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Shaq Fu has long been considered one of the worst fighting games ever made; so naturally, there had to be a sequel. First announced by the man himself — former NBA star Shaquille O’Neal — at the 2015 Game Awards, it seems that the sequel Shaq Fu: A Legend Reborn finally has a release window.

A new trailer for the game has recently been released that provides information on both the game’s release window and the systems that it’ll be coming out for. Those looking forward to the sequel to one of the most legendarily-bad fighters ever made (as well as those who actually backed it on Indiegogo) can expect Shaq Fu: A Legend Reborn this Spring. The game itself is coming to PlayStation 4, Xbox One, PC, and Nintendo Switch.

Check out the new trailer for the game below:

Source: Wired Productions

We’re slowly discovering more and more information regarding the upcoming BlazBlue: Cross Tag Battle. While we still don’t know the rest of the DLC cast, the RWBY team is almost complete, which must be exciting for fans of the series — as it is the ladies’ debut in an Arc System Works fighting game.

During their latest stream, the company showed off a brief demo with Blake Belladona. Blake has a mix of interesting abilities; she has a handgun, a sword, and sort of a hook-chain to cover the screen. She can be effective at close range with quick slashes, bring the opponent closer, or dash across the screen in her combos, landing close to the opponent or further away. She also has a sort of shadow clone ability that absorbs a strike and either detonates a smoke cloud or an explosion. The demo below is over two minutes long, and shows some combos with Ruby in tandem.

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The stream also revealed some new characters: Platinum, Orie, and Kanji, who will come in a DLC pack that will be available for free at launch.

Source: Arc System Works

While many players who play on pad swear by the PlayStation 4 controller, there are still a few holdouts that prefer Microsoft’s pad offerings. For those that do, Brook now sells the X One adapter, which works wirelessly with the Xbox One controller and syncs with the PlayStation 4 and Nintendo Switch.

The adapter acts as a wireless sync and a battery replacement for the controller, and adds very little heft to the controller. It also allows you to use Xbox one compatible headsets on your PS4, and has a lot of functionality that is useful for training mode in games such as Street Fighter V.

In this video, Jonyfraze describes the adapter, and praises it for its usability and lack of heft — but notes that the protruding bluetooth sync may cause problems for some players.

Source: Jon Bonilla

With their crossover mecha fighting game Toaru Majutsu no Virtual-ON launching in Japan today, Sega is continuing to drop new trailers for the game. The latest trailers feature the duo of Saten Ruiko and Uiharu Kazari, and their respective virtuaroids.

In their home series, both Saten and Uiharu are friends of secondary female protagonist Mikoto Misaka. This is reflected in game by them both being part of the latter’s “Judge Igniters” team, with “Judge Igniters” versions of classic Virtual-ON virtuaroids. In this case, Saten pilots the RVR-33/VSL Apharmd S “Judge Igniters,” which once again is the long-range specialist of the Apharmd series.

Uiharu, on the other hand, pilots the SAV-326-D/9/VSL Grys-Vok “Judge Igniters.” The Grys-Vok seems to be even more specialized towards long-range combat than even Saten’s Apharmd S.

Toaru Majutsu no Virtual-ON is now available for purchase for PlayStation 4 and PlayStation Vita in Japan.

Source: Sega

Ahead of the third season of the Gfinity Elite Series, various esports organizations are gathering up players to represent them in this televised esports event. Having spent a fair few years out of the FGC, UK based esports team Fnatic are returning to the world of Street Fighter by signing Shakil “Shakz” Ghazi, Christ “Akainu” Onema and Evan “Brick” Slabic to their roster.

Fnatic’s new team is a pan-European affair, with Shakz hailing from the UK, Akainu from France and Brick from Sweden. All three players are familiar faces to seasoned Gfinity Elite Series viewers, with Brick playing for Epsilon in Season 2, Shakz playing for Infused and Akainu playing for Prophecy.

These three will be representing Fnatic not only during the third Gfinity Elite Series, but through the whole of 2018’s Capcom Pro Tour. Gfinity Elite Series Season 3 will begin on March 9th, so expect more roster reveals as we get closer to the series opener.

Source: Fnatic