Everyone has a fighting chance
Gamigo has sent word that the holidays have descended into all of its stable of games including Trove, Atlas Reactor, Aura Kingdom, Echo of Soul – Phoenix and all the rest. Players can log in to their favorite virtual world to find activities, prizes, rewards and fun from now through early 2019.
SNK and Ubisoft are arguably two companies who many would never expect to partner together. However, indeed they are in a new partnership that sees characters from the former’s Samurai Shodown franchise appearing in one of the latter’s mobile games.
Samurai Shodown’s Haohmaru, Ukyo, Nakoruru, and Rimururu are set to appear in Ubisoft’s Might and Magic Elemental Guardians. The latter is a mobile strategy RPG that’s part of the Might and Magic franchise.
The Samurai Shodown characters will arrive in Might and Magic Elemental Guardians starting from December 13. After this, players have one month to actually be able to obtain them in game before they leave. Players who do obtain them during this time will be able to play them indefinitely.
With a new major balance patch coming out this month, SNK has decided to try and draw people back to the Steam version of The King of Fighters XIV. Their latest entry in their flagship tag team fighter will be free-to-play over the weekend, ending on the 16th, and for sale until the 17th for a staggering 75% off. That’s just $15 USD to try out the latest polish from one of SNK’s most-beloved franchises!
If that sounds pretty good to you — and it should! — then you can pick up The King of Fighters XIV on Steam here.
Source: Steam
As previously reported, Sega is adding new characters from Shining Resonance Refrain into their upcoming Blade Arcus Rebellion from Shining. Now, they’ve released some new info on exactly what Yuma and Kirika are doing in the game.
The legendary hero who used the power of the Shining Dragon to help save Alfheim, Yuma Illburn now finds himself in Blade Arcus’s alternate world of End Earth with more people looking for his power. At the moment he awakes in this world, a mysterious boy wielding the dark flames of the devil dragon appears before him.
Following Yuma is Kirika, the Diva Magica from the Elf tribe, who is has been searching for him ever since he disappeared from Alfheim. Finding a clue about his whereabouts, she jumps into this alternate world after him.
Blade Arcus Rebellion from Shining hits PlayStation 4 and Switch in Japan on March 14, 2019.
Source: 4Gamer; via Siliconera
Discord is the latest entry into the game platform war. Previously, we learned that Steam takes a whopping 30% cut for distribution of games. Enter Epic and its proprietary game platform with a 12% cut for distribution. Now we have Discord which is offering developers a 10% premium to distribute games. Let the battle begin! The blog asks, “Why does it cost 30% to distribute games?” Their answer? It doesn’t.
SNK continues to provide support to tournaments running their games. The latest tournament to get such support is January’s upcoming Frosty Faustings.
The King of Fighters XIV tournament at Frosty Faustings will receive a $500 pot bonus from SNK; combined with contributions from others, this brings to total prize pool bonuses for KOFXIV to $900. In addition to the prize pool bonus, SNK will also be providing exclusive SNK and KOF merchanise to the finalists of the tournament.
Frosty Faustings XI takes place this coming January 18 to 19, 2019 at the Clarion Inn & Waterford Conference Center in Elmhurst, IL.
Source: Frosty Faustings
With tomorrow being the day of Capcom Cup’s Last Chance Qualifier, expect a lot of fireworks. Last year proved to be just as exciting as Capcom Cup itself, with Nemo not only winning but surging his way into top 8 of the actual event’s bracket.
While Nemo’s victory may be big shoes to fill, he has shown that this qualifying slot is not one to be taken lightly. In fact, so strong is this berth that Capcom took measures to prevent the number one seed from being at a disadvantage by having to play the last chance qualifier winner.
So with that introduction out of the way, who will be the one this year who finds himself in the main bracket? Let’s look at the players whom I think have the best shot.
GamerBee is not in Capcom Cup yet, and it’s not for lack of effort. Perhaps if he wasn’t the TO of TWFighter Major and had one more chance to scoop points there, it would’ve been a different story. This is someone that is hard to overlook. His Cammy may be on the same road as Mago’s, but he is still playing a character that has comfortable ranges to a former Adon player in SFIV. He’s definitely worth a look.
Yes, another Taiwanese player. ZJZ may have the “I don’t even play this game!” option select down on Street Fighter V… but truth be told, for someone who barely takes this game seriously, he does well. His Menat has gotten some serious looks, with Punk actually footing the bill to bring him out for this.
In one of his few forays into the Capcom Pro Tour, he made top 8 at Tokyo Game Show. He also skated dangerously close to top 8 at SEAM as well. Remember that Menat was within sniffing distance of a win at LCQ last year in the hands of Infiltration, so I wouldn’t sleep on ZJZ at all.
I seriously thought Dogura didn’t care about SFV anymore. Having set his sights on Dragon Ball FighterZ over the year, he still put himself in a decent position coming into Canada Cup for the Capcom Pro Tour, but had his run cut short by Fuudo. His Urien is still strong, but he just played a more abbreviated schedule of Street Fighter this year. The fact that he’s even showing up shows that getting into Capcom Cup matters, so I can’t overlook him.
His lack of travel killed his chances of getting in outright. While Chun-Li always has an uphill battle, it’s made even more uphill by his sparse movement through the year, and then further compounded by the fact that he did better at 3rd Strike than Street Fighter V at Canada Cup — his last chance at points. But yet, MOV is still always hanging around as a threat. It’s still a possibility he could eke his way in.
This is my dark horse pick for sure. His Laura made a lot of sense given his attachment to Abel and her being the closest thing to him. But when you see his G, you have to have a man-in-the-mirror moment and realize that this is the character he needed his whole life. Few people have seen a G of his caliber, and this could very well be what he needs to take this entire tournament.
There’s a few other sleepers that could possibly take it, such as Smug, Samurai, and John Takeuchi. But the five above are who I truly believed are poised for a big run in the LCQ bracket, so be prepared!
According to Kotaku, Twitch is selling off Curse Media to “Fandom”, once known as Wikia. “We’ve signed a definitive agreement to acquire Curse Media from Twitch, Inc., including all media assets and employees,” a letter to Kotaku reads. Fandom will be folding all of the Curse assets into its Gamepedia section. One site many of our readers will be familiar with is MMO-Champion, one of the largest World of Warcraft fan sites on the Internet today.
Daybreak Game Company has announced PlanetSide Arena, “a new massive-scale multiplayer sci-fi shooter” that is slated to be released on January 29, 2019. According to press information, there will be several familiar features in place including the class system, arms gameplay, “dynamic in-match and seasonal progression”. The map will eventually be able to support up to 1,000 players.
Before NieR: Automata‘s 2B touches down in SoulCalibur VI on the 18th, there will be a much-anticipated balance change list for the entire cast the day before. Namco has graciously put up the balance changes on their site, giving us all time to speculate on how this will impact the game. You can read the full patch notes here.
In addition to the very long list of character changes — including an answer to the vocal outcry over things like Azwel’s backdash and Ivy’s step-killing 2A+G — there’s some interesting changes to system mechanics, as well. Perhaps most notably, a hold-over glitch from SoulCalibur V is finally getting fixed: it was possible to buffer sidestep inputs during CE startups and have all the sidesteps come out after the Super Flash. This famously made Astaroth’s command grab CE worthless, but if the patch notes are to be believed, this’ll be no longer the case.
Source: SoulCalibur