R. Mika Catches Opponents Between a Butt and a Hard Place in Street Fighter V

If you haven’t had enough butt in your life, Rainbow Mika has a fresh supply in Street Fighter V. The aspiring professional wrestler comes equipped with a variety of throw and pressure moves to overwhelm the opponent from multiple directions. 4Gamer has details on her profile and flashy moves.

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From 4Gamer:

The unique and popular Rainbow Mika enters the fray in Street Fighter V! Check out her refined arsenal of pro wrestling moves and her looks!

Rainbow Mika, the Rainbow Bomber

Real name Mika Nanakawa. She admires the legendary “Red Cyclone” Zangief and earnestly aspires to become a professional wrestler.

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Height: 168 cm
Weight: 70 kg
Job/Affiliation: Female wrestler
Likes: Zangief’s pro wrestling, special training (Beach running, finger push-ups, neck bridges)

V-Trigger: Nadeshiko from the Front

Mika’s wrestling rival Nadeshiko makes an entrance! Depending on the directional input, Nadeshiko from Behind and Nadeshiko from Above, changing from where she appears.

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V-Skill: Nekketsu Mic Performance (“Zealous Mic Performance”)

Mika speaks on the mic! After the performance the damage of her next throw move is increased, but the damage increases further as you hold the buttons to continue speaking.

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Special Move: Shooting Peach

Mika aims for the opponent with a butt attack! The jump distance changes based on the light, medium and heavy versions. Just like it looks it’s a great pushing move to pressure the opponent.

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Special Move: Rainbow Typhoon

Mika grabs the opponent by the feet, spins them and tosses them in this giant swing throw. Try to combine her wealth of throw moves and strikes.

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Critical Art: Badly Peach

Mika and Nadeshiko work in perfect sync in this Critical Art! The two combine their power and squish the launched opponent with a double hip attack! The damage and visuals are exceptional!

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Source: 4Gamer

X-MANIA XVI Super Street Fighter II Turbo 3on3 Streaming Live from Shinjuku, Tokyo

This weekend is Japan’s biggest Super Street Fighter II X (Turbo) event, X-MANIA XVI, going down at the Takadanobaba Mikado game center in Shinjuku, Tokyo. In additional to a number of Japan’s strongest Super Turbo players like Sasori, Muteki, Komoda, Kurahashi, Noguchi, Kusumondo, MAO and Itou, a number of international players will be participating, including Damdai, eltrouble, MillerTime and ISIMORN.

Today the 3on3 team tournament will be taking place, featuring over 30 teams. You can watch the tournament live Mikado’s SSFIIX Twitch channel. James Chen will also be providing an English restream later on in the day on UltraChenTV.

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UltraChenTV (English Restream)

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Source: Mikado, UltraChenTV

SoCal Regionals 2015: Prelude II Streaming Live from Anaheim, California

Level|Up is back with the second of two SoCal Regionals prelude events to keep you satiated until the main event in October. Like the previous prelude, this is a smaller scale, one-day event. This time around however the number of titles has been increased from four to nine, offering a bit more diverse line-up with BlazBlue Chronophantasma EXTEND, Dengeki Bunko FIGHTING CLIMAX, Guilty Gear Xrd -SIGN-, Killer Instinct, Mortal Kombat X, Persona 4 Arena Ultimax, Super Smash Bros. for Wii U, Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3 and Ultra Street Fighter IV.

The second Prelude moves the location from UC Irvine to the Anaheim Marriott. You can watch the tournament live on Level|Up’s Twitch channel.

Watch live video from LevelUpLive on www.twitch.tv

Source: Level|Up

SoCal Regionals 2015: Prelude II Streaming Live from Anaheim, California

Level|Up is back with the second of two SoCal Regionals prelude events to keep you satiated until the main event in October. Like the previous prelude, this is a smaller scale, one-day event. This time around however the number of titles has been increased from four to nine, offering a bit more diverse line-up with BlazBlue Chronophantasma EXTEND, Dengeki Bunko FIGHTING CLIMAX, Guilty Gear Xrd -SIGN-, Killer Instinct, Mortal Kombat X, Persona 4 Arena Ultimax, Super Smash Bros. for Wii U, Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3 and Ultra Street Fighter IV.

The second Prelude moves the location from UC Irvine to the Anaheim Marriott. You can watch the tournament live on Level|Up’s Twitch channel.

Watch live video from LevelUpLive on www.twitch.tv

Source: Level|Up

Hong Kong Esports Capcom Pro Tour Asia Qualifier Streaming Live

The Ultra Street Fighter IV Capcom Pro Tour keeps rolling this weekend with the Hong Kong Capcom Pro Tour Asia qualifier, hosted by Hong Kong Esports. This ranking tournament will give the winner a spot in the upcoming Capcom Pro Tour Asia Finals in Singapore. Some of the players attending include CCG|Humanbomb of Hong Kong; QANBA|Xiao Hai, Jiewa and Codynp of China; YBK|Shiro, Misse, KoujiKOG, MOV, Gonzalez, Akimo, TONPY and Harideshi of Japan; INFILTRATION and G.Y.R.O of South Korea; RZR|RB of Taiwan; Chuan of Malaysia; and GL|Saunic of France.

You can watch the stream live now on GameStart Asia’s Twitch channel.

Watch live video from GameStartAsia on www.twitch.tv

Source: GameStart Asia

Arc System Works Holding Arcade Player Vote to Determine Next Guilty Gear Xrd -REVELATOR- Character

Arc System Works had some big news on today’s Guilty Gear Xrd -REVELATOR- pre-release stream. The developers will be holding a vote to determine the next playable character, giving arcade players in Japan a chance to have a direct hand in what character will enter the mayhem next.

The voting process uses an in-game method in the arcade version, which helps to prevent abuse, but on the other hand, that means players outside of Japan will be unable to vote.

Guilty Gear Xrd -REVELATOR- hits Japanese arcades tomorrow, August 25.

Source: Arc System Works

TOPANGA LEAGUE 5 Ultra Street Fighter IV Online Qualifier Streaming Live

Today TOPANGA will be hosting an online qualifier to determine the final two members of its Ultra Street Fighter IV league competition TOPANGA LEAGUE 5 (B).

The qualifier consists of two separate tournaments, capped at 64 players each and played back-to-back. Competitors are broken into eight blocks of eight, with each block played in the in-game tournament mode using single-game format. After the block stage, matches will be best-of-three, with the finals being best-of-five. The winner will qualify for B League. Players are locked to a single character for the entirety of the qualifier.

While TOPANGA LEAGUE 5 itself is a pay-per-view broadcast, you can watch the online qualifier free of charge on Niconico Live.

1st Qualifier
2nd Qualifier

Source: TOPANGA

Toshin-Gekitotsu Guilty Gear Xrd -SIGN- Exhibition Streaming Live from Tokyo, Japan

Tonight, Arc System Works and PlayStation will be bringing together some of the best Guilty Gear players in the world to compete at Toshin-Gekitotsu in Tokyo, Japan. Their opponents? A team comprised of high-level fighting game players from all over the community, including legends like Mad Catz’ Daigo Umehara and sako of HORI.

This massive exhibition will play out in Guilty Gear Xrd -SIGN-, providing us an interesting glimpse at how gods of the franchise fare against their contemporaries from other titles.

Fight Card

We’ve included the YouTube broadcast below, but you can also catch the action through Niconico Live and UStream.

Results

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GUILTY GEAR Xrd -SIGN- – Toshin-Gekitotsu

Guilty Gear Kings vs. Pro Gamer Alliance – 1-0

Battle 1 – TAKA (Slayer) vs. Roi (Sol Badguy) – 3-1 ●○○○
Battle 2 – Kiisha (Faust) vs. Ain (Ky Kiske)
Battle 3 – Koichi (I-No) vs. Nakasu Bedman (Bedman)
Battle 4 – Takehara (Ramlethal Valentine) vs. Mocchi (Sol Badguy)
Battle 5 – Hamburg (Elphelt Valentine) vs. Nakamura (Millia Rage)
Battle 6 – Karinchu (Millia Rage) vs. Dogura (Sin Kiske)
Battle 7 – Susumu (Chipp Zanuff) vs. Machabo- (Ky Kiske)
Battle 8 – Nage (Faust) vs. Kazunoko (Sol Badguy)
Battle 9 – FAB (Potemkin) vs. sako (Zato-1)
Battle 10 – Ogawa (Zato-1) vs. Umehara (Sol Badguy)

Source: Toshin-Gekitotsu

TOPANGA LEAGUE 5 (B) Begins September 4, Player List Announced

Today’s TOPANGA TV had some juicy news for TOPANGA LEAGUE fans. On the show, TOPANGA representative director Toyota announced the invitees for the upcoming TOPANGA LEAGUE 5 (B), along with other key details for the Ultra Street Fighter IV league competition. Taking part in this year’s B League are returning veterans like RZR|Fuudo and MCZ|Mago, along with new faces and rising stars like FGC|Pepeday, aiai, and Matsuri.

Schedule

This season’s B League officially kicks off on September 4 and will run for ten days. Prior to the start of the season, an online qualifier will be held on August 23 to determine the final two players.

B League Online Qualifier*
Aug. 23 (Sun.)
B League
Sep. 4 (Fri.) Sep. 5 (Sat.) Sep. 6 (Sun.)
Sep. 11 (Fri.) Sep. 12 (Sat.) Sep. 13 (Sun.)
Sep. 21 (Mon.) Sep. 22 (Tue.) Sep. 23 (Wed.)
A-B League Replacement Match Playoff
Oct. 4 (Sun.)

*Viewable free of charge.

Rules & Format

While previous B League events consisted of 16 players, this year’s bumps that number up to 20. Players will broken into two blocks of ten, determined by drawing after the completion of the online qualifier. To prevent repeated matchups, players using the same character will be separated into different blocks.

The remaining rules are the same as previous years. B League will be played online in best-of-5 game matches. Players are ranked by win-loss record, or in the case of a tie, by game win-loss difference, followed by head-to-head matchup results.

Players

Below are the invited players of TOPANGA LEAGUE 5 (B). Included in the list of participants are A Leaguers who were demoted last season, losers of the replacement matches, higher placers from last season’s B League, champions of each TOPANGA RANKING BATTLE 2015 region, and other players showing exceptional performances and skill in the past year. Chun-Li specialist Matsuri joins as the first female player in TOPANGA League history.

For the invited players, character selection will be announced before the upcoming online qualifier on August 23. Winners of the online qualifier will use the same character used in the qualifier. For those unfamiliar with certain players, we have an included a list of likely character selections.

Player Character
RZR|Fuudo Fei Long
FGC|Pugera Ibuki
YBK|SANTAROU Sagat
YBK|Dashio Seth
NINOMAE Rose
NISHIKIN Blanka
Sasaki Cody
FGC|Pepeday El Fuerte
Kawaguchi Rose
MCZ|Mago Yang
Misse Makoto
Gachi-kun Sagat
Matsuri Chun-Li
aiai Juri
YBK|Shiro Abel
MDR Rufus
-6 Poison
Hagejin Zangief
Online Qualifier 1 Winner
Online Qualifier 2 Winner

Prizes

With the increase in players comes an increase in prize money. The top three placers for each block will be awarded a cash prize.

Placement Prize
First Place
of each Block
100,000 Yen
(~805 USD)
Second Place
of each Block
50,000 Yen
(~405 USD)
Third Place
of each Block
30,000 Yen
(~240 USD)

Broadcast & Pricing Information

As always, TOPANGA LEAGUE 5 will be streamed on Niconico Live as a pay-per-view series of broadcasts. Purchasing a season ticket for each League will allow viewers to watch the entirety of that league, or in the case of the A-B ticket, all 22 days of TOPANGA LEAGUE 5. One Niconico point is the equivalent of one Japanese yen.

Ticket Price
B League Season Ticket
(10 Days)
2000 Niconico points
(~16.15 USD)
A League Season Ticket
(12 Days)
3500 Niconico points
(~28.25 USD)
B-A League Season Ticket
(22 Days)
5000 Niconico points
(~40.35 USD)

Be sure to watch the online qualifier on August 23 (viewable free of charge) and look forward to the start of B League on September 4.

Source: TOPANGA TV

Guilty Gear Xrd -REVELATOR- Launches in Arcade August 25, Jam Kuradoberi to Join Playable Cast via Update

Before the Guilty Gear Xrd -SIGN- finals at ARC REVOLUTION CUP 2015, Arc System Works had a little surprise. A new trailer for the follow-up to -SIGN-, Guilty Gear Xrd -REVELATOR- was revealed, showing off the cast, including new characters Johnny and Jack-O’ as well as Elphelt Valentine’s updated design.

The last moments of trailer confirmed that -REVELATOR- is just around the corner. The title will launch in Japanese arcades on Tuesday August 25. In addition, Jam Kuradoberi (voice: Rei Matsuzaki) was revealed as new character. The Chinese fighter who first appeared in Guilty Gear X will become playable via update sometime after release.

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You can watch the full arcade opening below.

Look forward to the next version of GGXrd in just ten days!

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Source: Arc System Works, 4Gamer, image by 4eajt,