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Evolution Championship Series Celebrates It’s 20th Anniversary

20 years ago, the Cannon Brothers ran a tournament called “Battle by the Bay”, a 64-man Super Street Fighter II and Street Fighter Alpha 2 Sunnyvale, California. 64-man tournaments sometimes sneak by without notice these days, but at the time it was probably a jaw-dropping success.

Let’s put this in perspective: Evo is not just older then some of it’s entrants. It’s older then one of it’s most celebrated multi-champions, SonicFox.

I can imagine the Cannon’s did indeed dream of the sparkling spectacle that Evo is now, but I suspect they may not have believed they would see it happen in their lifetime. It’s one thing to see the place in your dreams. It’s another to get there.

Well, congratulations! We should all be so lucky to see our work grow up like you have, Evo. If you consider Battle by the Bay Evo’s official birth, then in one more year, Evo can legally drink. Given the spot the community is in with it’s recent televised success on ESPN2, it feels apropos, yeah?

Of course, it wasn’t actually “Evo” until it’s name change in 2002. But that’s semantics. The spirit and concept have been there since the beginning, and we are all more advanced, organized, and unified because of it. I’m not much for predictions, but it certainly doesn’t feel like we’re going away anytime soon.

Happy Birthday, Evo. Happy Birthday, FGC. Here’s to 20 more.

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King of Fighters XIV Demo Video Round Up

The King of Fighters XIV’s playable demo is out now on PlayStation Store in all regions and players are free to give the game a spin. More than a few of these players have also shared some videos over YouTube and Twitter, videos which we’ve now shared below.

First up, Gatoray streamed himself going over the demo’s modes, including the tutorial mode and training mode, showing off all the options available in the latter.

In addition to this, we’ve also got more than a few combo videos from the demo. First up is benbender339 with a 2-part video demonstrating an 830 damage combo for Sylvie.

Meanwhile SoleChris focuses on Mai with a couple of combos for her.

Noted fighting game video maker Dandy J on the other hand demonstrates how Nelson can set up a mix up situation off a flip reset.

Meanwhile, TSnooze shared a video demonstrating how hitting characters at just the right time after a blowback wallbounce puts them in a standing state, allowing players to continue with a combo.

Antinomy also focuses on Mai with a couple of combos for her.

Additionally, they also do some combos for Kyo and Iori.

Finally, Antinomy also shared this impressive if impractical 100% combo for new protagonist Shun’ei.

Next up, Persona has shared this short combo video for Kyo. Persona did a lot of work with combo videos for the King of Fighters XIII, so it’s nice to see him continuing onto the new game.

Last, but definitely not the least, we have this Sylvie Paula Paula combo video from none other than Desk showing some interesting stuff that she can pull off with her kit.

The King of Fighters XIV is coming on August 23 to PlayStation 4.

Source: GatoRay, benbender339 (1, 2),SoleChris (1, 2), Dandy J, TSnooze, Antinomy (1, 2, 3, 4, 5), Persona, Desk

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General: Stardew Valley v1.1 Detailed, Mac / Linux Ports Incoming

A brand new developer diary has been posted on the Stardew Valley site to let players know that a major update will be coming in the near future. Among other things, both Mac, Linux and console ports are in the works, as is multiplayer functionality, new buildings, crops, funcationality and much more.