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Mui Mui officially announced for SNK Heroines: Tag Team Frenzy

Some time back, the trophy list for SNK Heroines: Tag Team Frenzy hinted at a couple of characters being added into the game… now, SNK has officially announced another one of them via a new trailer.

Joining the cast of SNK Heroines: Tag Team Frenzy is Mui Mui, originally from the SNK pachislot game Dragon Gal. First making her fighting game debut in The King of Fighters XIV, Mui Mui seems to retain most of her stuff from that game — albeit adapted to the new game’s control scheme.

What she does gain are a couple of absurdly cute costumes: one being the expected panda outfit, and one that seems to have all the ruffles in the world on it. Check out the trailer below.

With this, it seems that it’s only a matter of time before we find out how exactly Terry fits into a game supposedly featuring an all-female cast!

SNK Heroines: Tag Team Frenzy launches on Switch and PlayStation 4 on September 6 in Japan, and September 7 in the West.

Source: SNK

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MY HERO ONE’S JUSTICE will smash its way onto consoles and PC on October 26; Endeavor available as a pre-order bonus

Get ready to fight for your own justice at the end of October!

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We already knew that My Hero One’s Justice — the upcoming arena fighter from Bandai Namco, based on My Hero Academia — was expected to land sometime in October; that has now been narrowed down to a specific date: fans can “go beyond” on PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Switch, and PC on October 26, 2018.

Additionally, pre-orders of the title will include “Flame Hero” Endeavor as a bonus playable character — so don’t delay in pledging your allegiance to the United States of Smash if you want to play as All Might’s rival, with his “Hellflame” Quirk!

Gran Torino and Muscular were also recently revealed for the game, and the press release offers some tidbits on the story mode:

MY HERO ONE’S JUSTICE gives players the opportunity to experience iconic moments from the MY HERO series like never before, featuring a Story Mode played from the perspective of both the Heroes and the Villains. In addition to the unique story, the game also offers a robust character customization system, enabling players to put their own quirky twists on each Hero and Villain uniform with costume pieces from across the MY HERO universe, such as Eraserhead’s glasses, Katsuki Bakugo’s gauntlets, and even a leg-hugging Minoru Mineta plush.

Source: Bandai Namco [press release]

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Wind Priestess Talim makes her return for SoulCalibur VI

Evasion lovers, rejoice, for the Wind Priestess is back!

Talim is officially making her grand return to SoulCalibur VI. Her absence in SCV was, similarly to Zasalamel’s, frustrating for players dedicated to her unique moveset.

Not only is she returning with her Wind Sault/Charmer Stances, it’s looking like they will be deadlier than ever before: she has some new transitions from powerful staples like 33A, and her Soul Charge gives her access to dizzily long attack strings that seem to cancel back into Wind Charmer.

SoulCalibur VI tornadoes onto the PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC on October 19th.

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Source: Bandai Namco Entertainment America

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Enjoy some Japanese BlazBlue: Cross Tag Battle action from the YOSHIMOTO Gaming Pro selection competiton

Late last moth, we brought you a tier list from Kubo, a top Japanese Under Night In-Birth and Persona 4 Arena Ultimax player, who some are already describing as “the best BBTAG player in Japan.” Now you can get a taste of some international action, as some of Japan’s finest from multiple Arc System Works titles couldn’t escape from Crossing Fate at the YOSHIMOTO Gaming Pro selection competition. This event featured Kubo, rocking his deadly team of Ruby Rose and Hyde Kido, as well as notable fighters ROW, Senaru, Damosu, Koichi, Ho-Chan, KoujiKOG, ZackyWild, Minami, Hifumi, Tarou, Yukia, Jyudou and many more.

With ASW’s tag team crossover title recently supplanting Super Smash Bros. for Wii U as currently the fifth-largest game at Evo 2018, it’s very likely that we could see a lot of these faces battling in Las Vegas this August. In fact, the winner of this event received a sponsorship to Evo courtesy of YOSHIMOTO Gaming. You can see the full tournament — which clocks in at around four-and-a-half hours in total — below. Uploader HYDEGaming1 has included timestamps for each match for your convenience, while commentator Shirtaker has provided us with the names of each player, and a list of the individual match-ups, making it extremely easy to find your favorite players quickly.

What are your thoughts on the level of competition and team compositions compared to some of the American play we’ve seen at Northwest Majors and CEO recently? Sound off with your thoughts in the comments section.

Source: HYDEGaming1 (YouTube)

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Street Fighter Carnival 11 continues with Cyberbots: Full Metal Madness, Double Dragon tournaments

Street Fighter Carnival 11 is Mikado Arcade’s currently-ongoing, month-long, multi-game tournament series for a wide variety of classic (and sometimes, obscure) arcade titles. This series is well under way, so start from the beginning if you want to catch up!

Today’s entry is the Technōs Japan-developed Double Dragon fighting game from 1995, whose rights are now owned by none other then Arc System Works. Do you think the only reason they got the rights to it is because it has double jumps and air blocking?

After that is Cyberbots: Full Metal Madness, a criminally underrated and underutilized title from Capcom. This 2D fighter has incredible mobility and full-screen footsies, and you can read more about its game-play over on the SRK Wiki.

You can follow the action of SFC11 by subscribing to Mikado’s official YouTube channel. For the night owls in the US, you can even try to catch them when they livestream.

Source: Mikado Arcade

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Dark Sided signs Battle Arena Melbourne Dragon Ball FighterZ champion Sam Baxter

Australian esports organization Dark Sided has just expanded their fighting game roster: joining the team is 2018 Battle Arena Melbourne Dragon Ball FighterZ champion Sam Baxter.

A longtime competitor in the Australian fighting game community, Baxter has found success in competing in multiple fighting games in and out of Australia. His victory at Battle Arena Melbourne 10 further cemented his place in the Australian scene.

Originally founded in 2009 as a Gears or War team, Dark Sided has since grown into an organization that’s dedicated itself to growing the Australian esports scene, expanding into multiple games and genres, including fighting games. At Dark Sided, Baxter will be joining other fighting game players such as Xavier “Somniac” Nardella, Adric “Falco” Middleton, Duong “ZG” Nguyen, Tasman “Waz” Stephenson, Te Tuhi “Spud” Kelly, and Nick “Extra” McKenzie.

We here at Shoryuken wish Baxter and Dark Sided the best in their new relationship.

Source: Dark Sided

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Capcom reveals the prize pool for this year’s Tokyo Game Show CPT tournament

This year marks the first year that Street Fighter players in Japan get to compete as paid professionals in the country, thanks to their new pro licenses. With this in mind, it should come as no surprise then that the upcoming Capcom Pro Tour Premier tournament for Street Fighter V at the Tokyo Game Show will have a significant prize pool. This year, players competing at TGS will be fighting over a massive ¥10,000,000 pot. This is equivalent to about $90,500 USD.

From this prize pool, the first place winner will be receiving  ¥5,000,000, half of the total prize pool. The rest will be divided among the remainder of the top 8. You can check out the breakdown below:

  • 1st place – ¥5,000,000
  • 2nd place – ¥2,500,000
  • 3rd place – ¥1,500,000
  • 4th place – ¥500,000
  • 5th place ties – ¥150,000
  • 7th place ties -¥100,000

For any players interested in flying to Japan to try to win some of of this prize money — and the accompanying CPT points — registration for the tournament is still open over at smash.gg.

Source: Capcom

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Square Enix will reveal the next Dissidia Final Fantasy NT downloadable character next week

Following the release of Locke Cole, many Dissidia Final Fantasy NT players are likely wondering who the next DLC character is. Well, it looks like the won’t have to wonder for much longer, as Square Enix will be revealing the identity of this character soon.

Square Enix has announced that they will reveal the identity of Dissidia Final Fantasy NT‘s third DLC character on July 12. The reveal will take place during a live stream at 8:00 PM Japan time, broadcast over both nico nico and YouTube.

For those keeping track of Square Enix’s hints about the first 6 post launch DLC characters, this next character will be a female character from the newer half of the numbered Final Fantasy games — who will be making their debut in the Dissidia sub-franchise.

Dissidia Final Fantasy NT is currently available on PlayStation 4.

Source: Square Enix

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Catch some retro touches of death with these combos from Fighter’s History

These are combos that Capcom never wanted you to see!

Most people in later generations are oblivious to Data East’s Fighter’s History franchise. The series only spanned two titles in a handful of years, and got a bad reputation in its inaugural release by Capcom — who unsuccessfully attempted to sue for copyright infringement.

While the game never took off, it had some interesting mechanics to it, and later carved out its own niche with its sequel — Karnov’s Revenge. But in the original, touches-of-death were abound, and this clip shows exactly how dangerous any touch could be.

Source: JP

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Behold these blessed combos from ETCChile for Jesus in the Early Access fighter “Fight of Gods”

You may not believe me, but Fight of Gods existed before they revealed Jesus would be joining their roster last year. You may also not believe that “The Little Unity Fighter That Could” is still going strong on the Steam platform, having just updated the game with several balance changes here. This is all despite its early access state and, uh, work-in-progress assets.

But even now, Jesus still brings interest to the game by virtue of simply existing as a playable character. Here’s Mortal Kombat specialist group ETCChile exploring Jesus’ combo possibilities, which are made up of Rekka’s, juggle loops, and of course — please forgive us, lord — cross-ups.

Fight of Gods is in Early Access on Steam.

Source: ETCChile