At this week’s Tokyo Game Show, we got our first look at Marvel vs. Capcom: Infinite‘s Monster Hunter, via a new trailer. In addition to this however, Capcom also showed her off during their stream. The showcase had her in the hands of some of Capcom’s staff. They demonstrated a few matches, allowing us to see more of her moves, her specials, and the insane amount of Hyper meter she seems to have.
For those who missed it, Xuses has uploaded a 25-minute recording of the showcase to his YouTube channel. You can check it out below:
One of the more unique fighting game crossovers that will be coming out next year is Sega’s Toaru Majutsu no VIRTUAL-ON. This 3D mecha fighter combines the classic VIRTUAL-ON gameplay with characters from the Toaru Majutsu no Index anime and light novel franchise.
At the 2017 Tokyo Game Show, Sega finally showed gameplay of the game — for the first time ever. Despite the anime crossover elements, the game itself plays in traditional VIRTUAL-ON twin-stick fashion. What the collaboration brings, however, is some new mecha designs, combined with some rather unorthodox attacks, and some extra in-match dialogue with anime-style cut-ins.
For those interested in what the game looks like, Kira A has shared the footage from Sega on their YouTube channel. You can check it out below.
Toaru Majutsu no VIRTUAL-ON launches on PlayStation 4, and PlayStation Vita — in Japan — on February 15, 2018.
During Brooklyn Beatdown Round 2 last weekend, ESPN Esports was on hand to chat to many of the top players attending this high-stakes tournament. With several pros jockeying for the top spot, they asked all their interviewees the same question — who is the best Street Fighter V player at the moment?
Based on the feature image above, you can hazard a guess as to who many players think is the best. Despite him coming second at Evo and not being able to conquer the Raging Demon Tokido, the majority of players said that Punk was the current best in the world. According to Daigo Umehara, Punk’s performances are just on “another level” compared to everyone else.
With his Karin busting everyone up, many of the players that ESPN talked to said that they were picking up a grappler just to deal with Karin. NuckleDu is working on his Birdie, Alucard was planning to counterpick Abigail, while Justin Wong noted that one of Punk’s bad habits is that he takes too many grabs. The overwhelming consensus is that grapplers may be the silver bullet to put down Punk. Even then, Smug noted that while he can beat Punk’s Karin with Balrog, he’ll just “switch to another character” to find a solution.
While Punk was the main person that people pointed to as the best, Tokido was in close second. With Capcom Cup 2017 fast approaching, we’ll soon have the answer.
Earlier, Bandai Namco dropped a new story trailer for Dragon Ball FighterZ — but that wasn’t the only trailer at the Tokyo Game Show. In addition to that, they also gave us another new trailer showing off more gameplay of the rest of the cast, including Super Saiyan Blue Goku and Vegeta.
We’ve already seen Super Saiyan Blue Goku and Vegita in action before. This new trailer shows similar bits of action as the previous one, but with a few more of their special moves. Other characters shown include Future Trunks, Piccolo, Krillin, as well as Androids 16 and 18.
While Bandai Namco hasn’t shared the trailer on their channel yet, known Dragon Ball YouTuber Rhymstyle has been kind enough to share it on his. You can check the new trailer out below.
Dragon Ball FighterZ hits PC, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One this coming February.
Following up from their new trailer earlier this week, ARIKA have announced that they will be commandeering the Twitch stage at Tokyo Games Show to hold a special exhibition for their mysterious fighting game. As a special treat for those interested in this project, ARIKA will be pitting AW|Nemo against GRAPHT|Fuudo in a high-stakes exhibition.
Along with Nemo and Fuudo, ARIKA founder and legendary game director Akira Nishitani will feature as a special guest. According to ARIKA’s Facebook page, this whole exhibition is to show off the Gougi system and how “dangerous” it can be when two pros are going at it.
The exhibition will begin tonight at 9:30pm PT, with it being streamed on Twitch’s main channel, alongside Twitch Japan and BeasTV. Expect plenty of gameplay of new character Allen Snider, along with a better look at other characters like Darun Mister and Skullomania.
It was only last week that Tekken 7‘s arcade version received the new balance patch for “Version N”. The patch dropped suddenly and without any note as to when it would reach consoles: which, it turns out, is exactly how the console patch based on it, Version 1.07, was dropped today!
Even though the official Tekken website hasn’t updated at the time of this writing, you can turn on your PS4 or Steam right now and get the latest version. In addition to the balance changes (rejoice, non-fans of Xiaoyu’s previously safe Art of Phoneix sweep!), there’s a number of new character portraits for several members of the cast.
Get ready to hunt some new quarry in Capcom’s tag team fighter.
Another reveal from Capcom for Tokyo Game Show: the first of the six DLC fighters coming to Marvel vs. Capcom: Infinite via the Character Pass got her official trailer tonight. Heavily armored and eagerly showing off her brutal skills with both her bow and her massive blade — not to mention an explosive Hyper combo — she looks ready to claim some new trophies from the unfortunate MvC:I roster. Check out the reveal trailer below!
Marvel vs. Capcom: Infinite is available now for PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and Steam.
During the Tokyo Game Show 2017 Twitch presentation, Toshimichi Mori from Arc System Works got on stage during a special BlazBlue Cross Tag Battle event. The panel presented an overview of the crossover in Japanese, resuming some already known information, like slides showing Yosuke Hanamura and Linne.
Toward the end of the panel, Mori announced a few dates and locations — BlazBlue Cross Tag Battle will be playable at certain events around the world for the first time! Check out the timetable below:
For those going to New York Comic Con, that means that BBXTAG will be playable for them in as little as about three weeks. After that, three more locations around the world will host a playable build, ending with Arc System Works’ own ARC REVOLUTION CUP in Japan. While there were no character or content announcements, that is really soon!
Stay tuned to Shoryuken as we hear more about BlazBlue Cross Tag Battle.
No more infinites in Marvel vs. Capcom: Infinite, eh?
Players are busy figuring out the limitations of the newly released Marvel vs. Capcom: Infinite. In desk’s latest videos, he finds something interesting. By testing out combos made entirely out of normal attacks, it seems like Capcom put in an awkward-looking stopper to infinites.
In the video below, you can see combos from Captain Marvel and Chun-Li made out of normal attacks only. It appears that the combo automatically drops after the 38th hit lands. The opponent simply flips out in the air. desk calls this a “true end” to the combo, meaning it’s not possible to continue it further, regardless of hitstun decay. He speculates this could be linked to using light attacks, or that there’s an actual hard limit on combo hits.
Conversely, rooflemonger, in the video below, explores a different aspect. According to his testing, the combos seem to end based more on damage, than hitstun. He goes about discovering this in a different method, though: by doing highly damaging combos nearing 4.8K. Maybe there are two different ways a combo can be forced to drop?
Let us know in the comments below what you’ve dug up so far about MvC:I and how these combo stoppers actually work. Check out our MvC:I tutorial round-ups for more coverage on the game.
DevolverDigital‘s just pushed one of its bigger patches to date, Version 1.06, for its open world fighting game Absolver. The patch contains a comprehensive re-balancing of a number of abilities, fixes various bugs, and adds new content to the game in the form of masks and songs.
Some of the bigger re-balanceing changes are:
Special abilities
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increase ghost damage refill (x2)
decrease stamina bonus (50 -> 20)
add +20 protection during 5s
The six masks are all based off of other DigitalDevolver franchises, such as Hotline Miami and The Talos Principle. While this is the most visible change in the latest patch, players will likely be more excited by the resolution to a power loss bug that has been plaguing the game since launch.
