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Alex Jebailey Will Be the Head Tournament Organizer and Event Planner for DreamHack in 2017

When he announced that he was leaving Avyd, Alex Jebailey originally stated that he was going to focus full-time on his Community Effort Orlando. However, it seems that he’s once again being called to help organize fighting game events for another esports organization.

In a recent Tweet, Jebailey has announced that he is will be the head fighting game community tournament organizer and event planner for DreamHack in 2017.

With this, Jebailey will be involved in all the fighting game tournaments at all of DreamHack’s events next year. That said, he will still be focusing on CEO as well, and will actually miss DreamHack Summer 2017 due to scheduling conflicts with CEO 2017.

We here at Shoryuken wish Alex Jebailey and DreamHack the best success in this new relationship.

Source: Alex Jebailey

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Pop Culture Shock’s “Murderous Intent” and “Dark Hadou” Evil Ryu Statues Now Available for Pre-Order

Pop Culture Shock has done a bang up job with their line of Street Fighter based collectible statues. For the past couple of years, they’ve been releasing a steady line of figures for both Street Fighter IV and Street Fighter V. For their latest statues, they’re going back to the former with a new set of Evil Ryu statues.

This latest series of Evil Ryu statues comes in two distinct variants. The first, called “Murderous Intent” shows Evil Ryu in his default Street Fighter IV look – a corrupted Ryu with the big hole in his chest. The second one however, called “Dark Hadou” has him in his long haired alternate costume.

Both statues are now available for pre-order exclusively at Pop Culture Shocks website. The “Murderous Intent” version goes for $389.99, while the “Dark Hadou” version goes for $399.99.  However, those who pre-order can avail of a 10% discount, bringing the prices for both down to $350.99 and $359.99 respectively.

Both statues are expected to ship in December 23, 2017. In the meantime, here check out some photos of them in the gallery below.

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Source: Pop Culture Shock

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New Dissidia Final Fantasy Arcade Character to Be Revealed on November 7

Since it launched almost a year ago, Square Enix has been slowly but surely expanding the cast of its arcade arena fighter, Dissidia Final Fantasy. Most recently, the company announced Ace, Materia, and Spiritus during a livestream back in August. Now, it seems that another character will be joining the cast.

Square Enix has announced that they will be revealing a new character for Dissidia Final Fantasy this coming November 7 as part of a livestream over at Niconico. The livestream, which will start at 9:00 PM JST (4:00 AM PST), will focus on all the new content coming in game’s upcoming update. In addition to the new character, this will also include the start of “Battle of the Gods Section 3,” new items available for purchase in the Sanctuarium, as well as bug fixes.

The new update to Dissidia Final Fantasy, and most likely the new character, will hit arcades on November 10.

Source: Square Enix via Gematsu

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Chun-Li’s Hurtbox Does Not Extend While Crouching in Street Fighter V

One mechanic that’s been in Street Fighter since way back in Street Fighter II is how characters’ hurtboxes would widen when crouching. This makes crouching, a relatively strong defensive position, slightly riskier as characters can much more easily be hit by their opponents.

This mechanic holds true in Street Fighter V, except for one character. As rizhall demonstrates in the video below, Chun-Li’s hurtbox does not extend when she crouches. This means that she can crouch and not get hit at ranges where other characters would be in danger.

This is an interesting discovery, and possibly another asset for a character who’s already considered by many to be the best in the game.

Source: rizhall

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SNK Playmore Corporation Will Officially Just Be SNK Corporation Starting December 1

Last April, SNK Playmore started to rebrand itself back into just SNK. This involved dropping the Playmore label from their games and bringing back their classic “The Future Is Now” tagline. That said, despite all this, they were still officially known as SNK Playmore Corporation.

That will change soon as SNK Playmore has announced that they will finally be officially changing their corporate name back to SNK Corporation on December 1, 2016.

This change is just the latest in a long series of steps that the company has been undertaking as of late, in an effort to win back its core audience by evoking the original SNK’s golden era in the ’90s. Prior to this, and their rebranding last year, the company already started to focus on their core gaming audience, bowing out of the pachinko business.

Source: SNK

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The King of Fighters XIV Patch 1.04 Focuses on Online and Bug Fixes

While The King of Fighters XIV recently got a massive update, that hasn’t stopped SNK from doing further work on the game. As such, a new patch–bringing the game up to version 1.04–has just been released.

Unlike the previous patch which was focused mostly on balance fixes for the cast, this one is mostly to address various minor bugs and issues. The biggest of these would be fixes to the game’s online, both in getting room information during matchmaking as well as the actual online play quality. Other fixes include a fix to a bug that affected story mode after beating Antonov with certain teams, as well as some minor text fixes.

As for the characters, any character-specific fixes are mostly to address glitches that the last patch failed to correct. This includes fixes to a number of moves on certain characters that changed their hitboxes when pressing away or towards. Other character-specific changes include things that could affect balance, such as K’ no longer able to perform an air Minute Spike after a whiffed air blow back, making Antonov’s President Lift inescapable, and more.

You can check out the complete list of changes here.

Source: SNK

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Street Fighter V Gets a Blast from the Past with this Original Street Fighter Birdie Mod

Street Fighter V on PC has seen an explosion of mods that change the look of the characters in-game. Some of these change to different characters altogether, others make them look like top players, and more than a few are dedicated to making characters look like their past incarnations. This new mod however, takes the latter route a bit further than most people would.

In the video below, we can see how bajm has created a mod for Street Fighter V’s Birdie; however, instead of using Birdie’s popular Street Fighter Alpha incarnation, bajm goes even further, by turning Birdie back to his original Street Fighter–as in Street Fighter “1”–look. That’s right, no mutton chops, no weird heart-shaped hole in his hair, just the straight up mohawk-sporting street punk look from the 1987 original. The only difference here is that he still sports his chains (originally introduced in Street Fighter Alpha) and he’s looking a bit healthier than his original incarnation, not pale because he was sick (as Street Fighter Alpha 3 would have you believe).

Interested players on PC can get the mod here.

Source: Best PC Mods

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PBE.AK Qualifies for Tekken 7’s King of Iron Fist 2016 World Finals

When most folks think of Tekken in the Philippines, the one name that tends to stand out the most is Alexandre “AK” Lavarez. First making his name by placing third at the Tekken Tag Tournament 2 Global Championship back in 2013, this young prodigy quickly became the face of the nation when it came to Tekken.

Now, it seems that AK, who’s currently playing for the PlayBook Elite team, will once again be part of another Tekken world championship. At the recently concluded BrawlFest 2016 at the Electronic Sports and Gaming Summit, AK beat out a field packed with some of the country’s best Tekken players to win the chance to fly to the King of Iron Fist 2016 World Finals.

With this, AK becomes the second player from South East Asia, following Indonesia’s Meat, to qualify for the King of Iron Fist 2016 World Finals.

For more on the qualifier, you can check out the brackets at on Challonge.

Source: PlayBook; featured image c/o ESGS

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Here’s a Sneak Peek At a Beautifully Animated Street Fighter Fan Film

When Capcom first started promoting Street Fighter V, their main tagline was “Rise Up” encouraging fans, both competitive and casual, to rise up and express their passion for the franchise.  Now, one creator has taken on that challenge and risen up to create something quite beautiful.

Now some of you may already be familiar with Paul “OtaKing” Johnson’s work. The animator first caught the internet’s attention with the release of his Star Wars fan-film “TIE Fighter”. The short, is an homage to LucasArt’s classic TIE Fighter space flight simulator franchise. What made it catch the eye of many fans was the fact that Johnson lovingly animated the film himself, doing it in the style of old 1980’s cartoons and animé.

Now, he’s turning his attention to Street Fighter with a new fan film. He’s released a short clip from it featuring everyone’s favorite dictator, M. Bison alongside a horde of Shadaloo troopers. You can check it out below.

Johnson’s target for the film is around 20 minutes, which would make it one of his longest animations to date.

For more on Johnson’s previous work, check out his original TIE Fighter film here. In addition to this, he’s also worked with Mashed on other video game fan animations, including these videos for R-Type and Warframe.

Source: Paul Johnson

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Here’s a Sneak Peek At a Beautifully Animated Street Fighter Fan Film

When Capcom first started promoting Street Fighter V, their main tagline was “Rise Up” encouraging fans, both competitive and casual, to rise up and express their passion for the franchise.  Now, one creator has taken on that challenge and risen up to create something quite beautiful.

Now some of you may already be familiar with Paul “OtaKing” Johnson’s work. The animator first caught the internet’s attention with the release of his Star Wars fan-film “TIE Fighter”. The short, is an homage to LucasArt’s classic TIE Fighter space flight simulator franchise. What made it catch the eye of many fans was the fact that Johnson lovingly animated the film himself, doing it in the style of old 1980’s cartoons and animé.

Now, he’s turning his attention to Street Fighter with a new fan film. He’s released a short clip from it featuring everyone’s favorite dictator, M. Bison alongside a horde of Shadaloo troopers. You can check it out below.

Johnson’s target for the film is around 20 minutes, which would make it one of his longest animations to date.

For more on Johnson’s previous work, check out his original TIE Fighter film here. In addition to this, he’s also worked with Mashed on other video game fan animations, including these videos for R-Type and Warframe.

Source: Paul Johnson