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With the game merely days away, Atlus drops what will probably be the last trailer before the game officially launches. There are players who have gotten their hands on the title early, and a lot of players have been slaving over the demo to explore the new game, but most of us won’t be getting our hands on the full game until next week.

The trailer this time around features the beautiful brawlers King, Mai, and the new fighter Alice. Mai and King are longstanding members of the KOF franchise and are pretty well known–especially with Mai being in the PSN demo–but Alice is a fresh face, outside of Pachinko machines.

If you’d like to get a head start on figuring out the game, click here to check out JuiceBox’s tutorial on the basics of the game.

Source: PlayStation

After picking up Duck late last week for Melee, Denial eSports is making quite the impression in the world of Smash by signing Tyler “Marss” Martins as their first Super Smash Bros. for Wii U player. The 17-year-old from New England has made a hell of an impression over the past year or so, establishing himself of one of the world’s best Zero Suit Samus players: gaining fifth at Apex 2016, ninth at Evo 2016, second at 2GGT: KTAR Saga and most recently, fourth at GUMS 9.

He is currently ranked number one on the New England Smash 4 Power Ranking and holds 19th on the Panda Global Smash 4 Ranking, so Denial have certainly picked one of the brightest new players in Smash 4 as their first signing. He and Duck will be representing Denial at Shine 2016 next weekend, hoping to bring back two trophies for the Wolfpack. Infamous for turning up to tournaments in pyjama bottoms, I wonder if Marss will be sporting special Denial-brand bottoms for his team debut at Shine.

Source: Denial eSports

Gamescom 2016’s fighting game news continues with fresh Story Mode details for Tekken 7: Fated Retribution. Among the more intriguing tidbits are screenshots featuring a young Kazuya Mishima training with his father, Heihachi. Tekken 7’s Story Mode will offer several hours of gameplay and includes featurettes that look back in time–with this child Kazuya being a playable character.

Other than the Mishima storyline, there are several unlockable side stories that involve other characters from the series. There will also be some story-specific costumes for those fighters. One available side story focuses on Claudio Serafino, a supernatural investigator from the Archers of Sirius group, who potentially has the means to defeat the Devil Gene.

Check out the hi-res screenshot gallery from Gamescom below.

In related news, there’s also the Lee Chaolan reveal trailer from Gamescom 2016.

Source: Fighters Generation

As mentioned in Capcom’s most recent announcement, Street Fighter V was expected to implement a new system to deal with rage quitters as part of yesterday’s server maintenance. According to reports from the both r/StreetFighter and r/Kappa subreddits, the new anti-rage quit system is indeed now active: specifically, anyone who leaves a match 3 times within 2 hours will get hit with a 24-hour ban as well as a deduction of 1,000 League Points.

This is a welcome addition to a game that’s been sorely needing this since launch. That said, this doesn’t seem to have been implemented without any hitches; there have been some players who claimed to have been banned after being rage quit upon, not rage quitting themselves. Capcom’s Neidel “haunts” Crisan has addressed this on reddit, stating that players who remain connected to the matchmaking server after a disconnect shouldn’t be marked as having rage quit. However, he further clarified that he is on the look out for any footage that shows otherwise, and that he’ll forward any that is found to their team.

Source: r/StreetFighter; r/Kappa; haunts (reddit)

Killer Instinct showed off its upcoming mode at Gamescom 2016 in Cologne, Germany. According to the official website, “Shadow Lords is part ladder, part arcade mode, part story mode, and part roguelike, all rolled up into one unique experience.” Shadow Lords was first announced back in March of this year after leaking prior to an official announcement. The additional mode will be released by the end of Killer Instinct’s third season of content.

Microsoft is releasing Killer Instinct: Definitive Edition on September 20, 2016 for Xbox One and Windows 10. The title will include all 26 characters from the game’s three seasons along with other bonus content such as an exclusive “Gold Gargos” character skin.

The folks over at IGN have gotten their hands on the most recent build of the new mode and have uploaded a video showing off how the system works. Folks interested in how the story is handled can skip ahead to about 6:50 to view the mode’s cutscenes.

Sources: Gematsu; Ultra-Combo; IGN

Tekken 7: Fated Retribution’s selection of fighters continues to grow: at Gamescom, Bandai Namco has announced the inclusion Lee Chaolan–and his alter-ego Violet–to the roster.

The adopted son of Heihachi Mishima, Lee is a disciple of Paul Pheonix and Marshall Law, fighting in a style that is inspired by his two very different teachers.

Lee makes an exciting addition to the cast, as he made his debut in the very first installment of the series and has appeared in all but Tekken 3. Picking his 2P color lets you play as ultra-stylish Violet.

Source: BANDAI NAMCO Entertainment Europe

Long considered one of the big four 3D fighting game franchises, Soul Calibur hasn’t really had much of a presence as of late. Its most recent release, Lost Swords, was a single player free-to-play game. Meanwhile, its last competitive outing, Soul Calibur V, came out over almost four years ago back in 2012.

However, with this year being Soul Calibur’s 20th anniversary, it seems that Bandai Namco Games may have something up its sleeves for the series. The company recently released a teaser image on the official Soul Calibur twitter, showing the familiar silhouette of what seems to be fan-favorite character Ivy, along with the words “Guess Who.”

Whose foot is that? The whip should give a big hint! pic.twitter.com/aRLwOgEZX6

— SOULCALIBUR_official (@soulcalibur) August 15, 2016

The timing of this tweet is quite interesting, as Gamescom is taking place this week and Bandai Namco Games will be in attendance. Additionally, reports have stated that the company is set to show a “new IP” alongside Tekken 7: Fated Retribution and DragonBall Xenoverse 2 at the event. Could Soul Calibur 6 be announced at the event? Stay locked on to Shoryuken.com for more as this story develops.

Source: Bandai Namco Games; PS4Germany via 8WayRun

BigBoysToys has previously brought us great renditions of classic Street Fighter II warriors Ryu, Ken, and Chun-Li; they were also showing off their new Guile figure at their table at Evo 2016. Complete with SFII stage backgrounds and light and sound effects, these collectibles ooze their own unique cartoony style while being simultaneously nostalgic.

It looks like the line is about to grow again, as BigBoysToys has posted images on their Facebook page of three upcoming additions, revealed from Ani-Com & Games 2016: Blanka, Dhalsim, and the Raging Demon himself, Akuma!

Click to view slideshow.

(Note that the Akuma pictured is an unpainted prototype, of course.)

Expect Dhalsim in December 2016, and Akuma early next year; no news yet on Blanka’s release date, so stay tuned to BigBoysToys’ Facebook page and Shoryuken.com for more information.

Source: BigBoysToys HK (Facebook)

BigBoysToys has previously brought us great renditions of classic Street Fighter II warriors Ryu, Ken, and Chun-Li; they were also showing off their new Guile figure at their table at Evo 2016. Complete with SFII stage backgrounds and light and sound effects, these collectibles ooze their own unique cartoony style while being simultaneously nostalgic.

It looks like the line is about to grow again, as BigBoysToys has posted images on their Facebook page of three upcoming additions, revealed from Ani-Com & Games 2016: Blanka, Dhalsim, and the Raging Demon himself, Akuma!

Click to view slideshow.

(Note that the Akuma pictured is an unpainted prototype, of course.)

Expect Dhalsim in December 2016, and Akuma early next year; no news yet on Blanka’s release date, so stay tuned to BigBoysToys’ Facebook page and Shoryuken.com for more information.

Source: BigBoysToys HK (Facebook)

ESL Street Fighter’s Twitter page has confirmed that Evo 2013’s champion RZR|Xian will be attending The Brooklyn Beatdown Street Fighter V tournament at ESL One, inside the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, NY, taking place on the first weekend of October.

Senpai noticed me ^_^ @XianMSG is after the prize @ The Brooklyn Beatdown https://t.co/VhdVjR0s2S (pic by @bahnism) pic.twitter.com/4QzcfNuba5

— ESL Street Fighter (@ESLSF) August 16, 2016

Xian is now the second international player to be announced after MJS YDlHaitani was confirmed to compete earlier this month. Along with EG|Ricki Ortiz, F3|Alucard, and NVT|Flash confirmed to be in attendance, with possibly more notable players to be revealed (the player cap is set at 1,024), the Brooklyn Beatdown is shaping up to be quite the stacked tournament with some high-level competition hungry for that $75,000 prize pool.

Sources: ESL Street Fighter (Twitter); ESL Gaming