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For some people, NieR: Automata‘s 2B was the only way they were ever going to play and enjoy SoulCalibur VI. For these robot waifu connoisseurs, they are probably going to want to know what SCVI looks like at its highest quality settings — for completely normal reasons, of course. As usual, PC MasterRace Latinoamérica is here to show off what she — and her gorgeous new stage — look like in 4k:

 

For comparison’s sake, You can see the same tests performed on PCMR’s site for Tekken 7, Fighting EX Layer, and Street Fighter V. Note that the above is just a small sample of PCMRLA’s gallery: to see the full gallery of screenshots, click here to go to their site!

Source: PC MasterRace Latinoamérica

Mikado Arcade’s Street Fighter Carnival 12 is a multi-game tournament series designed to promote high-level gameplay in a wide variety of legacy FGC titles. We’re well into a month of arcade battles and the action isn’t slowing down — here’s two more VODs, featuring Samurai Shodown II and The Fallen Angels!

It’s almost guaranteed that everyone reading this will be familiar with SamShoII…

…but you may be less familiar with Psikyo’s The Fallen Angels. Better known for their world class shmup titles, Psikyo had a very brief run in the fighting game market with this game and an odd, okizeme-less martial arts fighter Battle K-Road. It’s a shame we didn’t get to see how far potential sequels could take The Fallen Angels — Some balance issues aside, it’s a gorgeous game with great flair and an emphasis on close range pressure. It is worth noting that the developers of this game largely moved on to work other fighting games for another company — SNK Playmore.

 

You can follow the action of SFC12 by subscribing to Mikado’s official YouTube channel. For the night owls in the US, you can even try to catch them when they livestream.

Source: Mikado Arcade

Interested in one of the number of fighting games that Aksys has published over the years? Well, now’s a good time to pick any of them up. Aksys currently has a number of these fighting games on sale on their online store.

The sale covers various titles in the Arcana Heart, BlazBlue, Guilty Gear, and Under Night franchises. This includes releases for PlayStation 4, PlayStation 3, PlayStation Vita, PlayStation Portable, and even XBox 360. Check out which titles are on sale below.

Take note however that quantities are limited, so interested buyers should take advantage of this as soon as possible.

Source: Aksys

The latest issue of V-Jump has revealed three more characters for Bandai Namco’s Shonen Jump arena fighter Jump Force. Coming to the game are Trunks form Dragon Ball Z, Boa Hancock from One Piece, and Renju Abarai from Bleach.

Of these three, Trunks probably needs the least introduction with the popularity of the franchise — and the fact that he’s also in Dragon Ball FighterZ. In fact, him being added was likely a given at this point.

The “Pirate Empress” Boa Hancock is the Captain of the Kuja Pirates and one of the “Shibibukai”, 7 pirate warlords who serve as privateers for the world government. She’s also secretly an ally of Luffy and the Straw Hats, having a bit of a crush on him.

Renji Abarai a Soul and the lieutenant of the 6th division under Byakuya Kuchiki. He started of as something of an antagonist, trying to take down series lead Ichigo to be able to arrest Rukia, before eventually becoming an ally later on.

Jump Force is due out for PlayStation 4 and Xbox One on February 14, 2019 in Japan; and PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC on February 15, 2019 in the West.

Source: V-Jump; via Ryokutya

As originally hinted at back in Evo 2018, ARIKA’s Fighting EX Layer has three more DLC characters on the way. Now, the company has released some details on when these characters will arrive in game. ARIKA recently tweeted out their schedule for the game up to May of 2019. Here they gave out hints on both when we may see the first of these characters drop in game, as well as their pricing.

Of the three incoming characters, only one will be sold as paid DLC, the other two will be coming to the game free of charge. While no names were mentioned, it’s likely that it’ll be guest character Terry Bogard who will be paid DLC. As for when the characters will drop, ARIKA confirmed that they plan to release one of the free characters by March, to coincide with next year’s Toushinshai. The remaining two will then arrive in May. Which of the two free characters would drop first, however, was not revealed.

Prior to all this, an update is planned for January that will adjust the gameplay, and add some fixes to the arcade version. In addition to these details, ARIKA also released the following screenshots of the upcoming characters.

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Source: ARIKA