Category: Fighting Games

While the development of Project M sadly ended with version 3.6 in December of last year, the PM community has kept the fires burning with tournament circuits and events throughout the year. In order to recap Project M’s tumultuous year, PM commentator and player reslived has created a comprehensive rundown of the year that was, going over major tournaments, rising players and the growth of the community.

With many events dropping Project M as a mainline game, due to problems with streaming it via Twitch and losing potential sponsorship deals with Nintendo, new events sprung up to keep PM going and Hitbox.tv became the home for any major PM stream. The Project M Championship Circuit stepped into the breach, providing an actual tournament circuit which the official Super Smash Bros. series has yet to see.

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This weekend Big E Gaming brings you another edition of the long-running Northeast Championships. Taking place at the Valley Forge Casino Resort in King of Prussia near Philadelphia, NEC brings together players from the US Northeast and beyond to compete in a huge variety of games, both recent and classic.

If you want catch one of the last tournaments of the year, a huge number of streamers will be providing broadcasts, bringing you coverage of nearly every game at some point in the weekend. Thanks to Team Spooky, FunkyP, Bifuteki, Kick Punch Block, Kombat Network, House of 3000 and Nica KO. Tune in and follow the brackets on Challonge.

TeamSp00ky

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FunkyP

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Bifuteki

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KPBLive

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KombatNetwork

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HouseOf3000

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Nica_KO

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With KI World Cup approaching in March 2017 and the possibility of a Season Four after that, Killer Instinct players are looking back on 2016 and Season Three as a whole as we near 2017. With hundreds of Rough Sets with various other top KI players sitting on his YouTube channel, UA|Kalypso has edited together a “best of” replay collection of team mate, UA|Bass.

While infamous for his Spinal, this montage has replays of Bass’ Mira, Jago, Shadow Jago, Cinder and Spinal, collected from various online sets throughout 2016. Some of the combos in this video are downright sadistic, with massive resets with both Jago and Shadow Jago, Searing Skull traps with Spinal and a fair few perfects on some poor online warriors. He really lives up to the title of “Evil Bass” with some of these clips.

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It’s looking a lot like Street Fighter III in this recent set recorded and published by XusesGB: two top Japanese players face off in a hype match between Ibuki and Alex.

Majorboy and Donpachi are two of the best players in the world with these respective characters, so when they throw down in Ranked mode, you can expect some heavy mixups from Majorboy’s Ibuki, and some serious grappling from Donpachi’s Alex. Want to see who is deeper into each other’s head? Take a peek at this match!

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A look back at potent combos possible in some of 2016’s (and prior’s) hottest games.

2016 is coming to a close, and to celebrate the passing of another year of fighting games, Justice Soul Tuna has compiled their favorite combos from a variety of games played this year. This includes combos from: Karin, R. Mika & Juri in Street Fighter V (beta and retail versions); Helena & Rachel in Dead or Alive 5 Last Round; Orchid & New Jago in Killer Instinct (season 3); Valentine & Fukua in Skullgirls 2nd Encore, Ragna in BlazBlue: Chronophantasma EXTEND; and Ky in Guilty Gear Xrd -REVELATOR-.

A fitting send-off to 2016, and another year of combos! Thanks to Patrick for the tip.

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Three of the Four Kings of Shadaloo show us just how good it is to be bad in this gameplay compilation video for Street Fighter V. Some top-notch Vega, F.A.N.G and Bison players pull of impressive combos, setups, comebacks and reversals that players who main these villains will definitely want to add to their strategic repertoire. Complete with music and cut scenes for dramatic effect, the video will have you either trembling before Shadaloo’s might–or lining up to join their ranks.

Check out the clip below, and subscribe to Kobra_47 for more Street Fighter V video content.

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Chris “HellPockets” Fields is one of the most recognizable personalities in The King of Fighters community. Whenever there’s a major KOF tournament on American soil, he’s most likely to be behind the mic providing some excellent commentary.

Recently at the 2016 PlayStation Experience, FloKO TV got a chance to talk to HellPockets to get some insight into the game’s upcoming graphical update. Regarding this, HellPockets states that the updates are very noticeable and really help make the game look better.

Additionally, he also talks about possible balance changes in the build at PSX, which is surprising, considering that SNK has already stated that the upcoming update will have no balance changes.

Source: FloKO TV

Prefer Sanwa Denshi parts? You’re not alone–here’s an easy guide to making the swap.

Following up on their review of the visually impressive new Qanba Crystal fight stick, HurtboxTV now offers up this quide to swapping out the Qanba parts to a Sanwa Denshi JLF stick and Sanwa buttons, for those that prefer the performance of the popular Sanwa parts. The mod is very straightforward, with the only trickier bit being dealing with the Crystal’s LED elements. Check it all out in the video below.

Thanks to Daniel for the tip.

Source: HurtboxTV

Kevin “PewPewU” Toy has struggled against Captain Falcon over the course of his career. So when it came down to playing Johnny “S2J” Kim’s Falcon, the Marth main likely had the odds stacked against him.

However, if he had succumbed to those odds, there likely wouldn’t be much to write about, or even analyze. That, however, isn’t the case: as PewPewU was able to best S2J at Smash Summit 3. Thus, Daniel Lee analyzed the performance from PewPewU in his Yahoo Esports Melee Science series, and credits PewPewU’s adjustments in the neutral and aerial game to his success against S2J at the event.

Source: Yahoo! Esports

DNG|Itabashi Zangief has been well known across games for his trademark Zangief play. Undoubtedly one of the best at his main across generations, he has also seen success in games such as Virtua Fighter, making him a legend in fighting games.

HyperX|Daigo Umehara has been an unstoppable force in fighting games since the early pioneer days of the genre. Known primarily for his trademark Ryu play across games, he has also had success with other characters and other games, including Guilty Gear and Darkstalkers.

When two titans like this clash in a modern title, you can definitely expect fireworks. Watch these two square off in a set of ranked matches, as the two show off what they do best.

Source: YogaFlame24