Author: Ian "iantothemax" Walker

In a random video addressing the WB Games Summit in Brazil, Capcom’s Yoshinori Ono took it upon himself to showcase a few brief snippets of a brand new Street Fighter V stage set in the South American country.

While there’s not much to see here, the notorious prankster seems to heavily hint at a Blanka reveal being planned for Brazil Games Show 2015 in October. Personally, I feel as if these teases are a little too on the nose to actually be about the green-skinned world warrior; could it be possible that Sean will make a grand return to the Street Fighter series?

Obviously, we’ll have to wait until later this year to see if these guesses are correct, but feel free to let us know what you think in the comments below.

Source: Street Fighter, tip via MegamanXZero

For the past week or so, Bandai Namco has been teasing a major Tekken 7 announcement, and made good on that promise earlier today by revealing The King of Iron Fist Tournament 2015.

This massive event will see players from across the globe compete in the latest installment of their popular franchise, with ¥10,000,000 (~$81,000 USD) set to be awarded to the finalists. Three qualifiers are scheduled to be held in Japan throughout the fall, and the top two placers at Evo 2015 will also be awarded the opportunity to participate. Finally, special representatives from South Korea, North America, and other parts of the world will be specially chosen to fill out the bracket.

The King of Iron Fist Tournament 2015 is scheduled to take place sometime in November or December of this year. Further details are sure to be provided as we near those dates, so stay tuned. Until then, feel free to check out the teaser below.

Source: Tekken via Avoiding the Puddle

In anticipation of Street Fighter V’s beta rollout later this month, Capcom’s Peter “Combofiend” Rosas has provided an extensive breakdown of the content and features included in the early test build.

First off, the beta will include every fighter shown off thus far, though a delay has been planned for the two most recent reveals. Ryu, Chun-Li, Nash, and M. Bison will be playable immediately, while Cammy and Birdie are scheduled to join a day later so that Capcom can test their new content delivery system.

As the primary purpose of this beta is to test online play, there will be no local multiplayer. Upon starting Street Fighter V, participants will be taken to the character select screen. As there is no character change option between matches, you’ll want to pick someone you plan to play multiple games with. After that, players will be placed in training mode, where they can mess around with their character of choice while an opponent is selected.

Players will be returned to this stage between every match; expect to get a lot of practice in.

In terms of new content, Street Fighter V’s beta includes an as of yet unseen stage inspired by the beautiful locales of New Zealand.

And finally, while the developers are looking into PlayStation 3 controller compatibility in Street Fighter V’s final release, the beta will not include this functionality.

Street Fighter V’s beta opens up on July 23 and is scheduled to run for five days. It is currently open to numerous regions around the world, so be sure to visit the official hub for more details on your neck of the woods. This round is open to PlayStation 4 users only, but fans on PC can expect to take part in another beta test this fall.

Source: Capcom-Unity

After arguably ruling competitive gaming in Europe since their arrival in 2010, DreamHack has announced their intentions to make landfall on another continent: North America. The Swedish organization’s reveal was accompanied by a quick teaser video (included below) and a brand new website.

As of now, there’s little information here apart from the region. DreamHack plans to release more details this Wednesday, July 8.

Though earlier installments focused on mainstays of the “eSports” scene like StarCraft and Counter-Strike, fighters broke into the event in the later part of 2012 with Super Street Fighter IV: Arcade Edition ver. 2012. Since then, the series has played a major part in DreamHack’s competitive gaming draw, most recently at the Summer 2015 event that saw MeltDown’s Olivier “Luffy” Hay take home the gold.

While it’s pretty likely our favorite genre will receive a nod when DreamHack heads west, nothing is concrete without word from the organization themselves. Stay tuned for more news later this week.

Source: DreamHack via NeoGAF

As we get closer and closer to this year’s installment of the Evolution Championship Series, major details continue to fall into place. The latest is the event’s official schedule, which should help attendees plan their weekend in Las Vegas around the competition.

Without further ado, here’s the Evo 2015 schedule, provided to us by the tournament organizers.

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As you can see, this fills in a few blanks. We’ve known for a bit which games would comprise Sunday’s lineup, but now we see that Persona 4 Arena Ultimax will start and end on Friday, followed by finals for Super Smash Bros. for Wii U, Tekken 7, and Killer Instinct on Saturday.

A stream schedule should be provided later this week.

Furthermore, Evo 2015’s pool assignments have entered the second round of their reviewing process, so be sure to see what’s been updated and provide any further corrections you may have before they are locked in. If you aren’t seeing any adjustments, you may need to clear your browser’s cache. Final brackets may arrive as early as tonight.

Evo 2015 is scheduled for July 17-19. Additional details can be found their the event’s official website.

In addition to Predator and the slew of skins based around its source material, Mortal Kombat X players will also be able to mess around with a package of classic fatalities when the update drops tomorrow.

According to IGN, these old-school finishers will be available free of charge, allowing veterans Scorpion, Sub-Zero, Sonya Blade, and Johnny Cage to unleash fatalities from past Mortal Kombat appearances. Additionally, NetherRealm Studios is set to pass out the Kold War Scorpion skin to users as well, an outfit that was exclusive to GameStop upon the game’s release.

Predator is scheduled to release tomorrow for Kombat Pack subscribers, and will be available separately on July 14 for everyone else. A quick teaser trailer can be found below.

Sources: IGN, Mortal Kombat Community, tip via NightmareSteam

After releasing numerous patches to address Ultra Street Fighter IV’s launch issues on PlayStation 4, the developers behind this port have returned with even more corrections.

Much like before, this update adjusts various sound bugs and heightens visual fidelity, but also includes some smaller changes regarding syntax and font.

All in all, Ultra Street Fighter IV on PlayStation 4 continues to improve after the dreadful effort that first arrived in May, and hopefully the platform’s community finds the game playable after these post-launch patches are applied.

Full details on what’s included in ver.1.04 can be found below.

Sources: Heart of Battle, NeoGAF