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Spruce Up Your PlayStation 4’s Dashboard With These New Free King of Fighters XIV Themes

Aside from patches and new costumes, SNK and Atlus have also been busy releasing a number of free King of Fighters XIV themes for the PlayStation 4.

This month, they’ve released three new themes for free for Sony’s console. These are the “Newcomers,” “K’ & Kula,” and “Yagami” themes. You can check out how these themes look like in the gallery below.

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In addition to these, SNK have already have the following PS4 themes available for free download.

The King of Fighters XIV is currently available on PlayStation 4. A free graphical update is set to arrive on January 10.

Source: PlayStation Store via Siliconera

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SonicFox Talks about Joining Echo Fox with Yahoo! Esports

In a move that hardly anybody expected–and many have found parallels professional wrestling–the Echo Fox esports team has snagged a large cast of elite fighting game players, such as Momochi, Justin Wong, Tokido, and many more. Another big name from this team owned by Rick Fox is, coincidentally in name, Dominique “SonicFox” McLean, who now also bears the Echo Fox handle.

Yahoo! Esports caught up with FOX|SonicFox, asking about how he migrated to the team. They talk about balancing competitive play with streaming and going to college. When it comes to streaming, SonicFox isn’t limited to just fighting games, or even the ones that he competes in. The player also says that it’s still very possible for anyone without sponsorship to shake up the scene.

Check out the full interview below to hear more about what SonicFox has to say about the implications to his career and some Echo Fox forecasts for 2017.

Source: Yahoo! Esports

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Ed Boon Reveals Injustice 2’s Release Date

After receiving a large amount of radio silence on the forthcoming sequel to Netherrealm Stuido’s DC fighting game Injustice 2, save for a quick gameplay breakdown video of Supergirl on IGN First, Ed Boon has officially revealed the title’s release date on his Twitter account, Pinning a tweet that simply says “i2.05.16.17,” indicating that every battle will begin to define us on May 16th, 2017!

You can see the announcement Tweet embedded below, along with Boon answering questions relating to the date, below:

We haven’t seen a character reveal since the Suicide Squad’s Harley Quinn and New Challenger Deadshot were announced back in August at Gamecom 2016. With the game now coming out in a little over four months, the character reveals and announcements are sure to pick up speed in the new year. In the meantime, Boon has taken to running polls on Twitter, ranging from everything from the inclusion of Watchmen characters, to which Mortal Kombat character fans would like to see make a guest appearance, like Scorpion did in Injustice: Gods Among Us.

Is there anyone else you’re hoping to see in the title that hasn’t been announced yet? Let us know below in the Comments!

Source: Noobde (Twitter)

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Killer Instinct’s New Character Kilgore Is Banned at Kumite in Tennessee 2017

As you may already know, Microsoft’s rebooted Killer Instinct has a brand new character by the name of Kilgore. The petrol-powered robot brings with him a unique chain gun mechanic that changes properties the faster its barrels spin.

That said, for those looking for some high level tournament play with Kilgore, however, it seems that you’ll have to wait awhile. The character has been banned at this weekend’s Kumite in Tennessee, which is the first major tournament outing for Killer Instinct in 2017.

As explained in the tweet above, the character was simply released too close to the tournament. With Kilgore being just a few days old, players have yet to explore the character and learn its matchups.

This kind of temporary ban for newly-released characters is nothing new in the competitive scene. Once some more time has passed and players have familiarized themselves with it, we’ll surely see more of Kilgore in future tournaments.

Source: Kumite in Tennessee

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Arc System Works’ Fighting Game Award 2016 Tournament Is on January 14th, Here’s the Breakdown

As we initially reported, the Arc System Works Fighting Game Award 2016 is an event seeking to commemorate the players of the Guilty Gear Xrd -REVELATOR- and BlazBlue: Central Fiction. The culmination of this celebration, which included several qualifying tournaments and fan votes, is a double-elimination tournament in eight-player brackets for each respective game.

The final cast of BlazBlue fighters is:

  • Iwashi, Ragna the Bloodedge
  • Fenrich, Jin Kisaragi
  • Souji, Arakune
  • Minami, Izanami
  • Itou Sae, Carl Clover
  • Fumi, Nine the Phantom
  • Ryuusei, Carl Clover
  • Yutta, Jin Kisaragi

As for the Guilty Gear combatants, they include:

  • Machabo, Sin Kiske
  • Sabamiso, Bedman
  • GZL|Koichi, I-no
  • FAB, Potemkin
  • Nage, Faust
  • SPIKE, Slayer
  • Omito, Johnny
  • T5M7, Leo Whitefang

The page doesn’t say exactly where the event will be streamed, but somewhere on NicoNico is likely. It will take place on January 14th, but the exact time of the tournament isn’t yet specified. The Japanese Arc System Works Twitter account may announce details as the tournament draws closer.

As Kazuto Sekine, General Battle Director at Arc System Works, stated in an interview with 4gamer, there may be an announcement coming from the company at the event. Whether that could possibly be some kind of program to support the competitive players it is commemorating or teasers for an upcoming version of Guilty Gear Xrd is unknown.

Source: Arc System Works Official JP Site

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Arc System Works’ Fighting Game Award 2016 Tournament Is on January 14th, Here’s the Breakdown

As we initially reported, the Arc System Works Fighting Game Award 2016 is an event seeking to commemorate the players of the Guilty Gear Xrd -REVELATOR- and BlazBlue: Central Fiction. The culmination of this celebration, which included several qualifying tournaments and fan votes, is a double-elimination tournament in eight-player brackets for each respective game.

The final cast of BlazBlue fighters is:

  • Iwashi, Ragna the Bloodedge
  • Fenrich, Jin Kisaragi
  • Souji, Arakune
  • Minami, Izanami
  • Itou Sae, Carl Clover
  • Fumi, Nine the Phantom
  • Ryuusei, Carl Clover
  • Yutta, Jin Kisaragi

As for the Guilty Gear combatants, they include:

  • Machabo, Sin Kiske
  • Sabamiso, Bedman
  • GZL|Koichi, I-no
  • FAB, Potemkin
  • Nage, Faust
  • SPIKE, Slayer
  • Omito, Johnny
  • T5M7, Leo Whitefang

The page doesn’t say exactly where the event will be streamed, but somewhere on NicoNico is likely. It will take place on January 14th, but the exact time of the tournament isn’t yet specified. The Japanese Arc System Works Twitter account may announce details as the tournament draws closer.

As Kazuto Sekine, General Battle Director at Arc System Works, stated in an interview with 4gamer, there may be an announcement coming from the company at the event. Whether that could possibly be some kind of program to support the competitive players it is commemorating or teasers for an upcoming version of Guilty Gear Xrd is unknown.

Source: Arc System Works Official JP Site

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Bass Chills His Opponents to the Bone with This Frosty Spinal Montage

As his name suggests, Ultra Arcade’s Bass is quite the fan of the Mega Man series. So much so that his latest Spinal montage is all set to the music from Frost Man’s stage from Mega Man 8, adding to the retro flavor of these clips. The editor of this montage, UA|Kalypso, has even added in the special “Jump!” and “Slide!” icons from Frost Man’s stage, to line up with whenever Bass starts a combo with Spinal’s slide or a jump in.

With any Bass compilation, expect some devastating corner combos, extensive use of Spinal’s bouncing Skulls and more than a few mindgames which will send a chill up your spine. If you are looking for something to heat you up, Bass has promised that he will be starting up a special Cinder gauntlet, similar to his previous Spinal gauntlet once he returns from KiT.

Cinder is now apparently the bane of Killer Instinct, due to the recent changes to potential damage, so Bass is calling on all Cinder players to try and best him in a first to ten to prove the character’s power. It might be just the thing to warm us all up in the depth of the January chill.

Source: XiBassiX

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Bass Chills His Opponents to the Bone with This Frosty Spinal Montage

As his name suggests, Ultra Arcade’s Bass is quite the fan of the Mega Man series. So much so that his latest Spinal montage is all set to the music from Frost Man’s stage from Mega Man 8, adding to the retro flavor of these clips. The editor of this montage, UA|Kalypso, has even added in the special “Jump!” and “Slide!” icons from Frost Man’s stage, to line up with whenever Bass starts a combo with Spinal’s slide or a jump in.

With any Bass compilation, expect some devastating corner combos, extensive use of Spinal’s bouncing Skulls and more than a few mindgames which will send a chill up your spine. If you are looking for something to heat you up, Bass has promised that he will be starting up a special Cinder gauntlet, similar to his previous Spinal gauntlet once he returns from KiT.

Cinder is now apparently the bane of Killer Instinct, due to the recent changes to potential damage, so Bass is calling on all Cinder players to try and best him in a first to ten to prove the character’s power. It might be just the thing to warm us all up in the depth of the January chill.

Source: XiBassiX

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Speedkicks Signs with InControl Gaming as Their First Fighting Game Player

InControl Gaming is jumping into the fighting game circuit just in time for the release of Tekken 7: Fated Retribution and the 2017 Capcom Pro Tour. It was announced that their first acquisition in the FGC is top American Tekken player Stephen “Speedkicks” Stafford.

Stafford, a Hwoarang main who was the 2016 Final Round, Kumite in Tennessee, and Wizard World champion–and also made top 8 at Evolution 2016–was formerly signed with Circa Esports prior to joining InControl. Whether this will be the first of several fighting game acquisitions for the organization–given the mass signings recently by Echo Fox–remains to be seen.

Source: InControl Gaming

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Street Fighter V’s Servers Down Briefly Today to Address Matchmaking Issues

Capcom’s still doing some damage-control since the December update.

Street Fighter V’s online game has been a bit rocky since the Season 2 patch, and some players have been experiencing problems with opponent matchmaking. Capcom is working to fix that today in a 9:00 AM – 11:00 AM PST maintenance window, during which the SFV servers will be offline.

Go have a long breakfast, and hopefully things will be a bit smoother on CFN by lunchtime.

Source: SFV Server (Twitter)