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The ELEAGUE Street Fighter V Celebrity Showdown returns on June 29, featuring Shaq, Jimmy Rollins, Baron Davis, & Natalie Eva Marie

Four celebrities will fight it out for charity tomorrow at ELEAGUE.

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Now that the four main Groups for the ELEAGUE 2018 Street Fighter V Invitational have completed their elimination rounds and seeded the Playoffs bracket, we get a different kind of fight coming our way this weekend as a respite — this Friday, it’s time for the Celebrity Showdown!

Turner and IMG’s second annual Celebrity Showdown will feature basketball Hall of Famer Shaquille O’Neal, World Series Champion Jimmy Rollins, 13-year NBA veteran Baron Davis, and former professional wrestler Natalie Eva Marie in a Street Fighter V: Arcade Edition charity tournament, televised on TBS. These competitors are fighting to raise money for the charities of their choice — with O’Neal supporting the Odessa Chambliss Quality of Life Fund, Rollins playing for The Jimmy Rollins Family Foundation, Davis on behalf of The Drew League, and Marie for A21.

During last year’s Showdown, Shaq pulled off a “controversial” upset win against Marie, with a little help from Tasty Steve. How will the rematch play out? Analysts Tasty Steve, Zhi Liang Chew, Sajam, and Rip will serve as game coaches for the celebrities, and Josh Gray will host.

The single-elimination tournament consists of two first-round matches and a winner’s match, for three matches total. The champion earns the majority of the prize money for their chosen charity — but all other participants receivie a portion for their charities, too.

You can catch the ELEAGUE Street Fighter V Invitational 2018 Celebrity Showdown at 11:00 PM ET/PT on TBS.

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Source: ELEAGUE [press release]

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Not all stages from previous games will appear in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate

The upcoming Super Smash Bros. Ultimate for the Nintendo Switch is bringing back all of the characters from previous entries in the franchise. And with this announcement, some have wondered if all of the stages from those previous entries would be getting the same treatment as well.

But unlike the characters, not all stages from past Super Smash Bros. games will be returning in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate. This much was confirmed in a recent Famitsu interview with Nintendo of America’s Bill Trinen and Nate Bihldorff. So while Super Smash Bros. Ultimate does have about 75 known stages, these won’t cover every stage in the franchise, ever.

In addition to this, they did confirm that the stages coming from Super Smash Bros. for 3DS will be given a graphical upgrade — no surprise there, really. Additionally, there will be no differences in the stages, whether or not they’re played in docked or portable mode.

Other details discussed in the interview include the possibility of a beta; while they state that Nintendo doesn’t have finalized plans yet, they do hope to announce something related to it later this year.

Source: Famitsu

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Hidden changes in version 3.051? Akuma has a new weakness to watch for after the Street Fighter V update

Take note, those who walk the Demon’s Path.

Even though Capcom provided patch notes for the version 3.051 update that arrived on Monday — bringing us Cody, alongside a slew of other content — it appears they once again have neglected to mention a change that is, in actuality, quite significant to Akuma players. It seems the frame data on his powerful standing medium kick has been altered, allowing for punishes when blocked that weren’t possible before.

FChamp shared some examples on Twitter of how deadly the change of -4 frames on block — from the prior -2 — can be…

 

This is hardly the limit of the punish opportunities depending on the opponent, so Akuma mains will want to be more cautious how they apply their pressure with that knee.

Source: FChamp (Twitter)

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– NMC Studios announces ‘notmycar’ to Receive an Unreal Dev Grant

NMC Studios has received validation of their “notmycar” vehicular battle royale game in the form of an Unreal Dev Grant. Engine 4 Awards range from $5,000 to $50,000 and “provide financial grants to innovative projects built in and around Unreal”. According to the dev team, the funds will be used to “furthering the march to Steam Early Access later this year”.

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– State of Decay 2 Independence Day DLC Lets You Play with Firecrackers

Undead Labs has announced that a brand new DLC has been released for State of Decay 2. Coming in at $4.99, or as part of the Ultimate Edition, the Independence Day DLC brings players a trio of new vehicles into the game as well as some awesome new ways to fire up the grill and get cookin’. Lastly, what DLC named “Independence Day” would be worth its salt without fireworks? Not only are fireworks part of the content, but so is the Fireworks Crafting Station.

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Absolver will be free to play for PlayStation Plus users in July

A recent entry to the European Playstation Blog announces that Absolver will be one of the free games available to Playstation Plus users during the month of July. Following its release in late August of last year, the action RPG/fighting game hybrid received mixed reviews, but was generally praised for its ambitious style of martial-arts based skill building and PVP battle mechanics.

Whether you are a traditional fighting game player looking for something unique — or are just new hearing about Absolver for the first time — PS4 owners with a current Playstation Plus subscription can embark down the path of absolution free of charge. If you are skeptical of whether even a free copy of this ambitious indie fighter is worth your time, check out Interrobang!?’s review.

Source: Playstation Blog Europe

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Get ready for the arrival of Fighting EX Layer with this launch trailer from ARIKA

After over a year of waiting, what may be the greatest April Fool’s joke ever played on the fighting game community is finally here, as a finished game. Fighting EX Layer, ARIKA’s “April Fool’s” joke that turned out to be a real title in development, is now available for purchase on PlayStation 4. Look for it on the PSN Store.

To celebrate the launch of Fighting EX Layer, ARIKA has dropped the following trailer for us to enjoy!

Combining classic characters from Street Fighter EX with an experimental new “Gougi deck” system, Fighting EX Layer is available in “Light” and “Standard” flavors. The former features the 12 launch characters and 5 Gougi decks. The latter, on the other hand, adds in DLC character Hokuto and 15 Gougi decks.

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Source: ARIKA

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– Warner Bros. Interactive Responds to Bethesda’s Westworld Legal Challenge

Nearly to the day that the Westworld mobile game emerged on the App Store and on Google Play, a lawsuit was filed by Bethesda that alleged that the code used as its framework is the same as is found in Fallout Shelter. The suit alleges that developer Behaviour Interactive, the outsourced developers that worked on both games, used the same code sequences for Westworld. The suit alleges that the same bugs found in FOS are also present in Westworld. Warner Bros. has now responded.

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Capcom and Arc System Works collaborate with 21 Pirates for Art Competition at VSFighting 2018

Founded in 2010, VSFighting is an annual FGC major based in the West Midlands, UK. Though the tournaments themselves bring out the UK’s best players, gamers won’t be the only ones locked in competition at the venue: Artists that love Street Fighter 30th Anniversary Collection and BlazBlue: Cross Tag Battle will be, too.

In association with Capcom and Arc System Works, Art Collective 21 Pirates is running an art competition for themed pieces featured characters from the aforementioned games. Winners will get their artwork on display at the venue and a free ticket to VSFighting 2018! If you know your way around a paintbrush and want to enter, you can go to the Street Fighter and BlazBlue contest pages for more information.

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Source: 21 Pirates