With the intent to capitalize on the blooming esports industry in Japan, Capcom has officially announced a new team-based league for 2019: the Street Fighter League.
League matches are currently planned to feature 3-on-3 team battles, with six teams formed from a mix of both officially JeSU-pro licensed and unlicensed competitors. Capcom hopes to start in the Spring of ’19, though no date has officially been set yet.
This makes them the second fighting game company this month officially revealing plans to take advantage of Japan’s new Japanese eSports Union, right behind Arc System Works.
When will we see this book made manifest in the Earthrealm?
The bloody and savage fantasy world that has developed around the Mortal Kombat franchise has many fans, but few are as passionate as those at Uppercut Editions, who have been working to get official backing behind their massive MK book project, the Book of Souls.
The book has gone through a few iterations (previously titled as the Book of Remembrance) but the goal (and the results) have been consistent: this is a massive collection of Mortal Kombat facts, lore, and trivia that the fans who love this world could easily become lost in. The 250+ page book covers the entire history of the franchise from its beginnings, up to and including Mortal Kombat X and Injustice 2.
The catch is: this isn’t a published book, not yet. Uppercut Editions has been working to get their fan project some official backing from Warner Bros. and NetherRealm Studios, but to date that has not been accomplished. According to Uppercut Editions:
We are a group of MK fans who started this project 3 years ago with almost no support from WB and NRS, and only advice from a DC comics author, Shawn Kittelsen. While we contacted various publishers — Udon Entertainment, DK publishing, Prima Games, Insight Editions and some other smaller publishers — all who wanted to work with us, we couldn’t quite gain traction with WB. Our books currently sit inside NetherRealm Studios for review, and we need fan help to basically put pressure on them to make this for all MK fans.
The project started as a petition and surged to over 10,000 signatures and we even had Richard Epcar voice and record for our trailer we did.
You can see some “unboxing” preview videos below from unCAGEDgamez and History Behind the Warrior, showing off early test printings of the book:
The most recent version of the project is also viewable digitally over at Uppercut Editions itself. Mortal Kombat fans definitely should go check it out — and if you like what you see, spread the word.
A week or so ago, Adam, the creator of Deadly Boss Mods, one of the most widely-used mods in World of Warcraft, wrote that he was discontinuing support of DBM due to his own failing health and that of his mother. Since that time, the WoW community has come to his aid by bolstering his monthly Patreon supporters from about 500 before his post to nearly 3,000 as of today. Not only will this allow him to continue supporting DBM, but the amount will allow him to address his medical issues.
If you’ve ever dived into the world of game theory and didn’t immediately run away screaming once you started reading about minimax values, then JP Street Fighter V player karamaru has a tool made just for you.
The Equilibrium Calculator for Fighting Games allows you to plug in the reward (or punishment) damage you would receive for several options from a single situation, and ranks which strategies are best for both the player on offense and defense. This tool was designed for SFV okizeme, but its editable fields allow you to tweak the tool for virtually any fighting game. This tool’s output doesn’t necessarily tell you what to do, but rather, what options are the most rewarding in a vacuum when you have no information on a player.
