Category: Fighting Games

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Ghost Gaming enters the fighting game arena by signing Kenneth “K-Brad” Bradley

Following his departure from his long-standing team Evil Geniuses, Kenneth “K-Brad” Bradley has wasted no time in getting picked up by a new organization. The organization in question is Ghost Gaming — a relatively new North American esports team, known for their presence in shooters like CS:GO, Call of Duty, Gears of War and PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds, as well as Rocket League.

K-Brad will be the first fighting game player on the team, and he’s definitely one of the best people for bringing Ghost Gaming into the world of the FGC. While he missed out on Capcom Cup 2017, K-Brad made waves throughout the year, whether through high placings at events like Northwest Majors, Frosty Faustings IX and East Coast Throwdown, or via his on-going feud with Wolfkrone.

With Dignitas also throwing its hat back into the ring, we could be seeing another surge of esports organizations taking a gamble on the FGC, as a huge raft of games are on the way.

Source: GhostGaming

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Check out new gameplay of Goku Black, Hit, Gotenks, and SSGSS Goku & Vegeta in Dragon Ball FighterZ

Recently, Bandai Namco Entertainment held a stream in Japan for the fast-approaching Dragon Ball FighterZ. Specifically showcasing many of the newer characters who didn’t make the cut for the open beta, as well as the seldom-seen Super Saiyan God Super Saiyan versions of Goku and Vegeta.

These matches feature Gotenks, Goku Black, and Hit facing Captain Ginyu, Yamcha, and SSGSS Goku, as well as the trio of SGSS Vegeta, Tien, and Trunks battling against Gotenks, Hit, and Yamcha. We also get a glimpse of the updated character select screen, revealing the Super Saiyan Blues will be taking their place on opposite ends of the second row of characters, next to Trunks and Android 16, respectively, with the slot underneath Beerus reserved for the recently announced Android 21. The stage select screen is also briefly displayed, revealing 13 historic Dragon Ball battlegrounds to choose from, as well as extra room for perhaps some DLC arenas or hidden surprises?

We’ve also gotten some more information on the upcoming Announcer Voice DLC that was delayed for Ultimate Edition owners, as replays during the open beta have revealed that the World Tournament Announcer, who makes several appearances throughout Dragon Ball, Dragon Ball Z and GT, will be available to provide commentary on matches, bringing his characteristic hype and eccentricities to matches in a similar to Persona 4 Arena‘s various Navigators. He will be made available for download by Sunday, April 15th.

You can see both videos below.

Dragon Ball FighterZ will be released in North America and Europe on Friday, January 26, on PlayStation 4, Xbox One and Steam. A Japanese release will follow on Thursday, February 1st for the same platforms. The open beta will has reopened for a 24-hour extension, ending tomorrow, January 18th, at 9:00 PM PT.

Source: Anime Games Online via Saiyan Island

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Capcom’s Character Popularity Poll lists Sakura as the most popular Street Fighter character

The results are in! For a month in 2017, people weighed in the most popular characters in the Street Fighter universe. Now, with Street Fighter V: Arcade Edition out, Capcom has announced the results — showing the first SFV Season 3 DLC character Sakura as the most popular character in the series.

This list, which features 109 characters, including ones owned by ARIKA from the Street Fighter EX franchise, and even characters from Street Fighter The Movie: The Game, showed every single rank on the list. Rounding out the Top Ten were as follows (including their first appearance in the series):

  1. Sakura (Street Fighter Alpha 2)
  2. Makoto (Street Fighter III: 3rd Strike)
  3. Juri (Super Street Fighter IV)
  4. Q (Street Fighter III: 3rd Strike)
  5. Cody (Final Fight)
  6. Chun-Li (Street Fighter II)
  7. Sagat (Street Fighter)
  8. Akuma (Super Street Fighter II Turbo)
  9. Ryu (Street Fighter)
  10. Blanka (Street Fighter II)

For the rest of the results — which took in over 100,000 votes — please visit their results page on the CFN Portal. Similarly, you also check out the results of our own SFV Season 2 character reader poll.

Source: Capcom

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The expanded and updated Third Edition of “Gief’s Gym” is now available on Kindle & paperback!

The Street Fighter V training resource levels up alongside Street Fighter V: Arcade Edition!

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Following close on the heels of the release of Street Fighter V: Arcade Edition, r/StreetFighter’s Joe Munday has completed the third edition of his excellent Street Fighter V training guidebook, Gief’s Gym! The new edition features ten additional chapters and updated information throughout to bring the book up-to-date with the current build of Street Fighter V.

The book is now available on Amazon, available in paperback, Kindle, and Paperwhite versions. Purchases of the paperback version will include a digital copy as well, once Amazon has synced up that feature. (It is currently only available digitally on Amazon.ca, the paperback version will be available in Canada in about a month.) From Amazon.com’s description:

Welcome to Gief’s Gym! This guide has been crafted and honed by the dedicated community at r/StreetFighter to help players with absolutely no experience understand and practically improve at fighting games.

Numerous players have used this guide to quickly learn and execute on the core concepts having never played a fighting game. Gief’s Gym will provide the workouts and encouragement you need to become fluent in fighting games.

While the main draw of Gief’s Gym is to help beginners get started, this new edition features content that will help intermediate and advanced players continue to improve their Street Fighter game. Check it out!

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Source: Amazon

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There’s a way to perform one-button instant air dashes in Dragon Ball FighterZ

One of the more important techniques in air dash-based anime fighters is the “instant air dash.” This technique allows players to quickly approach from the air, and set up overhead attacks and mix-ups. Now usually this can take a bit of practice to perform, however a method has been found in Dragon Ball FighterZ that allows players an easier way to do it in that game.

The video below from Austin Murphy demonstrates how this technique is performed. Instead of using the usual double tap into upforward input, the method uses the fact that quickly tapping the command for a Super Dash (R2 or Right Trigger in the default control mapping) results in a normal dash that’s slightly off the ground. By simply tapping forward and Super Dash (making sure not to trigger it), players effectively get a one-button instant air dash in Dragon Ball FighterZ.

As the video demonstrates, this technique was tested in the open beta. Whether or not it remains in the retail game, well, we’ll find out when Dragon Ball FighterZ finally hits PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC on January 26 in the West, and February 1 in Japan.

Source: Austin Murphy

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HipHopGamer Show hosting a Dragon Ball FighterZ pre-release event featuring top players on January 22nd

With the game’s release just a week away, anticipation for Dragon Ball FighterZ is at a fever pitch. To keep the hype going, a special pre-release show has been announced for this Monday, January 22 by HOT97’s HipHipGamer Show.

For the event, Bandai Namco will be bringing the full retail version of the game to the studio. Trying it out will be a number of top fighting game players from the area, namely LI Joe, Mynus, Apollo, TSB Blaze, and Dieminion.

With the game having been brought to a number of events — on top of the recent beta — players have had a number of chances to try the game out. However, this will be the first time the final retail version of the game will be at an event — everything we see these players do will be possible when the game hits on Friday, January 26.

Source: LI Joe (Twitter)

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The Street Fighter V Honest Trailer (satirically) tells the truth about the game

“From a developer that’s been making games since you were a zygote… comes another entry in the granddaddy of game series about beating the crap out of people in public… Street Fighter V!”

The release of Street Fighter V: Arcade Edition is upon us, so now is a better time than ever to reflect on the game’s… tumultuous development. The trials and travails of Capcom’s star child are on display in hilarious-yet-poignant fashion in the new “Honest Game Trailers” edition from Smosh Games.

The trailer breaks down the transfer from Street Fighter IV‘s “oily buff boys” to SFV’s “clay banana ponytails” as well as the obsession with all things V, like V-Trigger and so on. Whether online play makes you want to ragequit the game for life or commit to training even harder, there’s no denying the enjoyment of watching other people play the title online, as evidenced by its popularity. Whether you agree or disagree with some of what the trailer points out, it’s undeniably hilarious and sometimes just too accurate.

Source: Smosh Games

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SNK Heroines: Tag Team Frenzy exists because of an April Fool’s gag comic by SNK

SNK Heroines: Tag Team Frenzy is SNK’s newest female-only fighting game for the Nintendo Switch and PlayStation 4. This colorful, light-hearted offering has garnered a sharp divide in the FGC’s reaction, perhaps unsurprisingly: many were likely hoping for a KOF XIV port to compliment the NEO GEO ports of KOF ’94-through-2000 already on the Switch. Or, at least a fighting game that seems a little more serious about its gameplay than SNK Heroines’s initial trailer lets on.

Though there isn’t much to judge SNK Heroines on at the moment, one thing is for sure: if the argument against its existence is that it seems too much like a joke, that’s because that’s the exactly the point. This spiritual successor to SNK Gals’ Fighters has actually been staring us in the face since last year’s April Fool’s Day, as pointed out by reddit user fussomoro.

To quote Fussomoro:

During last year’s April Fools, SNK created a fake release for a fake game called “Nariyuki Quest”. (…) It’s April Fool’s, that game is clearly an 8-bit RPG. We laughed. We moved on (…) Five days later, on April 6th, SNK released another image, this time it was a webcomic that seemed to explain the plot of the game  In the next 9 months, SNK continued to release the webcomic every other week.

The webcomic from this prolonged April Fools joke is actually the catalyst of SNK Heroine’s storyline:

It was silly.

It was funny.

It was not serious… until now!

Because, the very next day after the announcement of SNK Heroines TTF, they release the last chapter of the webcomic. And guess what? The webcomic is actually the prequel/setup of the game!

You can read the full fussomoro thread here. Based on the comic, he goes on to speculate exactly who will be in the game, and has further information on the full comic for those interested.

Regardless of which side of this Waifu War you’re on, it’ll be interesting to see how SNK Heroines sells on release. After all, with its announcement, it’ll be the second April-Fool’s-joke-turned-fighting-game released in 2018. I doubt we’ll ever hear directly from SNK whether they were inspired by Fighting EX Layer‘s path to advertising, but if this sort of thing becomes a trend of any sort, we can now definitively look to these games as the reason why.

Source: fussomoro

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The unstoppable force of justice, Jiren, joins Dragon Ball Xenoverse 2!

The Pride Trooper who could kill the gods enters the Xenoverse battlefield.

Android 21’s playable character announcement won’t be the only Dragon Ball news today. The seemingly all-powerful Jiren from Dragon Ball Super will be joining Dragon Ball Xenoverse 2 in upcoming DLC. It will be interesting to see how the character is balanced to not be the overwhelming powerhouse he is in the show. Not much else is known about the DLC pack aside from its inclusion of the original character, Fuu, and a “new form of Goku” (which at this point is bound to be Ultra Instinct) so stick around for more information about Jiren and the upcoming DLC pack! Also, don’t forget about the Dragon Ball FighterZ connection content coming sometime soon as well!

Dragon Ball Xenoverse 2 is available on PlayStation 4, Xbox One, PC, and Nintendo Switch. The Nintendo Switch version of the title recently surpassed 500,000 units in sales. The title has been doing so well that there is a shortage of the game in Japan, with players being told to be patient and wait until February for more units. The hype for the title will more than likely continue to grow with this new announcement!

Sources: Shonen Games; Gematsu

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A utility showcasing the changes between Street Fighter V versions has been unveiled

Sometimes it’s hard to keep track of the changes across different versions of a game. If a player were to come back to Street Fighter V: Arcade Edition after not playing since the original version, they’d be overwhelmed, to say the least. Fortunately, this new utility is here to help.

Named “sfvdiff,” it shows the changes across versions of the game by scraping the game’s code for the data, rather than relying on patch notes.  Sfvdiff is now available online and includes all characters’ changes!

Source: WydD (Twitter)