Playstation Plus subscribers should take advantage of these sweet savings on three throwback SNK titles. Samurai Shodown VI, Fu’un Super Combo and The King of Fighters 2000 are all listed at discount prices exclusive to current membership holders. The discount details for each game are:
You can follow the links above to purchase their respective game in the PlayStation Store. The discounts are marked to be available until March 7th, so interested buyers should act fast!
Chill opponents to the bone with this tech for Kolin in Street Fighter V.
The Phantasm of Snow and Ice is (conversely) heating up Street Fighter V with her arrival; her unusual techniques and abilities have certainly captured the attention of players everywhere. Here’s a gathering of what has crossed our path for Kolin so far–much of this is based on or has contributed to the mass gathering of Kolin tech on Twitter under #KolinLab.
Panda Global is making big moves lately. Having already developed their own Smash ranking system, they are now setting their sights on NetherRealm Studios games in a big way.
Today saw the signing of Montreal-based Mortal Kombat player Hayatei, alongside Florida-based player and tournament organizer KitanaPrime.
Also announced today is that the gaming organization is creating a NetherRealm Studios ranking system, with more information on that coming soon. Presumably, this system will encompass both Mortal Kombat and Injustice.
ELEAGUE is raring to kick off on March 27th, and the event is looking interesting for the spectators and players alike. While we have had a glimpse of who will be in the bracket, we now have the full picture, namely the player groupings as announced by Eleague via their Twitter.
Street Fighter V’s second Season Two DLC character, Kolin, was released Tuesday night; but she wasn’t the only part of the version 2.010 update, as /r/StreetFighter has discovered a few hidden balance changes for Alex, Balrog, Dhalsim, Birdie and Chun-Li.
In his latest video about the discovery, VesperArcade reports that Alex’s Power Drop has had its startup increased from 6 to 5 Frames. This change reverts the move to its original Season 1 status, thus removing the “Secret Setup” that had been discovered, which gave him a 1-frame Cancel window to tick grab off of a blocked heavy Flash Chop. Perhaps the setup was unintentional, but Capcom specifically mentioned it in their blog about patch note corrections. Also, he and Balrog’s forward standing hurtboxes have been extended by .015 and .01, respectively. This makes them bigger targets, but also slightly more difficult to crossup now. Chun-Li’s crouching hurtbox was increased vertically by 10%, from 1.01 to 1.12, which should make it more difficult for her to crouch under certain attacks, such as Alex’s St.HK follow-up to Power Bomb, especially after her initial crouching hurtbox increase in the Season 2 patch notes.
However, it’s not all gloom, doom and despair: as the flame god Agni has rewarded Dhalsim’s devotion by increasing his throw range, and Birdie received minor hurtbox adjustments to the end of EX Bullhead. Zangief and R. Mika also had a variable labeled “unknown7” changed on their V-Trigger attacks, but it’s unclear if this means anything significant, or if they were just small bug fixes before the March balance patch, like most of these changes seem to be.
You can see VesperArcade’s full video on the subject below.
Continuing the theme of sides clashing at 2GGC: Civil War, 2GGaming have announced that the next Saga in April will be decided via a special character-themed round robin. Similar to Smash Summit voting, select players from the greater Civil War crew battle will be nominated for the round robin via Twitter, followed by a round of voting which will decide the character that player will use.
Six players will be chosen from the pool of nominations on March 3rd, with the community then voting for the character that each player will use. Each player has a selection of five characters that the community can choose from, so ranging from their main to the character they solely reserve for styling on people in bracket. Say if a player like DNG|Kameme makes it in as one of the six, the community will vote between his character pool of Mega Man, Yoshi, Sheik, Dark Pit and Wario.
This round of voting will end on March 24th, with the six competitors being locked into using their community-voted character. The character who wins the round robin will then decide the title of April’s 2GGC Saga. So, if Kameme’s Yoshi wins the whole thing, April’s event will be 2GGC: Yoshi Saga where the world’s best Yoshis will no doubt be invited to compete to see who is the best. You can find the full list of players and their respective character pools here.
If you are desperate to see your under-represented character get a chance at the spotlight, take to Twitter and rally your fellow mains to the cause. (Otherwise, we’ll probably end up with 2GGC: Cloud Saga.)
Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3 is finally coming to PC next Tuesday, March 7. For those looking to pick the game up on this platform, Green Man Gaming has an offer that allows players to get a discount on the game at launch.
For anyone who becomes–or already is–a Green Man Gaming member, they can purchase Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3 at a reduced “VIP” price of $20.99; a 16% discount off the game’s regular price of $24.99.
Becoming a Green Man Gaming “VIP” member is absolutely free. All interested players have to do is register over at Green Man Gaming.
Square Enix continues to grow the cast of its arena fighter, Dissidia Final Fantasy Arcade. The company has announced that they will reveal a new playable character for the game on Tuesday, March 7.
The new playable character will make their debut on a special niconico live stream at 9:00 PM JST (4:00 AM PST). The stream will include live gameplay of the new character, as well as information about the latest update via a question and answer session with the developers.
Kolin, the personal assistant of Street Fighter III’s Gill, has just made her playable debut in Street Fighter V. Her toolset is fully original and extremely unique, and players from all over the globe are working together to figure out her strategies and compete with her. I’ve done my best to compile the optimal combos for every common scenario, so you can stop worrying about damage optimization and focus on strategy. This video features anti-airs, punishes, confirms, counter-hit combos, crush counter combos, juggles, and more.
Consider this video a precursor to my upcoming full Kolin character tutorial. The combos are all my own labwork, alongside a few things I’ve observed from other players. I’m fairly confident that most of these combos are fully ideal, but Kolin has an extremely large number of contexts for her attacks when factoring her backstep cancels, and I wouldn’t be surprised if missed some optimizations somewhere. For both me and the other players, I ask that those viewers somewhat acquainted with Kolin point out anything I might have missed in the comments, so that I can amend it into the final video when it comes out.
I’m currently waiting on the March rebalance, but soon after it drops, I’ll return to uploading full character tutorials every week on ShoryukenTube, the Shoryuken.com YouTube channel. If the rebalance is significant, I might do more videos demonstrating season 2 changes. All guides from here on out will reflect season 2 changes, and I’ll soon amend all the guides that are already out. There’s a lot of content on the horizon, so you’ll want to subscribe to the channel!
Leaping straight out of the Golden Age of DC Comics, NetherRealm Studios have announced that Doctor Fate is coming to Injustice 2. Wearing the magical Helmet of Fate, alongside the cloak and amulet of Nabu the Wise, the sorcerer uses ancient magicks to defeat his opponents.
With his magic manifesting in the shape of giant ankhs, Doctor Fate acts as a zoning character, firing off bolts of magic to keep his opponent away or juggle them in the air. Ermac seems to be his great inspiration, as well as a bit of Shinnok thrown in for good measure. From the trailer, it seems his trait is the ability to summon three ankhs which orbit around Doctor Fate’s body, which can then be fired off all at once to lengthen a juggle or cause the opponent to stand and block these projectiles.
His super is especially cool, drawing the opposing player into the amulet on his chest, where three other armored magicians proceed to conjure up a storm of projectiles to damage the opponent. Expect more magical mayhem when Injustice 2 launches on May 16th.
