Month: January 2018

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Possible BlazBlue Cross Tag Battle leaks could reveal the characters included in the next four Impacts

It’s looking like the next two months are going to absolutely huge for the upcoming BlazBlue Cross Tag Battle. With the BB quartet of Iron Tager, Makoto Nanaya, Nu-13, and Es being revealed during this month’s Arc Nama stream, a new playable build of the game being available at next month’s Evo Japan, and the Arc System Works Twitter account recently noting that there would be “Tons of news coming soon,” a recently-sprung leak could potentially come to fruition over the course of the next few months. Though, as always, these should be taken with a big grain of salt.

A 4chan poster claiming to be a member of the game’s localization team at the new Arc System Works North American branch — which will be publishing the title as the first game under their new umbrella — has decided to supposedly leak the next four character reveal Impacts taking place in January and February. According to them, the next sets of characters are as follows:

January 19th’s monthly Arc Nama stream announcements:

  • Hakumen
  • Kanji Tatsumi
  • Orie “Harada”

Evo Japan trailer announcements:

  • Jubei
  • Yuuki Terumi
  • Teddie
  • Tohru Adachi
  • Seth
  • Hilda

RTX Sydney announcements:

  • Platinum The Trinity
  • Bang Shishigami
  • Blake Belladonna

February 16th monthly Arc Nama stream reveals:

  • Valkenhayn R. Hellsing
  • Labrys
  • Merkava

They further claim that there will be an English dub for all characters, including the Under Night In-Birth cast (who have never previously had one before). Additionally, it is claimed that Rooster Teeth asked the American branch to abandon their plan of including BlazBlue‘s Relius Clover, as they were concerned they may add his Astral Heat to the game (even though Astrals/IKs are not currently present in the game right now), and they did not wish to see it performed on the RWBY characters. When specifically asked about Naoto Shirogane’s presence, the poster noted that, “The entire Investigation Team will make it in, I’m just giving what I know so far in terms of dates and announcements.”

Finally, they note that the team is currently expecting a September 2018 release for the game. Yang is still being worked on, and will be revealed at another RTX event, claiming that “the roster is going to be bigger than what most people expect,” and even gave what could be a few details about the game’s Story mode: “Story mode hasn’t been 100% finished, but so far, Es somehow causes each world to meet each other. Timeline-wise it takes place in an alternate version of Central Fiction‘s story, after Ultimax, somewhere in the middle of Under Night In-Birth‘s story and during Volume 3 of RWBY.”

Though some of the development details could prove questionable, this is a very organized list, and by providing specific dates and characters in regards to upcoming reveals, we’ll be able to determine whether this leak lives or dies in just a couple of weeks. You can also see ASW YouTuber Koefficient’s thoughts on these developments below:

What are your thoughts on this leak? Would you like to see this group of characters make it in, or are you hoping for others? Let us know in the comments.

BlazBlue Cross Tag Battle will be released for PlayStation 4, Nintendo Switch and PC sometime in 2018.

Sources: Koefficient; ArcSystemWorksU (Twitter); 4chan

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Take control of tricky situations with TheoryFighter’s new “Situationist” series

If you break down fighting games to their bare essentials, it involves dealing with various situations in rapid successions. Getting round an opponent’s projectile wall, confusing your enemy on wake-up, pressuring your foe with safe buttons: mastering fighting games involves learning how to not only create tricky situations, but how to escape them as well.

So, to help players deal with annoying situations in various fighting games, TheoryFighter has created a brand-new video series dedicated to this goal. For their first video, they have chosen how to deal with Hulk’s Gamma Charge and its various follow-ups in Marvel vs. Capcom: Infinite.

Hulk can leave a big delay between the initial Gamma Charge and its follow-up, meaning over-eager players can get frame-trapped by this move. By looking at the different directions and timings Hulk can use, this guide should give you an answer for any situation the big green lummox puts you in.

Source: TheoryFighter

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Panda Global kick off the fourth edition of their Smash 4 player ranking

It’s ranking season in the world of Super Smash Bros., as both Super Smash Bros. Melee and Super Smash Bros. for Wii U are getting new editions of their world player rankings. With MIOM managing the Melee Top 100, it’s Panda Global who manage Smash 4, with the Panda Global Rankings or PGR for short.

Version 4 of the PGR has made some substantial changes since Version 3, dropping of the written portion of the rankings, as well as commentary in their video roundups. The PG Stats team has clearly been inspired by the Japanese Power Rankings, even hiring the videographer behind the last Japanese PR — Kud — to produce this year’s roundups. The change in style does benefit the format immensely, as it focuses more on raw data and top performances by each player, while showing clips from certain matches and stand-out performances.

Similar to SSBMRank, expect the rest of the PGR v4 to be uploaded ahead of Genesis 5, so esports teams can snatch up any free agents ahead of the Smash community’s first major for 2018.

Source: Panda Global