Original character Lina is the focus of this new Blade Strangers trailer

She’s a green-haired psycho who hungers for battle.

Nicalis has dropped yet another Blade Strangers character trailer; this time, they focus on one of the characters created specifically for the game. The somewhat psychotic Lina is accompanied by her cybernetic partner Devian (no, not the operating system). In practice, the latter acts somewhat like the “wings” of the Murakamo units from the BlazBlue games, allowing Lina to slash and poke at her opponents from long range.

With this, only Master T and Solange — both from Code of Princess EX — have yet to receive individual character trailers. Nicalis is releasing Blade Strangers for PlayStation 4, Switch, and PC sometime this Summer.

Source: Nicalis

Yuyu joins team UYU as a Tekken 7 competitor

A classic Tekken talent returns to the arena!

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Long known in Japan’s Tekken scene as a strong player in prior days, Yuyu made a return to the spotlight in Daigo Umehara’s Kemonomichi 2 event, where she battled Tanukana in a down-to-the-wire Tekken 7: Fated Retribution FT10 exhibition match — and a Xiaoyu mirror match, at that! Yuyu emerged victorious — which was good, as reportedly she had stated a loss would mean she would give up Tekken altogether.

Now, after putting her competitive pride on the line at Kemonomichi, she is returning to international competition as part of the UYU esports team!

This might just be the best combination of team prefix and player tag in FGC history. Watch for Yuyu to be a serious threat in the Tekken brackets at this weekend’s Combo Breaker 2018.

Source: UYU (Twitter)

Fortnite – Playground Limited Time Mode to Allow Newbs to Practice

Epic has posted a, well, EPIC State of Development newsletter on the Fortnite site to reveal many of the things the team is currently working on. Though it starts with improvements to controller support, it is the limited time mode called “Playground LTM (v1)” that has caught our attention. During Playground, players will have adjusted settings to allow for exploration of the map with increased resource generation, treasure chests and ammo crate spawns…and “Lloads of Llamas”.

Rift – Players Being Offered Weeklong Prime Trial

From now through June 7th, Trion Worlds is offering a 7-day free trial on the Rift Prime progression server. It is unclear who can claim the offer, though it is probable that it is on offer to those who are or have been Patron members in the past. Players can download and try the game for a week’s worth of time without any restrictions on the account.