This Saturday and Sunday, John “SweetJohnnyCage” Gallagher and Joe “iloveu” Ciaramelli will be presenting East Coast Throwdown V (ECT5). Last year’s event brought the hype with both great tournaments and exhibitions, and John and Joe will be looking to boost that excitement for 2013. This year’s ECT will again be held at the Hyatt Morristown Hotel [...]

Nintendo of America’s official Twitter account was updated earlier this morning with news straight from president and CEO Satoru Iwata. While the company will not be holding a traditional press conference at this year’s E3, major news on upcoming titles will be presented through their new Nintendo Direct live stream series, the next of which [...]

Today in Japan, Arc System Works’ 25th celebration event, ARC SYSTEM WORKS FESTIVAL, was held in Japan. After the conclusion of the ARC REVOLUTION CUP tournaments and award ceremony, BlazBlue producer Toshimichi Mori came to the stage with a few surprises. The audience’s attention was directed to the stage projector for a special video treat. [...]

Today is your last chance to pre-register for Ultimate Fighting Game Tournament 9 (UFGT9)! The 4th stop on the Road to Evo 2013, directed by SRK’s own Adam ‘Keits’ Heart, UFGT9 will be at the Crowne Plaza Chicago O’Hare in Chicago, Illinois, from Friday May 24 to Sunday May 26. The UFGT series has built [...]

2013 is both the 25th year of operation for game developer Arc System Works and the 15th anniversary of its popular fighting game series Guilty Gear. Today, at the 25th anniversary celebratory event ARC SYSTEM WORKS FESTIVAL, the developer unveiled that the Guilty Gear series would finally be receiving an all-new fighting game title, GUILTY [...]

This Sunday, Arc System Works is celebrating its 25th anniversary with ARC SYSTEM WORKS FESTIVAL (ArcFes). Its largest event in history, Arc will be commemorating the occasion with live music and programs, original products and their biggest national tournament ever, ARC REVOLUTION CUP (ArcRevo). ArcFes will be held at the Pacifico Yokohama National Convention Hall in [...]

While many fighting games feature interesting assortments of characters and stages, the music that accompanies their battles are what gives each title much of their personality and style, even in one as unique as Skullgirls. The folks behind the popular indie fighter recently shared an early version of the piano melody for the game’s new [...]

CrossCounta‘s latest video for Super Street Fighter IV: Arcade Edition ver. 2012 shows off some pretty bizarre interactions in the game’s engine. Aside from wonky hit-box stuff, this video also features some weird physics interactions. For example, it shows off moves that do different things with different characters and different controller inputs. Check this out if you’re [...]

Fans of Doctor Strange in Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3 are in for a bit of a treat. Evil Toaster recently sent over a video demonstrating how to create corner trap setups using a well-placed red Grace of Hoggoth in the corner. These corner traps work because Doctor Strange’s Flames of the Faltine fireballs are [...]

Persona is back with another impressive looking combo video. This time he tackles the EX version of Kyo Kusanagi from King of Fighters XIII. While at first EX Kyo’s combos don’t look overly complicated, Persona explains that there are bits where he does require a lot of strict timing for both links and juggles. Persona [...]

Team Mad Catz competitor and fighting game legend Daigo Umehara and TAITO STATION are teaming up to host a series of charity events in Japan. From January 19 to May 18, Umehara will be visiting five different Taito Station stores throughout the country as part of the “UMEHARA x TAITO STATION Special Charity Event BATTLE [...]

This Sunday, Arc System Works is celebrating its 25th anniversary with ARC SYSTEM WORKS FESTIVAL (ArcFes). Its largest event in history, Arc will be commemorating the occasion with live music and programs, original products and their biggest national tournament ever, ARC REVOLUTION CUP (ArcRevo). ArcFes will be held at the Pacifico Yokohama National Convention Hall in [...]

With Arc System Works celebrating its 25th anniversary tomorrow with ARC SYSTEM WORKS FESTIVAL, it wouldn’t be surprising if the developer had some major announcements planned for the occasion. One such announcement has already been revealed today: BlazBlue will be receiving an anime adaptation. A mini-jacket that comes with the second volume of the BlazBlue [...]

Kenin Black brings us several Skullgirls videos featuring Parasoul today that cover mid-screen, corner, and throw combos. She may not have the best combo options in the game and is somewhat execution heavy, but Parasoul does a lot of damage and has incredibly dangerous reset options with her standing overheads and high/low/throw mix-up game. Source: Kenin [...]

The employment section of SNK Playmore’s website was recently updated with some interesting job listings that may hint at the direction their future projects will take. According to MMCafe’s chazumaru, they’ve put out a call for game designers, CG artists, and programmers for new 3D installments of King of Fighters and Samurai Spirits (known as Samurai Shodown [...]