Category: Fighting Games

As a tournament made up of the top two players from four previous qualifiers, Capcom Pro Tour Asia’s grand finals event was guaranteed to provided a show to fighting game fans across the world, and the eight competitors who congregated in Singapore last month did not disappoint.

While Mad Catz’ Daigo Umehara would go on to win the whole thing, his fellow finalists Xian and Gackt of Razer, Poongko, Canada Cup Gaming’s Humanbomb, GamerBee of AVerMedia, Leslie, and Dark Jiewa all played their hearts out in an effort to take one of Capcom Cup’s last automatic qualifying spots. And, due to the round-robin format, we were able to see quite a few interesting matchups that aren’t normally put on display at this high of a level.

The folks over at Capcom Fighters recently released replays of the festivities online, some of which you’ll find below. If you’re interested in checking out more, be sure to head on over to their official channel.

There should be quite a few more archived matches coming in the near future, so stay tuned!

Source: Capcom Fighters

Today we’ve got another collection of short combo videos for Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3. These clips each contain a single combo for some vastly different teams. Let’s get started!

The first combo, from Broshadian, will change the way that you look at Spider-Man. When Peter Parker teams up with Rocket Raccoon and Deadpool, the Web Throws just keep coming until even the heartiest health bars are drained. It’s damaging, it’s fun to watch, and I don’t even want to think about how frustrating it would be to fall victim to.

Next up, The FatTreeWizard shows off some interesting tech when Super-Skrull buddies up with Amaterasu. It seems that after Ammy has thoroughly slowed things down, Kl’rt can repeatedly cram a boot into his opponents face for one of the most disrespectful loops in the galaxy. It’s the perfect way to close out any match!

To round things out, we’ve got a couple of videos from Eldon Moore that involve Chun-Li leading two very different groups of fighters into the fray. The first puts her with Rocket Raccoon and Dante to deliver an incredible 1.1 million damage before the blows stop coming.

The second manages to reach the same damage total, but this time Chun finds herself hanging out with Dormammu and Shuma-Gorath. Certainly an unlikely team, but not one to take lightly.

Sources: Broshadian, The FatTreeWizard, Eldon Moore

Venom47 is back with another round of impractical Ultra Street Fighter IV combos for your viewing pleasure. As with previous installments to this series, most of the combos will never make it out of the training room, but that doesn’t mean that they aren’t fun to watch unfold.

As has become standard in all training mode-only combo videos, Decapre’s Psycho Stream makes multiple appearances and for once Dhalsim takes a crack at dishing out some damage while punching that purple ball of plasma. He may not be fast, but his long limbs keep him popping out fierces until the energy ball eventually dissipates.

Venom47 also included a handful of hitbox and hurtbox oddities that give us yet another look at what we already know: sometimes some weird stuff goes on when Hugo gets involved.

Source: Venom47

While Yun is considered by many to be the best character in Ultra Street Fighter IV, some folks tend to forget that his brother Yang also received a good number of buffs. While he was considered to have been “over-nerfed” in the previous version of the game, in Ultra, Yang is now once again a threat in the hands of the right players.

One such player is ShiiNe of FNEX, who is the subject of the latest edition of Olympic Gaming’s Spotlight series. In the footage provided, Olympic highlights some of ShiiNe’s matches using Yang (as well as his Gouken) against players such as Wolfkrone, Tampa Bison, TBR Sensei, and more.

In addition to this, Olympic Gaming also did a short interview with ShiiNe which you can find in the video’s description. In it, ShiiNe discusses his history with the game, why he switched from pad to stick, where his handle comes from, and more.

Source: Olympic Gaming

With Tekken 7’s release just a matter of months away, today’s MASTERCUP.7, will be sending off Tekken Tag Tournament 2 Unlimited with a bang. 176 teams of 5 are registered to compete, totaling 880 players, making it not only the largest Tekken event in Japan, but also the largest in the world.

Despite the massive number of teams, MASTERCUP isn’t a simple single-elimination tournament. Play starts with the first preliminary. Teams are broken up into blocks of five or six teams, totaling 31 blocks. The first place team of each block advance straight to the second preliminary, while the second and third place teams head to the grueling wildcard. 83 teams will enter the wildcard, but only one will advance to the second preliminary to complete the bracket of 32. Of those, eight will survive to make up the finals tournament.

This year’s MASTERCUP will feature two streams, to cater to both Japanese and English audiences. Game Newton will be providing the Japanese stream, while the English broadcast will be viewable on the official TEKKEN Twitch channel with host MarkMan.

Japanese Broadcast (Game Newton)

Watch live video from gamenewton on www.twitch.tv

English Broadcast (TEKKEN)

Watch live video from TEKKEN on www.twitch.tv

Official Commentary

Japanese: Genya, Hameko.
English: MarkMan

Commentary Assistance

Japanese: Fukushi, Jurimishe no KEN, Yuu, Nobi, Pekos
English: Tekken Banchou

Schedule

7:30 – Opening ceremony / 1st Preliminary, Turn 1 begins
11:30 – 1st Preliminary, Turn 2 begins
15:30 – Wildcard
16:30 – 2nd Preliminary begins
19:00 – Finals tournament bracket drawing / Player Entrance / Finals Tournament begins
23:00 – Ending

Sources: MASTERCUP, Game Newton, TEKKEN, via Kakuge Checker, Avoiding the Puddle

Super Smash Bros. Melee is one of those classic games that continues to be played even as newer versions come and go. Even with a more recent installment gaining steam, the Gamecube title still attracted a sizable number of competitors at The Fall Classic 2014.

For those who missed out on the Melee action during the east coast tournament, FunkyP recently uploaded footage of the entire top eight. You can check out the finals matches between CT|ESAM, $mike, and Kaeon below, and be sure to head on over to the official playlist for more.

For the full results of this and other tournaments at the Fall Classic 2014, head on over to our official coverage hub.

Source: FunkyP

While there weren’t many fighting game videos to check out when the option launched earlier this week, a handful of community members have stepped forward to provide some great 60 frames-per-second footage of our favorite genre. We’ve collected quite a bit below, so feel free to check it all out and let us know what you think of these high-quality replays.

Remember, you’ll need to be using Google’s Chrome web browser and bumping each video’s quality up to take advantage of the new viewing option.

First, we’ll start off with a King of Fighters XIII video uploaded by minato-chan. We originally included this in our original article, but we’ll share it once more just in case you folks missed out on Shen dealing some big damage.

Next, Team Spooky’s Arturo Sanchez has provided tournament footage from the last Team St1ckbug monthly, featuring Guilty Gear XX Accent Core Plus R, Under Night In-Birth Exe:Late, BlazBlue: Chronophantasma, and Persona 4 Arena Ultimax.

Similarly, the main Team Spooky channel was updated with new high-definition footage from Next Level Battle Circuit #94.

But if Smash is more your thing, VG BootCamp shared a bit of Super Smash Bros. Melee test footage from a recent Smash @ Xanadu event.

And finally, combo master Desk released a short highlight reel so his fans can check out some crazy Ultra Street Fighter IV strings in much better quality.

That’s all we have for now, but feel free to share anything else you’ve come across in the comments below!

Sources: minato-chan, Arturo Sanchez, Team Spooky, VG BootCamp, Desk

One of the things that few people know about Yun in Ultra Street Fighter IV is that when he chains into a standing or crouching short kick, he can kara-cancel the startup of that kick into his Zenpou Tenshin side-switch command grab. Originally discovered by long time Street Fighter veteran Ed Ma, it allows Yun to pressure opponents and then get the command grab just like Zangief or ver. 2012 Fei Long.

JD recently put together a video showing off how players can take advantage of this useful technique as the first entry of his new “Yun Cheap Stuff” series. In the footage below, he demonstrates how to pull this off from both chained standing and crouched shorts. Take note that the latter, while better against players who mash up-back to jump, is easier to spam out of unless Yun uses meter for an EX Zenpou Tenshin.

Source: JD