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As a purveyor of old fighting games, it is always a joy to find old titles being released into modern media. While I understand the desire to collect games in their original formats, some people are more concerned with just playing these titles, regardless of the platform–so any attempt by companies to keep classics alive for another generation is a great thing.

SNK continues to make sure the titles that paved the way for their powerhouse The King of Fighters series are available today, by releasing The Last Blade onto Steam. This game, considered a spiritual successor to Samurai Shodown, has seen it and its sequel receive a cult following within the FGC. This actually follows SNK releasing said sequel onto PlayStation 4 and PS Vita in May of last year. Available for the price of $9.99, it is worth picking up to pad your Steam fighting game collection, and maybe even find a new classic game to love.

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Some disappointing news has hit the Middle Eastern fighting game community recently: the United Arab Emirates’ GAMES 16 convention has been cancelled, and along with it the Capcom Pro Tour ranking tournament that was set to take place during the event.

Originally set to take place from September 22 to 24, the event was cancelled supposedly due to conflicts with the release schedule of certain titles. As such, the organizers behind the event did not feel that they would have been able to deliver the quality that they had promised and as such, are postponing the event to next year.

The cancellation is a great blow for competitive Street Fighter V players in the Middle East, especially since the cancellation has nothing to do with the game or the tour. In addition to this, it also means that the European regional division of the CPT, which the GAMES 16 tournament was to be part of, is down one event. How this will affect the point spread and whether or not another tournament will take its place is as yet unknown.

The full statement from the GAMES 16 staff, including instructions on how to get refunds on tickets, can be found below.

Source: GAMES Middle East

Anton “Filipinoman” Herrera is quickly rising in the charts as a Street Fighter V player. First known as a Rose player in the Street Fighter IV series, he has begun to turn far more heads within the community with his stellar Chun-Li play in Street Fighter V. Currently ranked #43 in the global rankings–and recently winning Red Bull Vanguard after narrowly missing out on Top 8 at Evolution 2016–he is one of the many American players to be feared in the game.

Recently, Herrera sat down with Yahoo! Esports to discuss the game, and who he thought to be his personal demon to play against. Spoken like a true strong player, he stated, “I don’t believe I have no demons; I feel like I can beat anyone that I play.” Talking about character choices, he feels like he has a hard time against Ken, but further elaborates that “none of the Ken players are in my league.”

He further gives advice to up and coming players, stating, “just play. Go out and find friends to play with… it’s always fun.”

Source: Yahoo! Esports

As promised in the last development blog update, the first of the Double Fight Money events bound for Street Fighter V is incoming! According to the latest update from Capcom-Unity, log in and fight some Ranked Matches between 4:00 PM (PDT), September 2 and 9:00 PM (PDT), September 4 and you’ll receive twice as much Fight Money for your efforts. Here’s your chance to get some extra scratch towards those stages and costumes you’re missing.

The post also promises further updates “later this month,” so here’s hoping for some hard news about Urien’s release–and the other features that have been promised for September–before too much longer.

Source: Capcom-Unity

The King of Fighters XIV is shaping up to be a popular game at the moment: the community is picking it up quickly and running with the game, and the response so far has mostly been positive.

With the title’s early popularity and acclaim, Atlus is banking on it being an even bigger hit than it already is. So much so, in fact, that they have announced that they will be giving a $1,000 pot bonus to Alex Jebailey’s upcoming CEOtaku event in Orlando, Florida on October 1st through 2nd.

Haven't picked up #KOFXIV yet? Here's 1,000 more great reasons to courtesy of @AtlusUSA. https://t.co/V26YZa90J5 pic.twitter.com/LPl8Y4UANO

— CEOtaku October 1-2 (@CEOGaming) August 27, 2016

If you’re a King of Fighters XIV player, you’ll want to consider attending this event! Registration is available by going to the CEO Gaming website.

Source: FloKO

On August 30th, 1987, the world was first introduced to Ryu, Ken Masters and a whole cast of other eccentric characters from different parts of the world, each striving to be crowned the winner of the first World Warrior international fighting tournament. The player follows Ryu on his journey from country to country, finally arriving in Thailand for his climactic battle with the “Emperor of Muay Thai”: Sagat.

Street Fighter I was released 29 years ago today! pic.twitter.com/IXarcsUIEW

— Street Fighter (@StreetFighter) August 30, 2016

It’s true that Street Fighter’s first outing hasn’t aged with a ton of grace. The clunky controls, low quality voice samples, and limited selection of characters (if you don’t like picking shotos, you may want to find another game) became outdated the moment Street Fighter II stepped onto the scene. That said, there are more series staples introduced in the 1987 arcade title than you might remember. The familiar fireball inputs, 99 second timer, and light, medium and hard variations of punches and kicks that ended up playing a part in defining the genre all made their debut here.

If you’re in the mood to celebrate, you can still pick “Fighting Street” (the TurboGrafx-16 port of Street Fighter) up on the Wii’s virtual console for 8 bucks. Shoryuken.com does not claim responsibility for any controllers broken during your final battle against Sagat.

Sources: Street Fighter; Nintendo

With Street Fighter V, the Kanzuki Estate stage–a location that previously only existed in the pages of the various Street Fighter spinoff comics–has finally made its appearance in-game. The massive estate was first seen in Masahiko Nakahira’s Sakura Ganbaru manga (where Karin made her debut, prior to Street Fighter Alpha 3) and was shown to stretch for around 200 miles and contained various amenities, including its own personal airport.

During Street Fighter V’s development, the game’s development team was aware of the estate’s size and its many amenities, and more than a few of these were made into concepts for stages. These concepts are the focus of a recent blog post on the Japanese Capcom Fighters Network Portal site.

The concepts range from the more mundane, such as a bathhouse (one of 80 within the estate), a rooftop and various halls around the estate, to the more ostentatious: such as the courtyard that would also serve as a hangar with various large aircraft, and a recreation room with 50 large screen TVs.

You can check these concepts out in the gallery below.

Click to view slideshow.

Source: CFN Portal

If there’s one thing that the Tekken franchise isn’t known for, it’s having any sort of paid DLC to expand the game. Tekken producer Katsuhiro Harada has gone on record saying that he believes that fighting games work best as a package, and that things such as gameplay changes should be reserved for a new game.

However, it seems that Harada may be changing his tune due to feedback from the fans. In an interview with Gamereactor during Gamescom, Harada stated that “recently with the digital purchases and such a lot of people, the players especially are saying that they don’t mind paying… that they still want to see some new content after release.” He continues, saying “So since the voices are becoming more and more larger, I guess you could say, it is something that we want to think about seriously and perhaps change our point of view.”

While this doesn’t confirm that Tekken 7 will have paid DLC, this does open the possibility for it. At the very least, fans of characters who didn’t make the cut for Tekken 7: Fated Retribution have hope that their favorites may be added down the line.

Of course, that isn’t the only thing Gamereactor talked to Harada about in the interview. Other topics, such as why certain characters, such as newcomer Master Raven, were included, are discussed in the interview which you can watch below.

Source: Gamereactor

Speedrunning has become a popular form of competition as well as entertainment within gaming circles. With events like Awesome Games Done Quick airing annually, there’s no doubt that most of you have seen some of your favorite childhood games beaten in ungodly times, by people that tend to do more frame-perfect inputs than a Tekken player.

Fighting games, however, has experienced a dearth of players wanting to take them seriously for speedrunning. Given that several factors can actually impede your process within speedrunning a fighting game, there’s no wonder. Regardless, dedicated players may have found their speedrunning home in one of the most frustrating modes found within Street Fighter V–Survival Mode.

While most people are looking for a reason to stay away from Survival, speedrunners are flocking to it, as the in-game clock shows a real-time stopwatch–down to thousands of a second. This makes measuring speedruns in the game easy, and gives even more longevity to the mode outside of the hopes of unlocking colors.

Although the current overall world record for easy difficulty is held by a user by the name of thelvl99charmander–using Laura–TGL GiefKid shared a video of his record setting performance in the same difficulty using Zangief. Clocking in at just under 1 minute and 52 seconds, this will be one of the quickest Street Fighter V videos you watch today, and may inspire you to break his or any of the other records listed. And if you are crazy enough to try to set a record on Extreme Mode, please make sure we know of your success!

Source: TGL GiefKid

The King of Fighters XIV, like most competitive team fighting games, requires players to pick three unique characters for their team. However, a new glitch has been discovered that allows players to pick three of the same character for their team in online play.

As the video below from Haruhi00 demonstrates, players online can use a glitch involving a combination of the character select timer, and a player’s preset favorite characters to select the same character thrice. Now this glitch only seems to work online, since it uses features exclusive to that mode. Even so, it means that players online do need to look out for opponents using this glitch while grinding Ranked play.

Source: Haruhi00