Competitive Smash Bros. is one of those games that you have to see in action to understand what the hype is all about. To help drive this point home, a group of players from Smashboards have put together a great, multi-character compilation video for Super Smash Bros. for Wii U and 3DS featuring some of their members.
The video features Zelda, Shulk, Zero Suit Samus, Greninja, Mii Swordfighter, and more performing clutch kills, amazing strings, and lengthy combos, as well as some disrespectful moments and even rage quits.
Check out the video below and share your thoughts in the comments.
Bandai Namco Games and Arc System Works’ upcoming fighter, Dragon Ball Z: Extreme Butoden, might be heading to the west, according to an entry that was recently spotted on the Australian Classification Board’s website.
While no western release has official been announced, the fact that it has been rated in Australia is a good sign that Bandai Namco intends to release the game in the Western hemisphere.
Dragon Ball Z: Extreme Butoden is the latest entry in the long-running Butoden series, dating back to the original games on the Super Nintendo. This latest title is also Arc System Works’ second Dragon Ball Z fighting game, the first being Dragon Ball Z Supersonic Warriors for the GameBoy Advance.
The game itself features a cast of over 100 fighters spread across playable and assist rosters, and includes versions of characters from the recent Dragon Ball Z: Ressurection ‘F’ movie. A demo of the game is currently available on Nintendo’s eShop in Japan, and its save data unlocks the blue-haired Super Saiyan God Super Saiyan Goku in the main game. (Editor’s note: Believe it or not, that’s not a typo.)
Dragon Ball Z: Extreme Butoden is scheduled to launch in Japan on June 11.
Sega recently announced that their fighter based on the popular Shining roleplaying series, Blade Arcus from Shining, is on track to be upgraded in the coming months. Version 2.0 of the game will bring with it some substantial changes.
The title’s ver.2.0 update will bring with it some substantial changes, the most recognizable of which are four new playable characters from Shining Hearts: Urayukihime Hayane, Rouna Murasame, Dylan Rowen, and Rick Elwood. The lattermost was originally supposed to join the cast during the game’s launch early this year.
This patch will also add two new gameplay mechanics–Rejection Card and Reversel Strike–as well as balance the existing cast and tweak movement.
Blade Arcue from Shining’s ver.2.0 update should hit Japanese arcades early this summer. In the meantime, check out this trailer below.
As we previously reported, a sequel to Dengeki Bunko FIGHTING CLIMAX is currently in the works. As with any new game, this as-of-yet untitled follow-up will receive a bunch of new additions to its roster.
Joining Emi Yusa from The Devil is a Part-Timer!, Heavy Object’s Quenser Barbotage is set to join the game as a playable character, with fellow 37th Mobile Maintenance Battalion members Heivia Winchell and Milinda Brantini forming part of his special attacks.
He will be accompanied by Major Froletia Capistrano, also from Heavy Object, who will appear as an assist character.
This new Dengeki Bunko FIGHTING CLIMAX is expected to hit Japanese arcades sometime this summer.
South East Asia Major represents the largest fighting game tournament in the region, and as such, plays host to top players from a variety of countries. To highlight this, Beast of the East and Thaiger Uppercut have released a new trailer for the event that lists the massive amount of notable competitors that will be attending.
The list is, for lack of a better term, quite stacked. Players such as Mad Catz’ Daigo Umehara, Tokido, and Mago, Evil Geniuses’ Momochi, Evo 2014 runner-up Bonchan, Infiltration, Poongko, Razer’s Fuudo, Gackt, and Xian, AVerMedia’s Gamerbee, Qanba’s XiaoHai, The Black Eye’s ABEGEN, and Canada Cup Gaming’s Humanbomb should already be familiar to fans around the world, but even the lesser-known names on the list all represent folks who have made names for themselves in the region.
Check out the trailer below to see who will be attending this event.
South East Asia Major 2015 will take place June 19-21 in Bangkok, Thailand.
Mortal Kombat X was one of the main event games at the recently concluded Midwest Championships 2015, and it provided quite a top eight. In an amazing show of dominance, Yomi Gaming occupied nearly every final slot, with Pig of the Hut, DJT, Slayer, ForeverKing, MIT, Michaelangelo, and Glass Sword taking seven of the eight available, leaving only cR|WoundCowboy to face them alone.
If you missed out on this fantastic competition, be sure to check out the finals below, and if you still want more, you’ll find even more replays in PandaxGaming’s official playlist. Full results from this event can be found in our coverage hub.
Team NINJA has been quite active with helping promote Dead or Alive 5 Last Round in the competitive circuit. The company already has an extensive Battle Royal tour taking place in several tournaments in the United States, and now they are creating yet another event to help showcase the game’s competitive scene – the Dead Or Alive Festival.
Set to take place on August 1 at the Osaki Bright Core Hall in Tokyo, Japan, the Dead Or Alive Festival is a special exhibition tournament that will feature several top players from all over the world, the first of which is D-1 Ultimate Climax Blade champion mittii. To fill out the rest of the eight-player bracket, two qualifiers apiece have been set aside for North America and Europe, and the remaining three slots will be decided based on the winners of three separate brackets to be held before the main tournament.
Selection of the two North American representatives will be by fan vote, with fans choosing from the current top eight ranked players on the Dead or Alive Battle Royal tour. The names of these players as well as how to vote will be posted on Team NINJA’s social media channels after East Coast Throwdown 2015 next week. The voting period itself will run throughout the month of June.
At stake is a non-cash prize valued at $3,000. Additionally, the top two placers will also receive an all expenses paid trip to the Dead or Alive 5 Battle Royal Grand Finals at Northeast Championships XVI in Philadelphia this December.
This is a pretty huge deal for the Dead or Alive community, so keep your eyes peeled for more information and the fierce competition that’s sure to follow.
Persona is back with yet another combo video, but this time, the prodigious content creator is focusing on a new game: Mortal Kombat X.
In the video below, Persona takes Scorpion’s Inferno variation out for a spin, exploring some of the ways the Hazashi clan ninja can maximize his damage output. In particular, Persona makes good use of Scorpion’s demon summons to extend these combos, combining them with good use of meter for big damage.
Vesper Arcade has done a great job with breaking down the each and every bit of Street Fighter V footage that’s been released so far, soo it’s no surprise that they’re back with another video, this time for the M. Bison trailer that was released last month.
One of the very first things that Vesper notes is the changes to the in-game lighting, comparing the bits from Charlie’s pre-fight intro shown in his own trailer and Bison’s reveal. Specifically, they note how the game is now brighter and has more detail not just on the characters, but even the background. Another graphical change they note is how EX moves now have a more pronounced yellow and red flash.
As for Bison himself, Vesper goes over alot of the changes that are shown in the trailer. He seems to have a good mix of new and existing normals, including one that looks like his Psycho Vanish from Capcom vs. SNK 2. More notable is that Bison’s crouching hard kick slide now appears to launch opponents into the air on counter-hit.
Another thing that Vesper touches on is Bison’s teleport. There’s been alot of speculation on whether the teleport shown in the trailer is a special move or if it’s his forward dash, making it similar to the dashes of some Darkstalkers characters. Vesper states that the trailer itself doesn’t seem to conclusively point to one way or another. That said, the slight dashing effect, short range, and the recovery that seems a little too fast for a teleport move seem to point towards it being his new forward dash.
Then, Vesper goes over Bison’s specials, of which he seems to have a lot. Two in particular are a projectile absorbing move that tosses out a fireball of its own and a new attack that may act as his reversal. They also go over some of the specials that are retained, such as the head stomp.
Of course, these are just a few things that are covered in the half-hour long video. Check it out and share your thoughts on M. Bison’s Street Fighter V incarnation in the comments.
As with most big events these days, tournaments weren’t the only thing on the schedule at the recently concluded Midwest Championships 2015. PandaxGaming put together another great set of exhibitions, the marquee matchup of which was an Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3 throwdown between BE|Kane Blueriver and iG|FullSchedule.
For those who missed this set, a full replay was recently uploaded for your viewing pleasure. Check out the match below as Kane’s team of Haggar, Hulk, and Sentinel takes on Full Schedule’s Amaterasu, C. Viper, and Docter Doom and see who comes out on top.
