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Powershield TV and Smash Latam Announce Astra 2016, The First Community Effort Latin America Smash International

In an attempt to show the Latin American Smash community to the wider world, representatives from various countries from across the sub-continent have come together to create Astra 2016, a brand new international to show off some of the greatest talent in Latin America. Super Smash Bros. 64, Super Smash Bros. Melee and Super Smash Bros. for Wii U will be the primary focus for this event, but there will be tournaments for both Street Fighter V and Mortal Kombat X as well.

Seeing as this tournament seeks to bring countries together, there will be a 5v5 open crew battle bracket for both Super Smash Bros. Melee and Super Smash Bros. for Wii U, so players can bring their best to prove who is the best in Latin America. The tournament will be held in the Combarranquilla Convention Center in Colombia from the 26th-28th of August, with pre-registration now being open on Astra 2016’s smash.gg page.

This international will finally give Latin America some of the recognition it deserves and debut some of the players that cannot make it to tournaments in North America. Peru is famous for its thriving 64 scene, Mexico has some phenomenal players like MK Leo and Hyuga and Chile is the birthplace of Smash 4’s number 1 TSM|ZeRo but, hopefully, we will see some of the hidden bosses from El Salvador, Brazil, Venezula, Paraguay, Colombia and many other countries at Astra 2016 in August.

Source: Powershield TV

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Capcom Catches Up with Infexious, the Poker Faced ‘Gief, at DreamHack 2016

Manchester’s DC “Rize|Infexious” Coleman recently entered DramHack Summer’s Street Fighter V tournament and performed quite well–tying for 17th place–using who many consider to be the worst character in the game. During the tournament, Capcom UK’s Matt Edwards caught up with Infexious to discuss what about Zangief drew his attention. Infexious reveals that he enjoys playing slow, high damage grapplers, especially to find hidden strengths in characters everyone else views as weak. Though he sees potential in his character, he does mention a change he would like to see the Red Cyclone receive.

If you’d like to see another interview from this very event, check out the interview with the winner, BX3|Phenom.

Source: Capcom Fighters

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Tekken X Street Fighter Release May Hinge on Tekken 7 and Street Fighter V Success

In an interview with GameSpot at this year’s E3, Tekken’s Katsuhiro Harada addressed how the development team implemented Akuma to the Tekken universe.

Harada explained that the 2012 collaboration title, Street Fighter X Tekken, was a great experience to try to get the two universes together and to see how a 3D fighting game character would behave in a 2D space in regards to gameplay. With the addition of Akuma, the Tekken 7 development team hopes to do the same thing but with a 2D fighter in a 3D space.

When asked if the fireball mechanic from Street Fighter was difficult to bring balance to, Harada responded by saying that there were plenty of instances of projectiles within the Tekken series, so balancing Akuma was not terribly difficult in regards to his signature Gohadoken.

“The thing that we really actually kind of had a bit of trouble with developing him was more the look and the feel of him. Trying to make him actually feel realistic as a 2D fighter,” said Harada.

At the very end of an interview, Harada was asked if Tekken X Street Fighter was still something that players could expect in the future if Tekken 7 does well on consoles.

Harada restated that “Tekken X Street Fighter has not been canceled; it’s just on hold.”

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“Reasons are… right now Street Fighter V just launched, Capcom is putting a tremendous effort into making that successful. On our side, we released Tekken 7 in the arcade. It was even more popular than we imagined, and so we each have these two main franchises that we are trying to promote, and to have the players enjoy the moment,” said Harada.

This is in line with what Harada told GameSpot back in April when asked about Tekken X Street Fighter.

There is definitely a lot of content to enjoy with the two titles. Street Fighter V will be receiving its free Story Mode update by the end of June along with the DLC character, Ibuki. Players will also get a chance to try out the unreleased DLC characters within the story mode as Capcom continues to balance them for competitive play.

Tekken 7: Fated Retribution will release in Japanese arcades this July. The game will make its way worldwide when it releases on PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC, in early 2017.

Sources: GameSpot