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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

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PlayStation Store “Game Awards” sale marks down Street Fighter V: Arcade Edition, BlazBlue: Cross Tag Battle

In celebration of the recently concluded Game Awards, there’s a massive sale going on on the PlayStation Store right now! Among the several PlayStation 4 titles for sale, a few fighting games slipped in, as well:

You can see the full Game Awards sale here. The sale lasts until 12/11/18, so you have just the weekend to make up your mind!

Source: PlayStation Store

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Noclip sets us free with amazing documentary chronicling the career of Victor “Sp00ky” Fontanez

If you’ve ever watched a fighting game stream — odds are if you are reading this right now, you have — you’ve been a witness to the amazing production quality of Team Spooky. Starting from humble beginnings in New York City, it is one of the premier stream production teams on the planet for fighting games.

This documentary features multiple figures within the community, including Seth Killian and Sp00ky himself. Through the interviews, you get a history lesson on how Team Spooky not only became a legend within the community, but how the team helped to push fighting game tournament production and scheduling into an unprecedented level.

Source: Noclip

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Monster Energy ends business relationship with Seon-woo “Infiltration” Lee

Former EVO champion Seon-woo “Infiltration” Lee recently announced on twitter that he will no longer be affiliated with former Monster Energy.

Infiltration was signed by Monster Energy roughly a year ago along with another EVO champion, Xian. Monster Energy’s contract termination with Seon-Woo is the latest in an ongoing controversy surrounding a domestic abuse charge against Seon-Woo from 2017. Prior to this announcement, Infiltration was terminated from Panda Global (and subsequently disqualified from the Capcom Cup).

Monster Energy has not released a formal statement on the matter at the time of this writing.

Source: INFILTRATION85

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Cower in fear of all of The Walking Dead references in Negan’s Tekken 7 reveal trailer

Don’t forget to blink, breathe, and cry!

This past weekend was a massive treat for fans of Bandai Namco Entertainment’s Tekken 7. In addition to the 2018 Tekken World Tour Finals culminating in spectacular fashion with a Panda victory by Rahgchu, Katushiro Harada and Michael Murray dropped a hype nuke on fans with the reveals of remaining Season 2 characters Armor King, Craig Marduk, and Julia Chang. If that wasn’t enough, were were also treated to our first in-game glimpse of the title’s upcoming guest character, AMC’s The Walking Dead’s Negan, in the form of a cinematic trailer that was guaranteed to delight fans of the series.

Negan’s trailer recreates the iconic lineup sequence from the Season 6 finale “Last Day On Earth” and the Season 7 premiere “The Day Will Come When You Won’t Be,” with several of Tekken’s cast members stepping it to fill the roles of Rick’s group of survivors.

Specifically, Kazuya Mishima is Rick Grimes, Jin Kazama is Carl Grimes, Heihachi Mishima is Glenn Rhee, with wife Kazumi Mishima serving as Maggie Rhee. Lars Alexandersson plays the part of Daryl Dixon, Josie Rizal is Sasha Williams, Paul Phoenix steps  into the shoes of Abraham Ford, Master Raven stands in for Michonne, Nina Williams is Rosita Espinosa, Steve Fox is Aaron, while Bob Richards channels his portly counterpart Dr. Eugene Porter. Finally, Bryan Fury serves as the proxy for Simon, Negan’s lieutenant in the Saviors.

To further illustrate just how closely the Tekken team worked with AMC, Melku44 put the trailer side-by-side with various clips from the show,  chronicling a massive amount of references to the source material, including the inspiration for his hilarious shot at Bob that closed the trailer. You can see the full video below, but be advised that it is NSFW due to language and graphic violence, and contains (old) spoilers for The Walking Dead.

Negan is set to join Tekken 7 as part of DLC9 sometime in 2019.

Source: Melku44

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DreamHack Winter 2018 results

While the 2018 Tekken World Tour was concluding in the Netherlands, the Dragon Ball FighterZ World Tour was making its next stop in Jönköping, Sweden, for DreamHack Winter 2018. This event would serve as the final offline Dragon Radar Event of the Tour, meaning this was the absolute final chance for some of these competitors in the European region to secure a ticket to either the 7th Saga Event, CouchWarriors Crossup in Australia, to compete for the Seven-Star Ball, or to the 8th Saga Event, the Last Chance Qualifier, where they can try their luck in potentially up to three single-elimination brackets to fill out the final field of eight competitors. With this also being the first event since last week’s balance patch, it will be interesting to see how the meta may be shifting towards the tail end of the Tour.

In total, 20 mighty warriors gathered to do battle in DBFZ, in addition to singles and doubles tournaments in Super Smash Bros. Melee and Brawlhalla.

Results

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Dragon Ball FighterZ

1. TSM|Leffen (Gotenks/Vegeta/Yamcha) – Will be flown to the Last Chance Qualifier in January
2. Oplon|Skyll (Vegeta/Android 16/Super Saiyan Goku)
3. WrNx|Noka (Adult Gohan/Kid Buu/Goku Black)
4. VSF|Rudi (Trunks/Kid Buu/Super Saiyan Goku)
5. MegaX (SSGSS Vegito/Goku/Yamcha)
5. RMZ (Hit/Bardock/Yamcha)
7. Stimoro (Gotenks/Nappa/Android 16)
7. JuicyJoe (Cell/Adult Gohan/Super Saiyan Vegeta)

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Super Smash Bros. Melee

1. TSM|Leffen (Falco)
2. Demise|Triff (Peach)
3. BZG|Overtriforce (Sheik)
4. Poppmaister6000 (Jigglypuff)
5. SUN|Daydee (Samus)
5. Humpe (Falco)
7. Jadde (Sheik)
7. RedBlaze (Fox)

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Brawlhalla

1. SSG|noeL (Asuri, Koji)
2. FlashPoint|Isidroo (Brynn, Ragnir)
3. simpLe (Hattori)
4. Addymestic (Val)
5. VipR3 (Diana, Ragnir)
5. Trium|Stikieuh (Bodvar)
7. Cake
7. Blew

The next stop on the DBFZ World Tour is the 7th Saga Event, CouchWarriors Crossup, taking place December 15th and 16th, in Coburg North, VIC, Australia, with the customary $5,000 Saga pot bonus also up for grabs. Registration is live at smash.gg.

Beyond that, the penultimate Online Dragon Radar Event will be for East Asia, with eligible countries including Taiwan, Hong Kong, Japan, and South Korea, January 6th-8th, with 2 entrants currently registered at smash.gg, and the final Online Dragon Radar event for Europe East, January 13th-16th, which will include Latvia, Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Finland, Romania, Lithuania, Slovakia, Hungary, Poland, Russia, Estonia, Ukraine, and Greece, also at smash.gg.

Sources: DreamHack Fighters; DreamHack Smash; Brawlhalla

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Modus Games explains the combo system, footsies of Override: Mech City Brawl

Prior to launch, Modus Games community manager GeoffLife shared a basics primer for new players interested in Override: Mech City Brawl. If that series of videos — which you can catch here if you haven’t seen it yet — caught your eye but didn’t completely sell you on the 3D arena brawler, then perhaps this advanced mechanics tutorial straight from the developers will. Here, GeoffLife covers how Override’s stun-based combos function, meter cancels, momentum-modification on specials, footsies, and more.

Override: Mech City Brawl is out now on PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and Steam.

Source: PlayStation

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SonicFox and Dragon Ball FighterZ win it big at The Game Awards 2018

Sweet sweet sweet victory…YEAH!

The Game Awards 2018 have come and gone with more than a few exciting surprises but its also important to note a couple of great wins for the fighting game community.

Dominique “Echo Fox|Sonic Fox” McLean was voted Best Esports Player of 2018,  rounding out a very successful year for the multi-title fighting game player.  Echo Fox|Sonic Fox not only won Evo 2018 in Dragon Ball FighterZ but also became the number one player for Injustice 2 for the second year in a row at the Injustice 2 Pro Series 2018 Grand Finals.

While his achievements in fighting games are undeniable, there are also many who see him as a shining example of diversity in Esports which makes this a big win for more than just the FGC. Check out his acceptance speech below!

And speaking of Dragon Ball FighterZ, the licensed anime title that rocked the world by Arc System Works and Bandai Namco Entertainment, it also won an award last night, making DBFZ the Best Fighting Game of 2018. It certainly rose above and beyond the expectations of the licensed anime fighting game, with its solid gameplay, groundbreaking visuals, and pitch-perfect adaptation.

Dragon Ball FighterZ has become a shining example for not only licensed titles but for all games within the genre. Hopefully, Dragon Ball FighterZ continues to see support throughout 2019 and for many years to come.

Congratulations to Echo Fox|Sonic Fox and everyone behind Dragon Ball FighterZ! It’s been an incredible 2018, here’s to another year of greatness.

Source: The Game Awards; Bandai Namco Entertainment

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SonicFox and Dragon Ball FighterZ win it big at The Game Awards 2018

Sweet sweet sweet victory…YEAH!

The Game Awards 2018 have come and gone with more than a few exciting surprises but its also important to note a couple of great wins for the fighting game community.

Dominique “Echo Fox|Sonic Fox” McLean was voted Best Esports Player of 2018,  rounding out a very successful year for the multi-title fighting game player.  Echo Fox|Sonic Fox not only won Evo 2018 in Dragon Ball FighterZ but also became the number one player for Injustice 2 for the second year in a row at the Injustice 2 Pro Series 2018 Grand Finals.

While his achievements in fighting games are undeniable, there are also many who see him as a shining example of diversity in Esports which makes this a big win for more than just the FGC. Check out his acceptance speech below!

And speaking of Dragon Ball FighterZ, the licensed anime title that rocked the world by Arc System Works and Bandai Namco Entertainment, it also won an award last night, making DBFZ the Best Fighting Game of 2018. It certainly rose above and beyond the expectations of the licensed anime fighting game, with its solid gameplay, groundbreaking visuals, and pitch-perfect adaptation.

Dragon Ball FighterZ has become a shining example for not only licensed titles but for all games within the genre. Hopefully, Dragon Ball FighterZ continues to see support throughout 2019 and for many years to come.

Congratulations to Echo Fox|Sonic Fox and everyone behind Dragon Ball FighterZ! It’s been an incredible 2018, here’s to another year of greatness.

Source: The Game Awards; Bandai Namco Entertainment

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Tekken 7 video roundup — Marduk VTS cancel juggles, Armor King cross-up tech traps, and more!

The first week of Tekken 7‘s new DLC wrestlers — Marduk and Armor King — is coming to a close. The general consensus is that these two deal disgusting damage and break some Tekken rules in their own unique ways — just like good wrestling heels should.

Let’s see what the community has cooked today! High damage juggles for Armor King seems like a fine place to start…

It’s probably not surprising that Armor King has a cross-up move like this for tech catches. King has a similar trick with his Running Exploder, though this elbow is sadly inferior until we see a non-wall setup. Still, very cool find!

Sadly, it’s not all good news for Armor King. This particular ground throw is -27… on hit. Be careful where you place it.

As for Marduk? Well, it’s always nice when a normal combo ender can be delayed to tech catch:

If you’ve been having trouble with Marduk’s VTS combos, perhaps this tutorial can help out.

And closing out today’s list is the disgusting knowledge that Marduk can cross-under to keep wall positioning after a wall combo > ground throw setup. Gross.

Sources: Tekken // Mellowlink; Cockchopz; kanoukyouko; Shirdel7221; FrameWhisperer; Clive Palmer The Humble Meme Merchant