Month: June 2018

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PlayStation Live shows off Dead or Alive 6 gameplay and interviews game director Yohei Shimbori

As E3 2018 continues, we’re getting a closer look at the recently-announced Dead or Alive 6. Faithful fans of the series should get ready for a slight directional change in the game — which now emphasizes more serious, realistic graphics, but also changes things up with a new resource bar.

Interviewed on the show stage, game director Yohei Shimbori talks about how they overhauled the graphics to show off impactful blows, sweat, and blood. Shimbori was also asked the company’s approach to balancing the game. On one hand, he wants to appeal to more casual players (which would probably explain the new Break Attack), but the core mechanics of the game remain intact. Shimbori is eager to hear feedback from fans, and is particularly looking forward to hearing fan reactions at Evo 2018. There’s also plenty of gameplay footage to peek at during the talk.

Toward the end of the interview, Tom (the second guest) made a nice, direct nod to the FGC. He gave a shout-out to competitive Dead or Alive players, bringing up the time when Team Ninja announced the end of support for Dead or Alive 5 at NEC 18. He hopes that now “all of this is explained” and that 2019 will be a “very, very exciting year.”

As Shoryuken already reported, Dead or Alive 6 will be playable at Evo 2018.

Source: PlayStation (YouTube)

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The New Day and The Elite’s Street Fighter V: Arcade Edition Showdown gets profiled on WWE Now

On the latest episode of WWE Now, host Cathy Kelley breaks down the road to today’s Street Fighter V: Arcade Edition E3 Team Battle showdown between The New Day’s Kofi Kingston, Big E, and Xavier Woods, and New Japan Pro Wrestling’s Elite faction — consisting of the new IWGP Heavyweight Champion Kenny Omega and the new IWGP Heavyweight Tag Team Champions, Matt and Nick Jackson, The Young Bucks (who all scored gold at last Saturday’s Dominion event in Osaka-Jo Hall).

Following their previous encounters at Community Effort Orlando, as well as some trash-talking on Twitter, Capcom got the two wrestlers to agree to a face-off in the game’s new 3V3 Team Battle Mode, with The Bucks and New Day quickly stepping up to battle alongside their respective Captains.

After weeks of back-and-forth on social media, the dream match (even if it’s outside of the squared circle), goes down later today, Thursday, June 14th, at 1:00 PM PT (3:00 PM CT, 4:00 PM ET) at twitch.tv/capcomfighters at the Capcom Booth in Los Angeles, California. Attendees can also get their hands on Season 3’s newest character, Cody Travers, who is playable at the event.

Personally, I think it’s fantastic to see WWE promoting this internally, especially when three of the men involved are top stars in a rival promotion — and this just goes to show, once again, how mainstream the fighting game community is starting to become in popular culture. You can see the full episode below, as well as check out our previous coverage of this upcoming exhibition. WWE.com has also weighed in on the upcoming battle. You can also catch the official announcements of Kofi, E, and The Bucks being drafted below.

Let us know which team you’ll be rooting for in the comments section below.

Sources: WWE (YouTube); WWE.com; Being The Elite (YouTube); XavierWoodsPhD (Twitter)

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ESRB rating description accidentally confirms multiple unannounced characters for SoulCalibur VI

esrb_750x400The Entertainment Software Rating Board, or ESRB, is an American non-profit organization that provides those parental-warning age ratings you see on video game boxes in retail stores. When the ESRB rates a game, they typically publish a brief description on their website to justify the rating.

That’s all well and good, but it seems like their description for SoulCalibur VI may have gone into a little too much detail:

This is a fighting game in which players engage in one-on-one combat with a large cast of supernatural and human characters. Characters punch, kick, and throw each other to drain opponents’ life meters. Several characters use swords, spears, pistols, axes, and nunchucks while fighting.

Uh-oh, ESRB. We haven’t seen some of those weapons yet!

“Spears” could easily refer to the currently-unannounced characters Hilde or Seong Mina, both of whom use pole weapons in battle. As Mina hasn’t appeared in a SC game since SoulCalibur IV, and SCVI’s canonical timeline is in the middle of two games she has appeared in, this likely references the Naginata user.

“Pistols” almost certainly references one of the series most-iconic antagonists: the undead pirate Cervantes. Lastly, “axes” points squarely to Astaroth, who can also be seen lurking in the background of recently-revealed story mode stills.

You can read the full text on the ESRB’s website.

Source: ESRB