Author: John "Zidiane" Silvia

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Watch Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3’s Jill Valentine Fight at Breakneck Speed in This CMV

Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3 has been enjoying a nice resurgence of popularity, partly due to the release on PlayStation 4, along with the announcement of Marvel vs. Capcom: Infinite. The community has always been active and doing its best to grow, but news like that undoubtedly helps expand interest.

In the face of this new interest, we’re seeing more content popping up on YouTube for the game, some of which you can see below. Here we have a hectic Jill CMV by Hailet Lo’Rain, featuring the S.T.A.R.S. agent going berserk on her opponents. There are enough side-switching antics and kooky interactions to make anyone’s headspin, but just wait till you see what she does to Nemesis.

Source: Hailey Lo’Rain (YouTube)

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Get Ready for Bass to Rock, Man! Try to Find Your Tune with This Super Smash Bros. for Wii U Mod

The Super Smash Bros. for Wii U modding community is one of the more active modding communities in fighting games as a whole, and they always seem to be coming up with some really neat mods. We just recently had the Wicke mod–from Pokémon Sun and Moon–and now we get to see a particularly well-done Mega Man mod.

This addition of Bass sees some really nice attention to detail, particularly the texture of the gold bits of Bass’ armor. The mod also sees the Buster effects altered, as well as alterations to Megaman’s up-B–replacing Mega Man’s companion Rush with Bass’ companion Treble. The most stunning effect has to be to the Final Smash, which normally sees various iterations of Mega Man from different games jump in to aid him in his fight. Bass’ Final Smash sees several villains, such as Vile, Bass.EXE, Juno, and Rogue join him instead.

You can download the mod for yourself here.

Source: KTH (Gamebanana); KTH (YouTube)

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Skullgirls 2nd Encore Arcade Cabinet Spotted at Akihabara Arcade, a Barcade Near Denver Colorado

Wild arcade sightings are nowhere near as common as they once were, making secret niches all the more exciting to happen upon. While the existence of pure arcades are rarer now, Barcades have persisted, and are becoming more popular recently. Barcades are, as their name implies, a combination of a bar and an arcade, helping ensure their livelihood.

Akihabara is one of these, located in Westminster, near the heart of Colorado. You can find details like store hours and reviews on their Yelp page. This arcade is fairly unique in being one of very few, if any, Arcades to house a Skullgirls arcade cabinet.

Skullgirls Arcade

The cabinet looks to have been imported from Japan, but appears to be playing the English versionof Skullgirls 2nd Encore. It will be receiving the coming patch update, so it is prepared to be played for years to come.

Source: Akihabara (Yelp); Skullgirls (Twitter)

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Skullgirls 2nd Encore Arcade Cabinet Spotted at Akihabara Arcade, a Barcade Near Denver Colorado

Wild arcade sightings are nowhere near as common as they once were, making secret niches all the more exciting to happen upon. While the existence of pure arcades are rarer now, Barcades have persisted, and are becoming more popular recently. Barcades are, as their name implies, a combination of a bar and an arcade, helping ensure their livelihood.

Akihabara is one of these, located in Westminster, near the heart of Colorado. You can find details like store hours and reviews on their Yelp page. This arcade is fairly unique in being one of very few, if any, Arcades to house a Skullgirls arcade cabinet.

Skullgirls Arcade

The cabinet looks to have been imported from Japan, but appears to be playing the English versionof Skullgirls 2nd Encore. It will be receiving the coming patch update, so it is prepared to be played for years to come.

Source: Akihabara (Yelp); Skullgirls (Twitter)

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New Character Cid Electrifies Her Competition in Latest Punch Planet Reveal Trailer

Upcoming indie titles are a bit of a gamble at times–creating a game is complex. This complexity is compounded with a fighting game, where not only is a game expected to be fun, but it is also expected to be balanced and playable competitively. While we’ve had a few horror stories as far as indie fighters are concerned, today we’re talking about a game that appears to be coming together very nicely.

Punch Planet is the game we’re talking about–if you’d like to know more about them, be sure to check out the interview we did with their team recently. This unique sci-fi fighter just unveiled their next character and her stage, both of which are particularly stunning. Her playstyle revolves around an electrified knife and a grenade, which she seems to be able to setup tricky mixups and confirms with.

Source: PUNCH PLANET

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Quick Compilation of the New Color Palettes Shown off in The King of Fighters XIV Version 1.10 Demo

The King of Fighters XIV is arguably one of the best fighting games that’s been released in recent memory. The game has an expansive starting roster with simplified controls over its predecessor KOFXIII, while still maintaining complexity and depth. The title also shows how amazing it is to have attentive developers, with SNK putting out patches and updates that make a serious effort to address player concerns. This is all on top of the modern niceties such as demos and great tutorials, doing the most to ensure new players get a chance to join the fight.

Though the latest Version 1.10 patch will not be arriving until January 11th, the demo for the patch is loose in the wild, and showcases a lot of what we can look forward to in the new version. One of the things that is shown off are the new colors: two more for every character. We get to see the new colors for every demo character, which are displayed in the video below. These colors looks like they’re attempting to address some concerns over the palette variety in the original version, which is very good to see.

Source: Gato Ray

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Fan Project “Darkstalkers vs. Street Fighter” Soundtrack by WizzyWhipitWonderful Available for Download

Fan projects can range from lackluster to absolutely stunning–and none of them ever have any guarantee of being completed. Real life gets in the way of hobbies, and sometimes amazing projects get left by the wayside, or worse, still-promising projects can get a cease and desist notice.

The project we’re talking about today is Darkstalkers vs. Street Fighter: an effort to make an X-Men vs. Street Fighter-styled package in M.U.G.E.N with two of Capcom’s most popular fighting franchises. The project has some really interesting ideas going for it, like boss characters Bison and Pyron trying to absorb each other’s power to become the true final boss.

While unfortunately the project hasn’t had much headway outside of gathering in-game assets since it started back in 2013, the soundtrack that is intended to go along with the game has been finished. Everything from intro screens and continue screens to character and stage themes have been completed, and they’re all fully available to enjoy. You can listen to them in the convenient YouTube playlist below, or download them here. Whatever may end up happening with the final Darkstalkers vs. Street Fighter project, we’ll still have this amazing OST to enjoy.

Sources: WizzyWhipitWonderful; MugenGuild

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Fan Project “Darkstalkers vs. Street Fighter” Soundtrack by WizzyWhipitWonderful Available for Download

Fan projects can range from lackluster to absolutely stunning–and none of them ever have any guarantee of being completed. Real life gets in the way of hobbies, and sometimes amazing projects get left by the wayside, or worse, still-promising projects can get a cease and desist notice.

The project we’re talking about today is Darkstalkers vs. Street Fighter: an effort to make an X-Men vs. Street Fighter-styled package in M.U.G.E.N with two of Capcom’s most popular fighting franchises. The project has some really interesting ideas going for it, like boss characters Bison and Pyron trying to absorb each other’s power to become the true final boss.

While unfortunately the project hasn’t had much headway outside of gathering in-game assets since it started back in 2013, the soundtrack that is intended to go along with the game has been finished. Everything from intro screens and continue screens to character and stage themes have been completed, and they’re all fully available to enjoy. You can listen to them in the convenient YouTube playlist below, or download them here. Whatever may end up happening with the final Darkstalkers vs. Street Fighter project, we’ll still have this amazing OST to enjoy.

Sources: WizzyWhipitWonderful; MugenGuild

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Remember That Skullgirls 2nd Encore Double Jump Tech? Here’s the Trick to Doing It on a Stick

Last month, Liam showed us some game-changing tech for Skullgirls 2nd Encore, in the ability to instantly double jump. This lets us get faster overheads than otherwise possible, but only a select few characters are capable of taking full advantage of this technique. In his explanation video, Liam suggest that on a traditional stick this method was a lot harder than usual, but some new tech may prove that incorrect.

Mr.Peck, the man behind a few of the amazing combo videos featured on SRK in the past, has also spent his time making tutorial videos for his game of choice. This time he tackles this new Double Jump tech, and finds a way to easily and consistently pull it off on an arcade stick through particular hand positioning.

Source: MrPeckerson

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Brawlhalla Mod Replaces the Game’s Stage Backgrounds with Retro Gaming Imagery

Brawlhalla is a very visually-distinct game in the fighting genre. The flash-art style texture belies gameplay that many swear by (with many unique features, and an interesting take on balance). While the game already allows the players to customize their characters through in-game clothing and weapon skins, some players have taken it upon themselves to further personalize the experience with mod packs.

What we’re looking at today is a mod that brings the looks of Mega Man 2, Kirby, Super Mario Bros. 3, Metroid, and Contra to the game. This pack comes from user lasensualidad, who textured this pack with iconic tiles and backgrounds for various stages in Brawlhalla, and can be downloaded here.

Source: lasensualidad :v