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As was reported last year, Bishop “Shatterstar” Wagner, famous within the FGC for his “Negro Install” line of apparel, is battling cancer. Over the course of 2015, Shatta was able to see the cancer go into remission. The community began to rejoice.

Fast forward to March 2016, and we were told more grim news on his condition via DarkGeneral on the SRK forums. The cancer was back with a vengeance, was not responding to chemotherapy, and doctors predicted at that time that he had 6 months left to live. But Shatta is still a fighter. He hasn’t given up. Nor has the community.

Jeffrey “RagingStormX” Hill of Team ArcadeStream, known for his heartless Vega play, and Peter “Aikawa” Baek also of Team ArcadeStream, banded together to help out a fellow brother in arms. And as such, a charity drive at ArcadeStream will be held on Saturday July 9th starting at 2PM KST (1AM EDT), with all proceeds going directly to Shatterstar himself. Tournaments for Super Smash Bros. Melee, Super Smash Bros. for Wii U, and Street Fighter V will be held during the charity event, with food and drink orders also going toward Wagner’s recovery. There will also be raffle prizes, and a chance to donate from the stream to help out our brother.

If you want to tune in to either lend moral support or give to this cause, please point your web browsers and smartphones to ArcadeStream’s Twitch channel. In the meantime, you can also donate to help Shatterstar at his CrowdRise page.

When Street Fighter V’s free cinematic story expansion hit last week, it allowed players an early taste of Juri and Urien, characters who have yet to be released, in one of the story mode’s chapters. This has opened up a can of worms, as some players have found ways to make both characters playable online.

In a recent stream on Capcom’s Twitch channel, Street Fighter 5 producer Koichi Sugiyama and assistant producer Tomoaki Ayano took time to address this.

They stated that they have seen the videos of how to make these characters playable in online play and have a good understanding of how to see who’s been using them. As such, Ayano has stated that anyone who they know is using the characters will be dealt with strictly.

In addition to this, they also discussed the recently discovered glitch that gives Ibuki a few frames of invulnerability after landing from a whiffed air throw. They’ve stated that this is unintended and will be patched out in the near future. No date was given for when this fix will hit, but players have been urged to simply not use it.

Source: Capcom