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Red Bull’s Cultivation Leffen: Resurrection Series Looks at His Most Humbling Experience

Red Bull continues its examination on Team SoloMid’s Leffen with the second full episode of Cultivation Leffen: Resurrection. In it, they focus on Leffen’s interaction with the Swedish Melee community as he goes to a weekly. His interaction with the community in Sweden has been stormy in the past, which led to his most humbling experience yet–a year-long ban from tournaments. Led by Armada and supported by numerous names in the Swedish community, the ban was largely in response to Leffen’s negative behavior–often ridiculing and bullying lesser/newer players within the scene.

Instead of contesting the ban, Leffen used it to his benefit. He focused on Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3, and ultimately came back to Melee a more mature, well-rounded person.

Watch Cultivation Leffen: Resurrection S2 E2 on Red Bull TV here.

Source: Red Bull TV

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US PlayStation Store Offering Christie Free with Download of Dead or Alive 5 Last Round Core Fighters

Koei Tecmo has released a free-to-play version of Dead or Alive 5 Last Round, and they are banking that it will get you into this lesser-played fighting game. Titled Core Fighters–and featuring the characters Ayane, Hayate, Kasumi and Ryu Hayabusa for free, with other characters being DLC unlockable, they are now offering a special present for people who get in on the ground floor.

For a limited time, the US PlayStation store is offering to give you Christie as a gift for downloading Core Fighters. While you would have to buy other characters should you want to play them, this does give you five characters to try to learn the game with.  Who knows? You might actually find your main within that pool.

This offer will only be extended until October 4th, so don’t forget to grab it!

Source: PlayStation Store

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CEO Gaming Announces CEO 2017 Dates, Hotel Registration Coming Soon

Alex Jebailey has been keeping himself busy. While he is already sitting on the doorstep of the beginning of this month’s CEOtaku event, he is continuing to pound away on his flagship event–Community Effort Orlando.

Tonight, word broke of the dates for CEO 2017, with Jebailey taking to Twitter to officially confirm the dates of June 16th through the 18th at the Wyndham Resort in Orlando. It was further stated that hotel registration for the event would be available following CEOtaku.

He also took to his personal Twitter to assure people that there would be “plenty of rooms,” as there would be registration options available both at the Wyndham and the Hawthorne Suites, which is next door to the venue.

On a bittersweet note, however, Jebailey stated that this would be the “end of an era,” as it would be the final year that CEO will be held at the Wyndham, which has housed the event since its inception following the demise of the G.A.M.M.E. event that sparked the creation of CEO.

While it is sad that it will be the final year at the Wyndham, we can only expect an upward trend for CEO, and expect bigger and better things than the Wyndham could contain in 2018. Get ready to register, and mark June 16-18 red on your calendars!

Sources: CEOGaming; CEOJebailey

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Smash Scenes Takes on the Rise, Fall, and Rise of Houston, Texas in Third Episode

After tackling the competitive Super Smash Bros. Melee scene of Seoul, South Korea, GosuJasu has moved on to cover Houston, Texas. The motto of everything being bigger in Texas holds true here. Houston has a big, vibrant Super Smash Bros. for Wii U scene, with five weekly tournaments every week, and a welcoming community that enjoys time even away from the game. It was, however, a scene that almost wasn’t.

The scene suffered several setbacks, including tournament issues that caused fallings out as well as factioning that caused major rifts between players within the scene. When contacted for clarification beyond the video, GosuJasu explained:

Houston Sm4sh is the perfect example of what happens when you let things build up without keeping them in check. The online interaction definitely came to a boiling point, and some really terrible things were said. However they’ve been able to move forward past the drama and remain a very strong scene. Shortly after the filming for the episode, the Houston Facebook group instated a few rules that would prevent these sorts of toxic exchanges in the future.

And with maintaining a welcoming community for all who want to play being a top priority, the Houston scene will recover and become more vibrant than before.

Source: GosuJasu

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Registration for FV Cup, 2016’s Final Capcom Pro Tour Ranking Event, Now Open

FlashVision’s FV Cup has been Malaysia’s premier Street Fighter tournament for a number of years now. Scheduled to take place from October 22 to 23, this year’s FV Cup also (tentatively) represents the last Capcom Pro Tour ranking event in the Pro Tour Calendar as well the final Capcom Pro Tour Asia qualifier, with the winner flying to the CPT Asia Finals in Taiwan in November for a chance to qualify for Capcom Cup 2016.

For any players interested in flying out to Malaysia for FV Cup, registration for the event has now been opened. Competitors can head on over to this link to register.

FV Cup 2016 will take place at the Tunku Abdul Rahman University College Dewan Utama in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia this coming October 22 and 23.

Source: FlashVision

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Urien’s Street Fighter V Powers Detailed, More Information on September Updates to Come at TGS

Street Fighter V fans have almost certainly already taken a look at Capcom’s new official trailer for Urien; the Capcom-Unity blog has followed up with their usual breakdown of what the Illuminati’s number two brings to the SFV arena.

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As listed in the blog:

First introduced in Street Fighter III: 2nd Impact, Urien is the Vice President of Illuminati and wants nothing but to take over Illuminati from his older brother, Gill, and destroy Shadaloo. Urien has complete confidence in his own physicality and this elitism shows itself through his sadistic and tyrannical tendencies. He gains joy only from dominating others and having them crumble in the face of his incredible power.

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V-Skill: Metallic Aura

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Urien’s skin tone changes and he can absorb a single hit as he rushes forward in a brutal shoulder tackle.

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V-Trigger: Aegis Reflector

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One of the 66 Illuminati Secret Arts, this energy barrier reflects projectiles and will knock unblocking opponents back if they make contact. Directional input while activating V-trigger controls where the barrier will appear; Urien can project two of them during V-trigger to set up some sadistic zoning and juggle scenarios.

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Critical Art: Dominate Crush

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The name says it all! Urien channels his powerful energy into the ground to raise a “pillar of destruction.”

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Of course, those who have played the “A Shadow Falls” General Story Mode have had a chance to try out these powers already!

Capcom-Unity confirms that Urien’s official release is indeed due in September, but have yet to offer a solid date. They also indicate that more information about Urien’s release and the previously mentioned September update content will be revealed at the Tokyo Game Show next week–so stay locked on!

Source: Capcom-Unity

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Virtua Fighter 5 Final Showdown Coming to PlayStation 4, via Yakuza 6

When this latest console generation launched, it became the first one in almost two decades to do so without a new Virtua Fighter game. Now however, it seems that players will finally be able to play Virtua Fighter on their PlayStation 4–as part of another game.

Sega recently announced a number of features for their upcoming Yakuza 6. One such feature is the ability to play actual games in arcades in-game, including Virtua Fighter 5 Final Showdown.

Released in arcades in 2010 and consoles in 2012, Virtua Fighter 5 Final Showdown is the final update to Virtua Fighter 5, and includes the characters added in the Virtua Fighter 5 R update (newcomer Jean Kujo and veteran Taka-Arashi) as well as a host of system and balance changes.

The version of VF5 Final Showdown in Yakuza 6 will feature 2 player competitive mode which should be great news for anyone who wants to set up casuals for the game on PS4. Whether or not it’s based on the newer “B” version released in March of last year, or the older “A” version that was the basis for the last-gen console releases is as of yet unknown.

Other games available in Yakuza 6’s arcades include Puyo-Puyo, Outrun, Super Hang-On, Space Harrier, and Fantasy Zone.

Yakuza 6 will release on PlayStation 4 in Japan on December 8.

Sources: Hachima Kikou; Gematsu

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“Upload Complete”: Infiltration Talks About His Evolution 2016 Championship with Core-A Gaming

Razer’s Seonwoo “Infiltration” Lee shocked the world with his determination and skill to topple his teammate, Keita “Fuudo” Ai, coming from Loser’s Bracket in Grand Finals at Evolution 2016. What further shocked the world was his interview skills, giving the now famous, “Download complete,” response to Ryan “Gootecks” Gutierrez’s question about his adjustments heading into Grand Finals.

Today, Gerald “mintcheerios” Lee from Core-A Gaming uploaded a video, where he sat down with the Evo 2016 champion to talk about his experience at the biggest fighting game tournament ever. In the video, Infiltration opens up about why he uttered that line, and also talks about how he felt watching the Cinderella story of the tournament, Joe “LI Joe” Ciaramelli and his relationship with his father. Going further, Infiltration talks about what he believes to be the core differences between competitive play in Street Fighter V and Street Fighter IV, and whether he will be continuing with his tradition of maining the entire cast.

This is definitely an interview you won’t want to miss.

Source: Core-A Gaming

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Arc System Works Releases Second Japanese Trailer for BlazBlue: Central Fiction

With the Japanese release date of October 6 right around the corner, Arc System Works has activated promotion mode for the console release of BlazBlue: Central Fiction by releasing a second trailer. While the trailer is in Japanese, it does shed some light on what is included within the PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 3 release.

Featured in the trailer is the boast of 34 playable characters. Further on in, they go over Story Mode, which is touted as being bigger than anything the series has seen so far. Also featured are modes such as Practice Mode, Score Attack Mode, Grim of Abyss Mode, and online play.

What’s more is that the PlayStation 4 version of the game will feature legacy controller support:

It is also worth noting that pre-orders of the Japanese PlayStation 4 edition of the game will get access to a demo of the game, making that–along with getting earlier access to the game than the American holiday release date allows–potentially worth the purchase.

Source: Gematsu

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Get Ready to Crush, Kill, and Destroy! Urien’s Official Trailer for Street Fighter V Has Arrived

We knew he was coming, we’ve even got to play him in story mode (or just flat-out play him if you modded the game on PC), but now Urien is finally officially coming to Street Fighter V.

Capcom Japan has just dropped the official trailer for the the Illuminati vice president in preparation for his impending release.

Sadly, an official release date for Urien has yet to be provided. That said, with this trailer out, Capcom is likely to make an announcement soon.

Source: Capcom Japan