Category: Fighting Games

UltraChen TV is back with yet another broadcast, and a whole new slate of topics to discuss. Tonight, UltraDavid and James Chen will be discussing recent events, Capcom Pro Tour, sponsorships, and possibly even taking viewer questions.

If you’re interested in this topic, be sure to tune in and check the show out. The stream will be live in this article, but you can also visit Twitch to join the chat.

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Much like he’s done the past few installments, Lab Zero Games’ Mike Zaimont was present at this weekend’s Rebel Up! event to show off some great Skullgirls Encore content, including some new moves for upcoming character Beowulf and a variety of changes they ar experimenting with in the game’s Endless Beta.

Apart from two new color palettes, one of which should be very familiar to any Marvel fans out there, Beowulf has been given a few new normals since last time we saw him. These include his crouching hard kick (with and without his folding chair), dropkicks in the form of standing and jumping medium kick, and his tag-in strike. He’s also received one notable adjustment on older moves, in that he can no longer chain out of attacks performed during his hopping forward dash.

As for the experiments in the Skullgirls Encore beta, Ms. Fortune can now hit her head more than once to set up interesting situations, Filia’s dash-jump heavy kick no longer crosses up, single-character players will now see their red health recover up to half, and more.

For more information and a visual look at all this new stuff, be sure to check out IE Battlegrounds’ archive below.

Source: IE Battlegrounds

David Galarza recently donned his lab coat and hit the Danger Room with a team of doctors to devise the best way to dispatch enemy teams in Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3. The results, which were recorded and can be found below, were incredibly successful.

Expect raw Gamma Charges from the Hulk and Team Hyper Combos confirmed into character kills; expect Doctor Strange palm loops and plenty of hidden missiles courtesy of Doctor Doom; but most of all, expect solid proof that knowledge is, in fact, power.

Be sure to stick around after the halfway point for some incredibly stylish combos as the other two Docs take center stage and show their combo potential when on point, as well as some bonus footage starring Rocket Raccoon.

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The folks over at VG Bootcamp 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 the latest version of popular Super Smash Bros. Brawl mod Project M.

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.

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While the Japanese community has been great about putting out combo guides for the various characters of Persona 4 Arena Ultimax, the language barrier an often be a little too much to overcome for folks new to the game. Fortunately, it appears as if English-speaking players have taken up the reins and decided to put together guides of their own.

Case in point, Urichinan, who recently released a situational combo demonstration for Margaret. Due to her unconventional attacks, the newcomer is capable of confirming off a variety of errant hits, and the video below shows how to make the most of them.

In their guide, Urichinan covers combos that begin with a counter-hit, crouching attacks, skill boosted specials, One More Cancels, and more. This video is confined, however, to grounded attacks, and does not touch on Margaret’s Hassou Tobi skill.

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Archie Utama has been putting out Ibuki tech videos since the release of Ultra Street Fighter IV back in June. Most recently, he examined the practical uses of Raida’s extra juggle point, which was added in the update.

Today, he’s got a collection of Ibuki setups with slight variants depending on whether or not the defender decides to delay their wakeup. Many of these setups require incredibly tight timing, like delaying 3 frames before jumping, as an example, but that’s understandable since some of them are unblockables against certain hurtboxes.

Archie does offer some setups that are a bit easier to pull off, though, like the standard Ibuki safe jump off Neck Breaker–whiff back+MP before performing an angled j.HP–which works against 4-frame reversals. If the Ibuki player sees the delayed wakeup indicator during their back+MP, they can proceed as usual, but instead tossing a kunai in place of the j.HP.

And that’s the case for all of these examples. While many high-level Ibuki players have known about this approach to her okizeme game for a while, the information has never been compiled quite so well as it is here, nor has it been shown to work with so many setups.

Source: Archie Utama

While a good number of strong Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3 players from the east coast made their way to The Fall Classic 2014, at the end of the day it came down to one competitor’s struggle against another team. Evo 2014 top eight finisher Jan (now of Boost Gaming) found himself sent to the losers bracket by Control Gaming’s Flux, and as a result, he had to fight his way through two other CTRL players, RayRay and Unknown, just to get a chance to face Flux again and hopefully stop his quest for his third tournament win in a row.

We’ve posted archive footage of these matches, courtesy of Team Spooky, below. Be sure to check out the rest of the Marvel archives on their channel.

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

Source: Team Sp00ky