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“Transcending history and the world, a tale of soul and swords, eternally retold…” Bandai Namco are celebrating the Soul Calibur series’ 20th anniversary this year. The company released a new trailer that showcases games starting all the way from the PSone Soul Blade/Soul Edge in 1996, and continuing through the latest releases.

The trailer mysteriously ends with “The Legend Will Never Die.”

Furthermore, a new Project Soul website (only in Japanese) commemorates the series with a release timeline and fan comments.

The most recent Soul Calibur-themed release from Bandai Namco is a pachinko slot machine.

Could this possibly mean the series’ soul will rekindle for the current generation? Stay tuned for more leads as they come up.

Source: Project Soul via Siliconera

Love fighting games? Love arcades? Love playing fighting games in arcades? Paradise Arcade Shop knows how you feel. Sadly, with arcades dwindling in the United States and worldwide, it looks like the lifestyle of playing on cabinets is fading away. But naturally, there are still people that want to keep hope alive.

Bryan from Paradise Arcade Shop is one of them, as he has designed a T-Shirt with a tongue-in-cheek play on Donald Trump’s famous campaign slogan. But the best part of this is that not only can you support your love for arcades, but you can do so in benefit of a great cause: Toys for Tots.

Go over to the Teespring page, which has already met its minimum, to grab your today!

Source: Bryan Armitage (via Facebook)

Versus fans have a treat waiting for them in March next year.

It appears that in addition to the digital reissue of Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3 on PlayStation 4, physical copies of the game will soon be available: apparently as a GameStop-exclusive offer. Pre-orders have appeared on the US site, marked with the “only at GameStop” tag, with release dates of March 31, 2017–but those may only be placeholders at this point.

Thanks to Joel for the tip.

Source: GameStop

The Skullgirls community has been sticking to its strategy of showing up and making a splash at a handful of events through the year. This tactic worked great for Combo Breaker, CEOtaku, GUTS4, and most recently the European major Revolution 2016. The community is going to continue on, supporting the next event on the list: Frosty Faustings.

In response to the community’s efforts Skullgirls publisher and developers–Autumn Games and Lab Zero Games respectively–have put forth a pot bonus for Frosty Faustings.

Very excited to announce support from Autumn / Lab Zero for $1000 bonus at FF for Skullgirls! Looking forward to a hype tourney! #getfrosty pic.twitter.com/1hELpwVK3M

— FFIX Jan 27+28 2017 (@FrostyFaustings) December 5, 2016

This support of Skullgirls tournaments has been persistent for every event the community decided to focus on so far, and seeing them persist with this support so long after the game’s initial release in 2012 is a truly marvelous sight in today’s market.

Source: Frosty Faustings (Twitter)

There have been a lot of whispers and speculation circling Pokkén Tournament for the past 6 months, concerning the DLC characters coming to the game–at least on the arcade side. Empoleon has been expected for a long time; after being officially announced just last week, we finally get to see first hand what Empoleon the Emperor Penguin Pokémon can do.

We see it riding in on a Surf wave, gliding on ice it creates, and stunning opponents with powerful combo extenders. There’s a lot going on here, but we won’t have a chance to play Empoleon until it drops in Japanese arcades on the 15th of this month. And as always: no word yet on if these DLC characters will make their way to the Wii U.

Source: 876TV

With the announcement of Marvel vs. Capcom Infinite, the FGC has been set on its head with excitement. For many, this is the title they’ve been waiting for; for others, this is exciting news, but not the news they were hoping for.

However, Capcom may not be finished with the announcements–although they may be later on in the future. Capcom has announced today online that they will be looking at reviving various dormant franchises. While Capcom declined to name any specific titles at the moment, they said that the franchises have not seen a release in recent history.

While this may not give any promises to new fighting games coming down the pipes beyond Marvel, this doesn’t inherently rule it out, either. It does stand to mention that within a year’s time, Capcom had once released Marvel vs. Capcom 3, Super Street Fighter IV Arcade Edition, Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3, and Street Fighter X Tekken. It is possible that Capcom may have more down the line as far as fighting game announcements, but I wouldn’t expect any new announcements coming too soon.

Source: GameSpot

Gootecks of Cross Counter TV was able to get a quick word from PG|Filipino Champ about his thoughts on the updates that Street Fighter V’s second season brings to Dhalsim. During his visit to Playstation Experience, the long-time ‘Sim main was seen giving the updated version of his favorite yogi a test run, and says he was also able to experience the soon-to-be-released Akuma. Champ seems satisfied with the buffs given to Dhalism, but he is a little on the fence about Akuma, who he says he can foresee being “outclassed” by Ken or Ryu despite him being an interesting character in general.

Of course you would have to play the characters to formulate the most accurate opinion, but the words of a world-class Dhalsim player are sure to have some weight.

Source: Cross Counter TV