Category: Fighting Games

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Lum Bam-foo, the gambling-loving panda, joins the roster of Fantasy Strike

Chances are you’ll love the quirky new character coming to the cast of Fantasy Strike.

In-development fighter Fantasy Strike is expanding its roster in the form of one heavyset, game-loving panda: Lum Bam-foo! Players familiar with card games from Sirlin Games have seen Lum before, as he’s appeared in Yomi, Puzzle Strike and Flash Duel.

Lum is a jokester who loves causing light-hearted trouble. Like all Pandas, he’s an avid gambler. His gameplay centers around producing random items that players have to react to on-the-fly, creating a wide variety of (often hilarious) scenarios.

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Have a look at the introduction and developer update videos for Lum Bam-foo below:

Fantasy Strike is currently available on Steam Early Access, with a full Steam release and PlayStation 4 version planned for Q3 2018.

Source: Sirlin Games [press release]

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Burning to fight: Catch up on recent tournament action for The King of Fighters XIV: KOFes, K.O Tournament, & more

The battle is far from over for The King of Fighters XIV!

SNK’s flagship fighter might no longer be in the North American spotlight as much as deserved, but there’s still plenty of fierce fights between dedicated fans going on in The King of Fighters XIV around the world. YouTuber Gatoray has been diligently compiling footage for such events, ready to fill your KOF fix.

KOFes 2017 took place in Japan on November 11th. Here’s the top four:

This past weekend also saw K.O Tournament in Columbia hosting KOFXIV. Check out the top 8.

If you’d like to see some arcade action, Nishinippori Game Spot holds regular KOFXIV events. Their 18th ran near the end of October; you can see the fights in the videos below! (Commentary in Japanese, of course.)

Keep an eye on Gatoray’s YouTube channel for more KOFXIV fight footage!

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Source: Gatoray

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Mikado Arcade’s Super Street Fighter Carnival 2017 continues with ARIKA’s Fighting Layer

“Super Street Fighter Carnival 2017” marches on! SSFC2017 is the currently ongoing Japanese tournament series at Mikado Arcade for a wide variety of classic (and sometimes, obscure) arcade titles. If you missed the first few tournaments from SSFC2017, there’s a lot to catch up on!

Mikado has decided to follow one ARIKA game with another: last week we had Street Fighter EX 2+, this week we have the Namco published Fighting Layer. While Fighting Layer regrettably never made it outside of arcades, it’s still home to some fantastic ARIKA character designs and ideas. I wonder if we’ll ever see Capriccio in ARIKA’s latest unnamed project?

Are you enjoying SSFC2017? You can follow the action by subscribing to Mikado’s official YouTube channel. You can even try to catch them when they livestream!

Source: Mikado

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A VR version of Street Fighter II’s bonus stage will be playable at Red Bull Battle Grounds

Need to blow off some steam after crashing out of Red Bull Battle Grounds‘ Last Chance Qualifier? In partnership with HTC Vive, there will be a special VR demo at the tournament which has attendees playing through the famous car-wrecking bonus stage from Street Fighter II.

Attendees who try on this VR experience will get entered into a special Red Bull sweepstakes, where you can win either a custom-made Street Fighter V arcade cabinet in the shape of a Red Bull can, or a HTC Vive. You get up to three entries in this competition, so make sure to swing by the VR booth if you want a chance to win.

Source: Red Bull

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Australian esports team Masterminds enters the FGC by signing ROF, Styles, & Sora

With teams like DarkSided taking hold of esports in Australia, more teams are popping up with an increase in interest in the FGC. As such, some of the strong Australian free agents are being scooped up — and Masterminds just made a big grab on the market.

Over the weekend, the team announced the signing of Christian “ROF” Dedalija — a Melbourne-based Birdie player who recently placed 2nd at Red Bull Throwdown. Also recently signed were Street Fighter V player Travis Styles, and Super Smash Bros. Melee player Joshua “Sora” Lyras.

Source: ROF; Masterminds

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cutcc’s “QuickNotes” series breaks down the basics of Tekken 7’s Akuma

cutcc is back with more of his “QuickNotes” series for Tekken 7! Today he’s tackling Capcom’s favorite demon, Akuma. And if you intend to master the Satsui no Hadou in 3D, you will need intense training and study time.

Akuma is a fundamentally different character from anyone else in Tekken, having abnormally weak mids and stubby limbs compared to the rest of the cast. Combining that with his lackluster lateral movement, and you’ll discover it takes a real understanding of the Tekken system to make this demon work in 3D. With effort, though, his strengths shine through- high damage output, great lows, and some of the best punishment options in the game.

Source: cutcc

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Rule all of Punch Planet’s inhabitants with these Tyara combos and resets

One of the biggest pops Sector-K’s Punch Planet got during its pre-release tour of FGC tournaments was the reveal of Tyara at Evo 2017 — for obvious aesthetic reasons. Character design aside, now that the game has entered early access, we get to see and experience the full range of Tyara’s options (as they exist in the current build of 0.1.8.10).

One thing that may not have been as neatly understood about this SPD-user is the ability to freely combo off of her command grab, and the multiple ways she’s able to manipulate the Time-Canceling system. Combining her longer combos and her ability to cross-up downed opponents allows the Amazonian alien to vortex foes with ease, making her the perfect fit for set play-loving players.

Source: BobMarleyChiti

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Cooperation Cup returns for its 16th installment on January 7th

Third Strike players, gather your friends as Cooperation Cup is back for 2018. Coming to the Asakusabashi Hulic Hall — the venue for Japan Cup 2017 — in Tokyo, this legendary event has the world’s best Third Strike players joining forces to beat each other in 5v5 team battles.

As with previous years, there will the preparatory Pre-Cooperation Cup tournament on January 6th, where players usually fight as same character teams before the main event on January 7th. Cooperation Cup 15 was spectacular, with Genki’s Alex winning the whole tournament for Team Z Senshi.

With Third Strike royalty like MOV, Onuki, Haitani, RX, K.O and Kokujin usually in attendance at Cooperation Cup, it’s mandatory viewing for any Street Fighter fan. Like last year, all the action will be streamed via the GameNewton Twitch channel — expect any news of an English stream nearer the time.

You can check out the announcement trailer below, which features an interview with Team Z Senshi team captain Kuni. If you’re interested in signing up, head over to the official Cooperation Cup website for more details.

Source: Cooperation Cup

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AutoMattock shows off corner throw loops with Street Fighter V’s Old Zeku

Street Fighter scientist AutoMattock has been studying the ways of Bushinryu, and has put together a solid corner vortex for the latest Season 2 DLC character Zeku (specifically, from “Old” Zeku form).

After Old Zeku forces a block in the corner with EX Koku, he’s in range for a grab attempt with +1 frame advantage. Versus any characters without a 3 frame normal, he’s also able to frame trap with his cr.LP. Once you land the throw? St.HP with counter-hit quick rise buttons. If they get up and block, they are right back in the same situation, since you can special cancel into EX Koku. Neat!

Source: AutoMattock

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desk reimagines Street Fighter V in the style of Street Fighter II: The World Warrior

Combo video maestro desk has released a new video re-imagining the sound and visuals of Street Fighter V in the style of Street Fighter II: The World Warrior. Inspired by the game’s recent addition of the classic Street Fighter 2 soundtrack, desk arranged parts of the Street Fighter V character select song and Karin’s theme using sounds from the CPS-1 arcade board and recreated the game’s UI to match the classic yellow and red health bars of Street Fighter II.

The attention to detail is rather astonishing; desk went out of his way to include reproduce the sound effects for individual hits used in Street Fighter II and used a bitcrush effect to make character voices and unique sound effects match the classic style. With the video, desk said he intended to create the sort of visual package he would buy, if it were released as DLC. The end result is the product of more than 100 hours of work and reflects a creativity that expands beyond the game.

You can read more about how desk developed Street Fighter 5: The World Warrior in the video’s description; a free music pack containing the tracks in the video along with a new CPS-1 arrangement of Guile’s theme and a Megadrive arrangement of Juri’s theme is available via Bandcamp.

Source: desk