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The roster for Hamster’s Arcade Archive ports now include five retro titles from Neo Geo–and three of them are classic fighting games.

Fatal Fury, Samurai Shodown and King of Fighters ’94 will be making their way to PlayStation 4 in Japan, and will be priced at 823 yen (roughly $8 USD) each. The Japan release is scheduled for sometime later this year and, like other Arcade Archive titles, there are plans for future worldwide releases. With Garou: Mark of the Wolves ported and The King of Fighters XIV in full swing, SNK has a pretty healthy next-gen presence so far.

Source: Playstation Blog Japan via Gematsu

It’s another Street Fighter comic day: today you can pick up the latest issue of UDON Entertainment’s ongoing series, Street Fighter Unlimited #10! Go visit your local comics shop!

In this issue: Gill shows his true intentions and attempts to put his master plan in motion, with a little help from the Satsui no Hado… but if Urien’s coup fails, who’s left to stop the self-proclaimed god from bringing worldwide devastation? Can Alex rise to his destiny? Story by Ken Siu-Chong, art by Joe Ng.

This issue also features a bonus story: in the far-flung future of Street Fighter 2010, Lieutenant Ken Masters battles Mech-Zangiefs, and worse! Story by Matt Moylan, art by Jeffrey “Chamba” Cruz.

 

Check out these preview panels from Street Fighter Unlimited #10:

Source: UDON Entertainment, via 天SARFARAZ天 (Twitter)

The storied Dead or Alive series is celebrating its 20th anniversary this year. To mark this milestone event, Team NINJA has put up a massive in-game sale for the DLC items for the series’ latest iteration, Dead or Alive 5 Last Round.

As part of the sale, Team NINJA has put up two special costume packages. The first is the Anniversary Costume Set that includes the Fighter Force, Ninja Clan, Last Getaway, Showstoppers Encore and Premier Sexy costume sets for a total of 76 costumes. In addition to this, the pack also features 4 private paradise movies. Interested folks can pick up the 20th anniversary set for only $21.99 on the PlayStation Store, and $22.20 on the Xbox Live Marketplace.

The second set is called the Fun Theme costume set, and contains the School Uniforms, Pop Idols, Nurse, Training Gear, Maid Uniforms, Police and Christmas costume sets. This set can be purchased for only $21.59 on the PlayStation Store, and $21.60 on the Xbox Live Marketplace.

Both costume sets represent massive 60% saving over having to buy each individual set separately.

In addition to the costume sets, the company is also putting characters for the free-to-play version of the game, Dead or Alive 5 Last Round: Core Fighters on sale. Anyone with Core Fighters can unlock the 30 base characters for only $21.69 on the PlayStation Store, and $20.40 on the Xbox Live Marketplace. With each individual character going for a little over $1 each, this means players get a $30% discount compared to buying them individually.

Interested parties should avail of these packages soon however, as they will only be available until October 11.

Source: Team NINJA

Earlier this morning, details of the latest patch for Guilty Gear Xrd -REVELATOR- were released in Japanese. These notes have since been translated and are available for everyone to read here. The patch is dropping this Friday, so make sure to brush up on these changes so you’re ahead of the game come the 30th. Of the listed changes, the characters with the most changes appear to be Potemkin, Johnny, and Dizzy–with nothing but buffs for all three of them.

CEOtaku is merely days away, with a lot of excitement around it. The patch is releasing a day before CEOtaku so Alex Jebailey, head organizer of CEOtaku, was asked that any competitors that are bringing setups to turn off automatic downloads on their PS4s to prevent the patch loading on their systems.

A lot more changes than I was hoping for, if updating them can be avoided Friday for #ceotaku then we may use the current version still. https://t.co/d8A3UOAFIP

— Alex Jebailey (@CEOJebailey) September 28, 2016

I’m reminded of Killer Instinct, when that game updated in the middle of Combo Breaker. They were able to have that situation resolved, so hopefully CEOtaku can get everything worked out.

Sources: Alex Jebailey (Twitter); ARCSYS (Twitter); AnimeNewsFGC

Sony has just announced their schedule for this year’s PlayStation Experience. In prior years, Capcom has teamed up with Sony to host Capcom Cup during this expo, and this year is no exception. While the past few years has seen the event held around the Northern California Bay area, this year Sony has decided to send the event south to Orange County. On December 3rd and 4th, the PlayStation Experience will be held at the Anaheim Convention Center in Anaheim, California, with Capcom Cup being held on December 3rd at 6:00 PM PST.

Of course, it goes without saying that the finalists for Capcom Cup will be there throwing down for a prize pool of $250,000, so the competition looks to be hot in the Southern California heat. Mark your calendars for this event, and if you are in the Orange County area, make sure you are in the venue for this amazing event.

Source: PlayStation Blog

As hated as the mode is by many Street Fighter V players, Survival Mode has become a point of focus for where the speedrunning community intersects the FGC. GiefKid recently upped the Easy Survival record time to just over 1:42; but TheLvl99Charmander has bounced back with a Karin speedrun that clocks at a just a tad above one minute and thirty-eight seconds: 1:38:083 to be exact, beating GiefKid’s Zangief run by four seconds.

TheLvl99Charmander also has a submission video for Awesome Games Done Quick 2017, that speedrunning fans will want to have a look at.

Sources: TheLvl99Charmander; speedrun.com

Jumping head first into the world of esports, the Rivals of Aether development team have announced the first season in their esports league, titled the Rivals Championship Series or RCS. This league begins this Saturday, kicking off a 12-week circuit of offline and online tournaments across Europe and North America, which has players racking up circuit points, exclusive skins, and even a travel voucher to the series finale at the mecca of all things platform fighter, Genesis 4.

To prevent player burnout, the RCS organizers will only count a player’s top three placings within a single month, meaning that you do not have to compete in every single event in order to have a chance at the qualifying spot at Genesis 4. All entrants to their first RCS event will receive a Champion Zetterburn skin, with high placers also receiving a special Champion Etalus skin. Ahead of the series finale at Genesis 4, points will be tallied up with six players from North America receiving a travel voucher to help them get to that final bracket, with two players from Europe also receiving a voucher. The final bracket at Genesis 4 will be open to everyone, but only eight players will receive the travel vouchers to help them attend the event.

There will be weekly streams, updates and more events as the series goes on, so keep an eye out on Aetherboards and the official RoA YouTube channel for more information. As it stands, Season One of the RCS will be for PC players only, with Season Two hopefully bringing Xbox One players into the running too. All the details including the points breakdown for each event, all of the RCS rules and details of currently announced offline majors are all available on the RCS thread on Aetherboards.

Sources: Rivals of Aether; Aetherboards

Brian “Cha Cha” Stone–upstate New York’s premiere tournament organizer–is in the throes of getting everything prepared for Rumble in the Tundra, Buffalo’s annual major. And with the two-day event scheduled to take place this weekend, it is shaping up to be quite the draw.

While the anime players will be converging on CEOtaku in Orlando, and Street Fighter V heads will want to head to ESL’s Brooklyn Beatdown this weekend, Rumble in the Tundra will still feature more than enough action for you to want to be watching. Already promised is a $1000 pot bonus for The King of Fighters XIV, as well as a $500 pot bonus for Guilty Gear Xrd -REVELATOR-. They further have $300 pot bonuses for Super Smash Bros. Melee and Super Smash Bros. for Wii U, and $250 pot bonuses for Street Fighter V, Tekken Tag Tournament 2, Mortal Kombat XL, and Pokkén Tournament.

To top this all off, there will be a multitude of high level King of Fighters veterans making the trek to the East coast to the event, including the West coast’s best players such as Romance, Luis Cha, Kanibalito and TC|Yoshi. That’s not to say that the East coast will just lay down to the West coast, as they will be sending Coach Steve and A3 Religion to defend the Atlantic.

Taking place on October 1st or 2nd with four separate streams, this is the perfect tournament to pay attention to. Streams for The King of Fighters XIV and Pokkén will take place on Kick-Punch-Block’s Twitch channel; Toronto Top Tiers will be covering Street Fighter V and Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3; NeoRussell will be hosting Guilty Gear, Tekken, and Mortal Kombat; and Bifuteki will be running both Smash events. Further, should you want to take part in the event, there will be emergency $40 passes available at the venue–in which you’ll be entered into the “pools of death” for the games you register for.

Sources: Brian Stone (Facebook); smash.gg

The Street Fighter V September update reduced many players’ motivation to fire up Survival Mode, by making the coveted costume colors unlockable by spending Fight Money (or real money); but there still remain the rewards of XP and Fight Money for slogging through the reviled mode. However, you might want to hold off trying to get those rewards from Survival for a little while.

VesperArcade reports that on both PC and PlayStation 4, a glitch has surfaced in Survival Mode (Normal difficulty and above) that–logged into the server or not–that prevents a player from receiving rewards for the mode’s completion. As if Survival Mode could get get any worse–be warned that some real frustration might be in store for you at the end if you try to earn that extra Fight Money right now.

Source: VesperArcade