Month: August 2018

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Arc System Works to make World Premiere announcement tonight at Cross Counter TV’s Bar Fights

While the action is raging at Evo 2018 this weekend, it’s about time to get into some game announcements! Cross Counter TV has just revealed that Arc System Works is set to make a World Premiere announcement later tonight at the Bar Fights event taking place at the House of Blues in the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada. The event will be streamed at barfights.crosscounter.tv, with the festivities kicking off at 8:00 P.M. PT and lasting for around 6 hours, until 2:00 A.M. PT on Sunday morning.

We’ve already seen the original Guilty Gear ported to the Nintendo Switch at the company’s booth, and with this being the 20th Anniversary of the franchise — in addition to the 30th Anniversary for the company itself — could it be time to get ready to rock once again? We also know that there are nine upcoming characters set to join the cast of BlazBlue: Cross Tag Battle, with Cross Character Pack 4 rumored to release this Monday, August 6th. Could some of them finally be officially unveiled? ASW is also publishing the new 3D Arena Fighter, Kill La Kill The Game: IF, which has been available for Evo attendees to play for the very first time. Could we see some new characters don their Goku Uniforms and jump into the madness?

We’ll all just have to tune in tonight to find out, but keep your browser locked on to Shoryuken, as we’ll be providing you with fully-detailed coverage of whatever goes down later tonight. You can see the announcement Tweet from Cross Counter TV below.

What exactly are you hoping to see Arc System Works unveil tonight? Feel free to share your thoughts and predictions with us in the comments section below.

Source: crosscountertv (Twitter)

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Try out the original Guilty Gear on the Nintendo Switch at Evo 2018

If you’re at Evo 2018 and are a current (or potential future!) owner of a Nintendo Switch, then you should set a few minutes aside to check out the Arc System Works booth. There, you will find a demo of their latest port for the original Guilty Gear:

It’s unlikely you’ll miss the ArcSys booth’s massive western-themed display in the center of Evo:

The Guilty Gear port was announced back in may, and is something of a companion to the Guilty Gear XX Accent Core +R port announced around the same time. Both titles, as of now, have no further information on launch date and region release — but if they are showing off a build at Evo 2018, we have to think that a release is coming soon!

Source: ArcSystemWorksU

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Capcom continues to tease the reveal of G in Street Fighter V with the mysterious “Message To The People”

“My voice is your voice. What I fight for is to fight for all of you.”

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After switching their social media avatar to indicate a new character was incoming, Capcom has expanded their hype-building efforts for the upcoming reveal of G — the next Season 3 DLC fighter for Street Fighter V — via a mysterious campaign both on Twitter and on the floor of Evo 2018 itself.

Numerous FGC personalities have tweeted about receiving fragments of what appear to be some kind of manifesto. You can find them under the #MessageToThePeople hashtag:

Soon, the pieces of this declaration were assembled:

The entire “Message To The People” reads:

To the people of Earth who yearn for unification
Only you have discovered the knowledge I have bestowed upon you
Presented with this knowledge, you will now understand my purpose
One voice plus the seven continents to carry mankind
All that divides us, I will Smash Over and Under to Burst
The Impact of my dream will charge us with the power of Earth
Every Charge you build will strengthen my voice
Victory will be achieved once we become Pangaea once again
One world where I will be your President

This certainly gives us a glimpse into the intentions of the mysterious “G”, and definitely seems to have some pretty heavy Illuminati leanings. Could G be a version of Gill after all? Is this the Secret Society’s first attempt to seize power of the world? Or is there something even stranger going on? We don’t have a clear idea of what Gill is specifically up to during Street Fighter V yet, so almost anything is possible. G could even be a predecessor in the Illuminati to Gill — or a member of the Secret Society that has parted ways with them to pursue his own philosophy.

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The strange declaration may even hint at some aspects of G’s gameplay: “Smash Over and Under to Burst” is rather suspicious, and the multiple references to “charge” could be a clue. Either way, when “One voice plus the seven” come together tomorrow night at Mandalay Bay for Street Fighter V top 8, we can expect to learn some more about this unusual character.

Sources: Street Fighter (Twitter); Yoshinori Ono (Twitter); Alex Valle (Twitter); LI Joe (Twitter); Justin Wong (Twitter); YipeS (Twitter); Persia (Twitter); James Chen (Twitter); Zhieeep (Twitter); Quasimodox (Twitter)