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A Discussion on Coaching in the Fighting Game Community

Coaching in the fighting game community is sometimes a touchy subject, as there aren’t any firm guidelines in place. While bigger tournaments often bring it up in the rules, it’s more of an informal, “agreed-upon” process in the FGC community at large. This is a formally sanctioned concept in other types of esports, such as League of Legends or DotA 2.

Core-A Gaming’s latest video takes a look at coaching in the FGC. They mention the four benefits of coaching: gaining knowledge about punishable moves, strategic insight, distracting the opponent, and encouragement. As Core-A Gaming points out, coaching introduces some problems, like taking up tournament time and having no designated coach from the start.

View the full video below and let us know your thoughts on coaching in competitive play.

Source: Core-A Gaming

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– Gwent: A Cut Above

The fantastic world of hunters and beasts imagined by Andrzej Sapkowski and popularized in the series of Witcher video games by CD Projekt Red has a new collectible card game on the horizon – Gwent. Recently, the CCG entered closed beta. Rob spent a few hours playing over the past week. These are his first impressions.

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New Dissidia Final Fantasy Arcade Character to Be Revealed on November 7

Since it launched almost a year ago, Square Enix has been slowly but surely expanding the cast of its arcade arena fighter, Dissidia Final Fantasy. Most recently, the company announced Ace, Materia, and Spiritus during a livestream back in August. Now, it seems that another character will be joining the cast.

Square Enix has announced that they will be revealing a new character for Dissidia Final Fantasy this coming November 7 as part of a livestream over at Niconico. The livestream, which will start at 9:00 PM JST (4:00 AM PST), will focus on all the new content coming in game’s upcoming update. In addition to the new character, this will also include the start of “Battle of the Gods Section 3,” new items available for purchase in the Sanctuarium, as well as bug fixes.

The new update to Dissidia Final Fantasy, and most likely the new character, will hit arcades on November 10.

Source: Square Enix via Gematsu