Category: Fighting Games

Level|Up Series returns tonight with another installment of Wednesday Night Fights Online Edition’s second season. Moving from the world of offline competition to netplay is sure to provide a look at players who don’t often get enough attention, so tune in below for some great Ultra Street Fighter IV and Mortal Kombat X action.

Watch live video from Level|Up Live on www.twitch.tv

Source: Level|Up Live

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.

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

Source: VGBootCamp

After a ton of pre-season action, ESL’s Mortal Kombat X is set to kick into high gear tonight with the spring season’s third official tournament. A recent qualifier narrowed the playing field down to sixteen competitors, and those players will be going at each other’s throats tonight to prove they have what it takes to do well in this new arrival to the fighting game community.

Some of the more noteworthy names you can expect to see play tonight include Kitana Prime, Pig of the Hut, Shujinkydink, cR|Sonix Fox, and more.

The tournament’s stream can be found below, but you can also visit Twitch if you prefer to chat with fellow viewers.

Watch live video from NetherRealm on www.twitch.tv

Results

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9. Peckapowa (Stunt Double Johnny Cage)

First Round

CrazySteady (Demolition Sonya Blade, Covert Ops Sonya) vs. Peckapowa (Stunt Double Johnny Cage) – 3-1
TDB x Adam vs. Kayshaun Cage
Crawlingshadow vs. Kitana Prime
reefer vs. Pig of the Hut
Shujinkydink vs. SenorAbram
C88|Cupcake vs. roosTa
BugvMan vs. Scavenger928
SlipperyPickle vs. cR|Sonic Fox

Sources: ESL, NetherRealm

This week’s installment of Next Level Battle Circuit is now streaming live courtesy of Team Spooky. As always, the event is being broadcast from its namesake, Next Level Arcade, in New York City. Tonight, they’ll be running Ultra Street Fighter IV and Mortal Kombat X, featuring some of the best players on the east coast.

If you would like to check out these weekly tournaments, be sure to head on over to Next Level Arcade and take part every Wednesday. The address has been included below.

4013 8th Avenue
Brooklyn, NY 11232

The stream is currently live below, but you can also visit Twitch to join the chat. Full brackets will be made available through Challonge.

Watch live video from TeamSp00ky on www.twitch.tv

Sources: Team Spooky

It’s no secret that Mortal Kombat X has had its fair share of glitches since launching in April. From insane meter gain for both Ermac and Kung Lao to some rather powerful applications for stage interactables, the folks at NetherRealm Studios have been rather busy patching the title over the last few months to correct issues that went undiscovered during testing.

Fortunately, the latest glitch finding is far from game-breaking and actually quite funny. As shown in the video below from Xhogar Varthus, if guest character Jason Voorhees happens to be downed by a specific Kenshi brutality, his Unstoppable variation’s revive mechanic will still go into effect. This allows the horror icon to live up to his reputation and rise from the dead despite his lack of lower appendages, leaving him floating in the air and still ready to fight.

Turn around, Kenshi! He’s right behind you!

This also occurs when Jason is facing Raiden and is beaten by the “head pop” finisher.

Since these were performed with a variety of Test Your Luck modifiers in place, it remains to be seen whether or not they will happen in a real match. Still, it’s a nice change of pace for Mortal Kombat X glitches to simply provide some humor instead of sending the community into a flurry of discussion over their legitimacy in competitive play.

Source: Xhogar Varthus

Super Smash Bros. for Wii U is all about using superior mobility and spacing to put your opponent in bad situations. Naturally, players who are able to get their character to exactly where they want when they want will have a marked advantage over those who spend most of the match spamming dash attacks.

With that in mind, two specific techniques, which have been dubbed wavebouncing and B-reversing, will help achieve ideal spacing in a couple of different ways. While not new to the game, they are rather difficult to perform without a clear understanding of exactly how to go about executing them reliably. In the video below, My Smash Corner covers everything you’ll need to know in order to start pulling these maneuvers off yourself.

Source: My Smash Corner

The latest version of the Jack robot series just landed in the arcade version of Tekken 7 and, as usual, GuntamaMiraclein has quickly put together some footage of him in action.

The footage below shows an extended training mode session that runs through some of Jack-7’s moves and a few short combos, so feel free to check it out for some early ideas of what he’s capable of.

For those of you who enjoy more competitive footage, they’ve also shared actual match footage of Jack-7 from the game’s online mode.

Source: GuntamaMiraclein, thanks to Niitris for the tip.