Legends of Aria – Server Updated with Tweaks to Combat, Housing, Trading & World Map Access

Legends of Aria alpha client has been updated with a patch that brings a number of tweaks to combat into the game, including the amount of heal during a battle and an increased STR damage modifier. One particularly interesting note is the removal of the “M” button to open a world map. “We feel strongly that “GPS” doesn’t make sense in our world, and having a map you open with a hotkey creates the wrong expectation”, the notes read.

The SRK Rollback: Best of May 18-24, 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 May 11 to May 17, 2018!


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

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Street Fighter IV: Omega Mode — Introduction, FAQ, & Ryu analysis video

Bafael takes us back to Ultra Street Fighter IV‘s strange, experimental, and under-explored alternate mode with these new videos!

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Ink Wars creator Steven Wu talks about bringing fighting game elements to mobile puzzle games

Learn more about this FGC-inspired mobile puzzler in our interview with its enthusiastic developer.

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final fantasy vii advent children cover crop cloud sephiroth 750x400Rumor: Are Cloud, Tifa, and Sephiroth from Final Fantasy VII going to be guest characters for SoulCalibur VI?

No, no — no way it can be true… it’s too crazy. They wouldn’t go this hard on guests. No. But — no. But what if it is…? Nah, this is a total hoax… right?

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leopard king tekken 7 dlcTekken 7 console/PC versions to receive a huge free costume DLC update on May 31st

More costume content for Tekken 7? For free! Keep it up, Bandai Namco, this is why we love you. SHUT UP AND DON’T TAKE MY MONEY!

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xboxadaptivecontrollerXbox is making an Adaptive Controller that could help gamers with disabilities in the FGC

Every now and then, Microsoft surprises me with something weird and wonderful like this. Anything that lets more people play the games they want to play, I’m a fan.


Crow_Spaceboy, Assistant Editor:

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Capcom is hinting at a Cody reveal for Street Fighter V: Arcade Edition — possibly at Combo Breaker this weekend

Really curious to see how different Cody ends up playing in SFV. 

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This new Fighting EX Layer gameplay video showcases Darun, Allen, and the Mizugami clan fighters

It won’t be long now. FEXL is almost here, and every new video makes me more impatient. 

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Ali the thief is the next character to get a trailer for Nicalis’ Blade Strangers

And I’m feeling equal amounts of impatience for this game. I guess if I decide FEXL moves too fast for me, Blade Strangers will be there waiting. 

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The latest Blade Strangers trailer showcases Emiko — and her gigantic cat, Shakemaru

I wasn’t kidding. 

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See how both Capcom and SNK adapted each other’s art styles for their “Vs.” crossover projects

It frustrates me that I lack the power in this world to get SNK to make sprite-based games again.


Catch up on what you may have missed in our prior SRK Rollback compilations.

– Pathfinder: Kingmaker Developer Interview

With Pathfinder: Kingmaker already in beta, the release of a brand new CRPG is surely imminent. After we dipped into Golarion for the first time, I had a chance to sit down and talk to Owlcat Games Creative Director, Alexander Mishulin, about the bringing this iconic table top game into the digital age.

Combo Breaker 2018 streaming live from St. Charles, Illinois

The Midwest’s biggest yearly event Combo Breaker is happening this weekend in St. Charles near Chicago, Illinois. Now in its fourth year, Combo Breaker is packed with a wide variety of games and events, from exhibitions to auction tournaments to workshops and more.

Combo Breaker will feature 18 tournament games, plus the multi-game extravaganza Mystery Tournament. Combo Breaker is a part of the Capcom Pro Tour and Tekken World Tour circuits as a Premier Event and Master Tournament, respectively, and is a Tournament of Legends III qualifier.

Tournament Games

In addition to above are several exhibitions for upcoming titles: a Street Fighter 30th Anniversary Collection exhibition featuring Street Fighter legends Daigo Umehara, Ricki Ortiz, Alex Valle and Justin Wong; a showcase for ARIKA’s Fighting EX Layer; and auction tournaments for BlazBlue Cross Tag Battle (a team event) and SoulCalibur VI. Saturday Night is a regional team showdown in Under Night In-Birth Exe:Late[st] on the main stage.

An the insane number of games at Combo Breaker calls for an insane number of streams, nine to be exact. Team Spooky, Callisto Media, FunkyP, Capcom Fighters, NetherRealm, TEKKEN, VGBootCamp, Panda x Gaming and Vampire Arcadia will be bringing you action from every game and all finals through the weekend.

You’ll find each of the streams as well as the stream schedule below. Be sure to also follow the brackets on Smash.gg.

TeamSp00ky

Watch live video from TeamSp00ky on www.twitch.tv

CapcomFighters

Watch live video from CapcomFighters on www.twitch.tv

TEKKEN

Watch live video from TEKKEN on www.twitch.tv

NetherRealm

Watch live video from NetherRealm on www.twitch.tv

BGCallisto

Watch live video from BGCallisto on www.twitch.tv

FunkyP

Watch live video from FunkyP on www.twitch.tv

PandaxGaming

Watch live video from PandaxGaming on www.twitch.tv

VGBootCamp

Watch live video from VGBootCamp on www.twitch.tv

VampireArcadia

Watch live video from vampirearcadia on www.twitch.tv

All times in CDT (UTC -5).

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Sources: Combo Breaker, Capcom Pro Tour

Neverwinter – New Blog Centers on the Improved Creatures of Barovia

When Ravenloft arrives in Neverwinter next month, players will be facing off against a whole new bestiary of creatures not yet before seen. These include “witches, werewolves, vampire, undead, beasts, corrupted druids and more”. The blog also reveals that many of the new foes feature a new AI that makes them feel “more like a real combatant”. They will chain abilities, move faster, spend less time lollygagging and come at players in larger numbers.

Love Heart the sky pirate becomes a sky policewoman in this new SNK Heroines: Tag Team Frenzy trailer

Hot on the heels of the Japanese trailer that showed her alongside the game’s other features, SNK and NIS America have now dropped an English-language trailer for Love Heart.

The trailer below gives us some more footage of how Love Heart has been translated into this unique tag-team game. Specifically, we get to see how her moveset now works, as well as some combos that she can now pull off in the game’s systems — including some wall bounce, ground bounce, and tag combos.

Of course, we also get to see more of her costumes — including the mustachioed cowboy.

SNK Heroines: Tag Team Frenzy arrives on PlayStation 4, and Switch on September 6 in Japan, and September 7 in the West.

Source: NIS America