Category: Fighting Games

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Texas Showdown 2017 streaming live from Houston, Texas

One of Texas’s premier fighting game events is back for another edition. Texas Showdown 2017 in Houston will feature a line-up of games both current and classic. The tournament is also a part of the Capcom Pro Tour as a Ranking Event for the North America region.

Tournament Games

Some of the players who will be in attendance include FOX|JWong, CYG.BST|Snake Eyez, EG|K-Brad, F3|alucarD, NS|Ludovic, Flash, Hsien Chang, Alex Valle, GS|gllty, Panda|Jiewa, UA|TerryBogard, InC|Flux, FF|ElvenShadow, Kid Viper, faultydefense and more. You can find brackets for the tourney on Smash.gg.

Level|Up, PandaxGaming and company will be providing live streams for the event, viewable below.

LevelUpLive

Watch live video from leveluplive on www.twitch.tv

PandaxGaming

Watch live video from PandaxGaming on www.twitch.tv

SmashUnited

Watch live video from SmashUnited on www.twitch.tv

inevitablegaminghtx

Watch live video from inevitablegaminghtx on www.twitch.tv

JoeStrikes

Watch live video from JoeStrikes on www.twitch.tv

Schedule

All times in CDT (UTC -5).

texas-showdown-2017-schedule

Sources: Texas Showdown, Capcom Pro Tour

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Images of Street Fighter V’s new character Ed leak before Monday’s reveal

Capcom cannot catch a break, can they? Ahead of his reveal on Monday, Street Fighter super sleuths have found images of new character Ed, right on the official Street Fighter website. Rather than sporting the white hoodie seen in Story Mode, Ed’s in-game outfit has him dressed as a Shadaloo military cadet.

Ed Street Fighter V Full Image

Ed’s clearly been hitting the gym since Story Mode as well, looking more muscular compared to the scrawny teenage miscreant that was training under Balrog. He has a passing resemblance to Abel with his new design, which makes sense seeing as both him and Ed are potential replacement bodies for M. Bison.

Ed Character Portrait

We’ll no doubt see the return of the white hoodie as Ed’s Story Mode costume, but who knows what his Premium outfit will be. All will (hopefully) be revealed on Monday so stay tuned for more information on Ed.

Sources: NeoGAF via Street Fighter

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Fighter’s SPIRIT 2017 streaming live from Incheon, South Korea

This Saturday is South Korea’s first ranking event for the 2017 Capcom Pro Tour season. Fighter’s SPIRIT 2017 will take place in Incheon, with some strong players from Korea and Japan competing.

Korea players attending include RZR|INFILTRATION, PoongKo, Verloren, xyzzy, NL, NIN and Save. Representing Japan are players like FOX|Momochi, FOX|ChocoBlanka, Mago, CO|GO1, Tachikawa and Haku. Brackets can be found here.

Tune into BEast of the East’s Twitch channel to catch the action.

Watch live video from beastapac on www.twitch.tv

Source: Capcom Pro Tour

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Get ready for Guilty Gear Xrd REV 2 with Drunkard Shade’s “Guilty Bits: Xrd” series

With the console release of Guilty Gear Xrd REV 2 fast approaching, the folks at drunkardshade.com have been putting together text character guides for every single member of the cast, leading up to release. These guides are written by knowledgeable players of each character, and provide links to each fighter’s rocking character Discord for discussions–as well as covering general style and how to approach neutral, offense, defense, okizime, pressure, key normals, and anything else a new player might need to start out. They’ve even included a section on meter usage priorities, since there are a myriad of ways to use your Tension in Xrd, and are also updated to cover new techniques characters have gained, such as Faust’s Jackpot items.

Guides for Sol Badguy, Ky Kiske, Potemkin, Axl Low, May, and Faust are currently available, with the remaining cast to be added in the coming days. You can view the announcement video for the series below.

If you’d like to get a head start on your training, you can grab the demo version of REV 2, which includes Training and Episode modes–as well as offline vs. with all available characters–for free (if you’re a PlayStation Plus member) at this link.

Guilty Gear Xrd REV 2 releases for PlayStation 3 and PlayStation 4 on May 26th outside of Japan, with a Steam release following on June 1st.

Sources: drunkardshade.com; novriltataki

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Want to play in the Street Fighter X Tekken side tourney at Evo? Brush up in its 100+ member Discord channel

While esports may have marched on, Street Fighter X Tekken loyalist Aaron “Psychoblue” Pinsky has tirelessly worked in the background as a tournament organizer for Street Fighter X Tekken. Just recently, he released the details of the SFxT side tournament he’ll be running at Evo 2017.

In conjunction with the side tournament, his SFxT discord channel has reached over 100 members. To garner more interest, he’s provided us the link (here!), and openly invites anyone willing to play or learn to come check out the game. The players in here have been dedicated to the crossover fighter since release, and you can see the fruits of their labor in the high-level footage on Psychoblue’s YouTube Channel.

Source: Psychoblue

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Friday Night Fan Art: More ladies of Street Fighter and Guilty Gear, and Samurai Shodown’s Nakoruru, too!

Check out this spectacular art from fighting game fans!

Welcome back to Friday Night Fan Art! The women once again dominate the fighting game fare we have tonight, with a look at tetsu‘s spectacular illustrations, then some sketches from Olivia (@livthemagician). At the end, you can also find a link to some wallpapers by SyanArt.

First let’s check out tetsu; ranging from a sketch to full-color pieces, here’s some Street Fighters (and one Darkstalker):

Poison by tetsu
Juri (hair down) by tetsu
Kolin by tetsu
Morrigan (sketch) by tetsu

A moment of quiet solitude, before setting out on the day’s raging and murdering: here’s Gouki (Akuma) having a kōhii (or maybe some tea).

gouki & kohii by tetsu

tetsu’s Guilty Gear Xrd art is simply fantastic. Here’s Millia Rage, and Baiken:

Millia Rage by tetsu
Baiken by tetsu

Check out this very dynamic, very bloody rendition of Nakoruru from Samurai Shodown/The King of Fighters XIV:

nakoruru by tetsu

There is much, much more that can be seen on tetsu’s (Japanese) blog. Note that some art is NSFW! Thanks go to Ron for the tip on this one.

Next, have a look at Olivia’s great sketches of some of the same Street Fighters as above: Poison, Juri, and also Karin Kanzuki.

Poison (dress) by Olivia
Juri by Olivia
Karin by Olivia

If you’re looking to spruce up your desktop a bit, SyanArt has a wealth of fighting game-related wallpapers available to download for free; these wallpapers combine official art assets with new effects to create unique looks. Here’s some examples for Mortal Kombat X and Street Fighter V:

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Street-Fighter-V-Ryu-Wallpaper-31rto6i5rszei2l5os74sg

Thanks to everyone that reached out us this week!

Send us leads on the tipline if there’s any great fan art out there you want to see featured next week on Shoryuken!

Sources: tetsu; Olivia (Twitter); SyanArt

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Pick up a pocket Mewtwo for Pokkén Tournament with Six’s comprehensive Mewtwo Guide

Mewtwo is one of the game’s strongest and most fundamentally straightforward characters in Pokkén Tournament. There is no character that’s easier to pick up, and no character you are more likely to run into in a tournament. And now that Florida player Six has published his giant Mewtwo guide, there is no reason to not learn the psychic powerhouse.

You’d also be in good company, as this is the main of Pokkén Pro Swillo, and recent 2nd placer at KVO, Thulius.

The guide breaks down all of Mewtwo’s options, combos, strengths, weaknesses, and more. If you can airdash in any other game, you already have an idea of the strength Mewtwo has in this engine. Pick up the guide, give it a try, and see how far it takes you!

You can check out the guide here.

Source: Six

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Brian Kasugano shares new Saki Infinite for Tatsunoko vs. Capcom, larger combo video on the way

Likely inspired by the resurgence of Tatsunoko vs. Capcom events–such as the netplay Summer League and the TvC exhibition in Tokyo, YouTuber Brian Kasugano shares a new infinite with us for the Quiz Nanairo Dreams character, Saki.

The infinite hits inconsistently on some characters in the cast due to the tight placement of the energy ball, whose lingering hitbox is necessary to keep the loop going. This quirky and likely impractical loop may not see competitive play, but according to Brian, there’s a larger TvC combo video on the way. In that light, this is a great teaser. It’s great to see old gems continuing to get new combo content so much later in their lives!

Source: Brian Kasugano

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Bedman spotlight: A nightmarish look at Guilty Gear Xrd REV 2 character tech

Bedman is one of those characters who can turn a match into a nightmare very quickly. Though he has very unconventional ways of moving and creating mix-up opportunities, the best Bedman players have a knack for creating terrifying, nearly inescapable corner pressure and convoluted mix-ups.

REV 2 changes Bedman quite a bit, so those who have the demo have only started to figure out the new tech. One of the many big changes is a new 6HS normal. Check out this compilation of video tweets to know what REV 2 Bedman has in store for you, or to apply the tech to your own repertoire.

That was a fine sampling of scary stuff, wasn’t it? Make sure to check out the respective Twitter timelines of each poster for even more terrifying Bedman stuff!

Jump over to our Guilty Gear Xrd REV 2 Elphelt changes article to switch characters.

Sources: Sylint; MC|GcYoshi13; TiamatNM

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ELEAGUE Street Fighter V Invitational (Group C regular season) streaming live

Group C returns to battle for progression in the ELEAGUE Street Fighter V Invitational.

 

Tonight, the battle rages on in the ELEAGUE Street Fighter V Invitational, as Group C assembles to fight out their regular season bracket. The matches will be streamed on Twitch’s ELEAGUE TV starting at 6:00 PM ET (3:00 PM PDT).

Watch live video from ELEAGUE TV on www.twitch.tv

If Twitch is giving you trouble, you can also watch on ELEAGUE’s YouTube channel.

Group C’s preliminary results:

Check out the prior standings from the ELEAGUE Street Fighter V Invitational preliminary matches here. Group A’s regular season results can be seen here, and Group B’s here.

Source: ELEAGUE (Twitch)