The Injustice Pro Series 2018 is underway, and if you live in Brazil, you have the chance to pick up a lot of money along the way to the global finals.
KombatKlub will be running weekly online qualifiers every Thursday at 8:00 PM (UCT-3) on their Twitch channel. From these four qualifiers, 16 players will earn the chance to compete in Rio Di Janeiro. That tournament, on its own, boasts $2,700.00 in prizes and 2 qualifier slots for the Latin America Injustice Pro Series 2018 finals in Mexico. The winner there will qualify for the World Finals… needless to say, the stakes are high.
Over the weekend of Evo 2018, indie developers AOne Games revealed two new characters for thier horror-tinged fighter Omen of Sorrow.
First, there’s “Imhotep, The Secret Prophet”, who takes the same mythological cues and inspirations that Killer Instinct‘s Kan-Ra did. Equipped with the ability to separate his own body and produce stagnant projectiles, Imhotep looks to be a proper and powerful zoner.
Then we have “Adam, Son of Man”. He might be named after the biblical Adam, but this patchwork-powerhouse is clearly closer to Frankenstein than someone from the Garden of Eden. Command grabs and charging rushes fill his electrically-charged toolkit, and will likely appeal to fans of the grappler archetype.
Omen of Sorrow is tentatively scheduled for a late 2018 release.
Frequent visitors of SRK will know we’ve followed the work of indie company Sector-K Games closely during the development of their early access sci-fi fighter Punch Planet. It’s no surprise, then, that the FGC-focused fighter showed up at Evo 2018‘s showroom floor. There, Sector-K games put on a great tournament that showed off its unique style, grounded footsies, and some of the earliest footage of the newly released charge-grappler, Maxx.
Information is somewhat scarce right now for the new season of Tekken 7 — we know who some of the new incoming characters are, and we have an idea of some of the new mechanics in store for the series, but specifics on how exactly this new content works has yet to be revealed.
That doesn’t mean there isn’t anything to talk about, though: for Anna and Lei fans around the world, their reveal trailers showed off an assortment of new and interesting moves.
mastermind broke down both trailers recently to comb over what we already know about the veteran Tekken fighters. Helpfully, he also compares variations to previous games, so we can see exactly how some combos have changed. Anna appears to have new cancels into her Chaos Judgement stance, a high knockdown power crush, and a high Rage Art — considering high rage arts and power crushes are typically safe on block, this is great news for people that love their panic buttons.
And speaking of “Rage”, Lei Wulong appears set to change the way we think about Rage Drives. If the trailer is to be taken at face value, Lei may launch into Tekken 7 with a unique Rage Drive from every stance. Regardless of how it’s activated or input, battling a Lei in Rage will be, if nothing else, a very different experience from anyone else.
“How do you even know what strategy you should be looking for in the first place?”
“Think, Don’t Mash!” is Press Button Win‘s excellent beginner series for building up fundamentals in ground-heavy 2D fighting games. With Evo 2018 having just finished and more than a few new hands jumping back into the game (more than likely, with tigers at their side), now is the perfect time to take the past lessons and solidify them into a game-plan. (This is episode 3 of the series: here’s episode one!)
In the process, Episode 3 teaches basic fundamentals of punishment, risk vs. reward, and common bad habits seen in lower level play. For further reading to accompany today’s episode, check out PBW’s excellent blog post here for theory on strategy at its most basic level.
It takes a lot of audacity to call yourself the “President of the World” — and that’s exactly how the newest character in the Street Fighter franchise thinks of himself. Considering some of the dizzying options on display in his new trailer revealed at Evo 2018, perhaps there’s a chance he will run things in the tournament world of Street Fighter V: Arcade Edition.
But why be president… when you’re already the king?
G wasn’t the only reveal tonight at Evo 2018 — Sagat, one of gaming’s original projectile-crazed zoners, is back. There may have been a consensus in the past that fireballs had a weakness in SFV compared to older games, but Sagat’s uniquely fast recovery — check out the three fireball combo in the trailer! — threatens to change that perception.
At the time of this writing, all we have to go on is the trailers above. That changes tomorrow, though: both G and Sagat can be in your hands on all platforms on 8/6/18. Whether you want to be president or king, your chance for power begins tomorrow!
When producer Katsuhiro Harada took the stage of Evo 2018, it was palpable that it was time to announce a new season of DLC for the wildly successful Tekken 7. As usual, Harada-san had a few left hooks with him — The arena was excited at the (perhaps expected) addition of series mainstays Anna Williams and Lei Wulong, but no one was ready for what came at the end of the world premiere trailer:
One of The Walking Dead‘s most famous antagonists, Negan, will come swinging into the world of Tekken 7. (Do you think he’ll have a rivalry with Bryan? Because I do. Please, Namco.) When he does, he’ll get to enjoy the several new new combo mechanics teased in the new season’s trailer, including a surprising new wall bounce mechanic.
Fans of Soul Calibur were treated to not just one, but two character reveals right before the Tekken 7 top 8 began today at Evo 2018: Big bad Axe Golem Astaroth, and the weapon-hunting Seong Mi-Na have made Soul Calibur VI‘s cast.
Astaroth returns with the host of command grabs he’s gained over the course of several games, and gains a buffed Poseidon Tide while in Soul Charge. Mi-Na, meanwhile, seems completely overhauled, showing off a bevy of new tools, though some of her chunkier attacks (SC2’s 44A+B, 8A+B) do make a return. Perhaps most interesting is that her Soul Charge gives her a more powerful new string off of 1K — and do my eyes deceive me, or is 1K faster now? Mi-Na fans, rejoice!
Typically, Evo-exclusive announcements are a special affair at the conclusion of a tournament. Nintendo has chosen to take a slightly different tact at Evo 2018, though:
Right before the Armada v. Leffen grand finals, Nintendo quietly dropped a small video in front of the Evo crowd with little more than a date — August 8th, 7:00 A.M. PT. That date reveal is for a new Super Smash Bros. Ultimate direct, which will almost certainly cover new content.
Will we see characters, stages, or new modes in the direct? Only one way to find out — wake up early and tune in to Nintendo’s YouTube channel on the 8th!
Arc System Works has spent the past several years building a large portfolio of FGC-beloved anime fighters — and in the past, their personal stage for these games was the Japanese tournament Arc Revolution Cup. At the conclusion of Guilty Gear Xrd Rev 2‘s grand finals, ArcSys revealed they are bringing anime to the whole FGC in the form of the ArcRevo World Tour 2019.
Games included in the world tour are:
BlazBlue: Central Fiction
BlazBlue: Cross Tag Battle
Guilty Gear Xrd Rev 2
With over $100,000 in cash prizes on the line, the following majors have already been revealed as a part of the world tour:
NA Region:
EVO
Texas Showdown
Frosty Faustings
CEO
EU Region:
Revolution 2018
Brussels Challenge
Headstomper
JP Region:
ArcRevo Japan
EVO Japan
South East Asia Majors
More tournaments are teased to be added to the list for each region. We may not know what those are yet, but we do know that the qualifiers from each event will book it to ArcEvo America 2019 for the largest and most international ArcRevo tournament ever.
As Arc System Works reveals more information on their world tour, Shoryuken.com will air-dash the news to you.
