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Eternal Champions lives in the hearts of many old school fighting game players as one of the best titles in the 16-bit era. Having a unique niche as a console-only title, it and its Sega CD sequel–Challenge from the Dark Side–received large amounts of praise in the North American markets. It was a big enough hit that Sega of Japan actually canceled a third potential title for the Saturn, out of fear that it would draw too much attention away from Virtua Fighter. To this day, the intellectual property has been unavailable to series producer Michael Latham.

That has not prevented him from moving on. He has recently released a poll to the community, asking players if they would like a “spiritual successor” to the Eternal Champions series. As a spiritual successor, it would not retain any of the characters or story of the original, but would be using mechanics similar to the original in a more modern format.

Source: SRK Forums

So, SFV players: how did you do? Did you get back any lost LP?

Considering the messy network conditions Street Fighter V players have been dealing with, it seems Capcom is in fact taking some action to improve our experience, even before the new Capcom Fighters Network patch rolls out. Yesterday’s server maintenance period–to prepare for the new CFN’s PC beta test–apparently also included an LP rebalancing to adjust the totals since last December:

During maintenance we performed LP recalculation based on all battle log data for Fighter IDs that logged in post Dec 21st, 2016.

— SFV Server (@SFVServer) March 27, 2017

As a result, some players may enjoy seeing some lost LP restored to their total. However:

[Note] Users will not have less LP as a result of this recalculation; and LP may not change for all users.

— SFV Server (@SFVServer) March 27, 2017

Source: SFV Server (Twitter)

In a recent Arc System Works stream–the same one that showed off the new opening for REV 2–the news of Guilty Gear Xrd REV 2’s and BlazBlue: Central Fiction’s inclusion in Evo 2017 was celebrated with the announcement of a $10,000 prize pool bonus for each title.

After showing off Baiken and Answer they celebrated both Rev2 and BBCF being at EVO and will be putting 10,000 dollars into each game! pic.twitter.com/6mjwIEselE

— Anime FGC News (@AFGCNews) March 26, 2017

This is obviously a very significant contribution to the pot, which is only piling on to the already feverish hype for these anime games both taking their place on the main stage this year. This also might be a good sign for ASW’s future plans for the community, as they may be looking to provide even more support in the days to come.

Source: AnimeFGCNews

Formed in 2012, Cloud9 is one of America’s–if not the world’s–largest and most successful esports organizations. They’ve sponsored players and teams in over nine different games, and brought home championships in the majority of them. While the company’s main focus has been first person shooters and MOBAs, they have a couple of fighting game players under their umbrella too, in the form of Smash pros Joseph “MangO” Marquez and Elliot “Ally” Carroza-Oyarce.

Recently, the company completed a Series A round, which is a term used to describe the first time a company performs a large round of venture capital financing. With almost serendipitous timing, Cloud9 owner Jack Etienne had an interview with PVP live, and dropped the following brief quip:

I love Street Fighter. If you’re a talented player contact danan@cloud9.gg and let us know you’re interested in Cloud9.

It doesn’t get more straightforward then that. Considering how highly competitive Cloud9 is, it’s difficult to think this offer will go to someone that hasn’t already been doing well on the major tournament scene. Still, it’s worth keeping an eye on the company to see who they give their prefix to next.

Source: PVPLive

It’s no secret that peripheral maker Mad Catz has had a tough couple of years. The company has experienced a downturn in revenue recently, which has resulted in significant layoffs and restructuring last year–including letting go of most of the fighting game players that they sponsored.

It seems that the company has suffered another blow, as they have now been delisted from the New York Stock exchange due to the “abnormally low trading price” of its common stock. NYSE regulations require that a company’s stock trades at $1.00 across 30 consecutive days to remain listed in the exchange. Mad Catz stock, on the other hand, went as low as $0.06 before they were delisted.

Mad Catz made a name for itself at the turn of the decade as a producer of top-of-the-line arcade sticks. Now, while its association with the fighting game community was generally successful–with them having a heavy involvement in both sponsoring players and the Capcom Pro Tour itself–other ventures haven’t seen quite the same level of success. Their Rock Band 4 peripherals, something which the company seemingly hinged their future on, failed to stem the tide of loss and turn their fortunes around.

Source: NASDAQ

With the full release coming up next Tuesday, the Rivals of Aether team are planning to release a set of special colors to commemorate those who have been playing throughout Early Access. These Gameboy-esque colors will be available to anyone who bought and played Rivals of Aether during its Early Access period, marking those veteran platform fighters from the crop of new players.

Along with the colors–which cannot be recreated in the game’s Custom Color mode–Early Access players will also have a colored Steam name to mark them out to fellow players. The actual color choice is a reference to Dan Fornace’s previous retro platform fighter, Super Smash Land. While it was just a fan game back then, certain elements of Super Smash Land–like Vaporeon’s moveset–were integrated into Rivals of Aether.

There is still some time to get these colors if you’re one for exclusive in-game items, so long as you buy Rivals of Aether on Steam before Tuesday. Those players who bought Rivals of Aether on Xbox’s Game Preview will also get access these retro colors, once the team sort out how to publish DLC for the console.

Source: Rivals of Aether