Month: June 2018

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Evo 2018 World Finals tickets discounted this week to celebrate E3

Sunday finals tickets are 20% off until Friday!

Haven’t signed up for Evo yet? Or are you heading to Evo 2018 to play, but haven’t picked up tickets to the big Sunday finals in the Mandalay Bay Events Center…? Now’s you chance to save some cash — to celebrate E3 2018, tickets for the arena finals on August 5th are 20% this week!

The games that will be featured in the arena finals on Sunday are (order yet to be determined):

  • Street Fighter V: Arcade Edition
  • Tekken 7
  • Dragon Ball FighterZ
  • Guilty Gear Xrd REV 2
  • Super Smash Bros. Melee

Don’t dawdle if you want to take advantage of this deal. General registration is still open, and you can pick up tickets for the World Finals at AXS.com. Evo 2018 hits the Mandalay Bay Resort & Casino on August 3-5.

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Source: Joey Cuellar (Twitter)

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Catch some footage of Dead or Alive 6 in action from IGN

Following up on their preview coverage of Dead or Alive 6, IGN featured the game, alongside producer and director Yohei Shimbori on IGN Live.

On the show, they covered a lot of the topics first covered in their preview: talking to Shimbori about the game’s bold new direction, and the new gameplay features being added. More interesting, however, was the footage on display, which was a combination of bits of some sort of tutorial mode, and an actual match cut together.

The tutorial bit seems to show tutorial prompts happening in the middle of a match. Meanwhile the gameplay does its best to show off some of the new systems, including the meter-powered ones that DOA6 is introducing.

Dead or Alive 6 is launching sometime in early 2019.

Source: IGN

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Street Fighter III: 3rd Strike tutorial roundup — Parries & taunts

Street Fighter 30th Anniversary Collection has just released, and I’ve been getting endless requests to do some tutorials for my area of expertise: Street Fighter III: 3rd Strike. Despite being almost twenty years-old, 3rd Strike is probably more popular now than it has ever been in the past — largely due to the massive influx of new players since 2008, as well as its cult following, and its endurance in Japanese arcades. In light of the new release, I’ve prepared a few guides to help new players get into the old engine.

The first of my two guides is a tutorial on parries. Parries are the signature mechanic of the SFIII series, and they add an enormous amount of depth to the game despite being very simple to understand and use on the surface. Parries lead to a lot of extremely interesting scenarios that aren’t really possible (or frequent) in other Street Fighter games, so I wanted to help players learn how to use them properly. I know a lot of new players are turned off by parries, since they often magnify the skill gap between new and longtime players, but despite their reputation they’re really not that hard to use well. Additionally, they give SFIII a very high skill ceiling, which means players will always have room to further develop, even two decades after the game’s release.

My other guide is on “Personal Actions”, i.e. taunts. Unlike other Street Fighter titles, all taunts in Street Fighter III have practical effects which enhance the way each character plays. Some taunts are so useful that they form the core of how the character plays. Others are completely unusable in any competitive scenario! It’s good to know the effects of one’s own taunt, plus one’s opponents’ taunts, so this video should be quite helpful for all prospective SFIII players. I tried to focus on the most practical components of each.

I’ve got many other Street Fighter III primers in the works, so subscribe to the ShoryukenTube YouTube channel if you don’t want to miss out!

Check out the prior batch, if you missed it:
Street Fighter III: 3rd Strike tutorial roundup – Anti-air, okizeme, juggles, and piano inputs

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– Ubisoft E3 2018 Press Event – Let’s Watch Together

Ubisoft’s E3 2018 press event is slated for 1:00 pm Pacific / 4:00 pm Eastern today. We know for sure we’ll be learning a lot more about The Division 2, but what else are we likely to learn? While we’re waiting for the event to kick off, let us know what you’re expecting to hear about Ubi’s lineup of games. Then come back at the appointed time and watch with us while you check up on the latest updates in our live blog.