If any Street Fighter fans were doubting whether or not Urien could be a serious tournament contender, RB certainly put those doubts to rest at Red Bull Battle Grounds where he took 5th and quailified for the Capcom Cup regional finals. The Taiwanese free agent gave some of the world’s best a run for their money and showed off some flashy tech for all the Urien players currently on the grind to crush the competition.
In this Capcom Pro Tour interview, RB explains how he’s been waiting for Urien to join the fight for a long time, and was excited to represent for those who are maining him. Watch as he elaborates on this and more at one of his first Capcom Cup qualifiers:
Announced back at SNK’s panel during this year’s Evo, there has been relative silence on the PS4 and PS Vita rereleases of Garou: Mark of the Wolves as of late, probably due to SNK’s focus on King of Fighters XIV. Well, it seems that its release should be pretty soon, as the game’s trophy list has recently surfaced online.
The trophies mostly concern completing the Arcade Mode with the entire roster, as well as beating Survival Mode and clearing Arcade Mode without using continues. The only difficult trophy on the list is the “Mark of the Wolves” trophy, which involves getting 10 consecutive victories on Ranked multiplayer, but this should be no problem for veteran players.
With King of Fighters ’94 available to buy on the PlayStation Store, with Samurai Shodown and Fatal Fury scheduled for release later this year, it’s the perfect time to be an SNK fan. With the PlayStation Experience on the horizon in December and SNK being on the list of exhibitors at the show, it stands to reason that a release date for Garou: Mark of the Wolves will be revealed during the convention.
As one of the eight United States players heading into Capcom Cup 2016 next month, Street Fighter V Ryu specialist Miky “XSK_Samurai” Chea finished the Capcom Pro Tour season with a ninth place finish at Red Bull Battle Grounds last weekend, defeating one of Japan’s up-and-coming young talents and Rashid expert, John Takeuchi along the way. He would later lose to fellow seasoned veterans EG|Justin Wong and F3|AlucarD.
In this CPT interview with Capcom community manager Matt Edwards, Miky discusses his humble competitive PC gaming roots as well as his favorite Street Fighter entries. He also discusses how he studies Daigo’s and Tokido’s Ryu to implement some of their play style into his own. Towards the end, Miky gives his two cents on how he thinks Ryu will change next season as well as his thoughts on the future of SFV and the CPT. You can watch the full interview below.
Today we start with Karin’s portly, bumbling butler, who desperately yearns to prove his worth as her bodyguard and battle foes in her stead–only to be shot down. He can also bee seen excitedly watching matches in the background of the Kanzuki Estate stage in Street Fighter V, and previously became a hotdog-eating champion in the UDON Comics: Ishizaki!
Private Nakagawa: A self-paced man working for the Kanzukis, a bit in his own way. When he raises the tension in the house too much, the maid strikes him with a silver tray.
Basic Info:
Name: Ishizaki
Height: 171 cm
Weight: 98 kg
Blood type: 0
Birthday: June 21st
Home Country: Japan
Likes: Tendon, Miso-Katsu
Dislikes: Sports
Private Nakagawa: One of the butlers working for Karin Kanzuki together with Shibasaki. In his school days, he belonged the school judo club. His actual skills are cooking, and once in awhile he exercises his talent in Kanzuki’s kitchen. His specialty is the chanwanmushi. He’s on good terms with Birdie.
Our next profile takes us back to 1997’s Marvel Super Heroes vs. Street Fighter, to look at another one of the title’s secret characters, “Suntanned” Sakura.
Private Nakagawa: She increased her moves, and her Hadoken became a giant beam, only by suntanning. I must absolutely suntan myself!
Basic Info:
Name: “Suntanned” Sakura
Height: 157 cm
Weight: 42 kg
Blood type: A
Birthday: March 15th
Home Country: Japan
Likes: Kakigōri
Dislikes: End of Vacations
Private Nakagawa: Sakura, who trained with Ryu during summer vacations. It seems she gained new moves and even mastered a technique in which she hits her opponent one-thousand times in a second. [her version of the Shun Goku Satsu/Raging Demon, obviously] She completely sunburned herself during a training session in a tropical beach of a southern country. It’s not that she “awoke” to anything, OK? She’s only diligent in her training…
For those who may be unfamiliar with Suntanned (alternatively, “Evil”) Sakura, or the title she hails from, here’s an arcade playthrough with her in MSHvSF to remind readers what she was capable of.
Moving on, we head to another Capcom classic, 1995’s Final Fight 3–which was released for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System, before being eventually ported to the Wii and Wii U Virtual Console–to take a look at one of the newcomers who stepped up to assist Guy and Mayor Mike Haggar in saving Metro City from the grip of the treacherous Skull Cross Gang: Lucia!
Private Nakagawa: A brilliant detective who ensures Metro City’s security. With her long legs, she obviously has powerful, intense, kicks. She burns down criminals and rogues with her Fire Spinner! [Her Jumping QCF+Attack kick. Normally unimaginatively translated as simply “Fire Kick.”]
Basic Info:
Name: Lucia
Height: 172 cm
Weight: 52 kg
Blood type: B
Birthday: April 1st
Home Country: USA
Likes: Cup Noodles
Dislikes: Cooking
Private Nakagawa: An investigator who works for the Special Criminal Investigation Unit of Metro City’s police. She fights with techniques of self-defense and a personal take on Kung-Fu. Specialized in attacks with her baton. She’s literally hopeless at housework and cooking, and relies on her favorite Vietnamese restaurant for her meals, or just goes with her cup noodles.
Finally, we have the other newcomer and the fourth selectable character in Final Fight 3, a man shrouded in a cloak of mystery: Dean!
Private Nakgawa: A former street fighter, and a mysterious man whose only known fact is his name, Dean. It seems he can harness the power of lighting to release electric discharges.
Basic Info:
Name: Dean
Height: 197 cm
Weight: 91 kg
Blood type: Unknown
Birthday: Unknown
Home Country: USA
Likes: Meat, Curry Rice
Dislikes: Skull Cross Gang
Private Nakagawa: A young man who lost his family because of the criminal gang Skull Cross. Skull Cross was a lower branch of Mad Gear; in order to destroy them, Dean teams up with Haggar, Lucia and Guy. His special weapon is the hammer. The fact he likes both meat and curry rice means he should like beef curry, right?
And another set of CFN Portal profiles is in the books, as we’re now just five Profiles away from reaching number 200! You can check out a special pair of profiles on Ryu and Chun-Li’s Red Bull BC One B-Boy and B-Girl Costumes here, as well as look at more of the World Warriors’ associates here. If “Suntanned” Sakura’s got you nostalgic for more secret characters from MSHvSF, you can see Shadow and Shadow Lady’s Profiles here.
The calendar for fighting game events is starting to fill up for next year, as yet another prestigious tournament has announced its return for 2017. One of the UK’s biggest tournaments, Hypespotting, is coming back for its sixth installment at the Glasgow Hilton next April, gathering the whole of the UK in Scotland for a weekend of fantastic fighting action. 2017’s lineup will include modern tournament games like Killer Instinct, Tekken 7, Guilty Gear Xrd: REVELATOR, Street Fighter V, King of Fighters XIV, Super Smash Bros. Melee and Super Smash Bros. for Wii U, alongside old favorites 3rd Strike and Street Fighter II Turbo.
As with previous Hypespottings, the world famous Pub Quiz will return, alongside the new Affro’s Arcade, which will provide attendees access to new indie games to enjoy in between tournament matches. The Hypespotting crew will be partnering with events up and down the UK for their ‘Road to Hype’ series as well, where winners of specific tournaments will gain free entry to the main event up in Glasgow. With Hypespotting 5 acting as a Ranking Event for the Capcom Pro Tour, a UK qualifier for the Mortal Kombat Cup and the site of a Pokkén Tournament invitational, expect 2017’s event to have even more big names attached to it.
Tickets are now available to purchase over on the Hypespotting website, with there being a 25% discount on weekend entry tickets until the end of 2016, so get buying your tickets now if you are definitely coming to 2017’s event.
For any players who have yet to avail of Street Fighter V’s Capcom Pro Tour-themed downloadable content, now might be the time to do so: Capcom has confirmed that the content will only be available for purchase until the end of November.
This content, which includes the Ring of Destiny stage, unique CPT costumes for Cammy, Chun-Li, and Necalli, special “EX2” CPT-themed default colors for all fighters–as well as exclusive titles–is meant to help support the Capcom Pro Tour. Capcom’s goal was to raise at least $150,000 by the end of November, to add to Capcom Cup’s baseline prize pool of $250,000; as of August, they had already raised over $90,000.
Interested players can learn more about the DLC from the TGS 2016 trailer below, that Capcom has re-shared alongside their announcement.
Whether or not these Capcom Pro Tour DLC items will be made available again after Capcom Cup to support the 2017 Capcom Pro Tour is–as of yet–unknown.
We haven’t really had much on NetherRealm Studios’s Injustice 2 as of late. With the recent updates to Mortal Kombat XL, including its launch on PC, the company has been more focused on that game. That said, NRS did have a build playable at GameStop’s annual expo last September where they had top players Kitana Prime and YOMI|Michaelangelo in some exhibition matches.
Now, both Kitana Prime and YOMI|Michaelangelo have come onto Ketchup and Mustard’s “Condiment Cast” where they get a chance to talk about their impressions on the game and its new mechanics: meter burn roll and meter burn air techs. The former, meter burn rolls, refer to the fact that players can dash, and then press the meter burn button to initiate a roll with a small invincibility window for one stock of meter. The air tech on the other hand allows players to “tech” out of air juggles and wall bounces at the cost of one stock of meter.
According to both, these two mechanics are the biggest things, at least based on the current build, that players will have to learn to integrate into their game when coming into Injustice 2. As part of this, they also talk about how they affect the characters that they’ve played with – both returning characters like Harley, and new ones like Blue Beetle.
Always in good spirits, K-Brad of team Evil Geniuses provided a playful post-Red Bull Battle Grounds interview for the CPT Interview Series. Though always finding time to share a few laughs, the world-renowned Cammy player continues to establish himself as a serious competitor; he took 5th at the Capcom Pro Tour qualifier, and has done quite a bit of traveling to make it to various stops on the tour’s world circuit. Among how he enjoys fan interactions and ways he deals with jet lag, K-Brad shares his takeaways from his encouters with CBZ|Onuki and GAM|DR Ray, particularly how his fights with them helped him improve as a player. The full interview can be viewed below.
Those watching the North American Finals for Tekken’s King of the Iron Fist Tournament may have noticed that tournament winner Mr Naps was playing with a unique new arcade stick from Qanba. Now we’ve learned a bit more about said arcade stick.
The Dragon is a new, premium arcade stick from Qanba, complimenting their entry-level Drone. Compatible with both the PlayStation 3 and PlayStation 4, as well as PC, the Dragon contains many features seen in competing arcade sticks of the same level. This includes an opening top panel that allows access to the sticks internals. Unlike other premium arcade sticks with this feature though, the Dragon features additional clear plastic covering for the parts from the inside.
As for what parts the Qanba Dragon is using, nothing has been revealed so far. Another thing that has yet to be announced is the Dragon’s price. That said, we’re likely to learn this about soon–as the stick is slated to be available this holiday season. In the meantime, check out these shots of the Dragon.
With BlazBlue: Central Fiction’s recent release in the United States earlier this month, many players are eagerly turning the Wheel of Fate on the next chapter of the series. Yesterday, the title received an update, brining it to Patch 1.02 on both PlayStation 3 and PlayStation 4. This minor update saw a litany of various bug fixes, ranging from some minor adjustments to Jin, Hazama. and console-exclusive newcomers Susanoo and Mai Natsume, to correcting typos in Arcade Mode text and options for saving replays. The full list of all changes, translated by Enkei of the BlazBlue Discord group, can be found below.
Changes Affecting Gameplay:
Jin:
Fixed a bug with 623416C (Touga Hyojin) damage not applying correctly when hitting the Guard Point of Kagura’s 5D+A (Dragon Blast). This change was already in Arcade Version 1.20.01.
Hazama:
Fixed a bug with 214D stance (Serpent’s Benediction) not maintaining its impowered state.
Susanoo
Fixed a bug with enemy attacks hitting the effect of 214B (Hunter’s Fang) Level 2. No change to Suanoo’s Hurtbox and Hitbox.
Fixed a bug that occurred twice in the swinging motion of a max distance 63214C (Splintering Thrust).
Fixed a bug that unintentionally reduced the effect of external forces immediately after a backstep. External forces include Rachel’s Wind, Tager’s Magnetism, Kokonoe’s Gravitrons, etc.
Mai:
Fixed a bug with enemy attacks hitting the effect of 2B. No change to Mai’s Hurtbox and Hitbox.
Other Fixes:
Fixed a typo in Mai’s Arcade Mode.
Changed matchmaking sound effects.
Fixed the explanation of Azrael’s Skill [The Greatest Battle on Earth] in Grim of the Abyss Boss Rush dungeon.
Fixed a typo in the options for saving Vs. Mode replays.
Fixed Mai’s Portrait in Ranked Match character select.
