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New costumes, colors, and NJPW items abound.

Tekken 7 is updating to version 1.14 today, and the one-year anniversary customization items should be available now (for free) on your platform of choice. Here is the list of the new goodies you’ll be able to use on your favorite characters:

Story Mode Costume Set

• Blood Vengeance Outfit
• Final Battle Outfit
• The Evil Eye
• Vagabond

Aura Set

• Arm Aura
• Leg Aura

Female Hairstyle Set

• Wave Ponytail
• Bob Hairstyle

New Japan Pro-Wrestling Set

• T-shirt (BULLET CLUB x Heihachi)
• T-shirt (Kazuchika Okada x King)
• T-shirt (Kenny Omega x Bryan)
• Hiroshi Tanahashi x Lars costume, health gauge, panel, and plate

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Source: Bandai Namco Entertainment

With the Japanese release date of BlazBlue: Cross Tag Battle having arrived, many players are getting their hands on early copies of the game, providing us with a look at certain types of content before the full release for other regions in June — particularly the four Day 1 DLC characters.

As such, we have a compilation of Astral Heats for Team RWBY’s Blake Belladonna, BlazBlue’s Platinum The Trinity, Under Night In-Birth’s Orie, and Persona 4 Arena’s Kanji Tatsumi. Blake’s Astral is clearly an homage to Adam Taurus’s (who happens to be Toshimichi Mori’s favorite RWBY character), attack from the Black Trailer, as Belladonna slashes her foe up with Gambol Shroud before sending them to the ground, where they disintegrate into tiny black pieces against a blood red background. Meanwhile, Platinum, Orie, and Kanji have retained Shining Layered Force, Rest In Piece, and The Man Series: Brofist, from their respective origin games. You can see all four of them in English below.

BlazBlue: Cross Tag Battle arrived on PlayStation 4, Nintendo Switch, and PC in Japan today, Thursday, May 31st. A North American release on the same platforms will follow this Tuesday, June 5th. A European release for PS4 and Switch, by PQube Games, is scheduled for Friday, June 22nd.

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With the Japanese release date of BlazBlue: Cross Tag Battle having arrived, many players are getting their hands on early copies of the game, providing us with a look at certain types of content before the full release for other regions in June — particularly the four Day 1 DLC characters.

As such, we have a compilation of Astral Heats for Team RWBY’s Blake Belladonna, BlazBlue’s Platinum The Trinity, Under Night In-Birth’s Orie, and Persona 4 Arena’s Kanji Tatsumi. Blake’s Astral is clearly an homage to Adam Taurus’s (who happens to be Toshimichi Mori’s favorite RWBY character), attack from the Black Trailer, as Belladonna slashes her foe up with Gambol Shroud before sending them to the ground, where they disintegrate into tiny black pieces against a blood red background. Meanwhile, Platinum, Orie, and Kanji have retained Shining Layered Force, Rest In Piece, and The Man Series: Brofist, from their respective origin games. You can see all four of them in English below.

BlazBlue: Cross Tag Battle arrived on PlayStation 4, Nintendo Switch, and PC in Japan today, Thursday, May 31st. A North American release on the same platforms will follow this Tuesday, June 5th. A European release for PS4 and Switch, by PQube Games, is scheduled for Friday, June 22nd.

Source: Zyxxlolz

The next Crossover Costume completes a classic hero vs. villain face-off!

It’s almost time to get the final piece of M. Bison’s Astaroth Crossover Costume in Street Fighter V‘s Extra Battle mode — and every villain needs a hero to “rise up” against him… Capcom obviously had this pairing in mind, because they have now revealed the next Crossover Costume will go to SF series cover boy Ryu, and he’ll be donning the armor of the valiant knight that dared to fight Astaroth: Arthur!

From Capcom-Unity:

Appearing in Ghosts ‘n Goblins (1985) and its sequels, Arthur is the main protagonist who is on a mission to rescue the princess Guinevere from countless villains like Astaroth. Utilizing an arsenal of knightly weapons including a lance, dagger, axe, sword, crossbow, and more, Arthur is able to fend off armies of undead in the name of the princess. One of the most notable things about Arthur is the fact he loses his armor when hit, reducing his clothing to only boxer shorts. As both Ryu is the protagonist of Street Fighter V: Arcade Edition and has a penchant for being good, he’s the perfect character to don Arthur’s armor.

To unlock the Arthur costume for Ryu, you’ll  need to play four time-sensitive events in Extra Battle mode to earn all four pieces (as per usual). Each play costs 2500 Fight Money — but at least they aren’t usually very difficult, and you can try as many times as you need (or can afford) to beat the CPU.

You only get three chances to beat a Golden Shadaloo Soldier, however — and some more of them are coming soon, too.

Make sure not to miss your chance to unlock Ryu’s chivalrous new outfit when the first event starts next week!

Source: Capcom-Unity

The next Crossover Costume completes a classic hero vs. villain face-off!

It’s almost time to get the final piece of M. Bison’s Astaroth Crossover Costume in Street Fighter V‘s Extra Battle mode — and every villain needs a hero to “rise up” against him… Capcom obviously had this pairing in mind, because they have now revealed the next Crossover Costume will go to SF series cover boy Ryu, and he’ll be donning the armor of the valiant knight that dared to fight Astaroth: Arthur!

From Capcom-Unity:

Appearing in Ghosts ‘n Goblins (1985) and its sequels, Arthur is the main protagonist who is on a mission to rescue the princess Guinevere from countless villains like Astaroth. Utilizing an arsenal of knightly weapons including a lance, dagger, axe, sword, crossbow, and more, Arthur is able to fend off armies of undead in the name of the princess. One of the most notable things about Arthur is the fact he loses his armor when hit, reducing his clothing to only boxer shorts. As both Ryu is the protagonist of Street Fighter V: Arcade Edition and has a penchant for being good, he’s the perfect character to don Arthur’s armor.

To unlock the Arthur costume for Ryu, you’ll  need to play four time-sensitive events in Extra Battle mode to earn all four pieces (as per usual). Each play costs 2500 Fight Money — but at least they aren’t usually very difficult, and you can try as many times as you need (or can afford) to beat the CPU.

You only get three chances to beat a Golden Shadaloo Soldier, however — and some more of them are coming soon, too.

Make sure not to miss your chance to unlock Ryu’s chivalrous new outfit when the first event starts next week!

Source: Capcom-Unity

As previously reported, while the Street Fighter 30th Anniversary Collection is available now it the West, the game has been delayed in Japan. This was done so that they could address some fan feedback — apparently relating to the game’s lack of Japanese text, and character names.

While initially, the release date was marked as “to be determined”, we now have a release window for the game in Japan. Capcom has announced that the Street Fighter 30th Anniversary Collection will have a Fall 2018 release window in Japan.

“We apologize for the trouble this may have caused to those of you who were looking forward to it,” states producer Tomoaki Ayano, “but please wait a little longer for additional new information besides the release period.”

In line with this, the game will now be called the Street Fighter 30th Anniversary Collection International when it hits Japan later this year.

Meanwhile, for the rest of the world, the Street Fighter 30th Anniversary Collection is now available for PlayStation 4, PC, Xbox One, and Switch.

Source: Capcom

Horror, it seems, is a common theme for indie fighting games. We’ve already seen a lot Omen of Sorrow, which is coming to PlayStation 4 later this year. Now, another team is hard at work at their own horror-themed fighter — Terrordrome: Reign of the Legends.

Terrordrome has actually existed in various forms for some time now, with the concept being shared in our own forums multiple times over the years. Now, the game is currently undergoing a Kickstarter campaign and as part of this, the team have put out a playable demo.

For those looking to try the demo, it’s available for download over at their Itch.io page. It features two of the game’s planned cast, playing on a single stage. Additionally, it also has some rudimentary netplay. Take note, however, that this network implementation isn’t the rollback-based netcode that the team plans to use in the final game.

In the meantime, check out this trailer they’ve released for the game!

Source: Terrordrome