Category: Fighting Games

The Street Fighter V top 8 at Combo Breaker 2016 just came to a close, and organizers didn’t give viewers the chance to take a breath before unveiling Capcom’s special announcement promised earlier this week. Since we’re mere days away from the calendar ticking over to June, it came as a surprise to no one that this announcement included details on the newest addition to the Street Fighter V roster. That new addition is none other than Ibuki.

While we can’t yet confirm the sorts of shenanigans she’ll be able to pull off in Street Fighter V, we do know that this fan favorite kunoichi has loads of kunai ready for tossing. She also appears to sport a number of her signature moves including target combos, command dashes, Neckbreaker, and Raida, just to name a few.

But she’s bringing with her a number of new tools as well, including (among many others) a sort of kite-based float, bombs, and what appears to be a counter.

If you want to see her in action, check out the official trailer below!

Source: Street Fighter

FFM Rumble 9 is one of three Capcom Pro Tour Ranking Tournaments taking place this Memorial Day weekend. It is the fourth of 14 qualifier events for Capcom Pro Tour Europe and it is taking place at Frankfurt University of Applied Sciences in Frankfurt, Germany. FFM-Rumble 9 is a Street Fighter V Capcom Pro Tour 2016 ranking tournament so in addition to Germany’s best SFV players, you can expect to see strong European players like BX3.TP-Link|Phenom, PxP.KIG|ProblemX, RB|Luffy, Valmaster, Perilous|Packz, etc. attending to try and and earn ranking points and qualify for the European regional finals. In addition to Street Fighter V, UMvC3 and GGXrd Revelator will be main tournament games at FFM-Rumble 9.

You can find the brackets for FFM-Rumble 9 here.

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The full Japanese version of Guilty Gear Xrd -REVELATOR- launched earlier this week, and while a demo version of the game has been available–even outside of Japan–for a good while now, the full game does include content not present in the demo. Two notable pieces of such content are console-exclusive characters Kum Haehyun and Raven.

If you’ve recently found yourself in possession of a Japanese version of the full launch title, but don’t speak the language, navigating the menus may prove to be a larger task than learning the ins and outs of the characters themselves. Luckily, Kurushii recently shared a full translation of the menus from Japanese to English to help get everyone started.

Before you hit the lab to figure out these new characters, be sure to give the document a look.

Source: Kurushii

While BlazBlue: Central Fiction has had plenty of time to make a name for itself in Japan, audiences outside of the country have been left wondering when the game would finally make its way to North America. In a recent post on the official PlayStation Blog, we learned that the title is headed west later this year.

The console version of the game is set to ship with over thirty characters and sixty stages spanning standard Story, Arcade, and VS Modes, as well as the more nuanced Grim of Abyss, Score Attack and Speed Star Modes.

According to Gematsu, Aksys Games revealed a short list of additional features during their MomoCon panel. These features are as follows:

• Revamped user interface: completely redesigned and more intuitive.
• Brand new story: a massive single-palyer experience.
• New battle systems: “Exceed Accel” and “Active Flow.”
• Five new characters: Hibiki=Kohaku (technical-type), Naoto (aggressive standard-type), and more.
• New levels and level variations.
• “Alliance Mode” team construction mode.
• “Item Shop Mode” where you use currency earned in-game to buy loot.
• “Speed Star Mode” where you try to defeat CPU opponents within a specified time limit.

While no exact date has been announced, we do know that this latest entry in the long-running BlazBlue series will be making its way to North American PlayStation 3 and PlayStation 4 systems by the end of 2016.

Sources: PlayStation Blog, RPG Site via Gematsu, with a tips from Tony and NightmareSteam

The Japanese version of Guilty Gear Xrd -REVELATOR- just came out, and although we’ve had access to a demo version for over a month, players around the world quickly got to work on the two new console-exclusive characters.

Kum Haehyun is an unusual character for the anime game, since she doesn’t utilize the gatling system for chaining normals like other characters do. The robot, actually controlled by a Korean heiress from the inside, has links and many chargeable moves, as well as a controllable projectile. It wouldn’t be an ArcSys character without some deeper tech under the surface, and short clips quickly began surfacing on Twitter.

Finally found something for throw. Yeehaw #PS4share pic.twitter.com/2VLa9w5qrA

— Trevor Claggett (@Hi_Im_Sunfish) May 26, 2016

分からん殺し pic.twitter.com/HyuHZKdezv

— DESIRE (@al8969al) May 27, 2016

クムやっぱりコンボムズイ pic.twitter.com/YR0YVcIePs

— ほっさ(七音の手下) (@hontosumanhossa) May 26, 2016

クムコンボムズイ… pic.twitter.com/M2SvCSxXh7

— ほっさ(七音の手下) (@hontosumanhossa) May 26, 2016

溜め四寅剣、ビーク対策としてアリかもね #PS4share pic.twitter.com/y5Ifir90HM

— アベ (@GG_abemkin) May 26, 2016

Unblockable, feel like this might be possible with yrc. Need to explore #PS4share pic.twitter.com/eDy6OuMU6z

— Trevor Claggett (@Hi_Im_Sunfish) May 26, 2016

Someone also compiled Kum Haehyun’s frame data. There’s also an extensive video covering the basics of the character by MBA Gaming.

Sources: DESIRE, Abe, Hossa, Hi_Im_Sunfish

In an unfortunate turn of events–relayed through the Combo Breaker Twitter account–Killer Instinct players may have to play their games on the latest patch, complete with all of the balance changes which the public have not had a chance to experiment with yet. According to the Combo Breaker Twitter and tournament organizer Rick “TheHadou” Thiher, this complication was supposedly meant to be avoided through the use of offline boxes and accounts, but they do not seem to have worked, as characters cannot be loaded properly on the unpatched systems.

This issue is still developing, so the Combo Breaker setups may still be salvaged. If not, players better bone up on all of the patch 3.1.5 details, which you can read about here.

Gargos will of course be banned over the weekend, and we hope that this issue is sorted before the tournament begins.

Sources: Combo Breaker, TheHadou