Category: Fighting Games

The folks at Capcom Fighters recently released three more player spotlight interviews in their running series designed to help fans of fighting games learn a little more about the scene’s biggest names before Capcom Cup this December.

This batch boasts interviews with AVerMedia’s Bruce “GamerBee” Hsiang, Ryan “Prodigal Son” Hart of Team Dignitas, and Pandora House’s Hooman “HooDaMan” Ghahremani. As in the past, these players discuss their fighting background, greatest achievements, most painful losses.

Perhaps the most inspiring segment of these interviews comes when GamerBee shows just how important “community” is within the fighting game community. He discusses at length his first trip to Evo back in 2010 when he made it to the top eight, which just so happened to be his ultimate goal. He goes on to reminisce about his return home to Taiwan when a large group of his friends and fellow players gathered to offer him a well-deserved warm welcome.

To learn more about these players, check out the videos below and provide your thoughts in the comments.

Miss the previous entries in this series? Follow the links below to find interviews with PIE|Smug, EG|K-Brad, LU|Alex Valle, and many more.

• Filipino Champ, BAS, EG|K-Brad
• PIE|Smug, CCG|Air, MOR|Rico Suave
• NuckleDu, AVM|Kelvin Jeon, LU|Alex Valle
• EG|Justin Wong, Snake Eyez, CCG|Air

Source: Capcom Pro Tour

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, 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. The full bracket will be made available through Challonge.

Watch live video from TeamSp00ky on www.twitch.tv

Sources: Team Spooky

After covering each of Ultra Street Fighter IV’s newcomers, pepopulo returns today with a combo video focused entirely on Decapre. Though she looks very similar to Cammy, this masked clone brings a wide collection of new attacks and strategies to the table that set her apart from the world warrior.

The video opens with a Psycho Stream ball that both keeps Ryu close to Decapre and then juggles him for an air throw, but the craziness just keeps on coming. You’ll also find some great red focus applications, Rapid Dagger extensions, and more over the course of pepopulo’s three-minute demonstration.

While flash is definitely the name of the game here, you may be able to find a few new links that you weren’t previously incorporating into your own gameplan.

If you missed out on pepopulo’s previous videos, you’ll find them all here.

Source: pepopulo

Over the past few months, Red Bull Music Academy’s Diggin’ in the Carts has explored the history of the Japanese video game music scene and the impact their most notable composers have made across the world. The series limited run has featured musicians like Yoko Shimomura (Street Fighter II), Nobuo Uematsu (Final Fantasy), and Masashi Kageyama (Gimmick!), among others, along with input from folks outside the medium who have been influenced by the genre.

The sixth and final episode, released earlier this month, spends much of its duration focusing on Tekken. The shift from cartridges to CDs in the 90s allowed video game music to expand at a rapid pace. Bandai Namco Games’ Katsuhiro Harada doesn’t attribute this to an evolution within the community itself persay, but the loosening of restrictions placed on musicians by previous formats.

Composers who worked on various installments of the historic fighting game franchise, including sound director Kanako Kakino, Yoshie Takayanagi (Tekken, Tekken 2), Nabuyoshi Sano (Tekken 3), Akitaka Tohyama, Taku Inoue, Rio Hamamoto, Keiichi Okabe, and Yuu Miyake, discuss the influences they brought to the table over the course of the series. From spruced-up guitar riffs reminiscent of The Chemical Brothers to drum and bass compositions, the fingerprints of each composer can be found in Tekken even today.

Be sure to let us know which piece of Tekken music is your favorite in the comments.

Source: Red Bull Music Academy

A couple of weekends ago, Taito and Capcom’s national Ultra Street Fighter IV tournament series collaboration in Japan culminated in the Isshuu Sengeki Cup, otherwise known as the Taito Arcade Nationals. While the event had a lot on the line in terms of monetary worth, its status as a premier tournament on the Capcom Pro Tour gave it some added weight in terms of the automatic Capcom Cup qualifying spot for the first-place finisher.

Taito Arcade Nationals was a veritable who’s who of Japanese competitors, with players like Evil Geniuses’ Momochi, Daigo Umehara and Mago of Team Mad Catz, NISHIKIN, Kyabetsu, KoujiKOG, Shimauta, Kazunoko, NINOMAE, Nekojita, EBI, YUBIKEN’s SUPER SANTAROU MAN, and Bonchan in attendance to prove their skills on the national stage.

Amazingly enough, it would be NISHIKIN and his admirable Blanka play that would see the most success this day, dropping player after player on his way to grand finals. In fact, his dominant run would see him go undefeated until winners finals, where Kazunoko would manage to take one game before ultimately being sent to losers.

The event culminated in an intense grand finals between NISHIKIN and Sagat master Bonchan, who traded games until Blanka eventually came out on top.

If you missed watching this event live, Capcom Fighters recently uploaded some great footage for you to catch up with. We’ve included a few of the tournament’s late matches below, including the back and forth grand finals match, along with the full 3-on-3 team tournament also held over that weekend.

Full results from the Taito Arcade Nationals can be found in our coverage hub.

Source: Capcom Fighters

Earlier this month, Sao Paulo was the site of the seventh Brazil Game Show. Among the activities at the hugely popular event was a series of Mortal Kombat exhibition matches featuring several notable players from the region, including Mcfly of Elite Tournament Chile and Brazil’s own Mr. Bruno.

Below, you’ll find embeds of several sets that prove the title is still alive and well, with a particularly strong following hailing from South America. Expect high levels of hype and a good mix of characters to keep things interesting.

Source: Elite Tournament Chile via Test Your Might