Month: May 2018

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Blade Strangers reveals the addition of Cave Story’s Quote to roster

Nicalis isn’t wasting any time on character reveals for their 2D crossover fighter Blade Strangers. Even though the bombshell of Gunvolt’s announcement was just dropped yesterday, there’s already has a new character reveal to talk about — Cave Story‘s Quote.

Quote will be joining fellow Cave Story protagonist Curly Brace, who was announced in the original reveal of Blade Strangers. His reveal trailer in the above tweet shows off his projectile, supers, combos, and — interestingly enough — a jump-canceled overhead reset.

Blade Strangers launches on Switch, PlayStation 4, and PC this summer.

Source: Nicalis

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Nintendo has revealed the competitors for the Super Smash Bros. Invitational at E3 2018

This year’s Electronic Entertainment Expo will see the second Super Smash Bros. Invitational. As with the previous event, Nintendo is once again hosting the tournament as a way to debut an upcoming Super Smash Bros. game — this time for the Switch.

Now, Nintendo have revealed the 8 Super Smash Bros. players who will be competing at this years Invitational, via a new trailer. The roster is comprised of a number of top players of both Super Smash Bros. for Wii U as well as Super Smash Bros. Melee.

The 8 competitors for this year’s Super Smash Bros. Invitational are:

  • Leonardo “MKLeo”Perez (Echo Fox)
  • Gonzalo “ZeRo” Barrios (Team SoloMid)
  • Adam “Armada” Lindgren (Alliance)
  • Yuta “Abadango” Kawamura
  • Justin “Plup” McGrath (Panda Global)
  • Ramin “Mr. R” Delshad (beastcoast)
  • Joey “Lucky” Aldama (Team Dignitas)
  • Joseph “Mango” Marquez (Cloud 9)

The 2018 Super Smash Bros. Invitational will be streamed on Nintendo’s Twitch and YouTube channels on June 11th and 12th.

Source: Nintendo

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Capcom details the Training and Versus modes in the Street Fighter 30th Anniversary Collection

The Street Fighter 30th Anniversary Collection, Capcom’s 30th birthday present for their flagship fighting franchise, is almost here. With the game hitting soon, the company has released a few more details on the games’ training and versus modes.

In a new post over on Capcom-Unity, the nitty-gritty of the Collection’s Training and Versus modes are laid out. One interesting thing with the latter is that Versus mode encompasses all titles at once in one mode; selecting which game to play is simply just another step in the setup process.

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Speaking of stages, each stage will now detail which characters debuted in said stage when being selected.

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As for training mode, this will apparently be available for the four games that will have online play – Street Fighter II: Hyper Fighting, Super Street Fighter II: Turbo, Street Fighter Alpha 3, and Street Fighter III: 3rd Strike. The training modes for these games will come with all the bells and whistles you’d expect such as dummy control, damage display, and input display.

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Unfortunately, it seems that no such mode will be available for the games not also available to play online. The new modes are late additions to the title, and will be provided for download via a day one patch.

The Street Fighter 30th Anniversary Collection hits PlayStation 4, Xbox One, PC, and Switch on May 29.

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Source: Capcom-Unity

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– WD Black 1TB NVMe SSD Review – A Stunning Return to Form

Western Digital just released their latest SSD, updating last year’s WD Black with a brand new controller and a new 64-layer NAND design. Promising read speeds more than a full GB/s higher than last year’s drive, we put it through its paces to see just how it held up. This is our review of the WD Black 1TB NVMe SSD.

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– Missing Diablo II? The Curse of Tristram Starts Alpha Testing on May 11th

If you’ve been missing Diablo II, a game that many consider the best of the franchise, we have good news for you today: The reimagined version Diablo II called The Curse of Tristram will be entering its initial testing phase starting on May 11th. Diablo II has been remade using the Starcraft 2 engine and will be playable through the Starcraft 2 Arcade on European, North American and Asian servers starting that day.

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Final round of Dragon Ball FighterZ Summit of Power Player Voting now open; Top 20 players revealed

After a grueling first round of voting, the nomination phase to determine the final five players in the Dragon Ball FighterZ Summit of Power has been whittled down to a mere 20 players. They will be joining a lineup of eight of the strongest in the DBFZ Universe, as well as a trio of qualifiers at various events to battle for supremacy, bragging rights, and a $10,000 prize pool. The players remaining in the running are:

  • CLN|Yohosie – 2,216 Votes
  • Lord Knight – 1,546 Votes
  • Echo Fox|dekillsage – 1,270 Votes
  • PONOS|Moke – 1,195 Votes
  • PAG|LostSoul – 698 Votes
  • Brkrdave – 572 Votes
  • NRG|Supernoon – 532 Votes
  • NinjaElephant – 532 Votes
  • PAG|Fame96 – 468 Votes
  • UYU|Kizzie Kay – 385 Votes
  • PsrK|BeyondToxin – 375 Votes
  • KaneBlueRiver – 354 Votes
  • CDV|WhiteBl4ck – 343 Votes
  • Teemo – 309 Votes
  • IG|Zeroq – 260 Votes
  • FP|Chavo – 237 Votes
  • UYU|Cloud805 – 219 Votes (in danger of elimination)
  • SQ – 171 Votes (in danger of elimination)
  • EMP|RogueYoshi – 170 Votes (in danger of elimination)
  • CE|Doza – 52 Votes (in danger of elimination)

Today (May 9th) the bottom 4 will be eliminated from contention at 2:00 PM PT (4:00 PM CT, 5:00 PM ET). On Friday, May 11th, the field will be reduced to the top 12. Three days later, on the 14th, the player with the most votes will be invited to the Summit, while the bottom 3 will be eliminated, leaving only 8 Z Warriors in the running. On the 15th, the next two-highest-voted players will receive invites, while the bottom 2 get the boot. Finally, on May 16th, the top 2 from the final 4 will receive the last pair of spots, leaving only the Last Chance Qualifier at Combo Breaker 2018 to decide the final entry.

You can find more details about the voting process — as well as ways to purchase limited-time SoP merchandise and 10 spots that will allow players to “buy-in” to the event as a spectator, who will also be able to play casual sets with the pros — on reddit.

The Summit of Power takes place on June 8-10th in Los Angeles, California, and will be streamed on twitch.tv/beyondthesummit.

Sources: Smash.gg; /r/dragonballfighterz