Capcom Fighters has put up yet another highlight video from a recent Capcom Pro Tour event: this time, they focus on the Street Fighter V: Arcade Edition tournament at the recently-concluded DreamHack Montréal.
The video below highlights a number of interesting an amazing plays that were pulled off at the tournament, including some clutch moments from players such as Echo Fox’s Momochi, Punk, and Justin Wong, RISE’s Smug, Mago, and Evo 2018 Champion Mousesports’ Problem X.
Ever since it was announced, there has been some speculation on who is actually doing development on SNK’s new Samurai Shodown (a.k.a. Samurai Spirits). The game running on Unreal Engine 4, as well as featuring an art style reminiscent more of Street Fighter IV has led some to wonder if people who worked on the latter, such as artist Daigo Ikeno, are involved in the new game.
Well, now the speculation can end. SNK’s Nobuyuki Kuroki, who was the art director for The King of Fighters XIV, has confirmed that not only is he resuming the role for Samurai Shodown, he’s also now in the director’s chair as well.
In addition to this, Kuroki has also confirmed that Samurai Shodown is being developed in-house at SNK. In fact, the team working on it is the same team that worked on The King of Fighters XIV, and SNK Heroines: Tag Team Frenzy.
While this may surprise some, considering that SNK Heroines: Tag Team Frenzy just launched and is still receiving updates, the latter does reuse a lot from their previous game. More importantly, it does mean that a number of veteran developers of the genre who worked on the previous games, including battle director Hidetoshi “Neo_G” Ishizawa — whose credits include Street Fighter III: 3rd Strike, Capcom vs. SNK 2, and Marvel vs. Capcom 2 — are now hard at work on the new Samurai Shodown.
Samurai Shodown is set to launch sometime in 2019.
How on the heels of the confirmation that Cervantes is in the game, Bandai Namco has released yet another trailer for SoulCalibur VI.
The new trailer, which can be seen below, highlights the various game modes that are in SoulCalibur VI. These include the now ubiquitous arcade, training, and versus modes. In addition to this we also get a look at the Create-A-Soul mode, as well as the game’s two more in-depth single player story modes.
The first of these “Story – Soul Chronicle” goes over the events of the original SoulCalibur, and includes a story for each of the existing cast. On the other hand, the other story mode, “Story – Libra of Soul”, is a separate story mode for characters players have created in Create-A-Soul mode.
SoulCalibur VI launches on PlayStation 4, PC, and Xbox One on October 19.
Which of these three lovely ladies will you celebrate Valentine’s with?
Catherine: Full Body, the updated re-release of the fighting game community’s favorite competitive block puzzler game, finally has a release date in Japan. Players over in the Land of the Rising Sun will get to purchase the game for PlayStation 4 and PlayStation Vita come Valentine’s Day: February 14, 2019.
The game will come in two version, a standard edition that will retail for ¥7,980, and a limited edition that will go for ¥13,980. The latter adds a slipcase, four-disc soundtrack CD, art book, and special DLC set.
For those wondering about what’s been added to Catherine: Full Body, the game now features a third potential love interest: Rin, the pianist of the bar that protagonist Vincent frequents. In addition to this, the game will feature 500 stages (twice the amount of the original), 20 minutes of additional animated footage, an Arrange Mode with new mechanics, as well as the ability to change Catherine’s voice. Miyuki Sawashiro (Catherine’s main voice actor) and Mamiko Noto (Persona 3‘s Fuuka Yamagishi) will be joined by nine additional voice-overs that will be available as DLC.
More importantly — at least for competitive players — the game will now come with online play.
As for a Western release, the publisher has yet to offer any date for it. That said Atlus is planning a livestream on NicoNico to reveal more information (including a new trailer) on September 15, at 7:00 PM Japan time (5:00 AM Western). In the meantime, check out these new screenshots from Famitsu.
Kinetiquettes has made a name for itself with some pretty good-looking statues based on fighting game characters. Now, they’re collaborating with a fan-favorite artist for yet another statue, one that’s sure to catch attention.
Known for his work with DC Comics as well as the art for various Capcom collections such as Darkstalkers Ressurection and Street Fighter III: 3rd Strike Online Edition, Stanley “Artgerm” Lau is now bringing his pen to the world of SNK and figures. Kinetiquettes is collaborating with Artgerm on a new 1:4 scale statue of the queen of fighters herself, Mai Shiranui.
For those interested in how the statue will look like, Artgerm himself has shared a preview of it over on Twitter.
The statue is part of a new line up SNK statues by Kinetiquettes. The first of these, a 1:4 scale Terry Bogard statue is already available for pre-order on their site.
With the announcement of the new Samurai Shodown, some players might be looking into trying some of the older games in the series. If you’re one of those players, then you’re in luck: the ACA NEO GEO version of original Samurai Shodown is currently on sale for PlayStation 4 and Switch.
The ACA Neo Geo release of Samurai Shodown is currently subject to a 40% discount on both the PlayStation Store and Switch eShop from now until September 19. This means that interested players can grab a copy of the game on those systems for only $4.79, instead of the usual $7.99.
Hamster corporation’s ACA NEO GEO titles are basically the original arcade titles running on modern consoles via emulation. This means that those who purchase Samurai Shodown will get to experience this classic game as it first appeared on the original NEO GEO back in 1993 — nothing added, nothing removed!
While Arc System Works and APlus games stated that they were announcing more characters for Kill la Kill the Game: IF at next week’s Tokyo Game Show, it seems that they’ve been revealed early in this week’s issue of Famitsu.
Joining Ryuko Matio and Satsuki Kiryuin in Kill la Kill the Game: IF are the Elite Four’s Ira Gamagori and Uzu Sanageyama. For those not familiar with the franchise, both are members of the student council at Honnouji, serving under Satsuki. Both come with three-star Ultima Uniforms as part of their rank.
As can be seen from the small preview of the article From Famitsu, both seemingly come with the first versions of their uniforms from the anime.
As per previous reports, both are expected to be playable at the Tokyo Game Show next week.
During their recent livestream for the game, Square Enix finally revealed the identity of the next DLC character for Dissidia Final Fantasy NT.
Joining the cast of Square Enix’s 3-on-3 arena fighter is Kam’lanaut from the MMORPG Final Fantasy XI. For those not familiar with him, he’s one of the two remaining Zilart princes. He’s actually a boss that players can battle twice as part of a couple of quests in that game.
As part of the announcement, Square Enix released a trailer showing off some of what Kan’lanaut can do in Dissidia Final Fantasy NT.
Kam’lanaut will first arrive in the game’s arcade version, Dissidia Final Fantasy as part of the September update. He will then be available for purchase on PlayStation 4 in October.
With this announcement, only two more DLC characters remain as part of the game’s Season Pass. These are a female from the newer half of the Final Fantasy series (one who’s a veteran of the previous Dissidia games), and a male character from the same half of the series, who is making their Dissidia debut in this game.
In addition to revealing four returning veterans for Dead or Alive 6, Koei Tecmo also dropped info regarding two more characters, Nyotengu and Phase-4 and other digital pre-order bonuses.
Nyotengu is a digital pre-order bonus for both PlayStation 4 and Xbox One versions with PS4 owners also receiving a special theme and Xbox One owners receiving an exclusive costume for Ryu Hayabusa. PC owners will automatically get the character as long as the game is purchased digitally before March 14. Anyone who purchases the title digitally before March 14 will also receive a bonus Kasumi costume regardless of platform.
Phase-4, on the other hand, will be available to those who purchase the “Digital Deluxe Edition” on PlayStation 4, Xbox One, or PC. Also included in the package are 25 extra costumes, 3 bonus musical tracks, and an exclusive Kasumi costume separate from the pre-order program.
Expect more information regarding the pre-order bonuses as the title nears its release date. Dead Or Alive 6 launches on PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC on February 15, 2019.
One of Dragon Ball FighterZ’‘s most prolific combo creators, Final Showdown, has returned with another set of videos. This new series of videos continues to focus on characters he’s spent a lot of time breaking down in previousvideos, namely Piccolo, Teen Gohan, and Frieza.
On the latter, Final Showdown explores his bread-and-butter combos, attempting to figure out the maximum damage he can squeeze from them.
Speaking of big damage, this next combo does 90% damage with no help from other characters.
The final Frieza video features another big damage solo combo, featuring the use of his discs to links into supers. Additionally, it also shows off some things he can do with his discs.
Moving on to Piccolo, we know that Final Showdown has been obsessed with figuring out things he can do with his orbs post-patch. And this new video for him demonstrates a few more combos with them: ones that happen to have good corner carry.
In addition to this, he also demonstrates an interesting property with his grounded arm grab. After he lands it, for some reason, the game gives Piccolo an extra hard attack, allowing him to do two hard attacks in a chain.
Finally, we return to what seems to be Final Showdown’s favorite character, Teen Gohan. The combos in the video below are “scrapped” ideas that never really evolved into something useful, but still look interesting enough to show.
