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After taking a detailed look at Hakan’s family, the Shadaloo Activity Report takes us inside the squared circle today, as we look at a pair of wrestling legends. One holds a deep connection with a pair of luchadores from both Street Fighter and Saturday Night Slam Masters, and the other paying homage to one of the true Japanese legends of the sport. Today, Private Nakagawa introduces us to Meteorito Jr. and Antler Inoki.

Private Nakagawa: “¡Viva Mexico! The God of Lucha Libre, born in Mexico. The master of El Fuerte and El Stingray. As his name implies, he has a very cool meteor shining in his mask’s forehead.

Basic Info:

Name: Meteorito Jr.
Height: 177cm
Weight: 90kg
Blood type: Unknown
Birthday: April 20th
Country of Origin: Mexico
Likes: Movies (he acts in them) [That sounds a lot like El Santo], Baseball
Dislikes: Airplanes

Private Nakagawa: “He was originally a superb high-flyer, who used as his special move, a modified Moonsault Press named “Yucatán Tornado.” [This references Último Dragón‘s move Cancún Tornado, a Twisting Moonsault (that Último Dragón mainly did springboarding outside the ring). The inventor of the Twisting Moonsault was Chaparrita ASARI, who named it Skytwister Press, and for this reason it’s considered mainly a female wrestler move in Japan: think DOA’s Tina, or Tekken’s Jaycee for instance, both equipped with the move.] When he came to Japan for a fight, (he went by ship because he’s afraid of planes) he injured his neck after being caught in Antler Inoki’s Abdominal Stretch. From then on, he started using a spinebuster named Kukulkán as a finisher. He’s known as an excellent trainer and has opened his dōjō in Mexico, where he’s raising many promising young wrestlers.” [Exactly as Último Dragón himself has done with his Toryumon]

For the 280th Profile, we meet (the likeness of) one of the top Japanese professional wrestlers in history, Antler Inoki.

Private Nakagawa: “The worthy rival of SASHA Nishiki and Meteorito Jr. He even fought against the macho mayor Mike Haggar, a true wrestling legend! The image below depicts him when he was still active.” [Antonio Inoki is currently retired and is a wrestling promoter and politician, well known in Japan for his meetings with Saddam Hussein before the Gulf War and, more recently, with North Korean officers, in an effort to improve the relationship between North Korea and Japan.]

Basic Info:

Name: Antler Inoki
Height: 191cm
Weight: 100kg
Blood type: AB
Birthday: February 20th
Country of Origin: Japan [All copied straight from Antonio Inoki’s real stats. Yup, even his blood type.]
Likes: Sunflower Seeds [Antonio Inoki actually sells his own brand of sunflower seeds.]
Dislikes: Egg Dishes

Private Nakagawa: “With his unique talent for sports, he was active as a big name killer. [Among others, Antonio Inoki beat Andre the Giant and Vader during his career.] He had friendly relationships with various federations in the whole world, [Even with the then WWF, in which he was an unrecognized champ, having beaten Bob Backlund in a controversial match] and several wrestlers came to Japan to wrestle him in famous matches. He has a fan club, who every month receives cool Antler Goods.”

What do you think of these two legendary grapplers? Would you like to see either of them in a future season of Street Fighter V? Give us your thoughts in the comments, and be sure to check back here on the front page as more CFN profiles are released!

Special thanks once again to Midgardsorn for the translations and footnotes.

Source: CFN Portal

Arcana Heart 3: LOVE MAX SIX STARS!!!!!! is the kawaii-but-deadly appendix to Arcana Hearts 3 has been in Japanese arcades since 2014, but has yet to receive a home-accessible version of any kind. Aligning with Examu’s previously reported plans to bring their game to PC, they have has launched their Kickstarter campaign to do so — having started on July 5th.

As reported on Examu’s Prefundia page, balance changes and two new characters, Minori Amanohara and Ichor, the Arcana of Blood, will be updates included with the PC port, should it receive the necessary funding. Images of Minori and Ichor, respectively, can be seen below.

More images and info on the future of Arcana Hearts 3: LOVE MAX SIX STARS!!!!!! is available via Prefundia.

Sources: Gematsu and Prefundia

Body Count Fighting has announced the date for their event BCF2, a series of exhibition and title matches in California for Street Fighter V, Injustice 2, and Tekken 7.

BCF1 concluded with the crowning of two champions: in Street Fighter V, Dhalsim pro Commander Jesse squeaked out a narrow 4-3 victory over the legendary Alex Valle. This time, he has to square off against LPN, whom is just off of a commendable 9th place finish at CEO 2017 in SFV.

BCF1’s Injustice 2 title match was less of a race, with Slayer securing a win over Michelangelo 4-2. His opponent was also at BCF1, in a feature match versus Panda Global’s Kitana Prime. That man, Han Rashid, also won his set 4-2 as well. Will we have a closer match for the Injustice 2 title defense?

As far as the feature matches, controversial player LowTierGod was unsurprisingly the biggest draw of BCF1, and will likely continue to play his role as a villain versus Street Fighter V player KillerMiller. Tekken 7 gets it’s BCF debut with two sponsored It’s in the Skies players butting heads: Xiaoyu player Princess Ling and Eddy legend SperoGin. Lastly, Mortal Kombat vets Awesome-O and Krayzie will be butting heads in NetherRealm Studio’s latest DC fighter, Injustice 2.

BCF2 will be streamed live on Twitch and YouTube. Fighting game fans are welcome to attend the event, and can get free tickets on Eventbrite.

Continuing their line of Street Fighter V figures, Storm Collectibles have worked their way onto Season 2 with the announcement of their new Akuma statue. At 1:12 scale to the actual Master of the Fist, this Akuma statue sports his standard Street Fighter V look, complete with the new “lion’s mane” haircut.

"Hmph. So it's you…
(貴様か… Kisama ka…)" – Akuma
PRE-ORDER NOW!!
Preorder Website :https://t.co/x07cgWzAXz#Capcom #SFV #sdcc2017 #akuma pic.twitter.com/KqL3Cz9Qgq

— StormCollectibles (@stormcohk) July 6, 2017

Like their previous Zangief figure, Akuma comes three interchangeable heads, along with eight different palms for each of his attacks. Along with accompanying “Dohatsu Shoten” effects for his arms, there is a special Gohadoken attachment so Akuma can do air and standing fireballs. If you want to show off the aftermath of a Shun Goku Satsu, Akuma also has a second gi, complete with the 神人 or “shin” kanji emblazoned on it.

Priced at $65.00 USD, this Akuma figurine is scheduled to ship in Q3 of 2017. You can pre-order over on the Storm Collectibles website to snag your miniature version of the wandering murderous martial artist.

Source: Storm Collectibles

After a three-month period of covering fan-made characters created in the Street Fighter Laboratory Corner of the IJWPW Broadcast Station, the Shadaloo Combat Research Institute has finally reopened its data banks to create more CFN profiles on canon characters. Private Nakagawa has also returned to resume his narration duties. This time, we take a closer look at Hakan’s beloved family, starting with his extremely attractive wife: Melike!

Private Nakagawa: “She’s the wife of Hakan, yağli güreş champion. A stunning beauty who was actually elected Miss Turkey once… And she’s terrible when angered, apparently.”

Basic Info:

Name: Melike [From the Semitic root mlk, “king,” and obviously “queen” when in feminine form.]
Height: 175cm
Weight: 49kg
Blood type: A
Birthday: April 20th
Country of Origin: Turkey
Likes: Hakan, Her Daughters
Dislikes: Liars

Private Nakagawa: “She’s a hugely successful businesswoman who supports her husband. Among her many activities, she sponsors the yağli güreş great tournament [I guess they’re referring to the annual Kırkpınar tournament in Edirne.] and owns a football team. Hakan has such a soft spot for his daughters, that he always buys them whatever they want on the spot. Melike always scolds him for being too indulgent. He never dares to contradict her.”

Finally, we move on to Hakan’s seven daughters:

Private Nakagawa: “They are the daughters of Hakan and Melike. Seven sisters full of energy and vitality. A large family that gets along pretty well, anyway. It seems their father buys them whatever they want.”

Basic Info:

Name: Hakan’s daughters
Country of Origin: Turkey
Likes: Daddy and Mommy
Dislikes: Daddy’s songs

Private Nakagawa: “Their special trait is undoubtedly their incredibly unruly hair. It seems it’s a bit of a sore spot for them, too…

Their names are…

The first: Abla [“Elder sister,” literally. They don’t have actual Turkish names, taking them mainly from oil-related Turkish terms. With “Abla” they even played with the Japanese term 油 abura, aka “oil”, the Turkish “abla” being written the same in katakana.]

128cm / 29kg / July 7th

The second: Susam [ “Sesame”]

125cm / 25kg / October 2nd

The third: Hurması [“Persimmon, date“, but incorrect as it should be simply hurma. Hurması is the third person possessive form, so it’s actually “her persimmon/date.”. The Turkish ı (without the dot) is like the English short e in open.]

124cm / 25kg / October 2nd

The fourth: Tereyağı [ “Butter”. The Japanese 照れ屋 tereya means “shy”, so they played with its meaning by having Tereyağı in her turbulent phase instead. The Turkish ğ doesn’t have a real sound, actually lengthening the preceding vowel. So it’s like it was written “Tereyah-i.” It’s the remnant of an old intervocalic g that lost its sound fairly recently, and it’s because of this that now we pronounce the “g” in “yogurt” (a word that came from the Turkish yoğurmak, “to knead”) and they don’t anymore.]

121cm / 20kg / December 7th (now in her rebellious phase)

The fifth: Kanola [“Canola”]

122cm / 21kg / December 7th

The sixth: Zeytin [“Olive”]

122cm / 21kg / December 7th

The seventh: Ayçiçeği [“Sunflower”. The Japanese “aichichi” can mean “Love daddy.” The Turkish ç is the English ch.]

117cm / 17kg / October 16th

“All are blood type A. Their order is visible from the number of blocks in their hair. They like a type of Hakan doll that oozes oil if you squeeze it strongly.”

Here’s a look at Hakan’s arcade mode ending, where his family originally appeared.

That wraps up another round of CFN profiles. Are you excited to see them return? Did you enjoy finally learning more about Hakan’s family, particularly if you play him? Let us know in the comments, and be on the look out for more profiles on the front page, as they appear to now be back in full swing.

Special thanks to Midgardsorn for translations and footnotes.

Sources: CFN Portal; onebyonetv

Starting on Saturday, July 8th, Ubisoft and ESL will start their For Honor tournament series, the”Hero Series.” This 1v1 tournament series will be held every Saturday during the month of July, across all platforms: Xbox One, PlayStation 4, and PC. Three regions will be competing in separate tournaments (North America, South America, and Europe) and the top players from each region and platform will be invited to play in Ubisoft’s live finals at the Intel Esports Arena in Burbank, CA on August 12th.

The Finals will be broadcast live on the For Honor Twitch channel, For Honor’s Facebook Live, as well as on Ubisoft’s YouTube channel.

In order to participate you must register online. In doing so, you can also get a glimpse of how many people are currently signed up for each tournament. Judging on tomorrow’s entrants alone, it looks like there’s a lot of people vying “for honor” (and money), so you’ll need to bring your A-game. It’s a good thing you have four tournaments to shoot for!

There’s also a separate competition for those that dream of commentating. Ubisoft is taking auditions for For Honor casting, and two individuals will be selected from submissions to join the commentary desk.

You can find out more about the tournament series, and register for both competitions, on the official Hero Series website!

Source: For Honor Hero Series

CEOtaku, Community Effort Orlando’s big anime-focused spin-off event is returning for its third year in a row. This year sees the event grow even bigger with a new, 24-hour set up that will see the event keep its doors open from 9:00 PM on Friday, September 22 to 10:00 PM on Sunday, September 24.

In preparation for this, CEO Gaming’s Alex Jebailey has just released the full tournament list for the event. This year’s event will feature 16 different games that players can compete in. The list includes both traditional fighting games as well as some oddball (but popular) games such as Catherine and Puyo Puyo Tetris. You can check out the complete list — and the corresponding console that they’ll be played on — below.

1. Guilty Gear Xrd REV 2 (PS4)
2. BlazBlue: Central Fiction (PS4)
3. Under Night In-Birth Exe:Late[st] (PS4)
4. Skullgirls: 2nd Encore (PS4)
5. Melty Blood Acress Again Current Code (Steam)
6. Gundam Versus [2v2] (PS4)
7. Marvel vs. Capcom: Infinite (PS4)
8. Koihime Enbu (Steam)
9. Catherine (Xbox One or PS3)
10. Dengeki Bunko Fighting Climax Ignition (PS4)
11. Arcana Heart 3 Love Max!!!!! (PS3)
12. Persona 4 Arena Ultimax (PS3)
13. Puyo Puyo Tetris (PS4)
14. Guilty Gear XX Accent Core +R (PS3)
15. Chaos Code Sign of Catastrophe (PS4)
16. The King of Fighters XIV (PS4)

In addition to this, the event is also open to side tournaments for other anime-related fighting games.

All official tournaments will start on Saturday, September 23 at 10:00 AM. However, the venue itself will open the evening before, at 9:00 PM on September 22, with the possibility of exhibition matches taking place then.

For any players interested in joining, online registration will open on July 21, and will end on September 17.

Source: Alex Jebailey

With Sub-Zero set to bring his icy style of kombat to Injustice 2 next Tuesday, July 11th, NetherRealm studios is look at a pretty chilly watchtower livestream. After viewing his gameplay trailer, we can see that the Lin Kuei Grandmaster has retained the majority of his toolset from Mortal Kombat XL, with his iconic Ice Klone serving as his Trait. Though the frosty ninja releases too close to Evo to be tournament legal, it will still be interesting to see how well he has translated into the world of the DC fighter. Additionally, NRS’s Steve “16-Bit” Brownback will be answering gameplay questions from Twitter during the broadcast, so if you’re looking to step up any part of your Injustice 2 game, particularly when it comes to matchup-specific tips, be sure to ask away.

You can view the announcement Tweets below, and catch the stream at 3:00 PM CST (1:00 PM PST) at twitch.tv/netherrealm.

This Friday, at 1 pm PDT/3 pm CDT, come chill with us for a special #Watchtower stream! https://t.co/X4zUVEDsym #injustice2 pic.twitter.com/kMQEDat3xK

— Injustice2 (@InjusticeGame) July 5, 2017

Can't beat a certain character? Having trouble with punishes? Let us know! Our resident expert @Osu16Bit will give tips on Friday's stream!

— Injustice2 (@InjusticeGame) July 5, 2017

Source: InjusticeGame (Twitter)

Last May, it was revealed that a select number of Marvel comics titles would be receiving Marvel vs. Capcom: Infinite variant covers this coming August. Now, the first of these variant covers have been unveiled.

The reveals, taken from Previews World’s monthly checklist for new comics and variant covers, so far cover four of the twenty books announced to have variant covers. Specifically they are All-New Guardians of the Galaxy #7, Champions #11, Hawkeye #9, and Spider-Man/Deadpool #20.

All the covers feature Marvel characters facing off against Capcom characters: Gamora taking on Strider Hiryu, Nova taking on Zero, and Hawkeye facing off against Dante. The most interesting one however is the Spider-Man/Deadpool cover, which features Dormammu on the Marvel side, and Firebrand on the Capcom side. Aside from looking like a match between some of NorCal’s finest (Splyce’s Ryan “Filipino Champ” Ramirez plays Dormammu, and Vineeth “Apologyman” Meka plays Firebrand), both characters have yet to be officially announced for the upcoming game.

Whether or not this means that both will be in the game, we have no idea. In the meantime, check out all of the so-far revealed covers in the gallery below.

Click to view slideshow.

Marvel vs. Capcom: Infinite is set to launch on September 19.

Source: Previews World

Check out the massive array of talent that will lend their voices to the Evo 2017 action.

It’s been revealed what commentators will be breaking down the action and building up the hype in our favorite games at Evo 2017! Check out the full list here:

Also, the schedule of Evo 2017 — including the panels, and the start times for the games in the Sunday finals — is now live, so go have a look!

Source: Evo (Twitter)