to work on paper, but works in live tests. His experimentation leads to a set up which leaves F.A.N.G plus on block and causes opponents to attack in the wrong direction if they attempt to get out with a Shoryuken. By using the training dummy correctly rather than just using trial and error, sessions in the Training Room become helpful learning experiences, as opposed to just mindless combo drills.

The tips PugilistPenguin imparts are for Street Fighter V, but proper use of a Training Mode is vital in getting better at fighting games as a whole, so give this a watch no matter what game you play.

Source: PugilistPenguin

Posted on

World of Warcraft – The Best Things to Use Your BattleNet Balance For

Blizzard announced yesterday that World of Warcraft tokens can be purchased in game and then used to fill up a virtual currency wallet called BattleNet Balance. This balance can then used to trade for WoW services or to purchase items across all of Blizzard’s games. As a result, virtual currency items in the Shop have gotten a bit more interesting. In today’s column, we’ll take a look at some of the more fun things you can buy with your BattleNet Balance in each of Blizzard’s other titles!

Posted on

Rumor: Helen (or Kolin) Is Street Fighter V’s Next DLC Character, Uses Ice-Based Attacks

Street Fighter’s Facebook page merges with a possible leak to reveal the next fighter’s identity.

Belief is growing stronger that the next Street Fighter V DLC character–set to be officially revealed at Lupe Fiasco’s DROGAS Light release party, February 15th–will be Helen, known from the game’s General Story mode, possibly under her second name Kolin. First, the changes to Street Fighter’s Facebook page caught attention:

sfv fb avatar
sfv fb banner

It was already thought that the second Season 2 silhouette resembled Helen, and the expanded banner reinforces this strongly. The ice motif in the character’s background (and in the SFV logo avatar) gave rise to speculation that Helen’s–if it is her–powers will be ice-based.

Secondly, an unverified leak, apparently originating on Reddit (but since deleted, naturally) lends even more weight; the leak is fairly detailed, discussing how Helen has a combination of ice-related projectile moves, rekka inputs, a 2-bar V-Trigger, and “feels like” Rose to play. VesperArcade and TheRedGambit discuss these rumors in more depth in their videos below.

While the evidence pointing to Helen/Kolin herself is quite convincing, these details of her play are–at this point–as good as speculation, until we see more concrete evidence, or an official reveal.

Sources: Street Fighter (Facebook); VesperArcade; TheRedGambit; EventHubs; PVP Live