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You’ll be able to play Marvel soon than expected, as Sony has announced that there will be a Story Mode demo of Marvel vs. Capcom: Infinite available later today (on both PlayStation 4, and Xbox One). This news comes from Sony’s E3 press conference, where a new trailer revealed tons of new characters. By the looks of it, the previous character leak from NeoGAF was pretty spot on, as this trailer introduced:

• Dante (in his classic DMC3 design)
• Arthur
• Doctor Strange
• Spencer
• Nova
• Thanos
• Gamora
• Black Panther (most likely a DLC/Deluxe Edition-only character)
• Zero

As for MvC:I’s story, it has Capcom and Marvel heroes splitting up to find the Infinity Stones, while Ultron-Sigma pursues them across time and space. The Mad Titan and usual holder of the Infinity Gauntlet Thanos seems to have entered into a hasty truce with the heroes, as he not only tells them where each stone is, but fights back against Ultron-Sigma.

It also seems more likely that we’ll be getting a Monster Hunter character, as the Time Stone is located in what looks like the Great Desert from Monster Hunter 4, based on the markings and statues in the background. The Dah’ren Mohran right at the trailer’s end is also a dead giveaway.

The PlayStation servers are no doubt overloaded with people trying to access the Story Mode demo, so you might give it some time to cool off before checking yourself. As of this writing, it has not yet appeared in the PlayStation Store.

UPDATE: Matthew Edwards clarifies:

The MvCI story demo will be available at 4am on PS4 and 6am on Xbox One, both UK time.

— Matthew Edwards (@TheStreetWriter) June 13, 2017

Over in North America, expect the demo to appear on PSN at 8:00 PM PDT, and 10:00 PM for the Xbox One version.

Sources: Marvel Entertainment; Matthew Edwards

You’ll be able to play Marvel soon than expected, as Sony has announced that there will be a Story Mode demo of Marvel vs. Capcom: Infinite available later today (on both PlayStation 4, and Xbox One). This news comes from Sony’s E3 press conference, where a new trailer revealed tons of new characters. By the looks of it, the previous character leak from NeoGAF was pretty spot on, as this trailer introduced:

• Dante (in his classic DMC3 design)
• Arthur
• Doctor Strange
• Spencer
• Nova
• Thanos
• Gamora
• Black Panther (most likely a DLC/Deluxe Edition-only character)
• Zero

As for MvC:I’s story, it has Capcom and Marvel heroes splitting up to find the Infinity Stones, while Ultron-Sigma pursues them across time and space. The Mad Titan and usual holder of the Infinity Gauntlet Thanos seems to have entered into a hasty truce with the heroes, as he not only tells them where each stone is, but fights back against Ultron-Sigma.

It also seems more likely that we’ll be getting a Monster Hunter character, as the Time Stone is located in what looks like the Great Desert from Monster Hunter 4, based on the markings and statues in the background. The Dah’ren Mohran right at the trailer’s end is also a dead giveaway.

The PlayStation servers are no doubt overloaded with people trying to access the Story Mode demo, so you might give it some time to cool off before checking yourself. As of this writing, it has not yet appeared in the PlayStation Store.

UPDATE: Matthew Edwards clarifies:

The MvCI story demo will be available at 4am on PS4 and 6am on Xbox One, both UK time.

— Matthew Edwards (@TheStreetWriter) June 13, 2017

Over in North America, expect the demo to appear on PSN at 8:00 PM PDT, and 10:00 PM for the Xbox One version.

Sources: Marvel Entertainment; Matthew Edwards

Learn more about the fighting game scene in Rio de Janeiro in this upcoming community-made documentary.

Some of the world’s finest Street Fighter V players hail from the Brazilian FGC, such as Innova|Keoma and F3|Brolynho, for starters. If you’d like a closer look at their scene and their community, the upcoming indie documentary FGC Rio will offer exactly that!

The teaser trailer for FGC Rio — the first Brazilian documentary about the Rio de Janeiro fighting game community, made by the community itself as a not-for-profit project — can be seen below!

FGC Rio is planned for a 2018 release on YouTube. Watch for future updates here on Shoryuken and on the film’s Facebook page.

Thanks to Boris for the tip!

Source: FGC Rio – Documentário

Ever since the announcement it was announced, both fighting game and Final Fantasy fans are eagerly looking forward to Dissidia Final Fantasy NT on PlayStation 4 next year. However, most of what we know about the game comes from gameplay footage from Japanese arcades, alongside comparisons with its predecessors on Sony’s portable systems, until now.

Square-Enix shared around 15 minutes of gameplay footage from Dissidia Final Fantasy NT over on IGN’s pre-E3 live stream.  As part of the presentation, they go over some of the game’s mechanics, and its vaunted “Bravery Combat System.” In addition to this, they also give an in depth look at Cloud and Lightning as they play in the game.

Source: IGN

Ever since it was announced a couple of days ago, people have been looking forward to seeing Bandai Namco and Arc System Works’ Dragon Ball FighterZ in action. Well, this morning (afternoon in Japan), they held a special live stream over on Nico Nico focused on Dragon Ball games, and Dragon Ball FighterZ was part of the show.

The gameplay itself is quite interesting. While it’s a 3-on-3 tag team fighter similar to the last 2 Marvel vs. Capcom games, the game itself seems to play closer to Arc System Works’s own games, especially the Guilty Gear series — there’s even an attack that seems to work similar to that series’ Dust attack. However, assists do tend to work similar to other games with the feature, with characters coming in to perform attacks, and then being unable to be called for a short recovery period.

One thing that the game won’t have compared to other tag team fighters is incoming mix ups after a character goes down. After a character is KOed, a cinematic plays of the incoming character coming in and clashing with the surviving character, and the the action resets to back to the middle of the stage.

Other mechanics seem to be taken from other Dragon Ball games. There’s a powered-up dash that seems to home in and hit opponents (tagged in characters also use the same dash). And, of course, characters can charge up their ki to build meter. Speaking of super meter — from what we’ve seen, the game allows for more than five bars of meter. This meter itself is used to power several techniques, aside from super moves. These included dodges, and of course, transformations. At the very least, Frieza was shown transforming into his golden form at the cost of three bars.

The super themselves are pretty dramatic, filling the screen with all manner of beams. These supers, along with other powerful moves, leave visible damage on the stage. Some powerful supers, however, seem to actually be able to change the stage. In the demo, Vegeta’s Final Flash was shown to change the Namek stage to the burning, lava filled version of it from the end of the Frieza saga, when it was about to explode.

Now for all those who missed the stream and are salivating at all these things, more than a few folks have uploaded clips of it onto YouTube. The PS360HD channel has put up these three matches from the stream.

Source: nico nico; footage from PS360HD2

Some time back, we reported that a hitbox viewer for The King of Fighters XIV: Steam Edition was in development. Now, the tool is finally available for download.

Developer Loïc Petit has now put up his hitbox viewer for the KOFXIV on Steam, called KOFBox, up for download over on GitHub. The application itself will simply overlay the hitboxes onto the game once a match is running. Petit has also shared a video of it in action over on Twitter.

#KOFXIV You want hitboxes? I've got them for you! Download KOFBox 0.1 here: https://t.co/GhgLIldOH4 pic.twitter.com/xP56BZMDiw

— Loïc Petit (@WydD) June 11, 2017

Take note that there are still some issues with KOFBox. Most notably, it does not yet differentiate between hurt boxes and those with autoguard.

Interested players can download KOFBox here. The King of Fighters XIV: Steam Edition launches on June 15, however access to the closed beta can be gained simply by purchasing the game on Steam.

Source: Loïc Petit