Month: March 2018

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The SRK Rollback: Best of March 23-29, 2018

Welcome to the Rollback: a frame-by-frame look back at our past week’s most notable news — and our favorite SRK articles — from March 23 to March 29, 2018!

Zavian “mushin_Z” Sildra, Editor-in-Chief:

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BCF5 TWITCH FEATURE 750x400Body Count Fighting presents BCF5 — new Title & Feature matches in Dragon Ball FighterZ, Street Fighter V, & Tekken 7 — on April 7th

Body Count Fighting keeps the action coming with another big event for early April, now with even more DBFZ. Don’t miss it!

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darkstalkers costume sfv ae menat crop 750x400Darkstalkers premium costumes arriving for Menat, Juri, and Urien in Street Fighter V next week

While the costumes for Menat and Urien are quite impressive, the more popular talking point seems to be how the Lilith costume alters Juri’s prominent… assets. (Ironic, if you remember Abigail’s character story!)

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animevo 2018AnimEVO announces 19 games for this year’s massive Evo 2018 side tournament

With this massive lineup of great titles — and possibly more to come — there’s a side tournament for everyone this year!

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FIVE MINUTE FOCUS feature image 750x400SRK & Frabisaur present 5-MINUTE FOCUS: Using assists in Dragon Ball FighterZ, featuring Tatsunical!

Frabisaur and Tatsunical are here to help you push past your own limits in DBFZ. More videos from these two are soon to follow!

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dissidia_nt_vayneSquare Enix reveals their release schedule for DLC characters in Dissidia Final Fantasy NT

We now know that we’ll be getting a steady stream of new content for Dissidia over the entire year.

Crow_Spaceboy, Assistant Editor:

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tekken_7_x_tetsuya_naitoTranquilo! Assen na yo! Namco has a new Tekken 7 x New Japan Pro Wrestling collaboration, featuring Tetsuya Naito

Someone in the comments suggested a future Naito DLC outfit for Devil Jin and giving him a supernatural Destino. I have become a lost soul, unable to think of anything else until this happens.

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sfv karin victoryVictor “Punk” Woodley joins the Echo Fox team

I had suspected there were more details missing from Punk’s departure from Panda Global. And it looks like now we know why!

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sonicfoxpadSonic Fox tries out a PlayStation 4 pad prototype that could be much better for fighting game players

I am excited to see how this develops — a better pad will absolutely open up even more players to the genre.

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ELEAGUE SFVELEAGUE’s Street Fighter V 2018 Invitational showcases five nights of action with a $250,000 prize

If ELEAGUE learns from the mistakes of the past (and I could personally do without Richard Lewis on commentary), then there’s no reason for its next season of SFV action to fail.

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josukeNew “Rotate Cancel” glitch discovered in JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure: All Star Battle

JoJo:ASB came out in 2013, and there’s still new and interesting tech being discovered for it.

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BlazBlue: Cross Tag Battle Cross Character Pack 3 to be revealed on Thursday, April 19th

Following the reveal of Aegis, Carmine and Jubei in Cross Character Pack 2 a few weeks ago, BlazBlue: Cross Tag Battle‘s official website updated yesterday, revealing that the next trio of DLC characters will be revealed three weeks from today: on Thursday, April 19th, on the next monthly Arc Nama stream. This will bring the number of revealed DLC characters up to 11, leaving nine more to be announced.

One interesting fact looms over the reveals, though — as a series of dedicated posters on reddit and GameFAQs have seemingly deciphered the identities of the DLC characters’ silhouettes seen at the end of the 2017 ASW Fighting Game Awards trailer. Though these silhouettes haven’t been seen again in reveal trailers since, many believe them to be clipped together images of old sprites from BlazBlue, Persona 4 Arena, and Under Night In-Birth.

Though this is certainly just fan speculation, they seem to fit together like the pieces of a puzzle, with none of the choices seeming too out of place, since they would keep with the theme of the logos used in promotion. This would mean ASW is sticking purely to 10 characters from the original Persona 4 Arena, bringing in more of the Central Fiction newcomers for BlazBlue, as well as one of the four new challengers from Under Night In-Birth: EXE Late[st], so it’s worth keeping in mind once the announcement is upon us. If the guesses are fully accurate, our remaining DLC characters would be as follows:

BlazBlue:

  • Hakumen
  • Izayoi
  • Nine The Phantom
  • Mai Natsume

Persona 4 Arena:

  • Naoto Shirogane
  • Mitsuru Kirijo
  • Akihiko Sanada
  • Labrys

Under Night In-Birth EXE: Late[st]:

  • Yuzuriha
  • Vatista
  • Merkava
  • Mika Returna

You can see a picture of the characters believed to be the identities of the silhouettes below, with the trailer text removed to provide a cleaner and clearer image, below.

As usual, you can catch the full stream at 4:00 AM PT (5:00 AM MT and 7:00 AM ET) at twitch.tv/arcsystemworks. There will also be an additional reveal on Wednesday, April 11th — likely of the contents of the title’s “Limited Box,” which will feature a download code for the “All-In-One” pack, as well as an art book, a special illustration of the four series’ protagonists done by their respective main artists, and other physical goodies — at twitch.tv/arcsystemworksu. The next #BBmyTAG combo video will also be released on Friday, March 30th.

Sources: blazblue.jp/tag; Mickspad (Twitter)