Category: Fighting Games

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Omni Arcade Stick White Gold now available from etokki

For those with a bit of holiday cash in hand who’re thinking of buying a new arcade stick, here’s something that might pique your interest. Korean arcade shop etokki has just released a new variant of their vaunted Omni Arcade Stick.

Called the Omni Arcade Stick White Gold, this new arcade stick features the same steel casing and universal joystick lever mount as the regular Omni. The White Gold version however has been powder-coated white and fitted with gold Sanwa Denshi parts.

Powering the Omni Arcade Stick White Gold is a Brook Universal Fighting Board, allowing for compatibility with the PlayStation 4, PlayStation 3, Xbox One, Xbox 360, Nintendo Switch, Wii U, NEO GEO Mini, and PC.

For those interested, the Omni Arcade Stick White Gold is now available for purchase exclusively at etokki’s online store for $349.95.

Source: etokki

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Maximilian speaks out on Dragon Ball FighterZ’s alleged copyright issues and tournament woes

Popular fighting game streamer and content creator Maximilian has addressed the issues surrounding Dragon Ball FighterZ’s current licensing debacle, hoping for a brighter future in light of Toei’s probable restrictions.

Max uploaded a video to YouTube on December 22 speaking out on the matter, noting that the game has been pulled from major tournaments such as DreamHack Atlanta and Anime Ascension, and is not making an appearance at the next Evo Japan. Max went on to speculate that developers ArcSys and publishers Bandai Namco were unlikely to have anything to do with the restrictions, citing Toei’s noted history of being “difficult to work with” as a likely culprit.

Despite the community’s concern during what Max called the “worst case scenario” for competitive players, he hopes for an eventual change of pace, calling back to Nintendo’s cease and desist order toward the Evolution Championship Series in 2013 in regards to Melee.

“It worked itself out, and I can only hope that’s what happens now because I feel bad for Bandai Namco,” Max said of the matter. “They’ve put a lot of time into making Dragon Ball a big, competitive thing.”

Max likewise hopes for a change to the game’s overall composition for the upcoming announcement at Jump Festa 2019, calling for a big tweak to its superdash mechanic among predictions for new characters.

Dragon Ball FighterZ has been at the center of controversy since its cancellation from DreamHack Atlanta in November of 2018. Since then, the game has been pulled from SoCal’s Anime Ascension tournament due to what organizers referred to as “unforeseen circumstances,” leaving players to cancel their flights and refund their registration fees.

With the game not making an appearance at the upcoming Evo Japan despite being a massively popular fighting game title, the FGC is at odds with Toei’s alleged licensing restrictions, calling for big changes to the company’s current agenda; although the reasons for why the game is being pulled from these esports events — and if it is indeed Toei responsible — are still unconfirmed.

Source: Maximilian Dood

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Rising Up: Season 4 — Important changes for M. Bison, Vega, Birdie, Karin, and Rainbow Mika

Following the conclusion of the year 2018 Capcom Pro Tour, Capcom has released Street Fighter V: Arcade Edition’s newest character, “Kage,” along with a balance patch to give each character some new bells and whistles. This patch changes every character and addresses some of the most common complaints about Season 3 and 3.5. By popular demand, I’m continuing my series on ShoryukenTube wherein I analyze the Season 4 patch notes and describe how the changes will affect each character’s combos and playstyle going forward. While it’s critical to know your own character’s balance adjustments, you also benefit from knowing your opponent’s options against you.

This time, I’ve made videos describing the most important changes for M. Bison, Vega, Birdie, Karin, and Rainbow Mika:

If you missed my previous videos, check them out here:

Rising Up: Season 4 — Important changes for Ryu, Ken, Chun-Li, Cammy, and Nash

And here’s the YouTube playlist for all characters so far, which I’ll update as I go.

I’ll be working my way through the roster in the same order as the in-game character list, so next time I hope to cover Zangief, Dhalsim, Rashid, Laura, and F.A.N.G. Remember to subscribe to the ShoryukenTube YouTube channel so you don’t miss out!

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Tekken 7 shortlisted as part of next year’s Southeast Asian Games

Next year’s Southeast Asian games will be the first to host competitive video games. As part of this, Tekken 7 has been shortlisted as one of the games involved.

The announcement was made by the Philippine SEA Games Organizing Committee (Phisgoc), alongside their official partner Razer. Tekken 7 is one of 5 games that have been shortlisted for the event. It’s also the only console game named so far — though a second game is currently under evaluation.

The 2019 SEA Games will be the first time that esports will be medal events. Prior to this, esports were a demonstration event at the 2018 Asian Games.

The other shortlisted games are StarCraft II and DOTA 2 for PC, as well as Arena of Valor and Mobile Legends: Bang Bang for mobile.

Source: Rappler

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Mikado Arcade’s Street Fighter Carnival 12 continues with Street Fighter EX2+, Koihime Enbu -RyoRaiRai- VODs

World-famous Mikado Arcade is back with two more tournament VODs featuring high-level Japanese play in a variety of classic arcade titles!

This week’s tournaments include the indie footsie-focused fighter Koihime Enbu -RyoRaiRai-. Coincidentally, this game is on sale right now on Steam for the holidays… in case, you know, you enjoy the tournament footage.

The other entry today is Street Fighter EX2+. If you’re excited for the new Fighting EX Layer characters Area and Sharon but have never played as them, both are represented in today’s footage!

You can follow the action of SFC12 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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Bob Sagat retrains the Super Street Fighter II Turbo cast to do other people’s moves

It appears as though T. Hawk got tired of diving at people, and just wants to focus his ki energy on chucking plasma instead. It also seems as though Zangief got tired of bears and went after birds instead — spinning birds, that is.

With these move swaps created by the great Bob Sagat, the natural look of every single one looks like it could easily be another Rainbow Edition in the making. Whether or not anyone will take this further than this or not, it’s enjoyable to see a fresh coat of paint on the characters.

Source: ShoRyuBarbie

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Capcom Fighters presents the Top 5 moments of Capcom Cup 2018

Last weekend’s Capcom Cup 2018 was filled to the absolute brim with top-class Street Fighter V: Arcade Edition action, and Capcom Fighters has taken a look back at their Top 5 moments from the massive event.

Highlights include: RISE|Caba being thrown a copy of Daigo Umehara’s The Will to Keep Winning while he was on the ropes, FAV|Sako absolutely sagging on Liquid|Nemo with a stylish Wisdom Of Thoth combo from Menat, a rare tournament Double K.O. between REC|Punk and RISE|Caba, and more. You can receive all of this great action by watching the video below.

What were some of your favorite moments of Capcom Cup 2018? Do you agree with Capcom’s choices, or would you’ve put together a different list? Share your thoughts with us in the Comments section below.

Source: Capcom Fighters (YouTube)

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Capcom Fighters presents the Top 5 moments of Capcom Cup 2018

Last weekend’s Capcom Cup 2018 was filled to the absolute brim with top-class Street Fighter V: Arcade Edition action, and Capcom Fighters has taken a look back at their Top 5 moments from the massive event.

Highlights include: RISE|Caba being thrown a copy of Daigo Umehara’s The Will to Keep Winning while he was on the ropes, FAV|Sako absolutely sagging on Liquid|Nemo with a stylish Wisdom Of Thoth combo from Menat, a rare tournament Double K.O. between REC|Punk and RISE|Caba, and more. You can receive all of this great action by watching the video below.

What were some of your favorite moments of Capcom Cup 2018? Do you agree with Capcom’s choices, or would you’ve put together a different list? Share your thoughts with us in the Comments section below.

Source: Capcom Fighters (YouTube)

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Capcom Cup 2018’s viewer stats are now up on Esports Charts

Esports livestream analytics site Esports Chart has released their numbers for Capcom Cup 2018 and it paints an interesting picture when compared with their 2017 report.

In terms of total views on all Twitch channels, the numbers are somewhat down with this year only getting 2,193,770 views versus 2,778,496 for 2017. Total time watched however was up at 1,710,803 hours versus 1,216,536 from last year. This factors in viewers from China, since Capcom Cup 2018 was streamed on Panda.tv. Without them however, the numbers are still up at 1,588,747 hours watched compared to 1,192,743 for last year.

Of course, the increased watch time could simply be from this years tournament running much longer at 29 hours, versus 19 hours (as measured by Esports Charts). Indeed, average concurrent views are down at 60,028 views (including Chinese viewers) for this year, compared to 75,250 for 2017.

Chinese viewership does seem to help the numbers though. This years overall peak viewership was higher at 124,549 viewers, with 8,098 from China, compared to last year’s 121,951 viewers. Without Chinese viewers, the numbers are closer at 117,812  for this year, and 119,741 for last year.

Aside from the increased number of Chinese viewers, the most interesting bit here is that viewership from Twitch alone is down, at 91,210 for 2018 compared to 121,277 from last year. With more places to watch Capcom Cup this year, including Facebook Live, OpenRec.tv, and the previously mentioned Panda.tv, it seems that other services may be starting to make a dent on Twitch’s massive lead.

Source: Esports Charts

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Arcade UFO Weekly streaming Tekken 7 live from Austin, Texas

Arcade UFO has served as the stomping grounds for the Austin, TX FGC for a decade now. First formed in 2008, it has produced top players in a wide range of games and hosted events for SBO Qualifiers, Namco’s Tekken Tag 2 location tests, and more.

With a growing scene for Tekken 7 that has drawn top players from surrounding cities like San Antonio and Houston, Arcade UFO has now moved into regular streaming for its growing weeklies. Every Saturday at 8:30 PM CT/ 6:30 PM PT is Tekken, and you can watch right now:

Watch live video from TekkenATX on www.twitch.tv

If you want to see more game streams from UFO, this Austin as also hosts monthlies for Street Fighter III: 3rd Strike over at its ArcadeUFO Twitch channel here. These tournaments are part of the 3S Jazzy Circuit.

Sources: TekkenATX; Arcade UFO