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Lum Bam-foo, the gambling-loving panda, joins the roster of Fantasy Strike

Chances are you’ll love the quirky new character coming to the cast of Fantasy Strike.

In-development fighter Fantasy Strike is expanding its roster in the form of one heavyset, game-loving panda: Lum Bam-foo! Players familiar with card games from Sirlin Games have seen Lum before, as he’s appeared in Yomi, Puzzle Strike and Flash Duel.

Lum is a jokester who loves causing light-hearted trouble. Like all Pandas, he’s an avid gambler. His gameplay centers around producing random items that players have to react to on-the-fly, creating a wide variety of (often hilarious) scenarios.

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Have a look at the introduction and developer update videos for Lum Bam-foo below:

Fantasy Strike is currently available on Steam Early Access, with a full Steam release and PlayStation 4 version planned for Q3 2018.

Source: Sirlin Games [press release]

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A VR version of Street Fighter II’s bonus stage will be playable at Red Bull Battle Grounds

Need to blow off some steam after crashing out of Red Bull Battle Grounds‘ Last Chance Qualifier? In partnership with HTC Vive, there will be a special VR demo at the tournament which has attendees playing through the famous car-wrecking bonus stage from Street Fighter II.

Attendees who try on this VR experience will get entered into a special Red Bull sweepstakes, where you can win either a custom-made Street Fighter V arcade cabinet in the shape of a Red Bull can, or a HTC Vive. You get up to three entries in this competition, so make sure to swing by the VR booth if you want a chance to win.

Source: Red Bull

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Australian esports team Masterminds enters the FGC by signing ROF, Styles, & Sora

With teams like DarkSided taking hold of esports in Australia, more teams are popping up with an increase in interest in the FGC. As such, some of the strong Australian free agents are being scooped up — and Masterminds just made a big grab on the market.

Over the weekend, the team announced the signing of Christian “ROF” Dedalija — a Melbourne-based Birdie player who recently placed 2nd at Red Bull Throwdown. Also recently signed were Street Fighter V player Travis Styles, and Super Smash Bros. Melee player Joshua “Sora” Lyras.

Source: ROF; Masterminds

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– Star Wars Battlefront II Blog Reveals 75% Reduction in Top Hero Credit Costs

Star Wars Battlefront II Executive Producer John Wasilczyk has posted a new blog to address concerns raised earlier today about what many players felt were exorbitant prices to unlock top heroes. As a recap, each hero was priced at 60,000 credits, currency earned at about 50 Credits per match. In response to the outpouring of frustration by the community (and netting EA the “most downvoted Reddit post ever” honor), prices to unlock heroes have been reduced by 75%.

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Cooperation Cup returns for its 16th installment on January 7th

Third Strike players, gather your friends as Cooperation Cup is back for 2018. Coming to the Asakusabashi Hulic Hall — the venue for Japan Cup 2017 — in Tokyo, this legendary event has the world’s best Third Strike players joining forces to beat each other in 5v5 team battles.

As with previous years, there will the preparatory Pre-Cooperation Cup tournament on January 6th, where players usually fight as same character teams before the main event on January 7th. Cooperation Cup 15 was spectacular, with Genki’s Alex winning the whole tournament for Team Z Senshi.

With Third Strike royalty like MOV, Onuki, Haitani, RX, K.O and Kokujin usually in attendance at Cooperation Cup, it’s mandatory viewing for any Street Fighter fan. Like last year, all the action will be streamed via the GameNewton Twitch channel — expect any news of an English stream nearer the time.

You can check out the announcement trailer below, which features an interview with Team Z Senshi team captain Kuni. If you’re interested in signing up, head over to the official Cooperation Cup website for more details.

Source: Cooperation Cup

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desk reimagines Street Fighter V in the style of Street Fighter II: The World Warrior

Combo video maestro desk has released a new video re-imagining the sound and visuals of Street Fighter V in the style of Street Fighter II: The World Warrior. Inspired by the game’s recent addition of the classic Street Fighter 2 soundtrack, desk arranged parts of the Street Fighter V character select song and Karin’s theme using sounds from the CPS-1 arcade board and recreated the game’s UI to match the classic yellow and red health bars of Street Fighter II.

The attention to detail is rather astonishing; desk went out of his way to include reproduce the sound effects for individual hits used in Street Fighter II and used a bitcrush effect to make character voices and unique sound effects match the classic style. With the video, desk said he intended to create the sort of visual package he would buy, if it were released as DLC. The end result is the product of more than 100 hours of work and reflects a creativity that expands beyond the game.

You can read more about how desk developed Street Fighter 5: The World Warrior in the video’s description; a free music pack containing the tracks in the video along with a new CPS-1 arrangement of Guile’s theme and a Megadrive arrangement of Juri’s theme is available via Bandcamp.

Source: desk

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Here’s what Dissidia Final Fantasy NT’s box art will look like in Japan

Some time back, Square Enix revealed how the box art for Dissidia Final Fantasy NT would look like in the West. As is usually the case for these things however, Japan (and likely most other Eastern markets) will get their own unique box art.

While the Western version’s cover for Dissidia Final Fantasy NT focuses on just three characters – Cloud Strife, the Warrior of Light, and Claire “Lightning” Farron — the Japanese box art showcases as many characters as possible. Specifically, the cover art (which you can see below) features just about all of the “hero”‘ characters coming in from the various Final Fantasy games, starting the aforementioned Warrior of Light from the first Final Fantasy all the way to Noctis from Final Fantasy XV.

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Dissidia Final Fantasy NT hits PlayStation 4 in Japan on January 11, and North American and Europe on January 30. And it turns out Dissidia isn’t the only fighter Noctis will be included in next year…

Source: Square Enix via Gematsu

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– MU Origin ‘Thanksgiving-full of Feasts’ Event Begins

Webzen has announced a new event in its mobile title, MU Origin. Called “Thanksgiving-full of Feasts”, the special content runs from today through November 26th. Players are asked to take part in the in-game feasts, take a screenshot and then share it with the dev team. Twenty participants will win in-game items for their effort.