Category: Fighting Games

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Street Fighter V Joins the Gfinity Challenger Series

Joining CS:GO in Gfinity’s new open tournament series, Street Fighter V has been selected as one of the three playable games in Gfinity’s Challenger Series. Designed for players of all skill levels, the Gfinity Challenger Series allows world warriors to compete in special Community Cups, climb the leaderboard and eventually win a place in the Gfinity Elite Draft.

At the end of the season, the top ranked players from the Challenger Series will be invited to the Gfinity Arena in London as part of the Elite Draft. Eight pro teams will then pick from these top ranked players to form part of their team to compete in the Gfinity Elite Series.

If you’re someone who is looking to try and make it in the world of esports, or are just looking for a new competitive league to play in, you can go sign up on Gfinity’s website.

Source: Gfinity

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New Razer Panthera Firmware Update for PlayStation 4 Reduces Input Delay

Razer has released a new firmware update for their Panthera arcade stick for PlayStation 4. The firmware update is supposed to make the stick strike “faster, better and with greater accuracy” according to Razer.

Based on the wording of the tweet, it seems that Razer is addressing the slight input delay that the Panthera was found to have when compared to other arcade sticks on the market. We asked Mark “MarkMan” Julio, who consulted with Razer on the Panthera, about this and he stated “Our internal testing has proven it’s vastly improved the response time or ‘perceived latency’ with the Panthera performance.” He also gave out specific numbers: with the new firmware having a response time of 1ms to 5ms (average of 3 ms) compared to 8ms to 12ms (average of 10ms) for the old firmware in their testing.

To try to verify if the new firmware does make the Panther faster, we ran a test, comparing it with the MadCatz Tournament Edition 2, wiring up the square buttons of both controllers to a single button.

As you can see with the testing above, the Razer Panthera with firmware v.1.01 does seems to be faster than the MadCatz TE2, which is the opposite result of our previous tests with the older firmware.

For any interested Razer Panthera owners, you can download the new firmware here.

Source: Razer

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Street Fighter V Servers Down Overnight for 8-Hour Maintenance (Not Including Current Login Issues)

What surprises (if any) will tomorrow morning bring to Street Fighter V?

Street Fighter V players hoping to get in some late-night fights will be stuck with the offline modes tonight, as Capcom is shutting down the SFV servers overnight–between 10:00 PM PST and 6:00 AM PST tomorrow morning–for maintenance.

What service exactly is being performed in this maintenance window has not been clarified; Capcom has promised additional roster balancing and improvements to Street Fighter V’s online functions sometime in March, however with Final Round 20 coming up fast, it’s questionable that they would roll out major changes only a few days prior to the first Premier event of 2017’s Capcom Pro Tour. It is possible we may see Final Round’s signage added into the Ring of Destiny stage, though–and since Capcom snuck in some surprise rebalancing last week at Kolin’s launch, it’s likely there may be more unexpected changes to find on Wednesday morning.

However, the SFV servers have gone down ahead of schedule, but seemingly not intentionally:

At this time, it is unclear if online services will be restored for the few hours left before the scheduled maintenance is set to begin.

Source: SFV Server (Twitter)

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Learn to Control the Ikari Warrior with This King of Fighters XIV Ralf Guide

Ralf Jones is one of the oldest and most dear characters in The King of Fighters series. In KOFXIV, however, the character struggles within the mid tier ranks, causing a lot of people to feel frustrated and drop him for better characters.

He is still a strong character however–it just takes a bit more work from the player to see results with him. With this Ralf guide, you are able to learn the best moves that Ralf has to offer. On top of that, with some relatively straightforward combos, Ralf can do some serious damage–coming close to killing anyone in the cast.

Source: Coliflowerz

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The Jump-in Podcast Talks with Chris Tatarian about Ken, ELEAGUE, and Kolin

Denial’s Chris Tatarian has had a lot to say in recent times about Street Fighter V. His play and his personality has led him into ELEAGUE, and he has an uphill battle to make it out of the early rounds..

Kim1234–with Logan Sama and F-Word–talked with Tatarian on The Jump-In podcast: they discuss his group in ELEAGUE, where he says he is least prepared to face Liquid|NuckleDu and Qanba Douyu|Xiaohai. They also talk about his loyalties to Ken–where he states that he often looks to see what Echo Fox|Momochi is doing, to gauge Ken’s legitimacy in various matchups–and about Kolin, hypothesizing that Capcom has gone back on its design plans of doing away with vortex characters, after seeing her setups.

Source: The Jump-In

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Jasco Announces Street Fighter Collectible Card Game; Can Be Played Alone or with Other UFS Games

Another way for your favorite Street Fighters to battle!

Jasco Games has revealed plans to release a Street Fighter-themed collectible card game, based on their UFS–“Universal Fighting System”–model. This makes the incoming cards playable on their own, or usable to expand upon your existing UFS collection for some weird and wild face-offs. Here’s their announcement trailer:

As can be seen from the video, the game leans heavily into the Street Fighter IV series art aesthetic, with some elements from UDON Entertainment’s work showing through as well. Some further details from Jasco:

The card game will play much like the video game complete with low,
mid and high attacks, so anticipating your opponent with the correct
blocks are crucial. Attacks that deal damage are added to the
characters meter allowing for EX moves later in the match.
While the game can be played on its own, is will also be a part of the
Universal Fighting System (UFS).

UFS has been around for over a decade and is a unique game design that
allows players to fully customize the way they play. Each year the
winners of the UFS World and National Championships win the right to
create their own tournament-legal character card playable in the
game.

Each character has their own card, complete with special abilities,
vitality and most importantly hand size. Unlike other card games,
where you can only draw one card a turn, players will always draw back
up to their character’s hand size, making the game much more fast-paced.
Games on average do not go past the first 4 or 6 turns.

You can check out the UFS Facebook page to see what characters will appear in the game as Jasco reveals them. Currently, 14 out 20 have been revealed as in-game fighters: Ryu, Sagat, Zangief, Akuma, Vega, Dhalsim, M. Bison, T. Hawk, Cammy, Ken, Sakura, Fei Long, Chun-Li, and Guile.

No release date is yet confirmed; keep an eye on Jasco Games and Shoryuken for additional information.

Source: Jasco; JascoGames (YouTube)

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Final Fantasy II’s Emperor Seeks Further Conquest in Dissidia Final Fantasy Arcade

The Emperor of Palamecia brings cyclones of destruction to the battlefield.

The Square Enix-Team Ninja collaborative Final Fantasy arcade fighter adds yet another iconic villain to its roster with Emperor Mateus, the main antagonist of Final Fantasy II. The Emperor was announced via a special niconico live stream earlier today, and boasts intense magical attacks and defensive techniques.

Despite its launch in 2015, Dissidia Final Fantasy will eventually see a home console release with a full story mode included. One might expect that the console release will have to wait until the title receives a larger batch of fighters; with the success of Final Fantasy XV, it wouldn’t be too surprising to see a character or two from that title appear in the near future.

Source: Square Enix

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A History of Rights and Licensing: SSFF Takes a Look at Marvel vs. Capcom’s Convoluted Past

The history of the Marvel vs. Capcom series is one that is often defined by the on-again off-again relationship between Marvel and Capcom. The convoluted licensing deals that allow the games to be produced in the first place more often than not tend to define the direction of the series.

It’s through these deals that Stop Skeletons From Fighting frames this new video about the history of the Marvel vs. Capcom series. This includes how the series got its start with Marvel’s early licensing in the 1990’s, just as Capcom was trying to secure their dominance in the fighting game genre, to the first time licensing nearly stopped it, when Activision got the rights to the X-Men and Spiderman.

The video also covers more recent history, with Marvel’s parent company Disney’s attempt to break from licensing and produce their own games with Disney Infinity, as well as going over the–as of yet never explained–deal that allowed for Marvel vs. Capcom 3 and Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3. Finally, it touches upon the upcoming Marvel vs. Capcom: Infinite, and what the series’ past licensing history may mean for it.

Source: Stop Skeletons From Fighting

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Jaw-Dropping Jin Combos Freeze Foes in This BlazBlue: Central Fiction Combo Video

Jin Kisaragi–as one of the protagonists of BlazBlue: Central Fiction, and a balanced toolset character–remains an ever-popular choice. While he resembles a prototypical shoto character, his opponent-freezing Drive ability introduces creative reset opportunities and more combo routes than at first glance.

Jin’s balanced move set is completed with EX moves that cost 25 percent meter. Those not only freeze the opponent multiple times in the same sequence but also allow non-conventional pick-ups. There’s a lot of creative uses of normal attacks versus certain hurtboxes from characters like Valkenhayn and Relius. Furthermore, since Jin’s Distortion Drives don’t always close off the combos, there’s a few surprises in store to see. The combos in the video below definitely value style over substance, but that’s not bad at all, because the player, Zqxd, goes all out.

Check it out below, and if you want to see Jin in battle, view the sets that Fenrich’s Japan Esports League matches.

Source: Jourdal

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Bandai Namco and ESL Announce a Tekken 7 UK and Ireland Championship

Ahead of Tekken 7’s launch on June 2nd, Bandai Namco UK has teamed up with the ESL to host a series of tournaments to crown the first UK and Ireland Tekken 7 champion. Starting at Hypespotting 6 in Glasgow from April 15th-16th, Bandai Namco will host five qualifying tournaments at five different cities in the UK and Ireland. The dates and cities are as follows:

  • April 15th/16th – Glasgow
  • April 22nd – Dublin
  • April 29th – Manchester
  • May 6th – Birmingham
  • May 13th – London

The top three players from each qualifier will win a place in the grand finals, to be held at MCM London Comic Con on May 26th-28th. This final matches will take place on the ESL Arena stage, with one participant leaving with a shiny new championship belt.

For full details on how to sign up for each event, go to Bandai Namco’s official championship website for more.

Source: Bandai Namco