Category: Fighting Games

According to details released by Bandai Namco’s Katsuhiro Harada, a special Tekken 7 announcement is scheduled for this weekend’s Niconico Chokaigi 2015. Interestingly enough, this information will be provided through Capcom’s official broadcast.

In addition to whatever it is Harada has up his sleeve, Capcom’s stream will feature a special Street Fighter V demonstration, during which we may see more footage of the upcoming title.

Why Namco is choosing to make the announcement at a Capcom event is unknown. However, it was also revealed that Harada will be showing off previously unreleased footage during his appearance on the second day, so stay tuned for more.

Niconico Chokaigi 2015 is scheduled for April 25-26.

Sources: Avoiding the Puddle, Katsuhiro Harada

While most of Mortal Kombat X’s early competitive action has been taking place in the west, it doesn’t mean that there isn’t anything happening for players outside of North America and Europe. Beast of the East, in cooperation Ingram Micro, Xmashed Gear, CouchWarriors, St. Games, and Imperium, have announced the Mortal Kombat X Asia Pacific Championships.

This series will consist of four qualifying tournaments throughout the region. The top three placers at each event will receive monetary rewards and other prizes, but more importantly, the winner will be sent to the grand finals.

Details for the qualifiers are as follows:

• Manila, Philippines
  • Date: May 9, 2015
  • Location: Imperium e-Sports Bar and Gaming Lounge
• Singapore
  • Date: May 16, 2015
  • Location: St. Games Cafe
• Melbourne, Australia
  • Date: May 22 to 25, 2015
  • Location: Battle Arena Melbourne 7, CQ Functions, 113 Queen’s St. Melbourne.
• Bangkok, Thailand
  • Date: June 20, 2015
  • Location: South East Asia Major 2015, The Connection Seminar Center, Bangkok

Mortal Kombat X Asia Pacific Championships’ finals will take place on June 21, the day after the Bangkok qualifier, as part of South East Asia Major 2015. At stake is over $1,000 SGD (~$744 USD) in cash and prizes, as well as a chance to compete at Evolution 2015.

While the Mortal Kombat franchise is typically known as a North American favorite, these tournaments should provide a fantastic opportunity to see how the rest of the world takes to the latest installment.

Source: Beast of the East

While the downloadable “klassic kombatants” from Mortal Kombat X’s Kombat Pack have yet to be made available, series co-creator Ed Boon is already teasing more downloadable content beyond these two.

In response to an inquiry on whether or not the non-playable opponents found in the game’s story mode will ever join the official cast, NetherRealm Studios’ creative director had this to say.

"@LazyEyedJ @noobde So Ed are you secretly gonna patch in the NPC's from story to make them playable? EB: U mean like a "Story Pack" ?

— Ed Boon (@noobde) April 18, 2015

Prior to this, Boon had also hinted at the possibility of more fighters during his appearance on Twin Galaxies Live.

These teases don’t come exactly as a surprise. Apart from the fact that modders have already found a way to play these characters on PC, NetherRealm is known for supporting their games with a host of additions post-launch. It’s only a matter of time.

Source: Ed Boon via IPLAYWINNER

As I’m sure most of you know by now, Capcom updated Ultra Street Fighter IV today–both in arcades and on home platforms–to ver.1.05. Although quite a few changes came with it, nearly all of these adjustments are found in the game’s remixed Omega mode, the sole dissenter a fix for Decapre’s ultra command.

But a late edit to the original announcement mentioning an addressing of other bugs raised our hopes. Sure, with no specifics it was hard to imagine the game-crashing sound bug disappearing, but perhaps smaller issues saw corrections that we weren’t aware of?

Unfortunately, there’s currently no word on that front–quite the opposite, actually. Jay, a Japanese player who, as of April 15, is the third-highest ranked Abel in arcades, recently revealed a brand new hitbox issue involving Ultra addition Rolento. Apparently, something wonky happens with the soldier’s crouching hitbox on block that makes Abel’s low jab completely whiff, an occurrence that can be replicated by dashing in after a blocked Focus Attack, Forward Kick, or a canceled Change of Direction and mashing jab, as seen in Jay’s tweets below.

This is only the latest hitbox discrepancy to be discovered in Capcom’s flagship fighter. Funny enough, during our own testing we found it was present in earlier versions as well, and has only now come to light.

Its discovery makes an update, which was already quite perplexing in that it barely touched the main, competitive version of the game, an even bigger disappointment. With $500,000 on the line at Capcom Cup, not to mention the additional pot bonuses being provided to premier Capcom Pro Tour events, one would hope issues such as these would be addressed before those in Omega Mode.

Oh, and before we close out, you can also expect Ibuki’s standing strong and Oni’s standing fierce to whiff on a crouching Rolento as well, the former of which was pointed out by French competitor Damascus back in June 2014.

Have you found anything else in Ultra Street Fighter IV that’s yet to be corrected in post-release patches? Let us know in the comments.

Source: Jay via NeoGAF