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Super Smash Bros. for Switch will be the highlight of Nintendo’s E3

It seems that Nintendo is going all-in on the upcoming Super Smash Bros. for the Switch. Aside from hosting the Super Smash Bros. Invitational 2018, it seems that the upcoming game will be the primary focus of Nintendo’s annual E3 Direct, which will be taking place on June 12, at 9:00 AM Pacific. As such, it will have the most screen time during the presentation.

Meanwhile, the Nintendo Treehouse Live broadcast that’s set to follow the E3 Direct will also focus on Super Smash Bros. for Switch. Nintendo will be streaming live footage of the game during this broadcast.

In addition to these, the game itself is set to be playable on the E3 show floor, allowing attendees to try the game.

E3 2018 will take place from June 12 through June 14, 2018 at the Los Angeles Convention Center. As with last year’s show, this year’s show will once again be open to the general public.

Source: Polygon

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More details on SNK Heroines: Tag Team Frenzy’s character customization mode revealed

When SNK Heroines: Tag Team Frenzy releases later this year, it’ll do so with a character customization mode that’ll let players customize what their Heroines look like.

Now, SNK and NIS America have dropped more details of this character customization mode. Basically, in addition to being able to customize their characters with over a hundred different accessories, they’ll also be able to change their in-game voices. This is on top of the ability to pose their character to make an an in-game calling card or wallpaper.

As for unlocking all these, the game will have a form of in-game currency earned from fighting battles, or completing the various modes in the game.

  • Choose from over 100 different accessories from hats, glasses, ears, wings, to even pixelated character tattoos.
  • Choose from four different styles of in-game voices.
  • Select different backgrounds and frames from a plethora of options.
  • Pose your fighter to make your new cool in-game calling card or your cutest wallpaper yet.
  • All items can be unlocked through in-game currency earned from battles and completion of various game modes.

SNK Heroines: Tag Team Frenzy launches on PlayStation 4 and Switch on September 7. In the meantime, check out these new screenshots of the customization mode.

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Source: Gematsu

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PSA: Change your Disqus account passwords, due to a new series of spam attacks

Shoryuken — like a number of news/entertainment outlets on the internet — uses the Disqus comment. The platform’s ability to let readers join in on discussions through a single login has made it pretty ubiquitous. It also makes it a pretty big target for spam.

Recently, Disqus made an announcement regarding a new series of spam attacks on their system. The attacks seem to involve spammers being able to edit user comments and place spam links in them.

While Disqus has already implemented measures to curtail the spam (including temporarily preventing the editing of old posts) we highly recommend that people change the passwords on their accounts just in case. This can be done by going to disqus.com and going to the “Account” section under “Settings”.

Source: Disqus (Twitter)

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Learn how Yun and Yang changed from 2nd Impact to 3rd Strike in this new Street Fighter III combo video

Yun and Yang, everyone’s favorite custom combo twins, are characters that tend to be associated a lot with Street Fighter III: 3rd Strike. However, 3rd Strike wasn’t the first game where the two were treated as separate characters. Indeed, it was in Street Fighter III: 2nd Impact where the twins were first made separate characters, and given distinct movesets.

Now, with the impending release of the Street Fighter 30th Anniversary Collection, PM has created a combo video that demonstrates the differences between the 2nd Impact and 3rd Strike incarnations of the twins. In the former, the twins shared even more moves before Capcom differentiated them further in the latter; for example Yun still using the Senkuytai roll into rising kick, before gaining his Nishou Kyaku up kicks in 3rd Strike.

Check out the video below to see how these changes differentiate both versions of the twins.

Source: PM

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More Mobile Suit Gundam Extreme Vs. 2 details revealed, location test announcement soon

At the 2018 Japan Amusement Expo earlier this year, Bandai Namco Games announced Mobile Suit Gundam Extreme Vs. 2. Aside from the announcement itself, however, nothing much about the upcoming arcade game was revealed.

Now, we’ve come up on a few more details thanks to Japanese blog Ryokutya, who was able to get a look at a build of the game. Among the information revealed was for some of the mobile suits that will be appearing in the game as well as their corresponding resource cost.

  • Gundam Barbatos Lupus Rex (cost 3000)
  • Tri Burning Gundam (cost 2500)
  • Gundam Maxter (cost 2000)

In addition to these, they were also able to confirm that Extreme Gundam would be returning, including Extreme Gundam Type Leos and all of the others. Meanwhile, Stethias will return as Navi characters.

Aside from these, Ryokutya offered praise for the game’s graphics. Sadly, no screenshots of the game were shared — though it looks like people won’t have to wait long to see the game in action, as Bandai Namco is set hold a location test soon. Details of this location test will be revealed on May 2.

Source: Ryokutya2089 via Siliconera

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Get to know the History and Lore of The King of Fighter’s Takuma “Mr. Karate” Sakazaki in this new video from AcidGlow

SNK’s The King of Fighters is one series that’s steeped in lore and backstory. Even before its creation, the games that spawned it were already laying the seeds of a shared universe filled with different characters, with interesting and interconnected backstories.

One such character is Takuma Sakazaki, founder of the Kyokugen-ryu school of Karate. Originally hailing from Art of Fighting, Takuma’s backstory has been fleshed out throughout the years to the point where it involves more than just those involved in the Kyokugen school.

As this new History and Lore of the Fighter video from AcidGlow explains, Takuma’s story ties him to many of the other influential old masters in The King of Fighters universe, such as Jeff Bogard and Saisyu Kusanagi. Of course, this is on top of his ties with none other than Geese Howard, whose threats against him eventually led to the creation the Mr. Karate identity. From this, we learn of his exploits, leading to his appearances in a number of games in this storied series.

Source: AcidGlow

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desk channels Oro by performing combos one-handed in this new video

Street Fighter III veterans will likele be familiar with Oro, the hermit who limits himself by tying one hand behind his back. This new video by desk isn’t about combos for Oro specifically — rather, he channels the hermit master by performing all the combos in it one-handed!

The video below is the result of 70 days worth of training, where desk mastered the art of playing a number of fighting games one handed. Specifically, the games covered are Super Street Fighter II Turbo, Tekken 7, Dragon Ball FighterZ, Street Fighter IV, Street Fighter V, and of course, Street Fighter III: 3rd Strike.

Part of the reason for this is that desk did hurt his right hand a few months back. As part of his “training” for this, a good chunk of the video shows desk performing some of the in-game challenges and trials for some of the games above, before going on to some more impressive things.

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Guilty Gear XX Accent Core +R is coming to Nintendo Switch

It seems that Nintendo’s portable and console hybrid will continue to be the place to be able to play classic fighting games on the go. The latest developer to announce that they’re bringing some of their classic games to the console is none other than Arc System Works.

At Nexon Developer Conference 2018, Arc System Works has announced that they will be bringing Guilty Gear XX Accent Core +R to the Switch. The port is set to be released worldwide, and will include the Korean soundtrack of Guilty Gear XX #Reload composed by Shin Hae Chul.

0Citizen0 — who was at the event — posted these photos of the announcement on Twitter:

As for details, such as when the game will actually arrive on the platform, it seems that these have yet to be revealed.

Source: 0Citizen0 via Gematsu

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The King of Fighters XIV’s latest update fixes odd move interactions with both new and old characters

After the release of the 3.0 patch, SNK announced that they were releasing yet another patch to smooth out a few issues in that update. Now, The King of Fighters XIV version 3.01 is here, and it does exactly that.

The 3.01 update for The King of Fighters XIV concerns itself with fixing some unintended move interactions. These include some oddities involving the moves of new characters Oswald, Heidern, and Blue Mary. In addition to them, older characters King and Robert Garcia have some glitches fixed as well.

For those interested in the exact details of these changes, you can check out the (thankfully short) change log over at the official site.

Source: SNK

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Street Fighter V’s Sakura is coming to Monster Hunter: World on May 4

As many of you may already know, Capcom has held multiple collaborations between Street Fighter V and Monster Hunter: World. Announced last January at Evo Japan, the collaboration saw each game receiving crossover costumes from the other.

Now, the final crossover costume (that we know of so far) is finally arriving: Sakura, as she appears in Street Fighter V, is coming to Monster Hunter: World on PlayStation 4 as a complete armor set on May 4.

For any hunters out there looking to dress up as her, the tickets required to craft the “Sakura α” armor set will come from a series of challenge quests in the arena. Unlike the Ryu costume — which came from only one quest that players repeated a couple of times — Sakura has three different hunts.

All three hunts (named “Empress in Full Bloom I, II, and III”), will become available from 12:00 AM UTC on May 4 (5:00 PM Pacific on May 3)  until 11:59 PM on May 10 (4:59 PM Pacific on May 9) and will require players to be at Hunter Rank 12 to participate.

Source: Monster Hunter: World via Siliconera