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Street Fighter League US-Pro 2019: Community vote and online qualifiers completed; Twelve players now ready for the draft

Via online victory or community support, twelve competitors have now been chosen.

We are growing gradually closer to the actual round-robin team competition in the US-Pro 2019 Street Fighter League; the Community Vote process has completed, adding six new warriors to the winners of the online qualifier events — and giving us a total of twelve players ready to be drafted into six three-player teams by the Team Captains from CPT 2018.

The Online Warriors are:

The Community Favorites are:

Congratulations to the winners of both the online qualifiers and the Community Vote! The real fight is yet to come, once the teams are formed in the draft; stay tuned to Capcom Fighters for updates.

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Sources: smash.gg; Capcom Fighters (Twitter)

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Towers Open World Survival Game Takes Inspiration from Ghibli Films, Breath of the Wild & More

A new game has surfaced with its first prototype trailer. Called “Towers”, the game is said to take inspiration from Breath of the Wild, Studio Ghibli, Harvest Moon and more. Towers features gliders, climbing, farming, town building and cooperative multiplayer. The team at Dreamlit Entertainment consists of just six developers, the “core founders and developers of Hawken, a mech shooter from 2012, according to IGN.

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The End of The Culling is at Hand – Servers Going Offline on May 15th

On May 15th, The Culling will cease to exist. The team let fans and players know via the game’s official site in a brief dev diary called “So Long, Farewell!” The reason for the closure, despite the “Origins” F2P launch last year, did not generate enough revenue to “sustain our team and support ongoing development” of the game. Without revenue, staff has been let go and the team has been “render[ed] unable to provide ongoing support and updates that would allow the game to grow & thrive”.

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Is Paradox Finally Going to Reveal a New Vampire: the Masquerade or World of Darkness Game?

Way back in 2015, Paradox Interactive bought up all the resources of White Wolf, including World of Darkness and Vampire: The Masquerade. Fast forward to the Paradox earnings report in early 2018 when the company indicated it would step up marketing and community involvement in both IPs. Fast forward AGAIN to this past weekend, when a bunch of screenshots and a teaser website called “Tender” cropped up. All is is to prep fans for a big announcement on March 21st.

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A favorite fighting locale returns to Street Fighter V: Arcade Edition — the iconic Field of Fate

This battlefield is coming back, by popular demand!

One of the most-loved stages in Street Fighter history is soon to appear in Street Fighter V: Arcade Edition!

This stage is based on the opening sequence of 1994’s Street Fighter II: The Animated Movie; the anime film presents a version of the climatic fight that ended the storyline of the original Street Fighter game, where Ryu defeats Sagat and leaves him scarred via the Shoryuken.

The scene got its first in-game nod in the special “Thunder Plains” boss stage that appears in Street Fighter Alpha 2, both in the arcade mode and (briefly) in the game’s opening sequence.

Now returning as the “Field of Fate”, Capcom clearly is paying homage to the SFA2 opening with their trailer for this new locale, right down to the background music. The stage’s iconic simplicity and place in the Street Fighter lore have made it one of the most-requested additions to Street Fighter V.

The Field of Fate is coming to Street Fighter V as DLC next week, on March 26th, and will cost $1.99 USD or 40,000 Fight Money to add to your own stage select screen. Meanwhile, check out the fight from the movie that started it all in the video below!

Sources: Street Fighter (Twitter); mimundojuega (YouTube); KazuCrash (YouTube)

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r/SF Radio podcast: Joe Munday talks with Sherry Jenix about the difficulty competitors face obtaining travel visas

Stay on top of the Street Fighter world with the r/SF Radio podcast!

ESE|Sherry Jenix is working hard to help international fighting game competitors confront a challenge that starts before they even pick up a controller. Getting travel visas to actually be able to attend tournaments can prove very difficult — so much that it can outright prevent a player from making it to some big competitive opportunities (such as Capcom Cup, for example). Enter the EFight Pass project:

Sherry Jenix joins r/StreetFighter’s Joe Munday on this week’s r/SF Radio podcast, where they talk about the details of what it takes to get a U.S. visa for fighting game players, and why it can be so challenging — and how EFight Pass is working to help.

You can listen to r/SF Radio on any of the following streaming platforms, or watch it out on YouTube. (The podcast includes some NSFW language!) For more info, head over to the r/StreetFighter subreddit.

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Source: r/StreetFighter

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Vehicle Battle Royale Game ‘notmycar’ Headed to Steam Early Access in April

If you’ve been looking for an Auto Assault-like game with lots of vehicular mayhem, look no further than Skybound’s “notmycar”. The oddly spelled game is sprinting off the starting line for Steam Early Access beginning April 5th. Anyone can play that day and take part in “Founders’ Week” through April 12th “rewarding the game’s earliest players with an exclusive custom paint job for notmycar’s one and only pick-up truck of punishment, The Beast”.

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Unique Hawaiian RPG ‘Nightmarchers’ Rebranded ‘Ashes of Oahu’ & Set for Spring Release

The game formerly known as Nightmarchers has been rebranded “Ashes of Oahu” after working with native Hawaiians to ensure a “faithful, but respectful Hawaiian experience”. The game is set in a post-apocalyptic Hawaii where gameplay is inspired by “the unique stories, traditions and beliefs” of the Islands. Players will work (or against) four different factions with choices that have impact on any one of the game’s 100+ endings.

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CryoFall is an Open World Sci-fi Survival Game for Up to 200 Players

In case you haven’t found the perfect “open world survival sci-fi wilderness game”, Daedelic Entertainment has you covered with its announcement today of CryoFall. The “multiplayer survival RPG” is being developed by AtomicTorch Studios and will be entering Steam Early Access on April 3rd. Up to 200 players can be supported on a server “with each evolving to create a unique world and, in turn, gameplay experience,” according to the press announcement.