New My Hero Academia One’s Justice screenshots show off Tomura Shigaraki

Bandai Namco recently released a new batch of screenshots for My Hero Academia One’s Justice that showed off a new character joining the game’s cast: Tomura Shigaraki.

Leader of the League of Villains, Tomura Shigaraki uses is “Decay” quirk to make his opponents rot. In game, this means that every hit from it starts a countdown to decide the target’s fate. Getting four consecutive hits of this move will immediately bring their health down to zero.

In addition to this, the screenshots also show off more of the game’s “Sidekick System”. This system basically works like the assist characters system in other fighting games, with players able to select a “sidekick” who they can call on to provide support with the press of a button.

Here’s Bandai Namco’s official description of them.

Tomura Shigaraki

The leader of the League of Villains is Tomura Shigaraki! Using his quirk “Decay,” he will make his opponents rot and won’t hesitate to destroy anyone who stands in his way. For every consecutive hit of his special skill, a countdown starts to decide your opponent’s fate! When this special attack hits 4-times in a row, it will automatically decrease the opponent’s HP to 0!

Sidekick System

In the new Sidekick System feature, players will cooperate with two sidekicks in a fight turning the tide of battle! They can pair with a character of their choice and with one button they will receive various support from them. This is a perfect way to increase your odds in battle by creating devastating combos!

You can check out the screenshots of Tomura Shigaraki and the “Sidekick System” below.

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My Hero Academia One’s Justice is set to launch on PlayStation 4, Switch, PC, and Xbox One (except in Japan, where it’s a PlayStation 4 and Switch exclusive) sometime in  2018.

Source: Gematsu

The Smash Box controller will be legal at Evo 2018

Ever since it’s inception, Hit Box’s Smash Box has faced an uphill battle when it comes to acceptance in tournaments for Super Smash Bros. games. This is despite the merits of the Smash Box (and other similar all-button controllers), including allowing players with otherwise career-ending injuries to continue playing. Now, the tides seem to be turning, as the Smash Box has just been deemed legal in the biggest tournament of them all — Evo 2018.

In a recent tweet, Evo’s Joey “Mr Wizard” Cuellar announced that Smash Boxes will be legal to use at Evo 2018. Any Smash Box used at the event will simply have to comply with two conditions: they should not have software or hardware macros, and they should only have only one direction or input mapped for each button.

For anyone familiar with the general rules for controllers at most tournaments (not just Evo), the restrictions are basically the same ones for any other controller, be it an arcade stick or pad. This announcement (alongside the fact that it will also be legal at CEO in June) is great news for both Hit Box and players who want to use the Smash Box. This opens the doors for it being allowed in other tournaments as well.

Source: Mr Wizard (Twitter)

SNK is working on a new patch to address minor issues in The King of Fighters XIV version 3.0

As you may recall, SNK recently updated The King of Fighters XIV to version 3.0, adding in new characters and a host of balance changes. That said, any new patch usually comes with the risk of new bugs and glitches… In a recent tweet, SNK announced that they have found some “minor issues” in The King of Fighters XIV version 3.0, and as such are working on a new patch (version 3.01) to address these.

No specific details of the issues that they found have been given as of the time of writing; the only bug that’s been brought to our attention at this point is Heidern’s “Storm Bringer bug” which is probably intentional, seeing as it’s been in previous games. That said, it’s nice to know that SNK is already hard at work addressing any issues that may have been found in this otherwise excellent update.

The King of Fighters XIV‘s version 3.0 patch was released last April 12 for both PlayStation 4 and PC. No word as of yet has been given as for when the 3.01 update will arrive.

Source: SNK

– Tencent Bringing Mobile MMO Raziel to North America in 2018

Tencent has announced that it is bringing the “dark dungeon-crawling mobile MMORPG” to North America later in 2018. The game is a fast-paced hack’n’slash game that features a lot of the MMO elements players are looking for including guild functionality, PvP, crafting, loot, dungeons and more.

Atlus is bringing Virtua Fighter crossover costumes to their upcoming Persona 3 dancing game

For any Virtua Fighter fans out there desperate for any news about their beloved franchise, here’s an interesting slice. Atlus has announced that Virtua Fighter crossover costumes will be coming to their upcoming rhythm game Persona 3: Dancing Moon Night.

The Virtual Fighter DLC costumes were announced at recent Sega Fes 2018 hosted by their parent company Sega. With it, players will be able to dress up characters in this game as characters from Virtua Fighter.

Persona 3: Dancing Moon Night is one of a pair of Persona based dancing game Atlus is releasing next month. The other game, Persona 5: Dancing Star Night will be having Sonic the Hedgehog and Yakuza crossover DLC instead.

While it’s not a new game in the storied Virtua Fighter franchise, this announcement does seem to indicate that Sega believes that the Virtua Fighter franchise is still something that people will spend money on. Here’s hoping for more Virtual Fighter in the future.

Source: Atlus

The King of Fighters ’99 releases worldwide for Xbox One, Japan only for PlayStation 4

The King of Fighters ’99 is the latest ACA NEO GEO re-release to come to modern consoles, hot on the heels of Real Bout Fatal Fury Special’s release on the Nintendo Switch. SNK’s 6th installment of the series, this fighter introduced the “Striker” assist system into its core gameplay, making it a wild and different experience from other KOF titles up until that point. You can read more about KOF ’99’s mechanics over on the SRK wiki.

Want to pick up KOF99? Well, you may be in luck — it was released for both Xbox One and PlayStation 4, but it would seem that some PS4 fans have, bizarrely, been left out in the cold. Though KOF99 can easily be purchased on Xbox’s website worldwide, it would appear the decision was made, at the time of this writing, to only release the PS4 version to Japanese audiences.

We have to suspect that KOF ’99 will find its way to the US PlayStation store at some time in the future, just like its previous entries.

Source: hamster_corp

Early Access indie title Slashers: The Power Battle adds new character Efe “The Ottoman Slapper” to its roster

“Victory for my King!” A new sword-swinging warrior joins the Power Battle.

In-development indie Slashers: The Power Battle — currrently available as part of Steam Early Access — has added a new fighter to its roster: Efe, the Ottoman Slapper! As described by the publisher:

Efe is a dagger-wielding, energy-ball throwing Ottoman fighter with damaging focused attacks. Thanks to his rigorous training (slapping marble blocks), his slap attacks send opponents flying across the arena. The newest warrior added to Slashers excels at switching low and high moves rapidly which keeps opponents unbalanced and gives him the opportunity to deal devastating combos.

Having arrived on Steam last year, Slashers has been gradually adding new content, bringing the “old school” fighting game closer to full commercial release. “It’s been a fantastic Early Access journey so far, we’re working closely with our amazing community to make Slashers the ultimate old school fighting game,” says Galip Kartoglu, founder of Stun Games. “We have so many more epic ideas to introduce into Slashers, and our powerful Ottoman slapper is a brilliant addition to the game’s diverse roster!”

Slashers: The Power Battle — along with Efe — is available to try now on Steam Early Access.

slashers the power battle logo splash

Source: KISS Publishing/Stun Games [press release]

Tekken 7’s performance issues on PC are due to DRM software

Tekken 7 player on PC may have noticed that the game occasionally suffers from slips in performance every now and then… Now, the game’s director Katsuhiro Harada has spoken out about the issue, and the cause of it.

In a recent series of tweets, Harada has stated that the frame rate drops are not related to either graphical or processing power. Rather, it’s due to the DRM program that the game runs to protect it from piracy — Denuvo.

As for fixing the issue, Harada mentioned that they are working with Denuvo, and waiting on an update from them that should address the issue.

Those familiar with Denuvo are probably aware of the DRM program’s controversial reputation. The program has proved unpopular with gamers with many pointing to the fact that, aside from it causing performance issues, it also supposedly shortens the lifespan of solid-state drives. This is on top of generally being difficult to remove from PCs, even after the game it came with has been uninstalled. This has caused some companies to eventually remove it from their games — however, it seems that this will not be the case for Tekken 7.

Responding to some players questions about Bandai Namco removing Denuvo from the game, Harada had this to say.

It seems that, while the piracy issue isn’t that important to Harada, they do have to protect the rights of other companies whose IP is in the game.

Source: Katsuhiro Harada, via WCCF Tech

Almost all of the participants have been revealed for the 2018 ELEAGUE Street Fighter V: Arcade Edition Invitational

The Fight Card has begun to fill in with 19 of the 24 World Warriors!

Last month, it was announced that ELEAGUE would be holding a second Street Fighter V Invitational tournament — this time with Arcade Edition under Season 3.5. The event will feature 24 of the game’s top competitors from all across the globe, fighting for $250,000 across four Groups, to be broadcast on both Twitch and TBS beginning on Friday, June 1st. The action kicks off with Group A at 3:00 PM ET (Noon PT), at twitch.tv/ELEAGUETV, before moving over to a live TBS broadcast at 11:00 PM ET (8:00 PM PT.)

Additionally, the winner of the upcoming reality show ELEAGUE The Challenger: Street Fighter V (featuring LowTierGod, GRAPHT|gllty, Commander Jesse, Sherry Jenix, HZRDS|RobTV, SB|JB and BigBossDayasha) will earn one of the 24 coveted spots in the Invitational. Recently, many of the competitors have been revealing their invitations to the event on Twitter. The 19 currently-known players (at time of writing) include:

  • Echo Fox|Justin Wong
  • Echo Fox|Punk [2017 ELEAGUE Street Fighter V Invitational Champion]
  • NVD|Phenom
  • Mouz|Problem X
  • Twitch.Hx.CYG BST|Daigo Umehara
  • 801 Strider
  • Echo Fox|Momochi
  • RISE|MenaRD
  • Echo Fox|Tokido
  • F3|Brolynho
  • CYG BST|PR Balrog
  • Fudoh|Haitani
  • iDom
  • Fudoh|Fujimura (formerly Yukadon)
  • Filipino Champ
  • CO|Dogura
  • ARES.RB|Luffy
  • CYG BST|Fuudo
  • RB|Snake Eyez

You can see the full series of announcement tweets below. Keep your browser locked to Shoryuken, as we’ll continue to update this story as more names are revealed.

What do you think of this current lineup, and who would you like to see fill the remaining slots? Give us your picks and predictions in the comments below.

Sources: JWonggg (Twitter); PunkDaGod (Twitter); NVD_Phenom (Twitter); MrProblemX (Twitter); daigothebeast (Twitter); 801_Gustavo (Twitter); momochi212 (Twitter); _MenaRD_ (Twitter); tokidoki77 (Twitter); F3.brolynho (Facebook); PR_Balrog (Twitter); hai090 (Twitter); iDomNYC (Twitter); fujimura333 (Twitter); CYCLOPS_ENG (Twitter); maneater_dgr (Twitter); Louffy886 (Twitter); TheFuudo (Twitter); Snake_Eyez_ (Twitter)

Sanwa Denshi MONO arcade stick now available to pre-order at Arcade Shock

A bare-bones no-nonsense fight stick for Sanwa Denshi enthusiasts.

Sanwa Denshi levers and buttons are a common part of our fight sticks, used by many manufacturers as an industry standard of arcade-level quality; you’ll often find them in Qanba, Razer, and Mad Catz fight sticks. Sanwa Denshi aren’t known for producing their own complete controllers — but you might have seen pictures of the MONO stick that appeared at Evo Japan: a Sanwa Denshi-produced fight stick all their own, based on their classic Guilty Gear stick case.

This controller is now becoming available stateside. It’s a bit of an unusual stick in its sheer basic, utilitarian design — but it’s hard to argue with performance. Sanwa Denshi faithful can pre-order this fight stick at Arcade Shock for $214.99 USD, right now!

sanwa denshi mono fight stick
sanwa denshi mono fight stick details

  • Officially Licensed PlayStation 4 product
  • PS3/PS4 compatible
  • Sanwa Denshi OBSF30 pushbuttons
  • Sanwa Denshi JLF joystick
  • Foam underside padding for comfort & grip
  • Removable plexi surface for custom graphics

As a pre-order bonus, Arcade Shock is offering buyers a chance to be randomly-selected to receive a free graphic for the top panel: their own Layers custom Sanwa Denshi “Elephant Masher” top panel art, limited to 8 lucky winners!

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Source: Arcade Shock