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Love or hate him, Maximilian Christiansen has done a great job in pushing fighting game content for more casual players. While he covers a lot of fighting games, the one series in particular that he’s been most associated with is the Marvel vs. Capcom series. As such, it should be no surprise that Max was at E3 to try out the latest public build of Marvel vs. Capcom: Infinite.

More than just showing gameplay footage and talking about the E3 build, however, Max also talks a bit about the downloadable story mode demo that was released just in time for E3. Specifically, he goes over the differences between the two builds, and how the downloadable demo seems to have been a let-down due to its graphically less-polished state, and the fact that it didn’t focus on the game’s strengths (the gameplay).

That said, there is still a lot of footage from the E3 build, especially since Maximilian finally gets to play his dream team of Mega Man X and Strider Hiryu.

Source: Maximilian Dood

After getting some tips on learning matchups with Echo Fox|Justin Wong and Dr. Fatbody explaining how to deal with five commonly-abused attacks, the next installment in Cross Counter TV’s GFinity Training Series sees AbleGamers|Brolylegs teach players how to properly defend themselves with anti-air attacks in Street Fighter V. Though perhaps a rudimentary concept for some of our readers, being able to properly defend against jump-ins attacks, particularly if they are cross-ups, is an integral part of improving in fighting games in general — especially when they can lead to massive damage, as is the case with SFV.

Utilizing his signature Chun-Li as an example, Broly goes over the differences between using normals as AA options versus using your special attacks, as well as explaining how to find the proper timing, spacing, and reliability to utilize the attacks to ensure maximum effectiveness. He also covers air-to-air situations, and urges players to find the best AA solutions for their character(s) of choice.

For European players looking to show off their skills in online competition, you can find more information about the GFinity Elite Series, featuring Street Fighter V, at www.gifinityelite.com. You can also follow BrolyLegs on Twitter; stay tuned to Cross Counter TV’s channel for more great instructional content.

Source: Cross Counter TV

Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3 has always been a mainstay at Community Effort Orlando, with notable players flying out to Orlando to compete each year. This year’s tournament was no different, with a number of the game’s “gods” and other notable players in attendance.

For those who missed UMvC3 on CEO 2017’s stream, the folks from CEO have uploaded match videos — including some of the top 8 matches from the tournament — onto YouTube. Featured in these matches are Marvel gods such as Splyce’s Ryan “Filipino Champ” Ramirez, Panda Global’s Raynel “RayRay” Hidalgo, and Evil Geniuses’s Christopher “NYChrisG” Gonzales; joining them are a host of other top players such as Ryan “RyanLV” Romero, SOKP’s Steve “Supernoon” Carbajal, Florida native Derrike “Full Schedule” Nunn from team IG, and more.

All these players and more duke it out in the matches below, culminating in a Morrigan showdown between RyanLV and Evo 2016 champion ChrisG in the Grand Finals.

Source: CEO Gaming

Last weekend was one of the biggest tournament weekends for Street Fighter V, as the 2017 Capcom Pro Tour made two huge stops with a pair of Premier events: DreamHack Summer in Jonkoping, Sweden and Community Effort Orlando in sunny Orlando, Florida. With Evo fast approaching next month, lots of top players attended these events in order to further cement their climb up the leaderboards, towards a spot in the Capcom Cup this December.

If you missed either of these events — or only had the time to catch one of them live — Capcom Fighters has you covered with their countdowns of the top five SFV moments from each of these tournaments. Some of the moments you’ll see in the videos include: Eric C forcing Echo Fox’s Justin Wong to “take the poison” in pools, PIE|Smug’s nasty Balrog comeback against Grpt|MOV’s Chun-Li, Red Bull/Cygames Beast’s Snake Eyez carrying muscle power to victory, SaltyKid scoring the upset against Mago, YOUDEAL|Yukadon literally blowing up Zowie|OilKing’s Rashid, and so much more. You can catch both videos — and all the hype moments within — below!

You can also enjoy these playlists of the top 32 and top 8 of each event:

What were some of your favorite moments for last weekend’s events? Be sure to tell us in the comments.

Source: Capcom Fighters

With the Marvel vs. Capcom: Infinite Story Demo released earlier this month, veteran combo creator and game scientist desk has been exploring the title’s systems — particularly the new freeform tag mechanics — and pushing them to their limits, even while having no access to a proper Training Mode. We’ve already seen him analyze MVC:I’s take on infinite prevention, as well as putting out an initial combo video filled with some very impressive sequences.

Now the content creator provides us with a method to defeat the game’s boss, Ultron Sigma, who players will face in the final battle of the demo (with the team of Spencer and Thor) utilizing a grapple loop with the Bionic Commando.

Though Ultron Sigma takes very little damage, will Advancing Guard nearly all your attacks, and possesses both the Reality and Space Infinity Stones, desk’s loop of J.LP, HP, d+HP (Head Smasher) canceled into down-forward Wire Grapple, combined with Power Stone wallbounces and a few Hypers, should allow you to survive the match. The combo looks similar to some loops from back in Marvel vs. Capcom 2.

Check out even more of desk’s work with the Story Demo here!

Source: desk