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THE COOL KID93 talks Abigail, Red Bull Conquest, and Street Fighter X Tekken in this interview with BornFree

THE COOL KID93 has been making waves in Street Fighter V‘s competitive scene with his Abigail; his play with the big guy has led to a number of impressive performances, including a top 8 finish at Evo 2018.

Of course, his choice of Abigail is a somewhat contentious one — while he can be fun to watch with his high damage, a lot of people do not like fighting against him. Abigail is just one of the things that he talks about in this interview with BornFree, including how some may have dismissed his performances earlier in the year as due to the character’s strength. Additionally, they also dive into the game where he first made his name as a competitor: 2012’s Street Fighter X Tekken.

Source: BornFree

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SNK’s “e-Sports Support Program” has been expanded to cover online tournaments

SNK’s “e-Sports Support Program” was originally started in late 2016 only for The King of Fighters XIV, before it was eventually expanded to all of their fighting games a year after. However, this is the first time that the program will now support online tournaments as well as traditional offline ones.

Aside from now allowing online tournaments, the requirements remain mostly the same. Any tournaments that apply should have at least 20 confirmed participants in it. Additionally, the program is open only to tournaments that run before or on July 31, 2019.

It’s also important to note that, while online tournaments are now qualified, prizes including both prize pool bonuses and actual physical goods are still limited only to offline tournaments.

The full details for support can be found here.

Source: SNK

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A new Dragon Ball FighterZ balance patch is coming this Wednesday

Hot on the heels of this weekend’s tournament at ARC REVO Japan 2018, a new patch has been announced for Dragon Ball FighterZ. The new patch will be arriving this Wednesday and will bringing some balance changes to the game.

The balance patch is stated to bring both buffs and nerfs to all characters in the cast. Additionally, a tweet from Ho-chan has listed a number of confirmed changes; specifically, Bardock and Android 16’s level 3s have been confirmed to be nerfed. This is in addition to one of Kid Buu’s most commonly-used moves is being nerfed, with one of his supers being buffed in exchange.

As for the rest of the cast, we’ll find out when the balance patch hits this Wednesday.

Source: Ho-chan

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The King of Fighters XIV is getting a new update this December

Despite being busy with SNK Heroines: Tag Team Frenzy and the upcoming Samurai Shodown, SNK hasn’t forgotten about The King of Fighters XIV. During a recent event, the company announced that the game would be receiving a new update this coming December.

The announcement was made after the KOFXIV Masters Tournament at The King of Fighters Festival 2018. The update itself is set to drop near the end of December 2018. As for what the update entails, no details have been announced as of yet.

The King of Fighters XIV has generally had good balance, especially compared to its predecessor. However, the most recent round of DLC characters have added in some pretty dominating fighters. Whether or not this new update simply addresses that, or adds even more power to the game’s cast, is something we’ll likely find out in the near future.

Source: King of Fighters Festival 2018, via Gatoray KOF

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Jeanne is SNK Heroines: Tag Team Frenzy’s next DLC character

This classic World Heroes character returns in SNK’s experimental tag team fighter

SNK is digging deep into the history for the next DLC character for SNK Heroines: Tag Team Frenzy. Joining the cast is Jeanne d’Arc from ADK’s World Heroes.

As the trailer below demonstrates, Jeanne (not Janne, as it was apparently misspelled in her home series) brings her classic whip-sword — a weapon she wielded well before SoulCalibur‘s Ivy. In addition to her default armored costume, Jeanne also wears a Samurai themed two piece bikini, and an even fancier set of armor as her alternate outfits.

Jeanne arrives in SNK Heroines: Tag Team Frenzy for Switch and PlayStation 4 on December 13.

Source: Nintendo

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Ragyo Kiryuin, Nui Harime, Switch version confirmed for Kill la Kill the Game: IF

The worst mom ever and her psychotic lackey are coming to the Switch!

Arc System Works has released some new information regarding Kill la Kill the Game: IF at ArcRevo Japan. Two new characters have appeared — Ragyo Kiryuin and Nui Harime. Fans of the show will recall these two as the main antagonists of the series: With that in mind, their confirmation shouldn’t come as a surprise.

Arc System Works also announced that Kill la Kill the Game: IF would also be coming to the Switch. No other details regarding this version were released.

Kill la Kill the Game: IF is coming to PlayStation 4 and Switch in 2019.

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Source: Anime FGC News, Famitsu

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Masahiro Sakurai talks to GameInformer about trying not to disappoint fans with the roster of Super Smash Bros. Ultimate

One of the most notable things about the upcoming Super Smash Bros. Ultimate is just how large its roster of characters is. Despite this however, there’s still bound to be some players who are disappointed that certain characters from the Nintendo canon did not make it in.

In a recent interview with GameInformer, Smash creator Masahiro Sakurai talks about this, discussing how they wanted to not disappoint fans, and yet how they can’t really avoid doing so anyway.

“There will be people who might feel disappointed if fighters that appeared in a previous title are not included,” Sakurai states. “I didn’t want any players to feel that way, so we worked really hard to make this happen.”

Despite this however, he admits that, as much as they try, there will always be fans who will be disappointed. “But what I learned is that regardless of doing our utmost, no matter how hard we try, and no matter how many fighters we include, there will always be people who feel that way.”

Of course, that’s just a small part of the interview, read the rest over at GameInformer.

Super Smash Bros. Ultimate arrives on Switch on December 7, 2018.

Source: GameInformer

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Sega drops a new trailer for Blade Arcus Rebellion from Shining

Hot on the heels of announcing Blade Arcus Rebellion from Shining, Sega have now released trailer for the upcoming PlayStation 4 and Switch fighter.

Based on their long running Shining RPG series, Blade Arcus Rebellion from Shining is the 3rd installment of the Blade Arcus fighting game spin-off series. The new game adds 5 new characters from Shining Resonance Refrain.

In addition to focusing on the new characters, the trailer below also details the bonuses available in the game’s Japanese limited edition “Premium Fan Box”.

As detailed in the trailer above, the “Premium Fan Box” includes a special collectors box, a Blade Arcus Rebellion visual book, a Drama CD titled Epilogue of Blade Arcus, a theme song CD, a download code for new character Kirika’s “Fall-Colored Hagoromo” costume, and an A3 sized poster.

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Blade Arcus Rebellion from Shining arrives on PlayStation 4 and Switch on March 14, 2019.

Source: Sega

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Dragon Ball FighterZ, SoulCalibur VI, and Street Fighter 30th Anniversary Collection discounted in Walmart and GameStop’s Black Friday sales

Black Friday is now upon us, and as such a number of retailers have put discounts on their games. Two of these retailers are Walmart and GameStop who, as part of their Black Friday sales, have discounts on a number of fighting games.

For any players who’ve yet to pick up Dragon Ball FighterZ, Walmart has both the PlayStation 4 and Switch versions of the game on sale. The newer Switch version can be purchased for only $25.99, down from its regular $59.99 price. Meanwhile, the PlayStation 4 version is only $19.99, down from $39.82.

GameStop on the other hand has the PlayStation 4 versions of SoulCalibur VI and the Street Fighter 30th Anniversary Collection on sale. SoulCalibur VI can be purchased for only $39.99, down from its regular $59.99 price. The Street Fighter 30th Anniversary Collection on the other hand is going for only $19.99, down from $39.99.

For anyone interested in taking advantage of any of the above sales, they should do so soon, as most of these will only last until the end of the holiday weekend.

Sources: Walmart; GameStop

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This option select lets Urien punish most V-Reversals in Street Fighter V

Option selects are some of the most powerful emergent tools in any fighting game. By abusing how a game’s command interpreter works, these allow a player to do one input that results in one of two options, depending on their opponent’s actions — in turn taking out the need to guess or read their opponent. Now, one such option select has seemingly been discovered for Urien in Street Fighter V. The option select in question allows him to easily deal with V-Reversals — one of the game’s most powerful defensive tools.

In a recent tweet, PR3DA shows how to do this option select. Here, they input standing fierce punch right before immediately holding down-back. Once the standing fierce is blocked or down has been charged long enough, they immediately input up-back and kick to perform Urien’s Violence Knee Drop.

Now, depending on what the opponent does, one of two things will happen. If the opponent simply blocks, the Violence Knee Drop will not come out. However, if they do a V-Reversal, said move will come out and punish it. Additionally, the move will also not come out if the initial standing fierce hits, allowing the player to continue with a combo.

This new option select should work well against characters whose V-Reversals immediately attack their opponents. However, it may leave Urien open to punishment against side switching V-Reversals, such as those of Rashid and Nash.

Source: PR3DA

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