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Shin Hisako Acts as the Fourth Remixed Character Coming to Killer Instinct

Ahead of a full gameplay reveal at Killer Instinct World Cup next weekend, Iron Galaxy have revealed the next fighter that will be coming to KI. Following in the footsteps of characters like Shadow Jago, Kilgore and Omen, Shin Hisako acts as the fourth “remixed” character for Killer Instinct, where elements of a pre-existing characters are reworked to create a new, unique fighter.

For Shin Hisako, she no longer wields her naginata, but a katana containing the spirit of her beloved father. Having purged herself of the centuries of hatred which tied her to her grave, Shin Hisako now takes up her father’s sword to defend the world from the forces of Gargos.

Shin Hisako

Shin Hisako is scheduled to launch later this month, with Iron Galaxy revealing more details about the redeemed warrior at Killer Instinct World Cup next weekend. Her new design has her wearing the signature sode shoulder armor and suneate shin guards of a samurai, combined with a black and gold dress to no doubt symbolize her purged spirit. According to combat designer and formerly of this parish Adam “Keits” Heart, Shin Hisako is “more straightforward to play than regular Hisako,” but with some cool stuff still thrown in. I imagine this will probably be manifest in a change to her Wrath meter, seeing as she has let go of her hundreds of years of anger. The next character will also be “100% new,” so keep your fingers crossed for Joanna Dark.

Sources: Killer Instinct; TheKeits

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Pokkén Tournament Gains $2,000 Prize Pool at DreamHack Austin

Ever since it made second place during the Evo 2017 Player’s Choice drive, Pokkén Tournament has seen something of a revival. With this in mind, it should be no surprise that the game is seeing more support at tournaments. One such tournament is none other than DreamHack Austin: DreamHack has announced that not only will Pokkén Tournament be returning to this year’s installment of Dreamhack Austin (thanks to winning the community poll), but that the game will also get a guaranteed $2,000 prize pool.

Entry into the tournament will be free for any DreamHack Austin ticket holders. The tournament itself will take place on Saturday, April 29, at the Austin Convention Center in Austin, TX.

Source: DreamHack

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Samurai Shodown VI, Fu’un Super Combo, & The King of Fighters 2000 Discounted for Playstation Plus Users

Playstation Plus subscribers should take advantage of these sweet savings on three throwback SNK titles. Samurai Shodown VI, Fu’un Super Combo and The King of Fighters 2000 are all listed at discount prices exclusive to current membership holders. The discount details for each game are:

You can follow the links above to purchase their respective game in the PlayStation Store. The discounts are marked to be available until March 7th, so interested buyers should act fast!

Source: PlayStation Store

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The Many Secrets of the Illuminati: Combos, Tech, and Gameplay for Street Fighter V’s Kolin

Chill opponents to the bone with this tech for Kolin in Street Fighter V.

The Phantasm of Snow and Ice is (conversely) heating up Street Fighter V with her arrival; her unusual techniques and abilities have certainly captured the attention of players everywhere. Here’s a gathering of what has crossed our path for Kolin so far–much of this is based on or has contributed to the mass gathering of Kolin tech on Twitter under #KolinLab.

Be sure to also check out our own Kolin bread ‘n’ butter combo guide from Bafael as part of Rising Up.

To start, here’s a video movelist for Kolin by AXETB:

marlonlonmilk offers up this collection of Kolin combos, ranging from basic to advanced:

Evil Canadian has prepared one video of “optimal-ish” bread ‘n’ butters, and another exploring some icy okizeme:

Here’s some more okizeme deomonstration from Joutai:

Of course, desk was quick to start exploring what Kolin is capable of! Here’s what he’s come up with:

Doopliss heard the “Kolin” for new combos, so they put this together–featuring a 100% stun combo for lower-health characters:

Apolo Volturi shows us what Absolute Zero looks like in this stylish combo video:

VesperArcade prepared this video of intermediate EX combos for Kolin:

Rushdown Radio has provided these videos examining aspects of Kolin’s Diamond Dust V-Trigger:

ThePrince offers this look at potential Kolin set play:

alb3530 prepared this video that displays the hitboxes for most of Kolin’s moves, in slow-motion:

YogaFlame24 already has a lot of Kolin gameplay footage on their channel, including this FT3 mirror match between MajorBoy and Narikun:

You can watch Echo Fox|Momochi try Kolin out on Momochi & ChocoBlanka TV:

To close, here’s a mirror match between Echo Fox|Justin Wong and Floe:

Thanks to everyone that sent in tips!

Sources: AXETB; marlonlonmilk; rooflemonger; Joutai; desk; Doopliss; Apolo Loussalier; VesperArcade; Rushdown Radio; F1r3byrd; alb3530; YogaFlame24; Momochi & ChocoBlanka TV; XusesGB

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Panda Global Signs Kitana Prime and Hayatei, Plans for NetherRealm Ranking System

Panda Global is making big moves lately. Having already developed their own Smash ranking system, they are now setting their sights on NetherRealm Studios games in a big way.

Today saw the signing of Montreal-based Mortal Kombat player Hayatei, alongside Florida-based player and tournament organizer KitanaPrime.

Also announced today is that the gaming organization is creating a NetherRealm Studios ranking system, with more information on that coming soon. Presumably, this system will encompass both Mortal Kombat and Injustice.

Source: Panda Global (Twitter)

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ELEAGUE Announces Groups for Street Fighter V Invitational

ELEAGUE is raring to kick off on March 27th, and the event is looking interesting for the spectators and players alike. While we have had a glimpse of who will be in the bracket, we now have the full picture, namely the player groupings as announced by Eleague via their Twitter.

Just in case you have difficulties accessing Twitter, here are the full groupings.

Group A:

  • Razer|Infiltration
  • Echo Fox|Julio Fuentes
  • Echo Fox|Momochi
  • SOA|Brolynho
  • EG|Ricki Ortiz
  • A4|Punk
  • Marn
  • PIE|Smug

Group B:

  • Echo Fox|Justin Wong
  • Zowie|GamerBee
  • Daigo Umehara
  • GW|Eita
  • PR Balrog
  • Snake Eyez
  • Level Up|Alex Valle
  • Gllty

Group C:

  • Echo Fox|Tokido
  • Razer|Fuudo
  • GraphT|MOV
  • PG|Filipino Champ
  • Razer|Xian
  • EG|K-Brad
  • Wolfkrone
  • Gootecks

Group D:

  • Liquid|NuckleDu
  • Qanba Douyu|Xiaohai
  • BX3|Phenom
  • RB|Luffy
  • Denial|Chris Tatarian
  • Ryan Hart
  • LI Joe
  • Circa|LPN

Source: ELEAGUE (Twitter)

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VesperArcade Looks at Hidden Character Changes Found in the Kolin Update for Street Fighter V

Street Fighter V’s second Season Two DLC character, Kolin, was released Tuesday night; but she wasn’t the only part of the version 2.010 update, as /r/StreetFighter has discovered a few hidden balance changes for Alex, Balrog, Dhalsim, Birdie and Chun-Li.

In his latest video about the discovery, VesperArcade reports that Alex’s Power Drop has had its startup increased from 6 to 5 Frames. This change reverts the move to its original Season 1 status, thus removing the “Secret Setup” that had been discovered, which gave him a 1-frame Cancel window to tick grab off of a blocked heavy Flash Chop. Perhaps the setup was unintentional, but Capcom specifically mentioned it in their blog about patch note corrections. Also, he and Balrog’s forward standing hurtboxes have been extended by .015 and .01, respectively. This makes them bigger targets, but also slightly more difficult to crossup now. Chun-Li’s crouching hurtbox was increased vertically by 10%, from 1.01 to 1.12, which should make it more difficult for her to crouch under certain attacks, such as Alex’s St.HK follow-up to Power Bomb, especially after her initial crouching hurtbox increase in the Season 2 patch notes.

However, it’s not all gloom, doom and despair: as the flame god Agni has rewarded Dhalsim’s devotion by increasing his throw range, and Birdie received minor hurtbox adjustments to the end of EX Bullhead. Zangief and R. Mika also had a variable labeled “unknown7” changed on their V-Trigger attacks, but it’s unclear if this means anything significant, or if they were just small bug fixes before the March balance patch, like most of these changes seem to be.

You can see VesperArcade’s full video on the subject below.

Sources: VesperArcade; /r/StreetFighter

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A Special Character-Themed Round Robin Event at 2GGC: Civil War Will Decide the Next Saga

Continuing the theme of sides clashing at 2GGC: Civil War, 2GGaming have announced that the next Saga in April will be decided via a special character-themed round robin. Similar to Smash Summit voting, select players from the greater Civil War crew battle will be nominated for the round robin via Twitter, followed by a round of voting which will decide the character that player will use.

Six players will be chosen from the pool of nominations on March 3rd, with the community then voting for the character that each player will use. Each player has a selection of five characters that the community can choose from, so ranging from their main to the character they solely reserve for styling on people in bracket. Say if a player like DNG|Kameme makes it in as one of the six, the community will vote between his character pool of Mega Man, Yoshi, Sheik, Dark Pit and Wario.

This round of voting will end on March 24th, with the six competitors being locked into using their community-voted character. The character who wins the round robin will then decide the title of April’s 2GGC Saga. So, if Kameme’s Yoshi wins the whole thing, April’s event will be 2GGC: Yoshi Saga where the world’s best Yoshis will no doubt be invited to compete to see who is the best. You can find the full list of players and their respective character pools here.

If you are desperate to see your under-represented character get a chance at the spotlight, take to Twitter and rally your fellow mains to the cause. (Otherwise, we’ll probably end up with 2GGC: Cloud Saga.)

Sources: smash.gg; 2GGaming

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Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3 Hitting PC on March 7 — Get 16% Off at Green Man Gaming

Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3 is finally coming to PC next Tuesday, March 7. For those looking to pick the game up on this platform, Green Man Gaming has an offer that allows players to get a discount on the game at launch.

For anyone who becomes–or already is–a Green Man Gaming member, they can purchase Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3 at a reduced “VIP” price of $20.99; a 16% discount off the game’s regular price of $24.99.

Becoming a Green Man Gaming “VIP” member is absolutely free. All interested players have to do is register over at Green Man Gaming.

Source: Green Man Gaming via r/MvC3

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New Dissidia Final Fantasy Character to Be Revealed on March 7

Square Enix continues to grow the cast of its arena fighter, Dissidia Final Fantasy Arcade. The company has announced that they will reveal a new playable character for the game on Tuesday, March 7.

The new playable character will make their debut on a special niconico live stream at 9:00 PM JST (4:00 AM PST). The stream will include live gameplay of the new character, as well as information about the latest update via a question and answer session with the developers.

The last new character we saw revealed was Kuja from Final Fantasy IX.

Source: Square Enix via Gematsu