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An exciting reveal from the Tokyo Game Show was the Monster Hunter from Capcom’s RPG action series. She seems to fit surprisingly well into the cast of Marvel vs. Capcom: Infinite. So far, we’ve seen some footage of her in action, but with Japanese commentary. Maximilian has since produced an overview of the character, explaining what tools she’s using to score victories.

Monster Hunter fights using three weapons: a giant sword, two smaller swords, and a bow to cover herself at range. While those are used in a variety of attacks and special moves, she can also cancel into a backward roll and a forward roll. Her lunging attacks are very slow, but damaging. Furthermore, there’s super armor on some of them, but Monster Hunter still takes normal damage while executing the move.

The clip ends with some additional explanations in English and Japanese. For more footage, check out our posting of the TGS Monster Hunter matches and her reveal trailer. Quest complete!

Monster Hunter is coming sometime before the end of 2017 as DLC for MvC:I.

Source: Maximilian Dood

Following in the footsteps of last year’s opening theme “Run It Back,” yuzuki has once again provided the opening theme for CEOtaku: “Take Your Time.” This year’s opening for the premier anime fighting game event is a jazzy number, with some assistance from Chiisana on vocals, lyrics by Geiky, and visuals by shunao and jooooon:

Like the theme? You can download it for yourself from yuzuki — and check out her other work, too — on Bandcamp! CEOtaku 2017 is on this weekend in Orlando, Florida.

Sources: yuzuki masu; CEOtaku

One of the biggest concerns with any new fighting game these days is the amount of input delay the game may have. Certain games, such as Street Fighter V and Tekken 7 have launched with — compared to older titles on previous platforms — massive amounts of delay. While this has been adjusted in the former of the two, there’s still the fear of any new game having input latency, especially since it seems delay levels have gone up across the board these days.

With this in mind, DisplayLag has produced a video showing off their testing of Capcom’s recently-released Marvel vs. Capcom: Infinite. The good news is that the game isn’t plagued by the input delay that Street Fighter V had at launch; the average amount of delay that MvC:I has on PlayStation 4 is a manageable 6 frames of delay. This is seemingly in line with other modern fighting games, as both Injustice 2 and The King of Fighters XIV also have around the same amount of input delay, and is still lower than Tekken 7. More importantly, this is lower than what was recorded in the Story Demo from June.

Take note that the test below was conducted on the PlayStation 4 version, which is the tournament standard. Whether or not the PC version can have less delay when v-sync is turned off has not yet been tested.

Source: DisplayLag

Another classic EX character makes his presence known.

ARIKA has given us a glimpse of yet another fan-favorite EX series character, returning to their untitled in-development “Mysterious Fighting Game”: this time, the deadly Doctrine Dark was revealed via a short teaser trailer:

The cast if ARIKA’s fighting game expands, even while it remains nameless! It seems a safe bet that we’ll see most — if not all — of ARIKA’s characters from the Street Fighter EX games returning to this project.

Thanks to Patrick for the tip.

Source: arika

If you cast your minds back to 2016, you may remember that we reported that Yakuza 6 will allow players to play an emulated version of Virtua Fighter 5: Final Showdown within its in-game arcades. Well, with the recent announcement of Yakuza Kiwami 2, you’ll be able to go further back into Sega’s history.

Located within one of Kiwami 2’s Club Sega arcades, wannabe gangsters can play a few rounds of either Virtua Fighter 2 or VIRTUAL-ON. From on the little footage we’ve seen, it’s not currently known if these emulations are based on the original arcade games, or their Sega Saturn ports.

For those who never played these classics — or simply want a trip down memory lane in between beating up street thugs — keep a look out for Yakuza Kiwami 2 when it comes to the West in 2018. The Yakuza development team are also working on a Fist of the North Star-themed Yakuza game, so we may even see a port of Hokuto no Ken making it into that dream crossover!

Sources: Kira A; Destructoid [via tip from Paul]

One of the more unique fighting game crossovers that will be coming out next year is Sega’s Toaru Majutsu no VIRTUAL-ON. This 3D mecha fighter combines the classic VIRTUAL-ON gameplay with characters from the Toaru Majutsu no Index anime and light novel franchise.

At the 2017 Tokyo Game Show, Sega finally showed gameplay of the game — for the first time ever. Despite the anime crossover elements, the game itself plays in traditional VIRTUAL-ON twin-stick fashion. What the collaboration brings, however, is some new mecha designs, combined with some rather unorthodox attacks, and some extra in-match dialogue with anime-style cut-ins.

For those interested in what the game looks like, Kira A has shared the footage from Sega on their YouTube channel. You can check it out below.

Toaru Majutsu no VIRTUAL-ON launches on PlayStation 4, and PlayStation Vita — in Japan — on February 15, 2018.

Source: Kira A via Siliconera