The Dragon Ball FighterZ news just keeps on coming, as Bandai Namco have just announced the dates for the game’s open beta session. Strategically placed just before the launch of Street Fighter V: Arcade Edition, this beta is open to everyone from January 14th-15th.
For those who have pre-ordered Dragon Ball FighterZ, you can get into the beta that little bit earlier. Pre-order customers will gain access to the beta on January 13th, giving you a full day of lab time before everyone else joins in on the fun. At present, we don’t know how many characters will be present in the beta, or if you’ll be able to go into Training Mode to test stuff out, so await more news from Bandai Namco within the next few weeks.
Beerus, Hit and Goku Black join the roster of Dragon Ball FighterZ! And the Open Beta will take place January 14th to 15th. Preorders will get early access from Jan 13th. More details to come! pic.twitter.com/etqF0VRKRu
Just to get you that little bit more excited, Bandai Namco have also released a version of the Jump Festa trailer with English subtitles. In case you were getting worried, Dragon Ball FighterZ will indeed have an English voice dub, courtesy of the Funimation cast.
Monster Hunter World is an arduous game, one that requires concentration and dedication. To that end, developers believe that every Monster Hunter needs a PURRfect Palacio friend. This new trailer illustrates just how many and varied are these feline companions. Check it out and tell us which one you would travel with!?
Nintendo’ steadily updated Switch fighter, ARMS , will be giving one last present to its fans before the year is up. The latest update ‘s trailer, Version 5.0, was just dropped onto Nintendo’s channel today:
The predominate tease of the trailer is ARMS newest character: a green-haired woman cackling manically as she teleports around the field. This (apparent) antagonist does not have a release date planned as of yet, but the update’s release is slated for 2017 — so look out for her within the next few weeks!
Though famous commentary duo Ketchup and Mustard are primarily known as NRS specialists, Ryan “Ketchup” Neal was a huge fan of the Street Fighter EX series growing up. This is a point he makes clear in his introduction to the beta of Arika’s latest project, Fighting EX Layer:
If you’ve wondered what the movement and mechanics of the latest beta are like and haven’t had the chance to try it yet (or are just interested in hearing an NRS player gush over run-chains!), you’ll want to check out the above video. Ketchup lays down the game’s mechanics, its ties to the EX series, and more in this informative breakdown.
With Gundam Versus‘s recent release and My Hero Academia on the way, Bandai Namco is responsible for the majority of newest Arena Fighters in the market. Sandwiched in-between these two releases was Kamen Rider Climax Fighters, another Bamco arena fighter based off of the popular Kamen Rider Super Sentai series. Its Asian-only market release means it may have slipped under may peoples’ radar.
It didn’t slip by Victor Thammavong, however, who has been making a number of combo videos for various characters in the game. Check out the above videos for an idea of how the game’s combo system works, and his channel for some online matches!
“Do you want more?” UFOrange is back to show off the latest combo technology with Tekken 7‘s Mistress of the Dark, Eliza.
The latest combo video for Tekken 7‘s original 2D-inspired character shows off several Forgotten Realm combos, impressive divekick usage, and an exactly 170 damage kill combo on the new Howard Estate stage. Though Eliza’s divekick may have been nerfed from it’s original incarnation, there’s no doubt here that Eliza is still more then capable of using it to create long, flashy, powerful juggles.
“Super Street Fighter Carnival 2017” is the regularly occurring tournament series of Japan’s famous Mikado Arcade. This series focuses on arcade titles of old, bringing out high level play for a variety of games.
Today’s tournament, a return to Sega’s Virtua Fighter 3tb, marks the end of a long journey started two months ago for the patrons of this legendary arcade. If you wanted to jump back to the beginning, you can catch up here!
I highly recommend you subscribe to Mikado’s official YouTube channel. Though SSFC2017 may be over, they run great events for lots of games all the time!
It’s turned into quite the weekend for Dragon Ball FighterZ fans, as tons of information has come out from Japan’s Jump Festa event. Following the trailer reveal yesterday, we’ve finally seen a live gameplay demo of Dragon Ball FighterZ, complete with new characters Goku Black, Hit, Gotenks and Beerus. Not only that, but this footage shows how DBFZ’s Dramatic Productions play out in real-time.
In the livestream, the combination of Goku and Freeza as point characters and the match taking place on the Planet Namek triggered the “Awakening Super Saiyan” Dramatic Production, with the match opening re-enacting how Goku gained the power of Super Saiyan. Following Freeza’s defeat by Goku at the end of the match, DBFZ instantly transitions into the Dramatic Finish, where Goku finishes Freeza off as he escapes the exploding planet. By the looks of it, you need to have triggered the Doomed Namek stage transformation to get this finish — but expect confirmation of this nearer DBFZ’s launch.
Enough about Dramatic Productions, we all want to know about the new characters. Beerus is the character that gets the most screen-time during this footage, as we see both his Level 1 and Level 3 supers, as well as his unique projectiles. As shown in previous screenshots, his unique projectiles are his Cataclysmic Orbs — energy spheres which orbit around Beerus. Similar to Guilty Gear’s Venom, Beerus can attack these projectiles to move them into specific positions, allowing the God of Destruction to set up some devilish traps. He can create up to six orbs at once, and can move them at will — they do disappear after a short while if they do not connect with a foe.
His Level 1 super is his trademark Sphere of Destruction, where he throws a giant, sun-shaped projectile at the opponent. By spending another super bar, Beerus can detonate the sphere for added damage. His Level 3 is the Hakai, a command grab where he pulls the enemy close and then blasts them with destruction energy. If the opponent dies from this Level 3, they disintegrate into pure energy.
Being an evil version of Goku, it makes sense that Goku Black revels in blindsiding the opponent with tricky moves. Along with his trademark energy blade and Black Kamehameha, Black can call upon Zamasu to restrain opponents for a second, so he power up an attack. As for his Violent Fierce God Slicer Level 3, it can be performed both on the ground and in the air, with Black firing out a energy slash from his giant scythe.
Unfortunately, we don’t see much of Hit and Gotenks’ moves, as they are too busy getting beaten up. Hopefully, we will get extensive live character breakdowns from the special Dragon Ball FighterZ livestream this coming Monday.
Scallywag 93 continues their “Top 10” tutorial series for Tekken 7. Last time we heard from them they tackled 10 strings you should know to low parry — this week, it’s 10 strings you should be launch punishing.
When a character potentially has over 100 moves, you can’t possibly know the frame data for everything right off the bat. That’s why learning good habits now versus common tools is so important- it’s not just trivia to know how to punish King’s DF+43 mid/low enders, for example. Any player at any level that knows you don’t know how to deal with something can exploit you. These just so happen to be entry level strings that you will encounter frequently early on in your Tekken life!
Jump Festa is currently taking place in Japan and a number of game companies are at the event. One of these is Square Enix who brought their upcoming 3 on 3 Final Fantasy PlayStation 4 arena fighter Dissidia Final Fantasy NT with them.
As part of their presence at the show, Square Enix brought out a new trailer for Dissidia Final Fantasy NT. The trailer focuses on the game’s story, exploring why heroes and villains from various Final Fantasy games are being called together once again.
Since the trailer is a bit dialogue heavy, Square Enix has released an English language version for players outside of Japan. Check out both that, and the original Japanese version below.
English Language Version
Japanese Language Version
Dissidia Final Fantasy NT will launch on PlayStation 4 on January 11 in Japan, and January 30 in North America and Europe.
