Everyone has a fighting chance
If you’re counting the days and hours until the launch of Assassin’s Creed Odyssey, today’s launch trailer should raise your excitement level even more. “Forge your own destiny and define your own path as a legendary Spartan hero.”
As part of their presence at the 2018 Tokyo Game Show, KOEI Tecmo and Team NINJA hosted a special tournament for their upcoming Dead or Alive 6.
The tournament allowed a number of top players who were in attendance at the Tokyo Game Show to try the game out. For many, this would be their first time playing Dead or Alive 6 at a high level, forcing them to adapt to the game’s many changes (the new meter system, and a more DOA3-like stun game).
For those who missed out on catching the tournament, 적크풍크 has uploaded footage of it on their YouTube channel. The footage below is quite extensive, and interestingly enough, doesn’t feature overlays for player names, so some viewers may have trouble keeping up with the action. That said, for those who stick with it, it does showcase some amazing gameplay, especially with the characters revealed for TGS.
Dead or Alive 6 is set to launch on PlayStation 4, PC, and Xbox One on February 15, 2019.
Source: 적크풍크
Dead or Alive 6 could have a starting roster of 25 characters
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If you are just dying to play a battle royale game with a unique twist, you may want to check out Super Animal Royale from Pixile Studios. You’ll “fight for FURvival” as one of 64 woodland creatures dumped onto a map to become the last critter standing.
In less than a month, we’ll be able to make a grand return to the Stage of History, with the release of Bandai Namco Entertainment’s much-anticipated SoulCalibur VI. Currently the game’s launch roster sits at 20 characters with the recent official reveals of Cervantes de Leon and Raphael Sorel. Though Hwang and Lizardman have both been spotted in recent gameplay footage, their roster fate is currently unknown. There is also the matter of the game’s Season Pass, which will contain four DLC characters, including the Day 1 bonus fighter Tira.
Taking all of this information into account, as well as an official character popularity poll that has largely influenced the makeup of the current cast, History Behind the Warrior attempts to predict which warriors could most likely fill those 3 remaining DLC slots, assigning them a personal chance rating of 1 to 5. You can catch the entire video below, and be sure to let us know which three characters you’d like to see join Tira in the Season Pass in the comments section below.
SoulCalibur VI will be released for PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and Steam on Friday, October 19th.
Source: History Behind the Warrior
Hayate shares new SoulCalibur VI gameplay featuring Raphael, Cervantes
Inferno leaked as an unlockable mimic character in SoulCalibur VI
History Behind the Warrior delves into the life and undeath of the dread pirate Cervantes
SNK Heroines: Tag Team Frenzy is definitely proving a good base for over-the-top crazy combos, as evidenced by its fans on YouTube. Combonauts is still hard at work going through the cast, this time offering a combo exhibition for Luong, and one for Samurai Shodown guest Nakoruru.
And Persona Z is joining in with their own take on Sylvie Paula Paula.
Sources: COMBONAUTS; Persona Z
Combonauts presents this stylish SNK Heroines: Tag Team Frenzy combo video for Sylvie
VesperArcade is back to take a good look at Street Fighter V‘s newcomer — not the King this time, but the President, G. As they were released on the same day, the comparisons are unavoidable… and VesperArcade has mostly positive things to say about G’s tools, declaring G’s V-Triggers to be better than Sagat’s, and going as far to say that G is outright the strongest character added in Season 3. He feels almost everything about G is well-designed at the least, and in some cases powerful enough to invite nerfs at most. G’s lack of a 3-frame normal and an invincible reversal are virtually the only complaints one can make about this President.
Source: VesperArcade
How strong is the King? VesperArcade discusses Sagat’s strengths and weaknesses in Street Fighter V
Few people have the understanding of Super Street Fighter II Turbo‘s science as the creator of NKIvideos. He’s been breaking Street Fighter for an extraordinary amount of time, and his combo videos are the results of an incredible amount of experimentation and understanding of the game’s stranger mechanics and behaviors. His latest (excellent) video is no exception:
If you love reading about the weird ways these interactions came to be, you owe it yourself to check out the transcripts here. More than just a combo video, the full transcript lays out the exact details of every combo, odd interaction, and glitch.
Source: NKI Videos
A fighting gamer’s introduction to Super Street Fighter II Turbo [UPDATED]
In 1998, Daigo Umehara came to Nickel City arcade in San Francisco (well, technically a ways south of San Francisco) to fight in the Street Fighter Alpha 3 World Championship — and ultimately faced off against Alex Valle in an East-West battle that has become legendary.
At SoCal Regionals 2018, BornFree took some time to watch the footage of this epic event with fighting game OG and Shoryuken co-founder Tom Cannon, who provides lots of insight into how the whole thing went down — because he was there!
Tom Cannon talks about the California competitive scene at the time, how little was know about Japanese players ahead of Umehara’s arrival in the USA — and how much of an achievement it already was for Valle to come out on top against all the other USA competitors before going up against Umehara. He also explains how, very shortly after this tournament, Daigo Umehara gained his title as “The Beast”!
Source: BornFree
French YouTuber and SoulCalibur pro Hayate EIN is back to demo the new options of the returning characters Raphael and Cervantes. As with his other videos, these are the earliest insights we have to the TGS-only build characters, so let’s jump in and take a look at their new abilities!
Raphael has (as far as we can be aware of right now) one of the game’s only cancelable Reversal Edges, and it seems uniquely powerful. His cancel isn’t just a slow return to neutral like Taki’s — he goes straight into his “Preparation Parry” auto-GI stance, able to attack relatively quickly. Fitting for a fencer!
Aesthetically, Cervantes looks fantastic. Several of his advancing attacks now have a visual that show that he’s propelling himself by the musket in his gun. Gameplay wise, there’s some interesting new tools: 1AB has a crazy new followup that may combo on counter-hit and definitely goes into one of the coolest new attack throw animations in the game.
Source: Hayate EIN
Inferno leaked as an unlockable mimic character in SoulCalibur VI
Hayate EIN shares Astaroth, Talim gameplay preview for SoulCalibur VI
Namco to perform online ranked test for SoulCalibur VI on Sept. 28th for PlayStation 4 and Xbox One
Will the well of tech from Tekken 7 Season 2 ever dry up? Probably not, with over 1,600 changes made this season. You know the drill by now — the community is working hard to break down Season 2, and we’re here to collect their discoveries. Let’s jump in!
Let’s open first with something that isn’t technically new to Season 2 (or even to Tekken, period!) but is likely not well known: a spacing-based link for Eddy!
should mention is fc 3+4~d… only works going into rlx.
but say you line it up at the wall… there's some decent damage to be had from a good hit confirm: pic.twitter.com/UyeskycarB
— [NORCAL]subt-L (@NORCALsubtL) September 19, 2018
Asuka was buffed hard in Season 2, so if you want to make the switch over to the most popular Kazama in ranked, these combos are a good place to start.
Master Raven is blessed with a wall bounce not buried underneath a string, and she’s capable of some absurd damage from it to boot. (And check out the 75% F+4 rage combo at the end.)
Amir Ab97 has an excellent multi-character combo video for us, with particular focus on Nina, Anna, and Lei.
Last for today, Napo 2D GR will put the fear of Heihachi in you.
Thanks to everyone that submitted content to us! If you have some Tekken 7 tech you’d like to share with the world, reach out to us through our tipline.
Sources: NORCALsubtL; WonDa GAME; SpiderHam19 Gaming; Amir Ab97; Napo 2D GR