Author: Crow_Spaceboy

Even if Virtua Fighter 6 never sees the light of day, the die hard fans of the VF series will continue to play Virtua Fighter 5:Final Showdown until the sun goes out. This much was made clear on August 26th, the 2018 Tokyo Bay Area Cup Volume 8 — a 3-on-3  team tournament in Japan feature 31 teams.

If you missed the action, VirtuaFighter.com admin Mike Abdow put together an excellent highlight reel for the tournament, which you can watch below. He also put together a breakdown of character usage, which you can check out here.

Did that get you pumped? If you’re interested in watching the full VF5:FS tournament, you can do that too! Check out the clash of Japan’s finest here in this VOD:

Source:  人造人間 (Homunkurusu); Mike Abdow

Someone’s gotta enforce the rules in Lethal League: Blaze — and it looks like that task falls onto its latest character, the ex-cop vigilante Nitro.

Introducing the illustrious Nitro pic.twitter.com/1I2bvQxHlQ

— Team Reptile (@ReptileGames) August 31, 2018

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— Team Reptile (@ReptileGames) August 31, 2018

Complete with comically large handcuffs used to detain the ball, Nitro’s Super Sentai-inspired design fits right at home in the colorful world of Reptile Games‘s indie sports-fighter. And while the character animates well already, there’s something missing — a voice! Reptile Games is accepting open auditions for the Judge Dredd of Sports, which you can find more information about here.

Lethal League: Blaze, the 3d sequel to 2014’s Lethal League, is set to launch on PC in the 4th Quarter of 2018.

Source: Reptile Games

One of the ways Namco attempted to preserve Akuma’s 2D feel was to flip traditional Tekken character design on its head. Between his d+4 sweep and his d+4 c.mk proxy, Akuma has two of the best lows in Tekken 7 — at the cost of anything resembling a safe, frightening mid.

But if you’re willing to put in the work, there are two ways you can still make your opponents afraid of the mid-option without gambling your lifebar on a DF+2,1. HQRubbish demonstrates the power of WS+2’s special cancel in his latest tech video, and how you can manipulate (with meter and considerable practice) the situation on hit and block.

Source: HQRubbish

Fighting game internet culture has moved so far beyond the way we used to share information, that some of the most interesting aspects of old fighting games are lost to the sands of time. I think this is really unfortunate — some of my favorite things in fighting games are weird glitches or interesting design choices in games both popular and obscure. In the interest of preserving some of this trivia, I’ve decided to start a little show called “Crow Bites” — short videos designed to capture some the stranger bugs I’ve run into over the years in the FGC. (If I’m a responsible_spaceboy, everything in this series should be under 5 minutes. That’s the challenge I’m giving myself, at least.)

With SoulCalibur VI on the way, I thought SoulCalibur II — the game so frequently referenced by Okubo as a design reference — was a good place to start.

“Soul Charge” is fundamentally a different beast in SCVI — what was once a re-imagined version of Tekken‘s “Ki Charge” mechanic is now a panic-button meter-consuming state closer in design to Pokkén Tournament‘s “Burst Mode”. A “feature” of SCII’s Soul Charge mode that almost certainly won’t return is its graphics-breaking buffer glitch, an odd side effect from playing around in SCII’s large buffer window. Rest assured, if I stick with this series, the sentence “SCII’s buffer window caused this glitch” is a sentence you’ll read a lot.

SRK’s youtube channel features guides, reviews, odd trivia, and more, all circling the world of the FGC. If that sounds like your bag, be sure to check out our back catalog here!

“I don’t care that he doesn’t have a reversal!”

Tyrant and PackZ are back with the latest episode of Frame Advantage, and today they are breaking down the toolkit of President of the World: G.

Now that the character has been out for two weeks, the British pros feel they have a handle on what G is about — and it certainly seems like he’s about anything he wants to be. Drawing parallels to when Abigail was first introduced, G is a well-rounded powerhouse that breaks the rules of Street Fighter V: Arcade Edition with his multiple air options, anti-cross up tools, and more. If you’re looking for political power in the tournament scene, G is a good place to start!

Source: Frame Advantage

Are you a fan of former Evo champion Fuudo? If so, you’ll want to check out the latest Fuudo highlight reel from Capcom Fighters — with a little bit of Esports Hong Kong Festival 2018 thrown in for variety.

We kid, a bit, but Fuudo’s R. Mika was on fire at EHKF2018. He was ready for every small situation that could possibly arise, and these crazy spots led to his first major victory in this year’s CPT events. Check out the absurd super conversion from V-Trigger against NL in Winner’s Finals!

Source: Capcom Fighters

If there’s a combo you’re struggling with in Street Fighter V: Arcade Edition that always seems just out of reach, the odds are good that you need to micro-step. Due to the push out on hit in SFV — and, worth noting, many other fighters — combos may not work quite the same way in every situation.

So, jump in with World Warrior FGC‘s tutorial above! Today’s video will get you started on the foundation of micro-steps in combos, with will allow you to connect longer and more damaging links.

Source: World Warrior FGC