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The release date — and a surprise bonus — finally revealed!

Capcom has, at last, confirmed the release date for the Street Fighter 30th Anniversary Collection! This 12-title compendium of Street Fighter history will arrive on PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch, and PC on May 29, 2018. Also, a bonus has been revealed for digital pre-orders on PlayStation, Xbox, or Steam: a pre-order will get you an copy of Ultra Street Fighter IV as well!

To see the Collection in action, have a look at these previews from PlayStation Underground and Maximilian, and some hands-on impressions from Final Round 2018 by James Chen.

Source: Street Fighter (Twitter); Street Fighter (YouTube)

Catch up on spectacular matches from some of the best Tekken players in the world.

Tekken 7 hit Final Round 2018 like a Death Fist! Fans were treated to fantastic high-level play as the top 8 battled to claim the championship at Final Round’s Tekken World Tour event. If you couldn’t attend — and missed the livestream — Bandai Namco has you covered with these replay videos of the action.

You’ll see Echo Fox’s JDCR and Saint facing off against Evo Japan champion ROX.Dragon|Knee and his teammate ROX|Chanel, as well as Lil Majin, Kkokkoma, LowHigh, and Anakin all doing their best to grab for the top spot. You can see replays from the pools as well on Bandai Namco’s Official Fight Channel.

Tekken fans, don’t forget that Noctis Lucis Caelum arrives as DLC tomorrow!

Source: Bandai Namco Official Fight Channel

The CPT is off to an exciting start for 2018!

The first Premier event of this year’s Capcom Pro Tour — Final Round 2018 — has just wrapped up, and the Street Fighter V competition was as fierce as ever, if not more so. You can see for yourself in the replay videos below from the event’s exciting top 8 matches: newly-sponsored by Panda Global, Infiltration (the tournament champion) was on point with his dangerous (and frustrating) Menat, while Echo Fox|Tokido was a deadly menace to all that crossed his path — Tokido genuinely looked like he was enjoying it, too!

NuckleDu was in good form with his Guile, and you can also see Nemo’s oppressive Urien, Gachikun’s slippery Rashid, Verloren’s deadly Cammy, and DATA NEON’s chilling Kolin battling for the top spot. Settle in and watch the whole three-hour run, or jump right to your favorite face-off from the videos below.

You can see even more of the fights from Final Round 2018 — such as matches in the top 16, and from pools — on the Capcom Fighters YouTube channel.

Source: Capcom Fighters

For a while now, we’ve known about the release dates for BlazBlue: Cross Tag Battle for Japan and North America. But this begs the question — what about Europe? Well, now we have a general idea of when the game will be coming out in that region as well.

PQube has announced that they’re will be bringing BlazBlue: Cross Tag Battle to Europe this summer. While Arc System Works will be self-publishing the game in Japan and North America, the UK-based publisher will be handling the game’s release on both PlayStation 4 and the Nintendo Switch in Europe.

Though it’s not an exact date, at least Europeans now have a general idea of when they’ll be getting the game in their regions. More importantly, they know that they’ll be getting in just about the same time as other regions — something that hasn’t always been the case with Arc System Works fighting games.

For interested players, pre-orders for BlazBlue: Cross Tag Battle in Europe are now open on PQube’s online store.

In the meantime, check out the new European release trailer for the game below.

As for other regions, BlazBlue: Cross Tag Battle launches on PlayStation 4 and Switch on May 31 in Japan, and June 5 in North America.

Source: PQube

As we wait patiently for The Regalia to make its stop in Tekken 7, Scallywag 93 has put together an excellent breakdown of the currently available footage of Final Fantasy XV‘s Noctis.

The latest guest character seems, at least on the surface, to have a really fantastic set of standard Tekken tools. He has his own riffs on Nina’s UF+1, Bob’s roll mix-ups, and Paul’s Demo Man low sweep. By combining that with his own original teleport stances and long-range Warp Strike, Noctis looks poised to steal victories when he releases on March 20th.

Source: Scallywag 93