Misango and his masks join the fray as the newest fighter for ARMS

Nintendo’s unique stretchy-armed fighter/Dhalsim simulator ARMS has just received a new update. Version 4.0 of the game adds a new fighter, named Misango. The Mesoamerican-themed Misango comes with a unique mechanic: his special mask ability allows him to switch masks mid-battle to seemingly grant him specific buffs.

Along with a new fighter, comes a new stage; Misango’s stage is the appropriately-themed Temple Grounds.

Additionally, the update also adds three new Arms, including what seems to be one based on inflicting a poison status on an opponent.

Source: Nintendo

Ultimate Gohan, Gotenks, and Kid Buu confirmed for Dragon Ball FighterZ

Three new Dragon Ball Z characters have been revealed for Dragon Ball FighterZ. The latest issue of V-Jump magazine has confirmed that adult or Ultimate Gohan, Gotenks, and Kid Buu will be joining Bandai Namco’s and Arc System Works’ 2D tag team fighter.

These three should be familiar to fans of the series, with them all playing important parts during the final story arc in Dragon Ball Z. In addition to these, the issue also gave some details regarding their appearances in the game.

Gotenks gets his “Charging Ultra Buu Buu Volleyball” as his Level 3 Super, as well as his famous Super Ghost Kamikaze Attack. In the source material, he performs this volleyball attack with Piccolo but in game, he performs it with one of his team members. Kid Buu uses his Planet Burst for his Level 3 Super and he also has access to Piccolo’s stretchy arm grapple. Finally, in addition to being able to use an Ultimate Kamehameha, Ultimate Gohan is able to unlock his Mystic form — based on the amount of Super bars he has stocked up. The more Super bars he uses for this transformation, the more powerful it is. It’s unknown at this time if this power-up is temporary like Freeza’s Golden form, or whether his Mystic form lasts for the whole battle once activated.

In addition to these three characters, the issue also confirmed that Dragon Ball FighterZ will have an in-game shop where players can spend Zeni they earn in battle for colors and titles, as well as an arcade mode. The latter will apparently feature multiple routes that change depending on whether the player wins or loses their fights. The image of arcade mode has turned a few heads, as two of the icons on the map look like Beerus and the Universe 6 assassin, Hit. The Hit icon could possibly be Ginyu — as both of them have domed purple heads — but the other icon is a dead-ringer for Universe 7’s God of Destruction.

You can check out the V-Jump scan below, courtesy of ShonenGamez, and see for yourself.

DBFZ Kid Buu Scan

Sources: V-Jump via ShonenGamez; Ryokutya2089 via Gematsu

Catch all the action from TSB Yabai’s Sailor Moon S event in this match footage

The Super Famicom fighting game Sailor Moon S has been gaining a lot of popularity lately, and the New York fighting game community held a large tournament for it over the weekend at TSB Yabai. The bracket had 17 players of all skill levels looking to fight evil by moonlight and take advantage of the game’s loose — but exciting — mechanics.

Just in case you missed out on all the action from this classic game, Team Spooky has posted a replay of the tournament, which featured some of the top players in the game — including DaiAndOh, Mynus, Apollo, and NerdJosh, to name a few.

Source: Team Spooky

Busan 9th Esports World Championship 2017 results

While the headline stories in the world of Tekken were the Tekken World Tour Finals taking place in San Francisco, as well as the reveal of Final Fantasy XV protagonist Noctis as the game’s second guest DLC character, the battle to determine a King of Iron Fist champion was also raging in Busan, South Korea this past Saturday at the 9th Esports World Championship. This is a yearly event hosted by the International Esports Foundation, as they look to put on a special competition that is primarily aimed at bringing different countries together in a contest for national supremacy — with Tekken 7 serving as this year’s chosen battlefield.

As such, only one player from each participating country could participate in the bracket, as they were decided by a series of qualifiers in their homelands. The battles were a race to four until competitors reached the semi-final rounds, where things changed into a first-to-five format.

Results

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Tekken 7

1.PBE|Doujin (Kazumi, Shaheen, Hwoarang, Eddy) [Philippines]
2.VS|Book (Jin) [Thailand]
3.mYi|KiraKira (Eliza) [Switzerland)]
4.Kor_Nnova (Shaheen, Dragunov, Kazumi) [New Zealand]
5.Jeondding (Lucky Chloe) [South Korea]
5. Tejan (JACK-7) [India]
5. HXI|Zaba (Paul) [Malaysia]
5. SolidStonE (Dragunov) [Israel]

Source: IESF TV

Fenrich and Iwashi play in a celebratory BlazBlue: Central Fiction tournament post Arc Revo victory

Recently, Athena Ipponbashi in Japan hosted a special 2v2 BlazBlue: Central Fiction tournament. The event celebrated the recent Arc Revolution champs, who beat out everyone else at the Toushinsai 2017 competition. The duo, of course, is composed of the most famous Jin Kisaragi player in the world, Infinity Osaka|Fenrich, and his brother, Iwashi, who plays Ragna the Bloodedge.

The two clips below show the special tournament. Various players take on the two brothers. The footage is divided into IO|Fenrich and Iwashi’s sides. IO|Fenrich tinkers a bit with his Azrael and Izanami at first, while Iwashi remains Ragna throughout.

The celebration was complete with a cake made for the two brothers:

Sources: Jourdal; @fenritti

FightersLegend’s Tekken 7 combo exhibition maps out potential juggles and utility for every character’s Rage Drive

While Rage Arts may have been the cinematic gimmick that pulled a new generation of players into the Tekken universe, Tekken 7‘s Rage Drive is generally the safer and more practical use of your Rage meter.

Depending upon the character you can get comparable — if not outright better — damage in your juggles with proper Rage Drive use, and they almost always either provide frame advantage or some other form of useful utility. FightersLegend‘s latest combo compilation shows off both for the entire currently released cast, giving you a frame of reference if there’s a new character you’re interested in picking up.

Source: FightersLegend

Reach out to the Truth once again! Persona 4 Arena is now Xbox One backwards compatible

One of the most notable features of Microsoft’s Xbox One is the Backwards Compatibility Program, which allows users to play various titles from the original Xbox and Xbox 360 on the company’s newest console — offering an ever-growing list of over 450 classic titles spanning every genre imaginable. This has proven to be fantastic news for fighting game fans, as titles like Tekken Tag Tournament 2, Tekken 6, Virtua Fighter 2, Street Fighter IV, The King of Fighters Neowave and more are available to be enjoyed digitally by veterans and newcomers alike.

The P-1 Grand Prix now resumes with the Xbox 360 version of 2012’s Persona 4 Arena, the original collaborative work between ATLUS and Arc System Works. Earlier today, it was announced as the latest fighting title to join the service, alongside other games such as Cars: Mater-National, Jewel Quest and Tecmo Bowl Throwback. Unfortunately, the 2014 sequel, Persona 4 Arena Ultimax has not become part of the Program yet, but that will hopefully change in the near future. You can see the announcement tweet from Larry “Major Nelson” Hryb, below — and you can also jump back into the TV World as a Games On Demand title for a cool $29.99 on the Xbox 360 Marketplace, if you don’t already own it.

Fittingly enough, it has also been announced that another Persona 4 Arena character — likely the Investigation Team’s Yukiko Amagi — will be amongst the next round of character reveals for the upcoming BlazBlue Cross Tag Battle this Friday.

Source: majornelson (Twitter) via Persona Central

Get nasty mixups off of Ken’s V-Trigger when your opponent back rolls in Street Fighter V

It’s been well known for a while that Ken has some nasty meaty setups in Street Fighter V, and these just make his setups even more ambiguous. By connecting his light Tatsu off of a juggle after a V-Trigger confirm, he can actually switch sides. This makes your opponent’s back roll increasingly dangerous for them. You can further make this more deadly by incorporating cross-up air Tatsus after the side switch, making them further guess which side you’ll end up on for the meaty.

Source: World Warrior FGC

Justice League gear brings the DCEU design to Injustice 2

Divided we are not enough.

The Justice League from the DC Extended Universe is on its way to Injustice 2 and Injustice 2 Mobile. Players will be able to unlock gear for the legendary super team by earning them through battles.

According to the trailer, the more film-accurate versions of the characters are exclusive to the mobile version of the game, with the console version receiving only the heroes’ gear. This can be expected when the extreme amount of detail within the console version is taken into account. Things like Aquaman’s luxurious locks and actor-accurate face models would be a bit more costly to render than new suits of armor.

This isn’t the first time Injustice 2 featured designs taken from the DCEU. A Wonder Woman event took place to celebrate the release of the film of the same name, granting players Princess Diana’s iconic armor from the film.

The gear looks fantastic — but there is one question that audiences and fighting fans alike have left while we wait for Justice League to release on November 17. Where is Superman?

Source: Injustice

Here are your nominees for Best Fighting Game at The Game Awards 2017

As the year ends, most people’s thoughts start to go towards the releases of said year, and which ones are the best. One of the spaces where people can look to for this is The Game Awards, the successor to Spike’s Video Game Awards.

One of the categories that The Game Awards has is naturally for the Best Fighting Game, where players get to vote from five nominees for which game they believe deserves the award. For this year, the nominees for the award are quite varied, going beyond traditional fighting games and looking at some of the year’s more innovative titles.

The nominees are:

  • Tekken 7
  • Nidhogg 2
  • Marvel vs. Capcom: Infinite
  • ARMS
  • Injustice 2

It’s interesting to note, however, that while we have more fighting game nominees this year — five up from four — there are less fighting games in the awards in total. No fighting games have been nominated for eSports Game of the Year, nor any fighting game players for eSports Player of the Year.

The Game Awards 2017 will take place at the Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles on December 7, 2017.

Source: The Game Awards