As you may have noticed, SRK is moving into the arena of video reviews to accompany our articles. This has been the case with a number of our most recent reviews, but I wanted to give our review for SoulCalibur VI a slight twist.
Since we’ve already covered SCVI exhaustively in two pre-release editorials, I figured it would be more helpful to do a post-release review that captured my thoughts now that they’ve incubated a bit. If you wanted a more immediate reaction sort of breakdown, I highly encourage you to read the previous editorials on this game, both for its competitive and casual aspects.
The Black Desert Online forum has a post that contains an ongoing timeline of a DDOS attack on game servers that started in the wee hours of the morning. Approximately 20 minutes ago, BDO staff revealed that measures have been implemented to combat the DDOS, though it remains unknown if the issues are solved at this time.
In light of Ultra Street Fighter IV‘s inclusion in digital pre-orders of the Street Fighter 30th Anniversary Collection, I’ve decided to dedicate some time to examining the most slept-on online-capable Street Fighter title: Street Fighter IV: Omega Mode. Packaged as a free alternate version within the edition select of USFIV, Omega uses leftover game files, recycled taunts, and repurposed animations to completely change each character’s toolset; it’s essentially a completely new and unique Street Fighter title built within SFIV’s engine, with an entirely different balance philosophy than Ultra.
Omega was not popular at release due to some easy infinite combos — not to mention players’ interest in Ultra as a more serious, competitive game. I personally think Omega went woefully unexplored for being an extremely interesting venture, and I’ve started a series where I document each character’s Omega changes, and then show off some basic optimal combos.
This week I’m looking at Guile and Chun-Li. Guile was given two new special moves, both with motion commands, which significantly alter his basic combo routes. One is an unsafe double kick that mostly operates as a combo ender, while the other is Remy’s Cold Blue Kick from Street Fighter III. His EX Sonic Boom can be thrown three times as a reference to Nash’s Sonic Break super, which later appears in SFV as Guile’s V-Trigger I. Overall Guile’s new specials do little to annul his original two, and between his EX Boom and his plethora of juggles from a Flash Kick, it’s clear this version of Guile was a testing ground for the one that would eventually show up in SFV.
Omega Chun-Li has more in common with the Chun-Li that showed up in the pre-release versions of SFV, with a crouching fierce that only cancels into EX moves and a jump-cancelable throwback to her 3rd Strike Hoyokusen Super Art. Her fireballs now have a motion command, allowing her a much greater capacity to walk around while zoning than her Ultra version. She also has what is probably the fairest divekick that Capcom has ever created. The execution on her lightning legs has been mitigated somewhat, paving the way for the motion legs she would eventually receive in SFV. Overall she’s a bit more well-rounded and easier to play, as is typical for Omega characters.
Canada Cup Gaming and Cygames are hosting the ninth annual Canada Cup this weekend. This year’s event will be held as part of the Enthusiast Gaming Live Expo (EGLX) at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre, with a packed line-up of twenty games.
Tournament Games
BlazBlue Centralfiction
BlazBlue Cross Tag Battle
Dragon Ball FighterZ – DBFZ World Tour Dragon Radar Event
Guilty Gear Xrd REV 2
Injustice 2
The King of Fighters ’98
The King of Fighters XIV
Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3
Marvel vs. Capcom: Infinite
Pokkén Tournament DX
Sailor Moon S
SoulCalibur VI
Super Street Fighter II Turbo – Tournament of Legends III Finals
Street Fighter III 3rd Strike – SF 30th Tournament Series
Ultra Street Fighter IV
Street Fighter V Arcade Edition – Capcom Pro Tour Premier Event
Super Smash Bros. Melee
Super Smash Bros. for Wii U
Tekken 7 – Tekken World Tour Challenger Tournament
Under Night In-Birth Exe:Late[st]
As one of Canada’s premier fighting game tournaments, Canada Cup 2018 is an important event for multiple pro circuits and tournament series. Canada Cup 2018 is the site of the Tournament of Legends III Finals, included Last Chance Qualifiers; the final standard Premier Event for the 2018 Capcom Pro Tour (excluding Regional Finals); the final event in the Street Fighter 30th Anniversary Tournament Series, for Street Fighter III 3rd Strike; a Tekken World Tour Challenger Tournament; a Dragon Ball FighterZ World Tour Dragon Radar Event.
As such a major events, some of the best players in the world will be in attendance, including Tournament of Legends III invitees Mattsun, Komoda, Murasaki, Kusumondo, Shogatsu and Daigo Umehara. For a full list of players as well as live brackets, check out Smash.gg.
Canada Cup will be providing four streams for the event, while Capcom Fighters will be covering the CPT singles event. You can find each stream below.
Capcom Cup 2018 is less than a couple of months away. For players looking to head to Las Vegas to take a chance at getting into the event, or just spectating, the news you’ve been waiting for is now here. Both the registration for the last chance qualifier, as well as ticket sales for spectators for Capcom Cup 2018 are now open.
For players looking to enter the last chance qualifier, registration is now open over at Smash.gg. Entry costs $30 and will include admission into the Top 32 and Finals for those who don’t make it out of the last chance qualifier – provided that the players show up for their pools.
As for spectators, tickets are now available for purchase at the Luxor website. A two day pass for the event goes for $75.00. Those who do attend will not only see high level Street Fighter V: Arcade Edition action, but will also be treated to performances by Super Cr3w, DJ Qbert, as well as Del the Funky Homosapien with Domino and Dan the Automator – the artists behind the them for the G reveal trailer at Evo.
Tickets are limited however, so interested folks should book as soon as possible.
Steelseries is one of the most respected names in the accessory world, so when they release a pair of high-end gaming mice, we stand up and take notice. Today, we’re reviewing a pair of their best with the Rival 650 Wireless and Rival 710. Both are refreshes of mice we’ve looked at in the past. Is it worth it to upgrade? Join us as we find out!
SoulCalibur VI marches on! The combo potential and ease-of-play has kept content streaming in to the SRK tipline: here’s the latest work from the community:
rooflemonger starts us off today with a beginner’s combo guides for Ivy and Astaroth. They might be quite different from each other, but both are technically the game’s grapplers. They can still put on the hurt though!
NurseLee has a beginner’s combo guide for The Witcher himself, and some nice tech traps with 6K!
KayaneTV is one of the world’s most famous Xianghua players. If there was ever a person you would want to see a breakdown of their character from, it’s her… so! Here you go:
Closing us out today is LegendaryWolf Shirou. Though this combo does start with a fairly impractical Mitsurugi unblockable, it doesn’t make the rest of it any less impressive:
Thanks to everyone that submitted content to us! If you have some SCVI tech you’d like to share with the world, reach out to us through our tipline.
The Ultimate Fighting Championship is set to make its debut in New Brunswick, Canada, on Saturday night, featuring a main event tilt between two light heavyweight contenders.
In a land of Dragons and Magic and whatever a Karka is, the enemies a player may face in Guild Wars 2 should not be taken lightly. In my previous articles I have given players some tips and knowledgeable tools to get their bearings after joining, or rejoining, the land of Tyria. In todays jaunt back into the ever-changing world, we’ll be talking about World Bosses and Meta Events, including what they are, and why you as a new or returning player should care.
After years of anticipation, Project Nova was unveiled to the world at Eve Vegas 2018, showing off the current development of the spiritual successor to Dust 514. The team at CCP Games and Sumo Digital were finally ready to let players and press go hands-on with the latest iteration of the shooter this weekend at the largest gathering of EVE players in North America and it didn’t disappoint.
