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Capcom will release Ed and the new balance patch for Street Fighter V on May 30th

The long-awaited balance changes–and next DLC fighter–are almost here.

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We’ve been waiting for a solid date for Street Fighter V’s promised balance changes, ever since they were pushed forward from their original expected arrival at the end of April. Capcom has just announced via Twitter that we’ll be finally getting this balance patch–and the latest DLC character, Ed–next Tuesday on May 30, 2017.

As “and more” is promised, we don’t know for sure yet if this means we’ll be getting the revamped CFN features as well; hopefully this is specified in their next news update, promised for Thursday.

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Source: Street Fighter (Twitter)

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Get hype for Baiken’s upcoming console release with her character trailer for Guilty Gear Xrd REV 2

The console release of Guilty Gear Xrd REV 2 is just a few days away, and fans of the game will soon have the chance to chase revenge with Baiken in the comfort of their homes. As if the hype isn’t already mounting, a character trailer has been released, now featuring clips of her Instant Kill cinematic with her “ROKUMON” theme playing in the background. This teaser is one truly fitting of the highly-anticipated Lone Samurai.

Guilty Gear Xrd: REV 2 releases on consoles on May 25th in the U.S. If you’re interested in Baiken and are in need of more info on the character, you can check out all of our coverage on her return to Guilty Gear here!

Source: Gematsu

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– Grand Theft Auto 5 Cruising Along at 80 MILLION Copies Moved

During today’s Take-Two Interactive investor’s call, the company revealed that over eighty MILLION copies of Grand Theft Auto 5 have been moved since 2013. That’s a whole lot of gas guzzled along the way. GTAO, part of GTA5, is a strong retail force for Take-Two. Thus far in 2017, five million “sold-in” copies have been sent to merchants. That’s pretty good for a four year old game.

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Bandai Namco drops PC specs, a 3rd character trailer, and three tutorial videos for Tekken 7

After a wait that has seemed as long as the Mishima family feud itself, the console/PC release date for Tekken 7 is less than two weeks away. Just in time for the approaching day, Bandai Namco has released specs for the PC version, as well as a new character gameplay trailer and three tutorial videos, quickly breaking down some of the game’s mechanics.

The PC specs are as follows:

Minimum requirements:

OS: Windows 7/8/10 (64-bit OS required)
Processor: Intel Core Intel Core i3-4160 @ 3.60GHz or equivalent
Memory: 6 GB RAM
Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 2GB, GTX 750Ti 2GB, or equivalent
DirectX: Version 11
Network: Broadband internet connection
Storage: 60 GB available space
Sound Card: DirectX compatible sound card or onboard chipset

Recommended specs:

OS: Windows 7/8/10 (64-bit OS required)
Processor: Intel Core i5-4690 3.5 GHz or equivalent
Memory: 8 GB RAM
Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 equivalent or higher
DirectX: Version 11
Network: Broadband internet connection
Storage: 60 GB available space
Sound Card: DirectX compatible soundcard or onboard chipset

The three tutorial videos linked below demonstrate basic movement  and explain the new Rage Art and Power Crush systems.

And Kuma, Josie, Xiaoyu, Claudio, Paul, Panda, and Shaheen flaunt their moves in character trailer #3!

Be sure to pick up your PS4, Xbox Oneor PC copy of Tekken 7 on June 2nd!

Sources: DualShockers; Bandai Namco Entertainment America

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NSURGO to offer a new line of Beast-branded Daigo Umehara merchandise, launching alongside Evo 2017

Soon you will be able to show your support of the Beast with new apparel–and more.

Already partnered with Twitch, HyperX, Cygames, and Red Bull, another company is stepping forward to join forces with the Beast: NSURGO has announced plans to produce new merchandise featuring Daigo Umehara’s “Beast” branding.

Daigo Umehara most recently signed up with Cygames to form Cygames Beast: a sponsorship shared by PR Balrog and Red Bull’s Snake Eyez; this was preceded by a sponsorship with gaming headset manufacturer HyperX, working with Red Bull to promote his book The Will to Keep Winning, and being named Twitch’s global brand ambassador. His accomplishments need no introduction in the FGC–and after some struggles with Ryu in Street Fighter V, his recent switch to Guile has earned him a spot in the upcoming ELEAGUE playoffs; many eyes are on Umehara again, waiting to see if he can rise to even greater competitive prominence.

While no products have been revealed yet, NSURGO promises “apparel, headwear, and accessories” in their upcoming Beast line. The BEAST x NSURGO collection will launch to coincide with Evo 2017–happening in Las Vegas, Nevada on July 14-16. From NSURGO:

The goal of this partnership is to create the first-ever lifestyle brand that captures the influence Daigo has brought to the fighting game community. To accomplish this, the NSURGO and Beast teams will combine their years of experience in competitive gaming, artistic design, and merchandising. The result will be fresh new products for fans and the fighting game community. The NSURGO team is honored to have spent the last several months working with the Beast team, and in that time have developed a number of new designs, including the new Beast logo.

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Lupe Fiasco & Daigo Umehara at the launch of Street Fighter V’s Season 2

Source: press release

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Body Count Fighting streaming their first Street Fighter V & Injustice 2 matches tonight

Some serious competitors will clash tonight in a live stream from Body Count Fighting!

This evening–Monday, May 22 at 6:00 PM PDT–Body Count Fighting will host their BCF1 stream event: a batch of exhibition matches featuring both Street Fighter V and Injustice 2. There will be two titles matches, where players fight for a championship belt in their respective game; there will also be three feature matches to fight for future shots at a title match. And who’s on the fight card tonight?

Title Matches
Street Fighter V: Alex Valle vs. Commander Jesse
Injustice 2: Slayer vs. Michaelangelo

Feature Matches
Injustice 2: Awesomo vs. Guamo
Street Fighter V: LowTierGod vs. ???
Injustice 2: Kitana Prime vs. Han Rashid

The event will take place at Machima Studios in Burbank, California; in addition to the fights, it includes a musical performance from VI Seconds and Passionate MC of Team Backpack.

Here’s their event trailer to fire you up:

You can watch the fights live on BCF’s Twitch channel below, or on YouTube!

Watch live video from bcfighting on www.twitch.tv

Source: Body Count Fighting

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A hitbox viewer for The King of Fighters XIV is already in development

One of the great things about fighting games getting PC ports is all the tools that players can develop around them. Hitbox viewers are one such tool, especially since we still don’t get these with every game.

With The King of Fighters XIV coming to PC, many were expecting such a mod to eventually be developed. However, what many people weren’t expecting was how soon we would get one! Yes, with the game is still only in beta, we already have a player-made hitbox viewer in the works. French player Loïc Petit, aka WydD has, on the request of Eric “Dantarion” Sheppard, started working on one.

As you’ll notice, the tool is pretty rudimentary in its current state–it doesn’t even overlay itself over the game properly. However, the folks behind the Frame Trapped hitbox viewer for Street Fighter V have already offered to help complete the viewer.

With the latter’s help, hopefully a fully-featured hitbox viewer can be released in time for The King of Fighters XIV‘s Steam Edition this coming June.

Source: Loïc Petit (Twitter)

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Catch the first in-game glimpse of Red Hood via the Injustice 2 Facebook page

Earlier this month, it was revealed that Red Hood, Starfire and Sub-Zero would be the first three Injustice 2 DLC characters, as part of “Fighter Pack 1.” Over the weekend, the Injustice Facebook page posted a screenshot that gave us our first in-game look at one of them. Reborn from the Lazarus Pit after being killed by The Joker, Jason Todd returned as a vengeful assassin, who had no problem with dispensing justice in a much more lethal manner than his mentor Batman. In the screenshot, Todd seems to have launched his enemy with an attack similar to Erron Black’s slide from Mortal Kombat XL, as he shoots them with his pistols from his back, possibly indicating that he is a bit of a hybrid character, in contrast to Deadshot’s pure zoning strategy.

You can see the screenshot for yourself below:

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Are you excited for Red Hood in Injustice 2? Do you have any ideas on how he may play? Let us know in the comments, and stay tuned right here to Shoryuken, as we’ll provide more information on the DLC characters as it appears.

Source: Injustice (Facebook)

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– Ship of Heroes Upgrades Game Engine

The Ship of Heroes team has published a new developer blog to let the fan community know that the game engine has been updated to include the Low Level of Detail feature. This will allow the dev team to focus more on content creation rather than having to hand-create low detail models. The new engine provides a tool to generate LOD variations for static images.

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Inoue overpowers Rodriguez to retain WBO belt

Naoya “Monster” Inoue (13-0, 11 KOs) retained his WBO super flyweight title for the fifth time when he knocked out mandatory challenger Ricardo Rodriguez (16-4, 5 KOs) on Sunday at Ariake Coliseum in Tokyo, Japan.
 Inoue was too strong and fast for the Mexican from the opening bell. The Japanese puncher dropped Rodriguez twice in the third round and he was counted out at 1:08 of the round.
Also on the card, IBF interim light flyweight champion Milan Melindo (36-2, 13 KOs) stopped IBF…