Latin America’s next stop in the Capcom Pro Tour is Bogotá, Colombia for The Fight 2017. The includes The King of Fighters XIV, Mortal Kombat XL, Street Fighter V and Super Smash Bros. for Wii U in its main line-up.
Some familiar names from South and Central America and even one from North America will be in attendance. Players registered to compete include Flash, F3|Brolynho, RISE|MenaRD, Umbrella|Dark, DM|Baek and more.
Marvel Live! returns with a full house in their latest episode. The crew — led by host Hayden “Kinderparty” Griswold — cover two major topics: Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3 at CEO 2017, and Marvel vs. Capcom: Infinite‘s story and versus demos.
Regarding Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3 at CEO 2017, the big topic of discussion was Ryan “RyanLV” Romero’s continued dominance in the game this year. With his team of Chun-Li, Morrigan, and Phoenix, RyanLV had another impressive showing at CEO 2017, where his run culminated with him beating fellow Morrigan player and Evo 2016 UMvC3 champion EG|Christopher “NYChrisG” Gonzales to win the tournament. With this in mind, the Marvel Live! crew talks about the possibility that RyanLV may ride this momentum towards a win at Evo 2017 — especially after beating the current champion at CEO.
The bigger portion of this episode however is dedicated the upcoming Marvel vs. Capcom: Infinite. Both the publicly-available Story Demo as well as the versus demo at E3 and CEO are covered here, with the crew giving their impressions of both. With the amount of time allotted here, they’re able to go into some details others may not have covered, such as the stage lengths (shorter than Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3), the “height” of the game (it seems to be easier to get up higher), as well as individual characters and how they’ll fit into the new tag system (e.g. Ryu’s Tatsumaki is now a legitimate lockdown “assist” once used with tag).
More importantly, they discuss why players who tried the game have become quite hype for it. The game’s system, especially the tag system, seems to allow a nearly limitless amount of freedom and creativity. For comparison, they bring up Street Fighter V, a game that has been criticized for limiting players that space to be creative and express themselves. Marvel vs. Capcom: Infinite on the other hand seems to be doing the opposite by giving players the freedom to express themselves. Co-host Samantha “Persia” Hancock states that once she got to see people who had gotten their heads around the system (such as Echo Fox’s Justin Wong or Splyce’s Filipino Champ) play the game, she thought “This game’s gonna be ridiculous, it’s gonna be super broken,” which is really all any Marvel vs. Capcom player can ask for.
With the second season of Ranked play being underway for Rivals of Aether, the development team are pitting fans of major esports organizations against each other in a special contest. With the addition of the new profile icons, players can now equip an icon which corresponds to one of six esports teams. Whenever you win a game on Ranked while wearing one of these icons, you’ll gain a point for that specific team. The team with the most points by July 13th will gain a special skin to commemorate their victory.
The six teams are:
Tempo Storm
FlySociety
Panda Global
VexX Gaming
Fable Esports
Burrito Esports
Every game you win in Rivals of Aether Ranked play will earn a point for your specific team, so you are still contributing to your team even if you lose 2-1. At time of writing, FlySociety is ahead, with Burrito Esports trailing behind them. You can check the status of your chosen team over on the Rivals of Aether website and remember, the contest ends on July 13th.
Earlier this month, it was announced that registration has finally opened for Brazil’s largest fighting game tournament: Treta Championship 2017. Coming to us from Curitiba, Brazil on September 30 to October 1, the event should see a large amount of both local and international competition converge to do battle in a variety of different games. Players such as Killer Xinok, ETC McFly, Konqueror249, and HeeyGeorge have already confirmed attendance for Injustice 2. The official lineup of titles is as follows:
Street Fighter V (Capcom Pro Tour Ranking event)
Injustice 2
Tekken 7
Marvel vs. Capcom: Infinite
Guilty Gear Xrd REV 2
Super Smash Bros. for Wii U
Mortal Kombat XL
The King of Fighters XIV
Killer Instinct
The 10th game in the lineup will be “Community’s Choice,” though the options that can be picked from have yet to be revealed at this time.
There will also be a large number of side events, including:
The Satsui no Hado cannot be stopped! In a grand montage which spans Street Fighter 4, Street Fighter V and Tekken 7, desk has shown off the true power of the Raging Demon Akuma. In desk’s usual flashy style, this montage cuts between the three different games in rapid succession, as Akuma tears through his foes in search of a worthy opponent.
Some of the edits are super creative, with a Focus Attack in Street Fighter 4 leading to a combo in Tekken 7. desk even shows Akuma doing select combos in each game at the same time. No matter if he is in 3D or 2D, the Master of the Fist will strike his opponents down with great vengeance and furious anger.
Asia is getting its second go in the Capcom Pro Tour Online. Today’s event along with the upcoming fourth event is open to players from Taiwan, Hong Kong, Japan and South Korea. Out of a fierce bracket that included names like Fuudo, Nemo, Daigo Umehara, Haitani, MOV, Itabashi Zangief, Oil King, NL, xyzzy and more, the following players have fought their way to the final eight:
Top 8 Winners
RB|Bonchan vs. moke
FOX|Momochi vs. Inuchiyo
Top 8 Losers
CYCLOPS|GO1 vs. POONGKO
DNG|Tachikawa vs. GGP|Kazunoko
As always you can catch the online action on the Capcom Fighters Twitch channel.
Proceeds from the sale of this album will go to help Richmond Public Schools.
To demonstrate their love for “one of the most game-changing, ass-kicking games of all time” as well as highlight their local hip-hop scene — not to mention raise funds for Building a Better RPS, a project to support Richmond Public Schools — twenty hip-hop producers, DJs, and other artists collaborated to create Street Fighter: The RVA Warrior. This new unlicensed hip-hop tribute to Street Fighter II features twelve tracks from a wide variety of musical artists and styles, generously sampling and remixing original Street Fighter game music and SFX.
The full album is available on Bandcamp, either on CD for $9.99 USD or as a “name your price” digital download. Fans of both Street Fighter and hip-hop should head over and listen to some samples! (Unsurprising, contains NSFW language.)
Keep tabs on the online action available for Ultra Street Fighter II: The Final Challengers!
So you’ve picked up this new iteration of the classic Super Street Fighter II series for Nintendo Switch, but now what? If you need a hand finding online events for this neo-retro title, a new Twitter feed has appeared to act as a hub for exactly that. Head over to Twitter and check out the USF2 Online League, and go make a name for yourself in some of these tournaments.
A new organization for the USF2 Competitive scene:
Check out this spectacular art from a fighting game fan!
Welcome back to Friday Night Fan Art! Tonight we’re going super-kawaii with these adorable chibi Street Fighter V combatants from Camilla “RedCaliburn” Khau. Here’s a sampling:
You can see more SFV chibi art — as well as lots of other work, chibi and otherwise — on RedCaliburn’s Instagram and DeviantArt pages.
Send us leads on the tipline if there’s any great fan art out there you want to see featured next week on Shoryuken! You can browse our prior Friday Night Fan Art features here.
The Steam version of Tekken 7 received has been updated. Weighing in at around 258 MB, this patch provides online matchmaking adjustments to ensure that legitimate players will no longer be matched up with hackers looking to boost their Ranking or alter the game’s parameters. Additionally, leaderboard issues and partially-disappearing models have been corrected, with tweaks also being made to Nina’s Ivory Cutter (likely the same change applied in console patch 1.02 to remove a wall infinite on Kuma), along with a few other moves. A similar update was applied to the PlayStation 4 version of the game earlier this month. You can see the full list of changes below, courtesy of the official Tekken Facebook page:
Tekken 7 Steam June 21 Update
Update size: 258.7 MB
Attention Tekken 7 fighters! The first patch for Tekken 7 on PC is happening now stabilizing the following issues:
Fixes an issue where the leaderboard only shows until the 97th rank and players can’t jump to their own ranking.
Fixes an issue where players can’t resume the game after minimizing the app’s Window.
Updates the matching version to ensure hackers will not be matched with legit users anymore.
Fixes Nina’s Ivory Cutter, Eddy’s rage arts and Miguel’s power crash move.
Fixes an issue where sometimes both controls are assigned to 1P in VERSUS battle.
Fixes an issue where the keyboard becomes unresponsive after reconnecting USB devices.
Fixes issues where customized Kazuya’s 3D model partially disappears.
