Category: Fighting Games

Yesterday, Carl “Perfect Legend” White, a two-time Evolution champion in Mortal Kombat and a decorated competitor in other fighting games, announced that he had signed with Team eLevate.

More known for sponsoring competitors in the FPS genre, eLevate’s signing of Perfect Legend represents their entry into competitive fighting games. According to their Chief Operations Officer, Ray “FroZnRay” Arsenault, the team has been “considering picking up a few players in the fighting game genre to expand [their] reach and to continue to grow [their] own presence in eSports.” He adds that “Perfect Legend was a perfect fit for us, as he brings a combination of experience, talent, and professionalism that is rare, and will allow us to build a strong base in the scene both in terms of having top players like Perfect Legend but also in creating media, generating content, and working with sponsors to continually grow the eSports market.”

Team eLevate also released an announcement video celebrating Perfect Legend’s signing, which we’ve included below.

We here are Shoryuken wish both Perfect Legend and Team eLevate the best in this new relationship.

Source: Team eLevate via Perfect Legend

The release of Street Fighter V brought with it a number of licensed accessories and peripherals for the game. However, some folks may prefer something more customized when it comes to their arcade stick.

Those looking to add a bit more Street Fighter V flavor to their favorite input device may want to consider these SFV x Sanwa OBSF-30 buttons and LB-35 balltops from Arcade Shock. Like their previous limited edition Evolution buttons and balltop, these come with a special print logo on them, this time of the Street Fighter V variety. The pushbuttons come with either the monochrome or full color logo, while the balltop is only available in the full color variant.

Both the SFV x Sanwa buttons and balltop are currently available on Arcade Shock’s site.

That’s not all, Arcade Shock also announced that they will be bringing Street Fighter V character buttons and balltops to Evolution 2016. These exclusive Street Fighter V character buttons and balltops will feature illustrations by Motoki Yoshihara with colors by Danimation. Arcade Shock sent us a sample of the art for Ryu, alongside images of the SFV x Sanwa parts, which you can see in the gallery below.

Source: Arcade Shock

Since it was announced alongside its Capcom counterpart back in 2010, fans have been eagerly awaiting Bandai Namco’s Tekken x Street Fighter. The game promised to give fighting game fans a taste of what Street Fighter characters could do in a Tekken-style setting, something further teased by Akuma’s inclusion as a guest in Tekken 7 Fated Retribution.

Sadly, it seems that fans will have to make do with that appearance from Akuma for now, as Bandai Namco has confirmed that Tekken x Street Fighter is no longer in active development. In an interview with Gamespot, Tekken producer Katsuhiro Harada noted that the developers don’t think the timing is right for such a game. Specifically, he referred to the fact that Street Fighter V just came out, as well as the fact that Tekken 7 is on the way. With both games in mind, Harada stated that “we don’t want to split these communities… [finding] a good window to release Tekken x Street Fighter is something that’s become much more difficult recently. So it’s kind of on hold for the moment, I guess you could say.”

While concerns like these are understandable and show that Harada and the Tekken team do take the community into consideration when making decisions, it’s never a happy event when a long-awaited project is put on hold.

You can learn more on this and other topics related to Tekken, including Harada’s hilarious take on how he’d like to handle rage quitting, in the complete interview on Gamespot.

Source: Gamespot

We’ve heard rustlings surrounding Tekken 7’s aptly-named King of the Iron Fist Tournament, but details surrounding the series remained rather limited prior to today. Just a short while ago, Gamespot revealed the first battery of information surrounding these tournaments, so we all have a better idea of what to look forward to.

As far as basics are concerned, the tournament will be part of the Wizard World Con tour and is free for everyone to enter. The tournament will take place across North America with stops in sixteen different cities, culminating in a North American final where the top competitors from each stop will compete for their share of a prize pool totaling $30,000.

You probably also noticed that we’ve not mentioned Fated Retribution yet in this article, and with good reason. According to Mark “MarkMan” Julio, the King of the Iron Fist Tournament tour will begin under Tekken 7 and will, at some point down the line, make the switch over to Tekken 7 Fated Retribution.

Further details, including when the switch over to Fated Retribution will take place, are forthcoming.

Source: Gamespot and MarkMan

As we previously reported, SNK Playmore will be hosting a King of Fighters XIV Experience event in Tokyo this coming Monday, April 25, featuring 24 playable characters. Who those 24 characters are was, up until now, unknown.

Now, SNK Playmore has finally lifted the veil on which characters will be playable at the event. Newcomers Sylvie Paula Paula, Luong, Nelson, the King of Dinosaurs, and Banderas, as well as returning characters Mai Shiranui, Ryo Sakazaki, K’, Choi Bounge, Kim Kaphwan, Athena Asamiya, Vice, Benimaru Nikaido, Terry Bogard, and Tung Fu Rue have been confirmed for the build. They will be joining previously playable cast members Kyo Kusanagi, Iori Yagami, Robert Garcia, Andy Bogard, Kula Diamond, King, Chang Koehan, Leona Heidern, and Billy Kane.

You can check out these characters in the character select screen from the build that SNK Playmore has shared.

Sadly, some of the more recently revealed characters such as Geese Howard, Joe Higashi, and newcomer Kukri will not be playable at the event. That said, this is still quite a jump from the previous playable builds which only featured nine characters.

In addition to the roster for Monday’s event, SNK Playmore announced that they will be releasing another trailer for the game with a lot of new information on the same day.

Source: SNK Playmore