Author: Crow_Spaceboy

Unfortunately — if you hadn’t already jumped in on it — Injustice 2‘s Steam beta has reached its conclusion. Now that the 10th has rolled around, you’ve got no way to see the PC version of NetherRealm’s DC comics fighter in motion again until its official release on the 14th. But: if you still want to see IJ2’s graphics pushed to the limit, the folks at PC Master Race offered up a great gallery of 4K screenshots to tide you over:

How does it hold up to other major fighting games on Steam? You can see the same tests preformed on PCMR’s site for Tekken 7, The King of Fighters XIV, and Street Fighter V. This is also just a small sample of PCMRLA’s gallery! To see the full gallery of screenshots, click here to go to their site!

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“Super Street Fighter Carnival 2017” is the regularly-occurring tournament series of Japan’s famous Mikado Arcade. This series focuses on arcade titles of old, bringing out high-level play for a variety of games. We are halfway through this tournament season, so you can catch up here if you missed any of the action.

The most recent game is NEO GEO Battle Coliseum, SNK’s other dream-match crossover fighter.

NEO GEO Battle Coliseum is SNK’s 2v2 tag game, though without assists it still retains a patient footsie-mind feel. The timing of running this tournament is pretty nice: NGBC has become something of a topic ever since rumors began circulating that a sequel was in the works at SNK. There’s also that fact that SNK is expanding their esports division… if you missed out on NGBC when it came out, it may be worth your time to get a sneak peek at it just in case NGBC2 is around the corner.

Of course, a lot of what you will learn may be null and void if Hotaru and Mr. Big don’t make the cut in a theoretical NGBC2. As you’ll see from this event, they tend to hold important places on many of the teams represented. If you want to read up on why these characters seem to be so common place, you should check our SRK’s wiki guides for the game!

You can follow the action by subscribing to Mikado’s official YouTube channel. For the night owls in the US, you can even try to catch them when they livestream.

Source: Mikado

Old Zeku has some new tricks up his sleeve thanks to youtuber World Warrior.

While there’s always a flurry of content during the first week of a character launch, few players actually stick with the flavor of the month. But when World Warrior showed us anti-back-rise setups, he clearly wasn’t done. Now, he’s discovered that the Bushinryu master has an excellent safe jump setup versus nearly the whole cast off his Crush Counter sweep, allowing him to set up meaty cross-ups and beat reversal Dragon Punches.

He also has his own take on the corner Gram pressure that we saw so prominently during week one. With the combination of wake-up pressure and safe jumps off hard knockdowns, this Zeku tech is perfect for Street Fighter V ‘s offensively-minded world.

Source: World Warrior

Are you a fan of games like Psychic Force 2012 or Acceleration of Suguri X? If you are (or if you’ve even heard of them), then you have a picture of what in-development indie fighter (and tentatively-titled) Gravity Breakers is trying to bring to our genre.

Were bringing Talk Shows- er I mean Gravity Breakers back to @levelupseries #WNF next week! CHECK IT! #indiegame… https://t.co/Q3pMa2EXPO

— Gremlin_Ent (@Gremlin_ent) November 6, 2017

“Gravity Breakers” is a shmup/fighting game hybrid filled with Superheroes, Robots, and Aliens in bright, neon-colored arenas. If you like zoning and free-roaming, then you’ll want to tune in to Wednesday Night Fights tonight when “Gravity Breakers” will get a chance to shine in the California FGC’s hands! This is actually the second time this game has appeared at WNF — as you can see in the clip above, Alex Valle was starting to find his poking game on-the-fly.

Who's your main? #indiegame #gamedev #indiedev #FGC #madewithspine #madewithunity https://t.co/XMlo6NOpTN pic.twitter.com/qTeiB0N4UT

— Gremlin_Ent (@Gremlin_ent) July 15, 2017

The currently planned roster. I’m going to need a hat to complete my Hunter S. Thompson bot.

As it stands right now, this is a five-button game: two normal attacks, special attack, shield (which has a shield meter that depletes as you use it, and recharges when you don’t), and dash. Shield + Light attack Grabs, and Shield + Special preforms a Super. The game is still very early in development and likely to be reshaped as time goes on, so now is a great time to give feedback to the developers. Be sure to tune in to WNF to see the prototype game in action!

Source: Gremlin_Ent

“Super Street Fighter Carnival 2017” is the regularly-occurring tournament series of Japan’s famous Mikado Arcade. This series focuses on arcade titles of old, bringing out high-level play for a variety of games. We are halfway through this tournament season, so you can catch up here if you missed any of the action.

Last year’s SSFC2016 closed out with ADK’s World Heroes 2, and we mentioned that WH2 was a slower, more methodical entry in the series compared to its sequel, World Heroes Perfect. Well, now is your chance to compare:

World Heroes Perfect has a much faster pace, largely because of the addition of several new sub-mechanics such as Dashing, Projectile-Destroying normals, Guard-Crushing normals, and more. These new mechanics also inadvertently create some silly looking stuff, such as various dashing infinites.

You can follow the action by subscribing to Mikado’s official YouTube channel. For the night owls in the US, you can even try to catch them when they livestream.

Source: Mikado

It has been understood for a long time that you can hit your opponent through the platform in Super Smash Bros. for Wii U. However, a recent tweet from Japanese player MakuaJD showed off some surprising and powerful “true” combos with Corrin’s Neutral-Air through a platform:

身長高いキャラに当たります
今のところベヨネッタクラウドロゼッタサムス辺りは確認済み
最後のは正直確定ではないと思うけどカウンターは回りました pic.twitter.com/PVTaiT3xPD

— マクア (@MakuaJD_crn) October 17, 2017

And that’s where Beefy Smash Doods steps in to do what they do best: explain why these combos work, and what you can do if your opponent is attempting to use this tech.

Do note that these combos will typically only hit medium-to-tall characters, and many of the moves that lead into these combos are unsafe. The original Corrin example still stands out for being a Neutral-Air instead of a traditional Down-Air: it has safety far surpassing most Dairs.

Source: Beefy Smash Doods

Since the vast majority of stages in Tekken 7 have walls, having a strong wake-up game off of corner positioning dramatically increases your value as a character. A solid wall game is, after all, one of the primary reasons Leo has inspired fear in so many players.

While we’ve seen some disgusting back-turned tech traps in the past for Jin, omgitsnewton‘s latest video shows off the power of using Zenshin Stance mix-ups off wall splats instead of going for raw damage. These mix-ups are terrifying because of the combination of using WS1,2, which plants the opponent back on the ground and limits their get up options.

Source: omgitsnewton