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Ryu and Ken will soon be visiting 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, as Street Fighter V will be featuring in Twitch’s special White House Game-a-thon, on December 12th. Organized by Shaq of all people–who is a part owner of NRG eSports–this special livestream event is to help promote the importance of getting healthcare coverage among gamers, with the event being streamed on the GetCovered Twitch page.

While there will be a host of other games being streamed live from the White House, the most important slot for the FGC will be an exhibition match between Mike Ross and EG|Justin Wong, commentated by gootecks. Who knows, we may even see the current President come round to throw a Shoryuken with Mike and Justin.

The White House Game-a-Thon begins on Monday 12th December at 1pm PST/4pm EST, so tune in to see if an arcade stick goes flying out of the Oval Office and onto the White House lawn, in the event someone gets double-perfected.

Source: Twitch

Two new poseable Street Fighter V figures are on their way from Tamashii Nations.

Tamashii Nations is offering two new Street Fighter V figures built on the S.H.Figuarts body style–this one apparently developed particularly to provide the range of movement necessary to accomodate Street Fighter special move-based poses. Pre-orders are currently open for both Ryu and Chun-Li–scheduled for an April 2017 release. Retail price: ¥6,480 (around $55 USD), while some online dealers are offering slight pre-order discounts (see below).

Chun-Li’s figure is 5.7″ tall, and will include two swappable facial expressions, multiple hands, and a Hyakuretsukyaku leg effect. A mount for the Lightning Legs and a background sheet showing the Bustling Side Street stage are included.

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Ryu will stand at 6″ tall. His figure also includes interchangeable hands, two faces, and Hadouken effect–also with a stand for the fireball, and a background sheet of Forgotten Waterfall stage.

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Check your favorite online toy dealers to place your pre-orders; these figures are available through Lunar Toy Store (Ryu, Chun-Li) and AmiAmi (Ryu, Chun-Li), to name a couple.

Source: S.H.Figuarts, via Toyark

Red Bull has done a lot for the FGC lately; between the Red Bull Kumite, the signing of various players, and the sponsorship of events in North America, Red Bull is easily becoming synonymous with Street Fighter V.

Thus, it should come as no surprise that Street Fighter V is on Red Bull’s short list for Game of the Year. This award, determined by their readers, includes fellow esports titan Overwatch, as well as various casual and single player games.

Interested in helping Street Fighter V rise up to the top of the list? Go cast your vote!

Source: Red Bull

Wavedash Games have been quite tight lipped as of late, keeping information about their platform fighter to a minimum over the past month or two. Luckily, they have finally broken their silence by revealing Xana, their grappler character.

Xana had been teased in previous developer videos but we finally have some artwork of her, showing her off to be a famous celebrity on her homeworld, famous for her lovable personality and fighting prowess. Her long reach allows her to grab opponents and set up “crushing combos,” according to this teaser, with her special moves giving her the ability to armor through projectiles and get out of danger when faced with quick opponents.

As with the other fighters revealed by Wavedash, the design is fairly generic, without nothing about Xana’s costume showing off her vivacious personality or fighting skill. For a socialite/fighter, you’d expect her to be wearing some kind of outlandish wrestling belt or bright colors to show off to her adoring fans but this could just be a very early stage of her design. Without seeing her in action, these trailers do not act as the best way to display just how fun and memorable these fighters are–which is kind of what’s needed when you’re going up against the likes of Super Smash Bros., with its cast of Nintendo mainstays.

Wavedash Games do say that actual gameplay footage is planned to be released in 2017, so let’s hope for a trailer at Genesis 4, where they will no doubt be showing off an early build of the game to certain lucky people.

Source: Wavedash Games

Following the run-away success of their Kombat Cup online series for Mortal Kombat X, Stream.me is expanding into Killer Instinct with their new Kross Up series. Similar to the weekly structure of Kombat Cup, Kross Up will take place from January 14th to April 2nd, with regular best of five, single elimination tournaments for KI players on both Windows 10 and Xbox One.

Every event will be hosted on a Saturday, with top 8 placers all receiving ranking points while the top 4 receive ranking points and a cash prize for their efforts. Season One of Kross Up will end with a special double elimination bracket, where the top eight players with the highest ranking points will battle it out for the title of Kross Up Champion.

At this time, you must be aged 17 or older and live in either the USA or Canada to enter any Kross Up events, with sign ups going live on smash.gg in the not too distant future. Further rules and regulations, alongside the actual events themselves, are all available on the official Kross Up Stream.me page, if you require more information.

Source: Stream.me

If you were looking for a tournament to ring in 2017 with, Frosty Faustings IX could possibly be the tournament you want to go to, especially if you are a Killer Instinct player.

The guys in Chicago just announced that Frosty Faustings has been added to the roster of the Killer Instinct World Cup as a qualifier spot. This means that the winner of Killer Instinct at Frosty will automatically qualify for Killer Instinct World Cup in San Antonio, Texas from March 10th-12th 2017. This is also one of the last qualifiers, aside from the last chance qualifiers held at Killer Instinct Con itself, so book those tickets to Chicago if you want to gain an automatic spot at the world finals.

Frosty Faustings will be held from January 27-28 in Elmhurst, Illinois.

Source: Frosty Faustings

In an announcement last night, Arizona tournament series Undefeated declared that their Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3 events would be run on the PlayStation 4 version of the game, meaning that both their tournament singles and Curleh Mustache event will be run on the PS4.

According to Angelic–who has plenty of pedigree in UMvC3, with two top 3 Evo finishes under his belt–the PS4 port of the game is excellent, and it is stable for offline play. Angelic did warn that if problems do emerge before the tournament, Undefeated will revert back to the Xbox 360 version of UMvC3.

I've done extensive testing and the ps4 version does not break. It is solid. With that said I will now double my efforts to ensure that.

— Angelic #Undefeated (@AZAngelic) December 8, 2016

Undefeated–which takes place on February 4 and 5–marks the first major Marvel tournament to make the switch to the PS4 version of UMvC3, and will likely set the tournament standard going forward.

Sources: Angelic; Undefeated

After the game was announced to be getting a remastered port for PlayStation 4 and PS Vita, it was left up in the air whether or not we’d get a Steam release of Garou: Mark of the Wolves. It was likely, but with no official announcement we were left guessing. Luckily, that guessing period lasted mere days as a Steam version of the game has shown up today. Check out the direct link to the game here.

While it would seem at a glance that this release would be more-or-less identical to the PlayStation release, this is not the case. With no Gallery, no Ranked mode, and fewer of the art borders that appeared in the trailer for the PlayStation release, this port seems a bit lacking in comparison. There also are fans complaining of audio lag, input lag, and frame drops plaguing this version; these problems will hopefully be patched soon enough, but for now the PlayStation release seems to be the way to go.

Source: Steam