Month: December 2017

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UDON’s Shadaloo Special #1 and Street Fighter illustrated novel “Where Strength Lies” are in stores today!

Some cool reprints and a new adventure arrive on store shelves today.

Street Fighter fans are in for a double dose of action today, as both the first Street Fighter: Shadaloo Special comic and the illustrated novel Street Fighter: Where Strength Lies are now available.

The Street Fighter: Shadaloo Special one-shot compiles four Shadaloo-focused stories that were previously available only in UDON hardcover releases:

This villainous collection of rare tales includes two stories by writer Ken Siu-Chong and artist Hanzo Steinbach, and two stories both written and drawn by Omar Dogan. Balrog and Vega fight as only kings can! Juri and Crimson Viper hunt Decapre! Cammy teams up with Delta Red against Shadaloo, and the poisonous F.A.N.G causes mayhem!

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Focus Attack exclusive cover: Delta Red
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Street Fighter: Where Strength Lies is a hardcover novel written by Takashi Yano, featuring cover and interior illustrations by manga artist Yusuke Murata:

The World Warriors take center stage in the first ever Street Fighter novel! Featuring Ryu vs. Akuma, Chun-Li vs. Elena, Guile vs. E.Honda, Sagat vs. M.Bison, and many more classic fighters colliding in their most epic encounters yet. It’s all described in Shoryuken-smashing, Sonic Boom-throwing, Psycho Power-pulsing detail! The action is only enhanced with bonus manga pages and artwork in every chapter by manga legend Yusuke Murata!

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You can grab a regular-cover version of the Shadaloo Special for $3.99 (some cover variants cost more), and the novel for around $19.99. Look for these at a comic retailer near you, or online at Focus Attack. The Street Fighter novel is also available on Amazon.

Source: UDON Entertainment

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Welcome to the Howard Estate. Now die! Tekken 7 DLC2 stage-specific combo roundup

Up until this point in Tekken 7, the most feared stage for combo manipulation in tournaments was arguably the Forgotten Realm. Its combination of multiple floor break opportunities into wall combos meant that, versus a knowledgeable opponent, every conversion hurt more then they normally could.

This is assuming, of course, that there were still floor breaks in play: after a balance patch in the arcade, only one floor break was allowed per combo. It also meant that some characters were just blatantly better and pumping out absurd damage on that stage then others, perhaps most notably King and Lili.

However…

Josie 152-damage combo from josie hip.

After the most recent patch, though, some tournament players may breathe a sigh of relief when they get Forgotten Realms. The alternative is that they could have ended up on the dreaded Howard Estate!

112 damage Bob combo from Nether Specter.

Geese Howard’s home stage has three breakable walls, all within a deliberately-placed close proximity of each other, for maximum carnage.

Hwoarang, Asuka, Law, and Xiaoyu Howard Estate combos from cutcc.

And if that weren’t enough, there’s a balcony break looming just beyond the Estate’s breakable walls!

Kazumi, Shaheen, Lili, Hwoarang, Xiaoyu, Asuka, Law, Bryan, Leo, Paul combos by hfblade.

In a lot of these early combos, a key to consistently high damage seems to be saving your Screw Attack for after the last wall break. Since juggle scaling is usually quite high by this point, this will help you figure out a proper tool to reach the balcony.

Kazuya death combo from TheMainManSWE.

Considering the short amount of time the Howard Estate has been out and the wide range of characters already capable of exploiting its stage layout, it’s easy to see that jockeying for wall positioning early on will be a big part of most player’s strategies on this stage.

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Sources: Nether Specter; cutcc; hfblade; TheMainManSWE; josie hip

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Here’s everything you need to know about Marvel vs. Capcom: Infinite’s Battle for the Stones finals

The Infinity Stones have been collected, the Evo champions have been summoned and three warriors have made it through the online crucible. Now it is time to see who will wield the Infinity Gauntlet and rule over the Marvel and Capcom universes. It is of course, time for Marvel vs. Capcom: Infinite‘s Battle for the Stones finals.

With a handful of players in both Capcom Cup and the Battle for the Stones finals, Top 16 to Grand Finals of Battle for the Stones will be held on Friday — starting at 11am PT and hoping to finish at 9pm PT at the Anaheim Hilton. Grand Finals will then take place at the PlayStation Experience on Sunday at 2pm PT, acting as a suitable warm-up act for the Top 8 of Capcom Cup 2017.

The brackets have now been locked in, and the line-up is available over on smash.gg. Some notable first round matches are Cloud805 versus KaneBlueRiver, Teemo versus ChrisG and Flocker versus Richard Nguyen. There is also the ever-present threat of the Infinity Stones, which have the power to turn any match on its head. If you need a reminder of each Stone’s bearer and their effects, they are as follows:

  • Time Stone – Allows the holder to block the effect an opponent’s Stone for one match. Held by Kazunoko.
  • Space Stone – Allows the holder to swap places with any player at an equal stage in bracket. Held by Sacktap.
  • Reality Stone – Allows the holder to swap the function of three buttons on their opponent’s controller. Held by Stealth.
  • Mind Stone – Allows the holder to pick their opponent’s team and Infinity Stone. Held by Teemo.
  • Soul Stone – Allows the holder to erase a loss in a three-out-of-five set. Held by Richard Nguyen.
  • Power Stone – Allows the holder to land the first hit of a match. Held by Cloud805.

All of the action will be streamed via the BattlefortheStones Twitch channel, so tune in to see who will hold dominion over the world of Marvel vs. Capcom: Infinite.

Source: smash.gg