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Street Fighter V Wins Best Fighting Game at “The Game Awards”

Street Fighter V has had something of a rocky time in its first year. The game launched with what many felt was not enough content–particularly single player modes–and left a bad taste in many players’ mouths. However, Capcom has spent the past ten months supporting the game, adding more and more content.

It seems that that work has paid off: at tonight’s The Game Awards, Street Fighter V won the Best Fighting Game award. The game beat out other nominees Killer Instinct Season 3, Pokkén Tournament, and The King of Fighters XIV.

This win is notable in that the choice comes on a wave of community support, with fans supporting the game on Twitter with the hashtag #TGAStreetFighterV right up to the start of the show. This shows how much support the game actually has in the community, despite the issues that it had at launch.

Source: The Game Awards

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Maximilian’s Latest Real Talk Discusses the Importance of Patches in Fighting Games

In the current day and age, seeing patches for our favorite fighting games–or any genre of games–is all but a certainty. Whether it’s to introduce sweeping balance changes, like what’s recently happened to Mortal Kombat XL, providing new content at regular intervals, as can be seen in Street Fighter V, or if it’s just to provide minor bug fixes, like we’ve seen from Blazblue: Central Fiction, nearly all of the fighters we enjoy today have received updates to continually extend their lifespans in both the casual and competitive scenes. In the latest edition of his Real Talk series, Maximilian looks to discuss this process by providing a tale of the most notable fighter that HASN’T received any type of updates in many years following its release: Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3.

Over the course of the video, Max notes that one of the most positive gameplay changes that UMvC3 brought with it was the removal of the DHC Glitch, which became a staple of competitive play and largely dictated team selection at the highest levels of play. Though the title was intentionally left open-ended to encourage player creativity, the fact that support ended just a year after the game was released–following Capcom losing the rights to the Marvel license–along with team and assist compositions being further optimized, led to it “going from one of the most popular games in the FGC to just another fighting game, that’s still supported amongst its hardcore audience, but really isn’t played that much outside of just that audience.” Maximilian posits some of the benefits a UMvC3 patch could’ve offered, but also delves into the other side, in regards to how patching can be seen as a negative by the competitive community: using CvS2’s Roll Canceling as an example of a glitch positively received by the playerbase, and it’s removal in the GameCube port lead to it ultimately being rejected by the community, as they had spent so much time playing the original version.

Max closes the video by reminding viewers that, at the end of the day, balance patches are all within the eye of the beholder. You can see the video below.

Recently, Shoryuken’s own d3v wrote a piece about the differing balance philosophies being taken by Street Fighter V and The King of Fighters XIV, as well as asking if we’re leaving games too early before they’re fully fleshed out. Let us know your thoughts on balance patches in fighting games of all kinds in the Comments below!

Source: Maximilian Dood

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– Dauntless is an Ever-changing Co-Op RPG

At the 2016 Game Awards, Phoenix Labs finally unveiled their first project a Free to Play online Co-Op RPG called simply Dauntless. The first trailer was revealed, and now we’ve got a slew of new gameplay details as well.

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Roxy, Axl, and Slash Bring Heavy Metal Influences to Mad Gear in the latest CFN Portal Street Fighter V Profiles

After covering knife nuts El Gado and Holly Wood, the CFN Portal site continues its rundown of the Mad Gear members from the original Final Fight, with the Shadaloo Activity Report’s research on Poison’s partner-in-crime, Roxy, as well as Axl and Slash, three characters that are based on–or named after–famous musicians of the 80s, the time period in which Final Fight was both created and set in.

Private Nakagawa: Roxy, the flower (?) of Mad Gear! Apparently, she came from an orphanage in Los Angeles like Poison, but she doesn’t speak often about her past.

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Basic Info:

Name: Roxy
Height: 174 cm
Weight: 51 kg
Blood type: 0
Birthday: June 10th
Home Country: USA
Likes: Muscle Training, Shopping
Dislikes: Train Travel

Private Nakagawa: She has a characteristic husky voice. Currently, she’s active with Abigail, Axl, and J around Metro City’s Bay Area. She loves to squander money.

Next, we move on to the first Mad Gear member who serves as  a Guns N’ Roses homage: Axl!

Private Nakagawa: His leather jacket is so cool! And his Double Hammer Punch is very powerful. He can even guard attacks.

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Basic Info:

Name: Axl
Height: 193 cm
Weight: 90 kg
Blood type: A
Birthday: May 1st
Home Country: USA
Likes: Motorbikes, Soft Drinks
Dislikes: All Vegetables

Private Nakagawa: He loves his motorbike. He roars around Metro City all night long with his associates. Usually drinks a Japanese soft drink with plenty of calcium and iron added. [There are various Japanese soft drinks firms that produce those drinks, most notably Suntory.]

Finally, we have Axl’s partner and “head swap,” who’s a fellow shout-out to Guns N’ Roses: Slash.

Private Nakagawa: He let his grow, huh. He fights using whatever he finds around him as a weapon. Hates losing.

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Basic Info:

Name: Slash
Height: 193 cm
Weight: 97 kg
Blood type: B
Birthday: February 6th
Home Country: England
Likes: Cars, Sports Games
Dislikes: Noisy People

Private Nakagawa: He has a high professional sense of consciousness, respected even within Mad Gear. He’s silent and taciturn, being a man of few words; but when he plays games, he always shouts and yells like Hell. He loves watching soccer (doesn’t like to play it, though).

That’s another three Mad Gear members down. For more about the gang, you can check out profiles on Bred, Dug, Jake and Simons here. Stay tuned, as we’ll provide more coverage of CFN Portal profiles as they appear!  Do you have any thoughts on Roxy, Axl and Slash’s new looks? Sound off in the Comments below!

Source: CFN Portal; special thanks to Midgarsorm for translations and footnotes

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Warframe – Attention Console Tenno! The War Within Coming in December

Digital Extremes has announced that the Warframe “cinematic quest” called The War Within will be heading to both PlayStation 4 and XBox One as a free expansion later in December. New content includes new missions, planets, enemies and much more. Fans and players can take part in the Warframe Prime Gaming Giveaway that can see lucky winners receiving a Prime Gaming PC, XBox One or PlayStation 4.

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World Warriors Will Clash with the Night Warriors in UDON’s Upcoming “Street Fighter vs. Darkstalkers” Comics

UDON Entertainment brings these two worlds together for a new brawl.

They’ve teased it with side-stories in Street Fighter Unlimited and at San Diego Comic-Con, but now UDON is ready to officially announce Street Fighter vs. Darkstalkers, an all-new 8-issue comic series. It’ll kick off with a prelude issue #0 in February 2017, before it’s proper launch soon after.

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The main creative team will consist of UDON veterans Ken Siu-chong (writing) and Edwin Huang (art). Starting with issue #2, the series will also feature 4-page back-up stories from a variety of other creators, too. Full ordering information and variant covers are yet to be announced, but retailers will be able to contact UDON for their own store-exclusive variant covers. Readers eager to reserve their copy of Street Fighter vs. Darkstalkers #0 can use the Diamond order codes below.

Additionally, a new Street Fighter Unlimited #0 will be also available at local comic book stores and online retailers in February 2017, so keep an eye out for that as well!

STREET FIGHTER VS. DARKSTALKERS #0
32 pg, full color; $3.99; available February 2017
Diamond order codes:
DEC162023 STREET FIGHTER VS DARKSTALKERS #0 CVR A (Story cover)
DEC162024 STREET FIGHTER VS DARKSTALKERS #0 CVR B (Variant )
DEC162025 STREET FIGHTER VS DARKSTALKERS #0 CVR C (Movie Poster Homage Incentive)

Source: UDON Entertainment