June 2018 – Page 8

June 29, 2018

CEO 2018 Fighting Game Championships streaming live from Daytona Beach, Florida

CEO is back and looking to be more explosive than ever! Alex Jebailey and crew are moving the show from its roots in Orlando to the Ocean Center in Daytona Beach. As a Capcom Pro Tour, Dragon Ball FighterZ World Tour, Tekken World Tour, Injustice Pro Series and KI Ultra Tour event, as well as Tournament of Legends III qualifier, CEO 2018 is not only attracting a big crowd for traditional fighting games, but for Super Smash Bros. players as well, with over 1,100 entrants between the two Smash titles. And with just over a month until Evo 2018, CEO gives you a taste of what’s to come at the world championships.

Not only is CEO looking to put on a great show for fighting games, but also is combining forces with New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW) to put on a live wrestling show on Friday. If there was ever a CEO to catch, this is it.

Tournament Games

Capcom vs. SNK 2
Dragon Ball FighterZ
Guilty Gear Xrd REV 2
Injustice 2
Killer Instinct
The King of Fighters XIV
Marvel vs. Capcom: Infinite
Super Street Fighter II Turbo
Street Fighter III 3rd Strike
Street Fighter V Arcade Edition
Super Smash Bros. Melee
Super Smash Bros. for Wii U
Tekken 7
Under Night In-Birth Exe:Late[st]

With over 3700 players pre-registered and as a part of the Street Fighter, Dragon Ball FighterZ, Tekken, Injustice and Killer Instinct pro circuits, CEO is looking to be colossal. You’ll see players like Tokido, Daigo Umehara, INFILTRATION, Xian and NuckleDu in Street Fighter V; SAINT, JeonDDing, kkokkoma, Anakin and Speedkicks in Tekken 7; GO1, Dogura, moke, SonicFox and NYChrisG in Dragon Ball FighterZ; Nairo, Dabuz, ANTi, MkLeo komorikiri in Super Smash Bros. Wii U; Hungrybox, Mew2King, Plup, Leffen and Shroomed in Super Smash Bros. Melee; and far too many more players to name. For a full list of entries, check out Smash.gg.

CEO x NJPW: When Worlds Collide

CEO has always had a pro wrestling flair, Now, the organization is teaming with NJPW to put on a live wrestling show Friday, June 29. CEO x NJPW: When Worlds Collide is giving you five matches, headlined by Golden Lovers Kenny Omega and Kota Ibushi taking on Tetsuya Naito and Hiromu Takahashi in a tag-team bout. Watch it live at 8 PM on twitch.tv/ceogaming.

Ten broadcasts will be bringing you as much action from Daytona Beach as possible. Thanks to CEO Gaming, Team Spooky, Capcom Fighters, Dragon Ball FighterZ, NetherRealm, TEKKEN, VGBootCamp, PolarityGG, villain904 and DataFGC. You can find each of the streams below.

All times in EDT (UTC -4).

Sources: CEO Gaming, Smash.gg

June 29, 2018

The SRK Rollback: Best of June 22-28, 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 June 22 to June 28, 2018!

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

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New bug fixes and other changes added along with Cody today in Street Fighter V’s version 3.051 update

We got a lot of new stuff this week: Cody, lootboxes, even more costumes, and changes that might actually make Survival Mode playable — and some bug fixes too… and maybe even some balance changes that they neglected to mention once again.

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Update for Street Fighter 30th Anniversary Collection coming June 28, details revealed

Wait, now both players in a lobby can select “ready” and actually play? What a novel idea! But in all seriousness, it looks like this patch does actually help improve the online experience for this collection significantly.

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HORI SoulCalibur VI RAP.N for PlayStation 4 & Xbox One officially revealed, now available for pre-order from GameStop

That’s some straight-up sweet panel artwork, no question. And a nice follow-up to the Tekken 7 sticks!

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Get ready for the arrival of Fighting EX Layer with this launch trailer from ARIKA

It’s actually here! This strange, impossible game is really real, for reals. You can buy it on the PlayStation Store.

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Blade Strangers release date set for August 28th, can be pre-ordered via Amazon

Speaking of strange games we’re excited about: Blade Strangers — with its bizarre and wonderful crossover cast of fighters — finally has a release date!

Crow_Spaceboy, Assistant Editor:

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Funny Hakumen glitch in BlazBlue: Cross Tag Battle makes opponents fly into the sky

This glitch justifies the existence of BBTAG for me.

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Koihime Enbu RyoRaiRai is coming on July 12th — a major update that rebalances the game, adds 2 characters

I think that this is a tough time for this game to come out, but I’m excited for it, all the same.

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Absolver will be free to play for PlayStation Plus users in July

This game fell off my radar and I completely forgot to try it out! Time to rectify that.

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Registration for Atlanta’s “Climax of Night” Soft Circle French Bread tournament now open, early bird prices last until 7/29/18

Go to this tournament if you love the work of SCFB. Which you should.

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Wii Fit Trainer’s “Sashimi Wiggle” lets her pull off epic dashes in Super Smash Bros. for Wii U

It’s been a good week for hilarious glitches, hasn’t it?

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

June 29, 2018

UFC Announces it’s Keeping Early Weigh-ins For ‘TUF 27’ Finale and UFC 226

The Ultimate Fighting Championship confirmed on Thursday evening that there will be early weigh-ins for both next week’s “The Ultimate Fighter 27” Finale as well as UFC 226 after fighters competing on both cards expressed confusion regarding weigh-in protocol.

June 29, 2018

Gran Torino and Muscular confirmed for My Hero One’s Justice

This weeks issue of Famitsu has revealed two new characters for My Hero One’s Justice. Joining the cast of Bandai Namco’s My Hero Academia-based arena fighter are Gran Torino and Muscular!

The elderly former homeroom teacher Gran Torino can use his quirk “Jet” to shoot of air from boosters on his feet. He can use this to fly around the battlefield and attack at high speed. The villain Muscular, on the other hand, lives up to his name with his “Muscle Augmentation” quirk that sees him able to dramatically augment his muscle fibers. In-game, this makes him something of the opposite of Gran Torino, focusing on his immense strength (instead of speed) to deal damaging blows.

Check out a scan of the issue (care of YonkouProd) below:

My Hero One’s Justice arrives on PlayStation 4 and Switch on August 23 in Japan, and for PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Switch, and PC sometime in October for the West.

Source: YonkouProd (Twitter) via Gematsu

June 29, 2018

Guild Wars 2 – Lichdom, I Hardly Know Him

Rather than going over everything which happened in Guild Wars 2 Episode 3 I’m going to focus on a few interesting questions this episode raises for me. Also, fair warning, there be spoilers ahead. If you haven’t played through the whole story and don’t want the ending spoiled stop reading now and come back after you are done.