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Next week, high-level Injustice 2 action is coming to Montréal, Canada in the form of the Injustice 2 Elite League at Northern Arena Experience 2018. The competition sees 16 of the best Injustice 2 players, who have qualified out of a field of 40 for a chance to compete at the event.

For those wondering exactly who will be competing, Northern Arena has released the list of players who have qualified into the top 16.  You can check out the list of players below:

The Injustice 2 Elite League takes place as part of Northern Arena Experience next week, from December 16 to 17 in Montréal, Quebec, Canada. Those interested in attending can purchase tickets over at their Eventbrite page.

Source: Northern Arena

Along with the excitement of Capcom Cup this weekend, fighting game fans will also be getting access to the long-awaited beta of Fighting EX Layer. With both old-school Street Fighter EX players and brand new faces coming to ARIKA’s fighter, you’ll want to get acquainted with the characters ahead of time. Plus with the new Gougi system, there’s bound to be some confusion when people boot up the beta on December 11th.

Well, ARIKA have thought ahead and release not only the movelists of the beta’s cast, but a brief explanation of Fighting EX Layer‘s controls and Gougi system. Similar to other contemporary fighters, Fighting EX Layer has two control schemes — one for veterans and another for novices. The traditional control scheme has players doing usual DP, 360 and QCF motions, while the new ‘Progressive’ control scheme has shorter commands for “faster inputs”. These “faster inputs” shorten motions like down, down forward, forward into just down forward, while it completely changes the way you input Supers. Rather than performing repeat QCFs, these Progressive Supers have players doing Mortal Kombat or Killer Instinct-esque back forward or up down motions.

To ease people in, ARIKA has simplified the Gougi system for the beta. Players pick from pre-made Gougi “decks,” made up of select power-ups. The Aggro Deck for example, focuses on increasing a player’s damage output, while the Infinity Deck is built around giving a player infinite Super meter. Each Gougi power has a specific condition — like spend 10 bars of Super Meter or avoid damage for six seconds — that must be met before it is activated, so you’ll have to tailor your play-style to fit a certain strategy. The full version of Fighting EX Layer will allow players to create their own Gougi decks, so get theory-crafting once the beta ends!

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With Hellboy recently released and the year about to come to a close, NetherRealm Studios now looks ahead to the upcoming release of Fighter Pack 3. The first of Injustice 2‘s final trio of DLC characters will be The Atom — set to drop next Tuesday, December 12th for Early Access players (who’ve either purchased FP3, or own the game’s Ultimate Edition). He’ll likely drop on December 19th for everyone else. As per usual with the upcoming release of a DLC character, NRS will be hosting their “smallest stream yet,” with the upcoming Watchtower devoted to a full character breakdown for Ryan Choi — as well as possibly some other new juicy tidbits about what could be coming in the future. You can see the announcement tweet from the official Injustice 2 Twitter account below:

Our smallest stream yet! *

Tune in for The Atom on Thursday! https://t.co/OtUodDb3BU

*Stream will be regular sized pic.twitter.com/JxOIbupy3E

— Injustice2 (@InjusticeGame) December 5, 2017

As always, the action will be getting underway at 3:00 PM CT (4:00 PM ET, 1:00 PM PT) at twitch.tv/netherrealm. You can also submit questions for the NRS crew with #AskTheWatchtower on Twitter. For a quick refresher, you can catch his gameplay trailer here.

Source: InjusticeGame (Twitter)

Some cool reprints and a new adventure arrive on store shelves today.

Street Fighter fans are in for a double dose of action today, as both the first Street Fighter: Shadaloo Special comic and the illustrated novel Street Fighter: Where Strength Lies are now available.

The Street Fighter: Shadaloo Special one-shot compiles four Shadaloo-focused stories that were previously available only in UDON hardcover releases:

This villainous collection of rare tales includes two stories by writer Ken Siu-Chong and artist Hanzo Steinbach, and two stories both written and drawn by Omar Dogan. Balrog and Vega fight as only kings can! Juri and Crimson Viper hunt Decapre! Cammy teams up with Delta Red against Shadaloo, and the poisonous F.A.N.G causes mayhem!

Street Fighter: Where Strength Lies is a hardcover novel written by Takashi Yano, featuring cover and interior illustrations by manga artist Yusuke Murata:

The World Warriors take center stage in the first ever Street Fighter novel! Featuring Ryu vs. Akuma, Chun-Li vs. Elena, Guile vs. E.Honda, Sagat vs. M.Bison, and many more classic fighters colliding in their most epic encounters yet. It’s all described in Shoryuken-smashing, Sonic Boom-throwing, Psycho Power-pulsing detail! The action is only enhanced with bonus manga pages and artwork in every chapter by manga legend Yusuke Murata!

You can grab a regular-cover version of the Shadaloo Special for $3.99 (some cover variants cost more), and the novel for around $19.99. Look for these at a comic retailer near you, or online at Focus Attack. The Street Fighter novel is also available on Amazon.

Source: UDON Entertainment

The Infinity Stones have been collected, the Evo champions have been summoned and three warriors have made it through the online crucible. Now it is time to see who will wield the Infinity Gauntlet and rule over the Marvel and Capcom universes. It is of course, time for Marvel vs. Capcom: Infinite‘s Battle for the Stones finals.

With a handful of players in both Capcom Cup and the Battle for the Stones finals, Top 16 to Grand Finals of Battle for the Stones will be held on Friday — starting at 11am PT and hoping to finish at 9pm PT at the Anaheim Hilton. Grand Finals will then take place at the PlayStation Experience on Sunday at 2pm PT, acting as a suitable warm-up act for the Top 8 of Capcom Cup 2017.

The brackets have now been locked in, and the line-up is available over on smash.gg. Some notable first round matches are Cloud805 versus KaneBlueRiver, Teemo versus ChrisG and Flocker versus Richard Nguyen. There is also the ever-present threat of the Infinity Stones, which have the power to turn any match on its head. If you need a reminder of each Stone’s bearer and their effects, they are as follows:

• Time Stone – Allows the holder to block the effect an opponent’s Stone for one match. Held by Kazunoko.
• Space Stone – Allows the holder to swap places with any player at an equal stage in bracket. Held by Sacktap.
• Reality Stone – Allows the holder to swap the function of three buttons on their opponent’s controller. Held by Stealth.
• Mind Stone – Allows the holder to pick their opponent’s team and Infinity Stone. Held by Teemo.
• Soul Stone – Allows the holder to erase a loss in a three-out-of-five set. Held by Richard Nguyen.
• Power Stone – Allows the holder to land the first hit of a match. Held by Cloud805.

All of the action will be streamed via the BattlefortheStones Twitch channel, so tune in to see who will hold dominion over the world of Marvel vs. Capcom: Infinite.

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Following the recent success of their first free Versus Demo Weekend for Marvel vs. Capcom: Infinite on PlayStation 4, Capcom has announced that they’ll be hosting a second one this weekend: running from this Friday, December 8th to Monday, December 11th.

As before, this free trial will only be open to PlayStation Plus members — who will be able to once-again sample the entire 30 character launch roster, with both Training Mode and online Casual Matches. With the final three 2017 DLC characters Black Widow, Winter Soldier, and Venom, as well as the “Dante Must Die” balance patch and the Cosmic Crusaders and Stone Seekers Premium Costume packs now all available, there’s never been a better time to “battle without limits.” Here are the hours of the demo for America, Japan and Europe:

• America – December 8 at 8:00 AM PST until December 11 at 8:00 AM PST
• Japan – December 8 at 9:00 PM JST until December 11 at 12:00 PM JST
• Europe – December 8 at 12:00 PM GMT until December 11 at 12:00 PM GMT

However, Capcom’s Andy Wong notes that the approximate times may shift without notice. The free Versus Demo is already available to be pre-loaded from the PlayStation Store.

Will you be stepping into the ring with the free Versus Mode Demo this weekend? If you had the chance to try it during the previous demo period, what where your impressions? Was it able to covert you into a purchase of the full game? Let us know in the comments.

Marvel vs. Capcom: Infinite is available now on PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and Steam.

Source: Capcom-Unity