Month: May 2018

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New Blade Strangers trailer showcases Noko, the time-traveling cop from Sayonara Umihara Kawase

The transforming baton must be standard issue in the future.

Nicalis has dropped a new trailer for Blade Strangers, this time featuring Noko, the time-traveling policewoman from Sayonara Umihara Kawase.

For those not familiar with the franchise, Umihara Kawase is a series of platform games dating back to the mid-1990s. Noko Yokoyama hails from Sayonara Umihara Kawase, the 3rd game from the series, where she’s introduced as a descendant of the main protagonist, Kawase.

Noko joins her ancestor, as well as Emiko, as the third representative from their home series. Here, she fights with a police baton that transforms into an energy gun during certain moves.

Blade Strangers is set to hit PlayStation 4, Switch, and PC later this year.

Source: Nicalis

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Registration is now open for Canada Cup 2018, October 26-28 in Toronto, Ontario

You can sign up now for the biggest brawl in the Great White North!

Now that Calgary’s Canada Cup Masters Series 2018 has concluded, organizer Lap Chi Duong has wasted no time in announcing that registration is now open for the main event: Canada Cup is returning to Toronto, Ontario this year on October 26-28, and you can sign up right now on smash.gg!

Canada Cup is a perennial Capcom Pro Tour Premier event for Street Fighter V, and this year it will also play host to the Street Fighter III: 3rd Strike tournament as part of the Street Fighter 30th Anniversary Tournament Series!

30th Anniversary Tournament Series

It is also a stop on the Tekken World Tour, and the Super Street Fighter II Turbo Tournament of Legends. The full list of games you can compete in is as follows:

  • Street Fighter V: Arcade Edition
  • Ultra Street Fighter IV
  • Street Fighter III: 3rd Strike
  • Super Street Fighter II Turbo
  • Marvel vs. Capcom: Infinite
  • Ultra Marvel vs. Capcom 3
  • Dragon Ball FighterZ
  • Guilty Gear Xrd REV 2
  • BlazBlue: Cross Tag Battle
  • The King of Fighters XIV
  • Tekken 7
  • Injustice 2
  • Super Smash Bros. for Wii U [singles & doubles]
  • Super Smash Bros. Melee [singles & doubles]

Additional games may be added to the roster, if there’s enough community support; if you would like your game to be a part of Canada Cup 2018 (minimum 32 players) send an email to info@canada-cup.ca before June 30th.

canada cup 2018 banner

Source: smash.gg

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Special trailer from Rooster Teeth highlights all four members of team RWBY in BlazBlue: Cross Tag Battle

If you haven’t heard of RWBY, it’s an animated show made by Rooster Teeth with four female protagonists. Team RWBY is composed of Ruby Rose, Weiss Schnee, Blake Belladona, and Yang Xiao Long. A special BlazBlue: Cross Tag Battle trailer from the company highlights the guest characters, and some of the game’s features.

The trailer shows off each member — narrated by all the original actresses from the show. Ruby Rose mentions the accessible control scheme of the game, Episode Mode with an original storyline (fully-voiced in English as well), and online play. The online lobby avatars are also customizable, and can use a variety of emotes.

I personally started watching the show last Fall; all the episodes are freely available on the Rooster Teeth YouTube channel. Though the graphics aren’t great at first (they improve over the seasons), the fight scenes are amazing. The collaboration has turned out very well!

BlazBlue: Cross Tag Battle is set to launch May 29th in Japan, June 5th in the Americas, and at a later date in Europe. For more on the game, check out our latest BBTAG roundup, as well as some news on another BBTAG datamining leak.

Source: Rooster Teeth