Category: News

Could this upcoming new peripheral possibly signal continued support for the latest entry in the Vs. Series?

Things have unfortunately been extremely quiet on the Marvel vs. Capcom: Infinite front. The final three announced DLC characters — Black Widow, Winter Soldier, and Venom — arrived last December, with the game receiving its last major update in late January. There was a recent update made to the game, but it was predicted to have simply removed anti-piracy software and nothing more has come of it. Both companies remain completely silent on any sort of concrete future for the title, despite mostly-reputable leaker Dasvergeben predicting a Season 2 DLC character lineup of Star-Lord, Ms. Marvel, Gill, Asura, Lady, and Vergil that still has yet to materialize. However, it appears that Razer is set to release a brand-new arcade stick based off of the crossover title, as a Marvel vs. Capcom: Infinite-branded Razer Panthera was spotted on the E3 2018 show floor at the Capcom booth, with stick aficionado Mark “MarkMan” Julio claiming the art direction for it.

Sporting the latest game’s logo, as well as some gorgeously re-imagined wrap-around artwork based off an old promotional piece from 1999’s Marvel vs. Capcom: Clash of Super Heroes (but featuring Infinite’s roster) the item was interestingly labeled as “coming soon,” meaning that we’ll hopefully be able to get our hands on this stylish gaming accessory in the near future.

Though it may not be the exact news players and fans want to hear when it comes to MAHVEL, this is hopefully a positive sign that the project hasn’t been outright abandoned, and that we could still see further support for Infinite down the line. You can view tweets and photos of the new Razer Panthera model below.

pic.twitter.com/rA36cD3K3x

— Mark Julio (マークマン) (@MarkMan23) June 12, 2018

So if you’ve seen this, you obviously know the inspiration and reimagining… if not… let’s take a step back into the past… pic.twitter.com/3k8DlFsmMI

— Mark Julio (マークマン) (@MarkMan23) June 13, 2018

I did the art direction on this one and the SFV one

— Mark Julio (マークマン) (@MarkMan23) June 13, 2018

Apparently it was real :/ pic.twitter.com/CsXB6hLhhh

— Nino_Allah (@StillGrowinProd) June 12, 2018

There is no word on when this item will release or how much it will cost, but we’ll keep you updated right here on Shoryuken if there are any concrete announcements.

Sources: MarkMan23 (Twitter); StillGrowinProd (Twitter)

Don’t miss the action-packed fights between these Street Fighter V greats!

The fight resumes at ELEAGUE today in their Street Fighter V Invitational for 2018! Group D will now clash, featuring some of the hardest-hitters of the entire Invitational as they strive for dominance in a series of round-robin matches — and to ultimately survive an elimination bracket to move forward into the 2 remaining spots in the top 8 for Playoffs. The last Group of competitors are:

• FUDOH|Fujimura [formerly Yukadon]
• FUDOH|Haitani
• PG|Infiltration
• Hx.Twitch.CYG BST|Daigo Umehara
• Filipino Champ
• iDom

The action starts at 3:00 PM ET — 12:00 PM PT — on ELEAGUE’s Twitch channel. (In the event of streaming trouble, check their YouTube channel as well.)

Watch live video from ELEAGUE TV on www.twitch.tv

If you missed them, you can also check out the Group A results and highlights, Group B results, and Group C results and highlights.

Source: ELEAGUE (Twitch)

Get a fight stick exactly the way you want it, shipped already customized and ready for play!

Arcade Shock — perennial FGC controller and parts supplier — recently announced their plans to kick off a new ordering system dubbed “Colors Customization” in which you can order a fight stick already personalized with your choices of parts and graphics, and it will be assembled and delivered ready to use. They are nearly ready to start the system up — and it will launch at 11:00 AM PT on June 25!

Customers will be able to use the online system to build a stick on-the-fly, integrating parts, internal PCB upgrade (EZ mod kit) if desired, and artwork — all automated online 24/7, allowing you to put together and preview a custom stick at your leisure, anywhere, anytime. With the new software, you’ll be able to see what you’ll get before you check out. The prices will include labor — and will be very reasonable for complete customization services.

Or: aren’t ready to buy a fully customized arcade stick, but just want parts? With this sytem, you can preview how certain pushbuttons or balltop colors look on a controller, so there’s no guess work if you want to change things up on your own stick. The software can also act as a guide though for those who just want parts. (Customers will have to exit the system and order the parts separately, however, as the customizer software is still geared towards building a complete fight stick.)

Head over to Arcade Shock to try it for yourself when it goes live on Monday!

Source: Arcade Shock

Who will prove to be the strongest fighter in any universe?

We already knew Bandai Namco was kicking off a new Dragon Ball FighterZ World Tour circuit at CEO 2018 that would see competition in DBFZ at various locations over 2018 and 2019; along with a new trailer, new details have arrived about this new tournament series!

Watch Dragon Ball FighterZ World Tour Launch Trailer from dragonballfighterz on www.twitch.tv

From the press release:

The tournament was created in partnership with Twitch which is the exclusive livestreaming service for DRAGON BALL FighterZ World Tour and the managing partner for league operations, circuit events, and content on a global scale.

The inaugural stop for the DRAGON BALL FighterZ World Tour will begin at the CEO Fighting Game Championships taking place from June 29th to July 1st in Daytona Beach, Florida. Living up to its billing as a worldwide tournament, the DRAGON BALL FighterZ World Tour will feature “Saga Event” stops, including: Ultimate Fighting Arena (France), Thunderstruck (Mexico), Southeast Asia Major (Singapore), VS Fighting (United Kingdom), and CEO Fighting Game Championships (USA). Fans can catch all the action live on the World Tour’s official Twitch channel: twitch.tv/dragonballfighterz. For more information on the entire DRAGON BALL FighterZ World Tour, please visit the tour’s official website at: http://dbfzworldtour.com

“DRAGON BALL FighterZ is a massive international success and fans around the world have been clamoring for an official tournament series built around the game,” said Eric Hartness, Vice President of Marketing, BANDAI NAMCO Entertainment America Inc. “With the DRAGON BALL FighterZ World Tour, BANDAI NAMCO Entertainment and Twitch are doubling down to create an epic worldwide tournament series of Super Saiyan God Super Saiyan proportions. We can’t wait to see the epic battles that will surely emerge from our highly skilled DRAGON BALL FighterZ global player pool.”

DRAGON BALL FighterZ World Tour tournaments will be held throughout 2018 in the countries listed above. The tournaments will culminate at a DRAGON BALL FighterZ World Tour Finals event to be held in January 2019. More details about the finals event will emerge later.

Source: Bandai Namco [press release]

It’s no secret that ARIKA would love to expand the cast of Fighting EX Layer with more classic Street Fighter EX characters via DLC. Now, it seems like they’re teasing one of those characters (much like Vulcano Rosso was dropped into the very end of this video).

In a recent tweet regarding the company’s presence at Community Effort Orlando 2018, ARIKA Vice President Ichiro Mihara included an image that seems to be teasing Pullum Purna as an upcoming character for the game. The image, which you can see below, has Pullum seemingly rendered in-engine, while covered up with the text from said tweet.

First appearing in the original Street Fighter EX, Pullum Purna is a Middle Eastern heiress who’s traveling the world with her bodyguard, Darun Mister (who is already in the game) in search of her father. She was notable for a moveset inspired by Arabian dance — as well as being the only character who could double jump.

Aside from Pullum, ARIKA has also mentioned wanting to add Area, Sharon, and Vulcano Rosso as DLC as well. Now considering that Pullum is seemingly shown in-engine in the image above, should we expect an announcement soon to confirm this, possibly at CEO 2018?

Fighting EX Layer launches on PlayStation 4 on June 28.

Source: Arika

At E3 2018, one of the things that Bandai Namco was promoting was SoulCalibur VI‘s new story mode, called “Soul Chronicle”. However, it seems that this won’t be the only major single player mode for the game. In this week’s issue of Famitsu, producer Motohiro Okubo teased that SoulCalibur VI would have another big single player mode. “There’s one more major single-player mode we’re working on,” he states in the article, “but I can’t say anything about it for now”.

SoulCalibur as a series has been known for these kinds of big single player modes — such as SoulCalibur II‘s “Mission Mode”, and SoulCalibur III‘s “Chronicles of the Sword”. With this in mind, it looks like SoulCalibur VI may yet continue that tradition.

As for the rest of the article, it provides additional details about Soul Chronicle. It will play out with a combination of both 3D video and 2D hand drawn scenes, as well as the timeline; on the latter, Soul Chronicle will tell stories happening in the period between 1583 and 1590 CE, with a deep dive into the story that starts out in 1586 CE.

SoulCalibur VI launches on PlayStation 4, PC, and Xbox One on October 19.

Source: Famitsu, via Ryokutya2089

For a little while now, we’ve known when Dragon Ball FighterZ would be hitting Switch in Japan. Now, we finally know when the game will be hitting Nintendo’s hybrid console in the West as well: Bandai Namco has announced that Dragon Ball FighterZ  will be releasing on Switch in North America and Europe on September 28. This means that players in the West will be able to purchase and play the three-on-three tag team Dragon Ball fighter just a day after Japan gets it.

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Pre-orders for the game are already open. Those who do so will get some of the same bonuses coming to the Japanese version — namely early access to Super Saiyan Blue versions of Goku and Vegeta, and a download code for the Super Famicom classic Dragon Ball Z: Super Butoden.

Sources: Bandai Namco Entertainment Europe; Bandai Namco [press release]