Category: Fighting Games

The folks over at VGBootCamp recently went live with another installment of Smash @ Xanadu from Xanadu Games in Baltimore, Maryland. These weekly broadcasts provide a great look at the region’s Smash community, and tonight’s installment will feature competition in Super Smash Bros. Melee.

In addition to local talent, players like HugS, Nintendude, ROOT Gaming’s Chudat, Redd, Milkman, and Team Liquid’s Chillindude will also be in attendance.

If you’re interested in some Smash Bros. action, be sure to tune in. The stream is live below, but you can also head on over to Twitch to join the chat.

Watch live video from VGBootCamp on www.twitch.tv

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It’s something we’ve all heard over and over again: fighting games, as a genre, are generally hard to get into. But what exactly makes them difficult? Core-A Gaming tackles this subject in their latest video.

Their key concept is that fighting games aren’t necessarily hard to play, rather what’s hard is getting to a point where you can play it in a satisfying manner. In the video below, Core-A Gaming talks about the many ways that this has been addressed, both by developers and the community itself, as well as how it can be better alleviated in the future.

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Desk has already had plenty of time to show that tech, even in a game with a fairly simplified combo system, can find a way. The videos below are a demonstration of some of his early findings.

First up, he offers a set of F.A.N.G combos that often involve various amounts of meter and require a distinct level of finesse. The combo master incorporates multiple jump-ins, use of pre-set traps, and plenty more to stylishly put away his targets.

The second video offers a look at an interesting mechanic that F.A.N.G players may have run into in their first day of play. Under the correct circumstances, the newcomer’s Critical Art allows opponents to fall out before completion, giving him the opportunity to combo afterwards.

It just wouldn’t be day one without some love for series mainstay Ryu, and Desk has definitely given him that. The combos below milk all of the juggle potential out of the wandering warrior’s kit while also providing a look at some combo-video-only options involving full-screen fireballs followed by plenty of dashing.

This video also provides a look at potential combos to come. You’ll notice one of these strings sees Ryu walking for an incredibly brief 3 frame period mid-combo to allow for the rest of the hits to connect. Seeing this from Desk in conjunction with Tom Piddock’s early discoveries with Necalli, some of which also involve a bit of walking, hints that advanced combos in Street Fighter V may involve some truly fancy footwork.

And finally, Desk has created some silly combos involving what he’s calling Ryu’s focus attack dash cancel. Obviously, he’s not actually FADCing in Street Fighter V, but is instead using Dhalsim to interrupt Ryu’s attacks and allow for some entertaining, albeit completely impractical, options.

Source: Desk

Olympic Gaming has been bringing us highlight reels filled with high-quality online play in Ultra Street Fighter IV for quite some time now. Their videos, as the series name suggests, has given plenty of lesser-known players and scenes some time in the spotlight. So it’s only appropriate that such a series should give a nod to the release of Street Fighter V through a compilation of some sort. That compilation recently hit YouTube in the form of a collection of online comebacks, which you can find below.

Series creator AKumah Matata has stated that, though this compilation video is a sort of goodbye, they have no plans to stop featuring Ultra Street Fighter IV content on their channel. This means we can likely expect to continue seeing the popular Spotlight series for quite some time.

Source: Olympic Gaming

Once again, Valentine’s Day has come and gone. But if you’re a hardcore fighting game fanatic, how would you celebrate the holiday? Well, if you’re legendary combo video creator Mikadok, you do it with a multi-game combo video with the help of some friends.

The combo video below features contributions from a plethora of creators, including CRZ|Pitaya, CRZ|Jaslim, JDxImpetus, HurtBoxTV, NinjaNinjet, Tear-No-Grants, Rotbah, JusticeSoulTuna, Smash and Grab, and Mikadok himself.

Below, you’ll see amazing combos for Persona 4 Arena Ultimate, J-Stars Victory Vs, Koihime Enbu, Chaos Code, Samurai Shodown 6, Melty Blood Actress Again Current Code, Phantom Breaker Extra, Mortal Kombat X, Big Bang Beat, Blade Arcus from Shining, BlazBlue: Chronophantasma, Skullgirls Encore, Killer Instinct, Dead or Alive 5 Last Round, Super Smash Bros. for Wii U, Street Fighter IV, Street Fighter V, and many more.

Source: Mikadok

UltraChen TV is back with the season finale of their Tuesday talk show. Tonight, UltraDavid and James Chen will be discussing a variety of topics, including Street Fighter V, last night’s exhibition between Lupe Fiasco and Mad Catz’ Daigo Umehara, Mark “MarkMan” Julio leaving Mad Catz, and more.

The stream will be live in this article, but you can also visit Twitch to join the chat.

Watch live video from ultrachentv on www.twitch.tv

Source: UltraChen TV, featured image courtesy of Kara “Karaface” Leung