It’s on. The second installment of Final Strike, a tournament series brought to you by the minds at Level|Up and Shoryuken, is going down tonight. The event, streaming live from Super Arcade in Walnut, California, gives players some last minute opportunities at ranking points for Level|Up’s weekly Wednesday Night Fights and The Runback tournaments. SoCal’s finest are [...]

The Fall Classic is the culmination of some of the best tournament minds of the east coast coming together to throw one hell of an event. “Long Island” Joe Ciaramelli and John Gallagher of East Coast Throwdown, Larry “Shinblanka” Dixon of Final Round, and Eric Smalls of Big E Gaming (Northeast Championships, Summer Jam, Winter Brawl) [...]

East Coast Throwdown V is almost upon us! One of the most popular tournaments on the east coast, ECTV is looking to eclipse an already stellar record of attendance over its long run. Players from Russia, Korea (including FINAL ROUND XVI winner JDCR!), Israel and all over the United States are already flying into New Jersey to [...]

  Level|Up Series returns again to Super Arcade for another addition of “Wednesday Night Fights”. As always, the best and brightest players in SoCal’s AE, Tekken, SFxT and Injustice scenes head to Walnut, CA to play head to head in a double elimination tournament hosted by one of SoCal’s most prominent Arcades. Adam “Keits” Heart, [...]

Ultra David and James Chen return after a pretty crazy weekend to UltraChen TV. Tonight, the duo dissect the results of NorCal Regionals 11, which always provides for some enlightening conversation when these two get at the mic. You can catch all of it at Ultrachen’s Twitch.TV channel, or check out the embed below. Watch [...]

The EVO donation drive this year was a very big deal. $223,000 dollars later, the Super Smash Bros. Melee community stood on top with 92k of its own to become the 8th game at this year’s tournament. However, many players have a very misrepresented view of Smash and its community. A lot of vitriol is thrown [...]

The game’s been picking up a lot of steam with its promotional campaign, and this seems like the cherry on top of it all. It was announced today that Injustice: Gods Among Us will be getting a full playable demo featuring Batman, Wonder Woman and Lex Luthor come April 2 for PlayStation Network and April [...]

Bolivian Battleground, part of the international Road to EVO series, was held in Paz City, Bolivia a couple weeks ago. While the tournament didn’t have stream coverage, Jose Andres Guzman (who helped organize the tournament) was kind enough to send us some footage from the event as well as the top 8 results for every game. Official Tournaments [...]

Alex Valle’s new show, Rushdown Live, is set to stream for the second time today. His purpose? To help a new generation of players level up (no pun intended) their game. Today’s show will be dedicated to playing through an endless lobby in Street Fighter x Tekken ver. 2013 and analyzing matches with special guest [...]

There are two types of glitches in fighting games. Glitches that help improve the game, and glitches that hurt it. We’ve seen quite a few pop up over the last few years. The many SFIV unblockables, the infamous DHC glitch for Marvel 3, Fuzzy Guard in SC5 and of course, who could forget the Rolento [...]

Ah, remember the good old DHC glitch? Back a few years ago when characters like Deadpool, X-23, and Spencer got away with unspeakable horrors all due to a small hyper combo cinematic resetting damage scaling in combos? Capcom took it out in Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3, but none the less, people have scoured and [...]

In yet another breakthrough in the infinite search for viable TAC’s in UMvC3, Gilthwixt has posted a small proof of concept video for Jill. Best part? This seems to be the easiest one to perform thus far. The TAC works anywhere on screen and carries to the corner, and is possible with Side-TAC and impossible [...]

Dead Or Alive 5 seems to be getting a lot of post launch love from it’s developers these days. Take the new Version 1.03 patch  for example, which is set to add the ability for players both record and upload their matches. 360 users will be able to upload the matches to Facebook, while PS3 [...]

Last Saturday, Family Fun Arcade ran one of its last seminal events entitled “Arcade Relief”.  As you know, at the center of it all stood not only the Arcade, but the man who kept it alive and well—Ralph. The entire day stood as a tribute, and relief drive for someone who has worked tirelessly for [...]

Family Fun Arcade has been a welcome sanctuary for many who still enjoy the spirit of the arcade. For 38 years, FFA housed some of the best players and games around Southern California, and within the next month or so it will close for good. Ralph has operated the Arcade since its inception, losing money [...]