Month: December 2017

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Capcom details Street Fighter V’s Extra Battle mode and earning crossover costumes

One of the new features being added to the Arcade Edition update for Street Fighter V is the long awaited Extra Battle mode. Now, Capcom has given out the details of not just how this mode works, but on how players can use it to earn some of the new crossover costumes.

Extra Battle is a new spin on how Capcom does weekly challenges for Street Fighter V: Arcade Edition. Instead of just awarding Fight Money, Extra Battle allows players to directly work towards earning one of the update’s new crossover costumes. These costumes are based on other Capcom franchises, including some classic ones. Check these out in the gallery below.

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Every month, there will be a series of four weekly challenges in Extra Battle that players must complete. If a player completes all four of these challenges, then the crossover costume for that month is theirs. The first of these to go up for grabs will be the Viewtiful Joe costume for Rashid.

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One unique twist to this (one that might not sit well with the community) is that it costs Fight Money to participate in these weekly challenges — 2,500 to be exact. This means that players will have to spend 10,000 Fight Money just to earn each crossover costume.

Of course, Extra Battle will also allow players to earn Fight Money. This is through the Golden Shadaloo soldier that will appear that is separate from that week’s challenge. Winning over these challenges will earn players Fight Money, serving as a way to help replenish a players wallet throughout the year.

As part of this however, Capcom will be changing other ways of earning Fight Money. Some of the old, one time ways to earn Fight Money such as completing character stories, the general story (A Shadow Falls), trials, survival, and demonstrations will no longer do so. Instead, experience points and leveling characters up now seems to be the primary way of earning Fight Money outside of winning online matches. According to Capcom, simply leveling up each of the 28 characters by playing their character stories should earn players 200,000 Fight Money.

As for players current Fight Money and League Points, Capcom clarified that these will remain unchanged when the update hits.

Meanwhile, when the update drops, all character purchases from either real money or the Character Pass will now unlock that characters Battle Costume as well as colors 3-10 for their Standard and Battle Costumes.

Speaking of costumes, players can now preview costumes in the shop. This is on top of a new sorting option to allow players to much more easily check out what costumes are available for a character.



The Street Fighter V: Arcade Edition update will launch on January 16. As part of this Capcom has stated that they will be posting details on each months crossover costume and Golden Shadaloo soldiers over on Twitter and Facebook.

Source: Capcom-Unity

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TERA – PlayStation 4 Hands On Preview

As many of you may already know, Tera is getting ready to make its way from PC to console. And just this last weekend fans got their first chance to check out the MMO on a PS4 at Sony’s Playstation Experience. And even though I wasn’t able to make the event itself, I did get a chance to go hands-on with a brief demo of what fans can expect.

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Iron Tager, Makoto Nanaya, Nu-13, and Es close out this year’s BlazBlue Cross Tag Battle reveals

Earlier this morning, Arc System Works hit us with their 5th character introduction trailer for the upcoming tag-team crossover game, BlazBlue Cross Tag Battle. While normally only revealing three characters at a time, the team gave us four this time, all from the game’s namesake — a first for their reveal pattern, since they usually incorporate fighters from two to three different series at a time.

Today’s new Entitled are the “Red Devil” of Sector Seven, Iron Tager (who specifically mentions Kokonoe in his introduction), the “Unfaltering Beastkin” Makoto Nanaya, the “Sword of Hades” Nu-13, and — serving as our first addition from Central Fiction — the “Guardian of the Gate,” Es.

Wreaking havoc with fellow grappler Waldstein, Tager retains his ability to magnetize foes (Voltic Battler) as well as his signature Gigantic Tager Driver, Gadget Finger, Spark Bolt — despite lacking the gauge to charge it — as well as the Genesic Emerald Tager Buster. It will certainly be interesting to see if he retains his traditional 360 and 720 degree inputs in this more simplified Battle System. Retaining her usual close-combat style, Nanaya still packs her Corona Upper and Meteor Dive, along with her Shooting Star and Particle Flare Distortion Skill.

BlazBlue‘s yandere Murakumo Unit has finally arrived, and can finally realize her dream of teaming together with Ragna, even if she doesn’t seem to fully understand the concept. Boasting her Sword Summons — despite the lack of Drives — Luminous Slave returns from CF, and she may serve to torment Gordeau as much as Hilda. Reiterating that this event is one of the “possibilities,” Es retains most of her shoto-like qualities, and seems to even have her Crest Arts fully integrated into her specials.

This brings the roster count up to 20 characters. You can see the full trailer below:

BlazBlue Cross Tag Battle will be released sometime in 2018 for PlayStation 4, Nintendo Switch, and PC. With Evo Japan, the 2017 Arc System Works Fighting Games Awards and RTX Sydney all coming up, there could be a lot to look forward to early next year as the time to intersect draws further nigh. You can see all previous trailers at the links below.

Source: Arc System Works