Hello and welcome to my 2019 EVO write up. EVO 2019 will once again be taking place at the Mandalay Bay Events Center from August 2nd to 4th. Who has joined and who has left Nine games will be featuring in an official capacity this year (with no charity fan-vote spot), five of which will be making their debut this year on the EVO main stage - Mortal Kombat 11 Samurai Shodown Soulcalibur VI Supe...
I think the crazy year that is 2017 is very comparable to what The Patriots AI was discussing with Raiden in the final 140.85 codec call of Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty . Inbetween under water swimming segments, Emma Emmerich described Arsenal Gear's purpose as The Patriots censoring the internet for fear of their lack of control; the mass information that flows freely across the interne...
Mod Edit - Since we've got a new one of these pretty often, we've decided to just designate this as the thread to talk about all things fighting game related, such as FGC, what color of gi Ryu's wearing this week, et cetera. Have at it. Good luck, have Zangief. It's time for the most biggest prize in fighting game history to be awarded, one of 32 fighting game players will walk away with $125,0...
It's finally here, SoCal Regionals, for real this time! SoCal Regionals 2015 Preview We live in a post-EVO 2015 world! And yet the road to December's Capcom Cup continues. SCR 2015 was originally slated for May (before EVO 2015) but due to venue issues it's been bumped to October. Its premier event status for the Capcom Pro Tour is still active so its USFIV tournament still has a spot in the Ca...
We may be only a month away from EVO 2015, but that's no excuse to sleep on its biggest rival, Community Effort Orlando, CEO 2015! CEO 2015 Preview https://www.ceogaming.org/ CEO Jebailey on Twitter CEO Gaming on Twitter In truth CEO isn't a "rival" as such to EVO, a given FGC event doesn't tout achievements in comparison with one another but to itself, not unlike Ryu really. And CEO has had a...
The king is dead! Long live the king! http://combobreaker.org/ Combo Breaker FGC on Twitter Combo Breaker Preview! Ultimate Fighting Game Tournament was one of my favourite events of the fighting game community calendar, I covered it in blog form for the past 3 years when Adam 'Keits' Heart (UFGT director, creator of Divekick , Iron Galaxy staffer) unleashed Divekick upon the world. Sadly he re...
Not one Capcom Pro Tour qualifying event this weekend, but two! PREVIEWS: NorCal Regionals 2015, live from Norcal, USA and Hypespotting 4, live from Glasgow, Scotland! http://norcalregionals.com/ http://www.hypespotting.co.uk/ The Capcom Pro Tour truly is global, so it's no surprise that 2 premier events would inevitably clash like so many other sports events/entertainment shows/video game conv...
Winter Brawl 9 Preview! Winter Brawl often signifies the beginning of the road to EVO in earnest. We know what the EVO line-up is, the Smash community begins the year showcasing its best at APEX (which nearly didn't happen this year, more on that after the preview) and in what has become a popular trend we know what fighting games are coming round the corner in Spring in time for EVO. I've alwa...
2015! Let's do it big! With a 2001 GameCube game! APEX 2015 Preview APEX is the home of the Smash community. When all communications between the Smashers and EVO were at their all time low APEX kept the community together and are responsible for all the success that has followed in the past year. Now APEX has the full support of Nintendo of America (at the expense of Project M). APEX 2015 could...
Capcom Cup 2014! Hello and welcome to my final fighting game tournament event blog of 2014! We've enjoyed another year of quality fighting game tournament matches and now is the final big event, the Capcom Cup! Our own Jason Oestreicher will be at the event! What is the Capcom Cup? Capcom USA have teamed up with the biggest fighting game tournament events of the fighting game community to strea...
Welcome back to the world of fighting games! It's been quite some time since EVO happened, we're at the half way point between EVO and the Capcom Cup so I figured it was time to showcase another major event on the fighting game tournament calendar, The Fall Classic! As far as tournament organisers go, The Fall Classic has a 4 man all-star group of East Coast TOs running this event: Larry “Shin...
The 21st of July. Not only an important day in Giant Bomb history (Happy 6th Birthday Giant Bomb!) but for one of gaming's most iconic characters. Ryu is now 50 years old, which means if Street Fighter V, which has not been announced as an actual thing in any shape of form, was set in the year 2014, many of our favourites would look a lot different today (Ken turns 50 in February 2015). Ryu has...
Tales of Tekkens past Tekken 1, 2, 3 and Tag were awesome! If this isn't the coolest good guy protagonist design in fighting games then I don't know what is. Tekken 4... not so much But then Tekken 5: Dark Resurrection Online on the PS3 brought me back! Tekken 6... not so much And then Tekken Tag 2 came out, nostalgic feelings of the first Tag abound! But it was, for me, the straw that broke th...
EVO 2014 Preview, Streams & Schedule (July 11-13) Live from Las Vegas! Welcome to the EVO 2014 preview! EVO comes to you live from Westgate Las Vegas Resort & Casino (formerly known as LVH). What a turnaround for Nintendo, who last year tried to shut down the EVO 2013 Super Smash Bros. Melee tournament and now they're official EVO 2014 sponsors! No doubt the amazing Super Smash Bros. for Wii U...
CEO 2014 (and FighterMania II) Preview! http://www.ceogaming.org/ Streams and schedule http://www.twitch.tv/capcomfighters http://www.twitch.tv/ceogaming http://www.twitch.tv/vgbootcamp http://www.twitch.tv/funkyp or http://kbmod.com/multistream/view/?s0=capcomfighters&s1=ceogaming&s2=vgbootcamp&s3=funkyp&layout=9 Featured Games Official EVO 2014 titles - Ultra Street Fighter IV, Ultimate Marve...
Ultimate Fighting Game Tournament X Preview http://ufgtus.wordpress.com/ Welcome to the UFGTX preview blog! The final UFGT preview blog, because after this it's done, no more. The man behind UFGT and creator of Divekick Adam 'Keits' Heart is making 10 the final Ultimate Fighting Game Tournament. Sad times, but a lot of fun has been had and will be had this weekend! Streams and schedule http://w...
It's time once again for the 2nd longest running FGC tournament event in existence, Final Round 17! In addition to Final Round being a Capcom ProTour event (more on that before) Yoshinori Ono has tweeted Capcom's intention to announce something Ultra Street Fighter IV related at the event. With Ultra Street Fighter IV's Edition Selection announcement this is likely going to be the 5th character...
This blog recommends the immediate and continuous listening of - The Phoenix - Fall Out Boy This was used as the Phoenix Wright (get it?)-heavy show VGCW: Endgame 6 which I previewed last time, it was awesome by the way . Welcome! It's that time once again where I steal Patrick's Worth Reading idea, voice some opinions and point you in the direction of cool stuff! Making Points RIP Screened.com...
Welcome to the first FGC blog from me for 2014! It's good to be back in the EVO season, we've got a lot of quality tournaments ahead before EVO 2014 in July 11-13. Shoryuken.com has created a Tournament calendar so you can stay in touch with events and dates for 2014. EVO 2014's Line Up EVO 2014's line up was announced by one of the EVO top dogs, Joey 'MrWizard' Cuellar, iPLAYWINNER's live-stre...
This blog recommends the immediate and continuous listening of - Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance - A Stranger I Remain - Extension Intro Welcome to Making points and clicking things #1, a blog series which makes points regarding video games & Giant Bomb at large and provides things to click regarding - Gaming Films Comics/Graphic Novels Books Anime/Manga The Internet/Youtube TVeeee VGCW and infe...
Broken Sword: The Serpent's Curse - Episode 1 released on December 18th, 2013 2014 begins, and I have yet to pledge a penny to any Kickstarter project, successfully funded or not. There's a certain... uncertainty to whether the funds will eventually lead to an actual release of a crowd-funded game. But there's a large list of Kickstarter projects I have tweeted about to help get the word out ab...
Welcome to the final FGC tournament & News blog from me for 2013! Featured news items include Ultra Street Fighter IV and Killer Instinct ! Tournaments Featured in this blog Tournament Date Location Main stream North East Championships XIV December 6-8 Philadelphia, PA Team Spooky Curleh Mustache Battle Royale 2 December 6, 7 or 8 Philadelphia, PA Team Spooky Capcom Cup 2013 December 14 Burling...
Oh Mr. N, so fun but so limited. Or is it just me playing bad? Mr. N is one of Divekick's sharper acute angle divekickers, with a divekicking angle of 60 degrees. He dives very high and kicks very low, a more defensive character to the crazy offence you can expect from Redacted due to the former's slower kick and the latter's much faster one. I had already decided pre-release that I was going t...
It's time once again for the big one, presenting EVO 2013, where the world's best fighting game players (including a record 70 Japanese players ) descend upon Las Vegas! Official tournament games, live streams and schedule Games (Alphabetical order) Entrants Injustice: Gods Among Us 580 Mortal Kombat 9 201 Persona 4 Arena 400 Street Fighter X Tekken Version. 2013 545 Super Smash Bros. Melee 696...
Schedule Friday 2PM SFxT Pools Soul Calibur V Pools Mortal Kombat Pools Skullgirls Pools 3PM AE and Marvel 3v3 Teams Single Elimination $15 per team (Signups start at 2 pm for Teams, Captain must Sign up Team with Players and Team Name 32 Team Cap) 6PM Skullgirls Final 3 6:45 PM Soul Calibur V Final 3 7:30 PM Mortal Kombat Final 3 8:30 PM Until the end of the night... CEO FighterMania! Saturday...
Well that was a pretty crazy 12 months. BREAKING! Thursday Night Pre-show! At 8pm (CST) , the fun begins as staff and special guests are invited to witness the UFGT9 Pre-Game Show. What mysterious type of show will this be? You’ll have to tune into the LevelUp live stream to find out, but I assure you its going to be totally boss. If you want to participate in the Pre-Game show, you can sign up...
Time for another FGC blog and another Road to EVO major, the 3rd of the 5, NorCal Regionals! NorCal Regionals 2013 - April 26th-28th Disclaimer: The official NorCal Regionals 2013 trailer, with all its Hotline Miami goodness, is brought to you by Giant Bomb's own @lordofultima . All the main EVO games will be there and joined by Divekick, which will be using the Jefailey build (see more below)....
Right now, the biggest hope for live-action movies based on video games not being bargain bin quality is the Internet, two of the most promising are Street Fighter: Assassin's Fist and Mortal Kombat: Legacy. I first became aware of these two martial artist stunt men's attempt to make a Street Fighter live action series that's actually worth watching when they put up the Street Fighter: Legacy v...
Intro Yep, this is going to be a long one, so if you're interested in Final Round XVI, its Curleh Mustache Battle Royale Exhibition run by VxG EMP (yeah that happened) IFC Yipes and the continuation of the East Coast Tekken Circuit then read on. PAX East happenings ie. Divekick, Daigo, Injustice, New Super Street Fighter IV, you'll have to scroll down a bit News of the biggest YouTuber of the F...
Welcome to the PAX East 2013 Fighting Game Community events blog. Divekick and the Lang Zone PAX East Exhibitor Hall Divekick is confirmed for PAX East, it's listed on the PAX East under Dave Lang's Iron Galaxy, which is in the top-left corner of the Exhibitor Hall. With the recent trailer released showcasing new graphics, UI and gameplay additions, It'll be very interesting to see what new gam...
Very curious about diving into this now that it's F2P. As with most F2P releases, you'll be able to level up a certain amount, up to level 15 of 75 in this case, for free. $5 will unlock levels up to 25, $20 will unlock all the way to level 75. Individual items, whatever they may be, will be around $0.99 each. "The thing that's most interesting is what does it do to the population of the commun...
The Road to EVO 2013 continues with Winter Brawl 7, brought to you by Big E Gaming, in Philadelphia from the 23rd to the 24th of February. This event was a late addition to the Road to EVO this year, with South California and North California Regionals both getting an official Road to EVO spot, as well as two of the biggest events of the year, UFGT9 (Chicago) and CEO 2013 (Orlando). The North E...
Update 3 On Wakeup SRK E133 last night (May 8th) EVO director Joey Cueller (MrWizard) announced that due to Injustice blowing up in the FGC, they're going to do an official Injustice tournament. This means there's 9 games at EVO 2013, which hasn't happened since EVO 2004. Update 2 The Breast Cancer Charity Drive has ended, Super Smash Bros. Melee is going to EVO! 1st - Super Smash Bros. Melee $...
This weekend the announcement was made that Capcom had given IGN's IGN Pro League its blessing to use its games. For the first time Street Fighter games will have official tournaments at an eSports event, namely the biggest name Super Street Fighter IV: Arcade Edition and the most infamous game of modern times, Street Fighter X Tekken. Interestingly the most watched game at EVO 2012, Ultimate M...
We are heading into the end of the year with lots of FGC events coming up, read on for: Events - Street Fighter 25th Anniversary Grand Finals, Curleh Mustache 5 (EVENT COMPLETED), North East Championship (EVENT COMPLETED) Results - Atlus Fighting Championships, Giant Bomb Persona 4 Arena community vs. GameFAQs Persona 4 Arena community News - R.I.P. Southtown Arcade, Reverge Labs lays off Skull...
It's that time again! Canada Cup Preview! Canada Cup is most known for two things, a world cup 5 vs. 5 style competition in SSF4AE (in addition to the usual singles tournaments) and the $8.95 fighting game community meme. As discussed in the above video, Team Europe had to pull out of the event, the other 8 teams are: Team USA 1, Team USA 2, Team Canada 1, Team Canada 2, Team Japan, Team Korea,...
These Fighting Game Community events read more like Wrestling Pay Per Views all the time. http://godlike-entertainment.com/ Season's Beatings: Ascension Preview! This event is taking place in Cleveland from the 28th to the 30th, featuring all sorts of games and players from EVO as well as new games that have been released after: Featured games Super Street Fighter IV : Arcade Edition ver. 2012...
I tried this game before but I got permanently stuck in one of the story-dungeons when I was under-levelled for a temporarily 1 on 1 boss fight. I recently started a new game, with saves on the world map (turns out I didn't need them), this time completing the game. It's one of my favourite RPGs I've played. It has: A levelling system that allows customisation within certain limits Combat which...
Evo Championship Series 2012 - The World's Best - Fighting Games vs. eSports?! Evo 2012 - Live from Caesar's Palace, Las Vegas, NA It's time for the big one folks! Following last year's EVO 2011 and the Road to EVO 2012 season we are now just one week away from EVO 2012, the world fighting game championships. 2012 has certainly been packed with events this year leading up to EVO and now the bes...
CEO 2012 - Daigo competes, DIVEKICK returns and playing games in a wrestling ring We are just over 3 weeks away from EVO 2012 ( Evo Championship Series on Giant Bomb) in Las Vegas with two Road to EVO tournament season events remaining. This weekend's event is CEO 2012. Daigo 'The Beast' Umehara, sponsored by Mad Catz , among other championship wins, is the Evo 2009 Street Fighter IV world cham...
UFGT8, one of my favourite Road to EVO events is all this weekend, featuring the return of the Mystery Game Tournament and the debut of DIVEKICK! Just look at the trophies they'll be playing for (which are related to a the post-credits ending in The Avengers)! Infinity Gauntlet Trophies! The main reason why UGFT is so popular is because of the extras you get other than the EVO seeding point tou...
Capcom announced details on the half a million dollars they're giving away in competitive gaming in the form of a 25th Street Fighter anniversary themed tournament series to begin after EVO 2012. Super Street Fighter IV: AE 2012 Street Fighter X Tekken Street Fighter III: 3rd Strike Online Edition Super Street Fighter II Turbo HD Remix Schedule: Remaining Evo Championship Series Dates Event Dat...
Disclaimer: I'm going with the assumption that we all agree that the actions of Aris on the Team Tekken half of Cross Assault was completely wrong and that if you have an opinion on the matter that you want to discuss you have 2 articles by Patrick and various additional articles by many video game journalism websites in which to do so. So what I'm trying to do with this blog is give an accurat...
To the Fighting Game Community's amazement, Mortal Kombat was announced to return at EVO 2012 and now MLG now has MK9 too! Mortal Kombat's sales and Warner Bros. on-board has made it a powerhouse with or without a tournament scene that up until now has been on it's last legs Capcom it seems are still being stubborn over letting any of their titles grace MLG, SSFIV: 2012 or UMvC3 Many of the Fig...
Where? http://www.twitch.tv/keits When? 7PM PST / 10PM EST / 3AM GMT Info Super Street Fighter IV: Arcade Edition - Version 2012 and Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3 are givens, joining them could be any game from: Mortal Kombat King of Fighters XIII Street Fighter X Tekken Tekken TAG Tournament 2 Soul Calibur V Skullgirls BlazBlue: Continuum Shift Extend EVO 2011 only had 5 games, even if they go...
The EVO Championship Series continues to get bigger and better every year. It would be quite the understatement to say that 2011 was no exception. 1.1 million total unique views of an event that capped at 82,000 viewers (50,000 more than 2010). The Fighting Game Community is quickly rising and blowing up the Internet. Highlights 8 year old Noah beating people left and right at Marvel vs. Capcom...
Negativity surrounding Dragon Age II and Mass Effect 2: Arrival I don't believe this will have an effect on ME3, it seems to have a longer dev cycle than DAII and the fact that Arrival had so little must mean that they are hard at work on ME3. The consensus in the Mass Effect team is that they hit the sweet spot with Mass Effect 2 and seek to improve upon that rather than go for an overhaul lik...
Perfect excuse to use this humourous picture I found! Aveline BioWare's improvements to the combat system make me want to use her more than I ever wanted to use Alistair or Loghain . Her companion mission with Guardsman Donnic is my personal favourite of the entire game. Haven't tried her as a love interest yet, will do at some point. Voice actor ( Joanna Roth ) does a great job with what I bel...
Combat Name: Limus FLStyle Level: 32 Race: Male Human Limus Origin: Mage Class: Mage Specialisations: Arcane Warrior, Spirit Healer and Battlemage GF/BF: Morrigan Origins Story Dalish vs Werewolves - Zathrian ended the curse, killing himself and the Lady of the Forest, turning the werewolves back to humans. Recruited the Dalish. Bhelen vs Harrowmont - Destroyed the anvil, killed Branka, put Har...
As you know the clocks went back an hour last week, meaning that when Ryan and Jeff say that TNT and Happy Hour starts at 4PM PDT, that means we have to be at giantbomb.com/chat at 11PM, or we'll miss the first hour like I just did with this week's Screened's Screening Room this evening. According to the internet, the USA's own clock change happens this Sunday, so we'll be back to midnight next...
Details It's called Ginx (I don't know what this means) It's by the people who did/still do the UK gaming programme "Gameface" on the Bravo channel which wasn't unwatchable It launches this November It's being billed to do for games what MTV did for music (presumably when it was actually about music and not reality TV) which the guy in charge would know about as he's the former head of MTV Euro...
http://paper.li/FLStyle/whiskey-media You can create 10 Newspapers per user and can create them based on a user, a # tag or a list. It displays all links posted by those included in the feeds (which explains the Engadget link, tweeted by Jeff) and features youtube videos and Live Streams. I think it's a pretty cool little app, thanks to Stephen Fry for drawing my attention to it. http://paper.li/
haha! This scrub is moving up in the world, so I naturally changed my title to "Movin' on up." I'll probably still lose horribly in the Rage Quit Demon 2 , but at least this time I'll put up more of a fight, right? Right? No, I didn't think you'd share my optimism.
Let's see, Street Fighter IV, Valkyria Chronicles, Persona 4 and those were ages a go. Recently on the PSN I've bought Worms, Zuma, Fat Princess, Final Fantasy VII. They're cheaper, proven quality and I don't have to leave the house to get them. But I can see myself getting Arkham Asylum, Tekken 6, FIFA 10, Dragon Age: Origins on disc whereas the only downloadable left that I really want is Tri...
Hell yeah I'm ready for Football, the new season starts next week and I couldn't be more excited. My Fantasy Football team is already done and ready to go. PS. Handegg sucks.
Because of the Materia system I feel no need to change my characters just for Limit Breaks. Also, the changing of Materia has been a tough task. If there's some way of changing without the PHS I haven't found it. I'm almost set on sticking with Cloud, Barret and Red XIII for the entire game. Any problems with this? Are either Barret or Red XIII killed off before the end of the game (without spo...
I noticed that there was quite a backlash to the Endurance Run today, but there was an equal amount of people moaning about the moaning. So I did a moan of my own to see if I'd get a reaction and I was amused at the results. My point? If someone rage-posts the best thing you can do is ignore them. The worst? Directly reply to them therefore giving them the attention they're craving. Source: htt...
You've just had a close match after 10 mins of searching, then it won't connect you to any yellow or green bars, but never hestitates to connect to red bars where you're either kicked or have a lag-tastic match. I've never going to be able to compete with my fellow G2ers if I get slaughtered once every 20 minutes of trying to find a match. Speaking of which, where did all these G2-E people come...
I gave up on the MGS4 Integral podcasts since Ryan Payton left, but apparently there's now 10 episodes up on MGS4 for download. Two Questions: Who knew about this? Why didn't you tell me? In the latest podcast Ken, Aki and someone called Sean who to my knowledge never appeared in any of the Kojima Productions Report podcast with Ryan basically said "Do you want Zone of the Enders?" to which my...
I love all the banter between Snake and Otacon, but the dump in the barrel moment had me in stiches!
Dunno if this is a coincedence but I'm sure My Dan tee unlocked at the same time as my 50 wins trophy, as has my new black Akuma tee with the kanji on the front unlock after my 100 wins trophy. In any case I proceeded to make my Home self look as much like the Master of the Fist as possible. I'm now running around barefooted and looking like I'm in dire need of sleep.
For the record, I didn't play a lot of 2, haven't touched HD Remix (due to it being released one day before SFIV was for PAL PS3 users (Thursday then Friday respectively)), nor have I ever played 3. I have however played a lot of Alpha 3 Max on my PSP, lots of fun. So I went into SF IV relatively noobish. But thankfully I'm not doing too badly now. My current records is Played: 161, won: 65, wh...
www.omegaasylum.com I've been wanting to make a site for many moons now and here it is *insert evil cackle here*
In that case I'll request Evil Ryu, Shin Akuma and (Final) Bison's original body from the Alpha series with the screen-filling Psycho Crusher super.
I'm not aware of any other games that I need to buy other than SF IV. I'll have a look around and see what I can find.
This all boils down to two things: Early 2009, the only game I really want is SFIV I've been playing Valkyria Chronicles for three weeks, 70% of the way through so far. Hopefully it'll last another week or two. Other than those two, there's no game I really want to go back to, but not many new releases I'd go as far as to pre-order. I've got a lot to do on LPB but I don't really have an urge to...
There were a few games like GTA IV and MGS4 that I felt like I'd been waiting years for but for 2009 the only game that I feel the same way about is SF IV.
Annoying, uncontrollable and it gave me a headache, the bastard.
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Well it finally happened, with all the problems plaguing MGO and not being able to buy the GENE expansion pack it was only a matter of time before another online game took my interest and Warhawk has done just that! The jetpack is amazing, it's probably the best add-on to a game I've ever come across (Sonic and Knuckles multi cartridge in a close second). I've had a go at getting my first troph...
Greetings! Welcome to my second GB blog. I've been updating a lot of pages recently from my favourite series as well as two lists, but my most proud achievement so far on GB is my Dragoon (concept) page! It's basically a page for all Dragoons that are in all games, I'm waiting for a big type up I did last night on The Legend of Dragoon and Final Fantasy XI to be accepted and we'll have some con...
Welcome to the first GB blog of yours truly. This week I've:- A) Been getting extremely annoyed at Metal Gear Online . Unlike most people I hadn't any problems with it after the initial Konami ID sign-up process, but I find I'm unable to buy the GENE expansion pack. I've got a Visa card but after I've entered all my personal details it says the confirmation page doesn't exist :-S. Because of th...