One of the most exciting trends as the fighting game scene matures is the growing number of players who choose to develop their own games. EXPO FIGHTER is a free to play web browser fighting game pitting video game industry inspired characters against one another. EXPO FIGHTER is planned for launch June 1st 2013. We [...]

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) [...]

Game developers are always watching you…in a totally not creepy and productive way, that is. Arcade cabinets and consoles are constantly reporting fighting game statistics back to developers in order to help them see what areas of the game need work. They can see win/loss rates, character usage statistics, combo damage, and even finer details like the [...]

Arc System Works’ latest fighting game, BlazBlue: Chrono Phantasma, is scheduled to release in Japan on October 24 for PlayStation 3. Yesterday, Famitsu posted an interview with Toshimichi Mori, the game’s producer. In the interview, translated below, Mori talks about the new characters, the story mode, and other original content included in the console release. [...]

The folks over at Mad Catz recently uploaded some great footage from NYU Spring Fighter 2013 a couple of weekends ago that you won’t want to miss. The main event was a special Q&A session between Daigo Umehara and Seth Killian, during which they discussed a wide array of topics. As you would expect from figures of [...]

Our friends over at Hold Back to Block recently sent in another great playlist of interviews, this time from their visit to Final Round 16 in Atlanta, Georgia a few weekends ago. Below, you’ll find interviews with a number of notable attendees, including Namco Bandai’s Rich “FilthieRich” Bantegui, break-out Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3 competitor [...]

This week Gamespot’s new competitive gaming news roundup show has a nice overview of Final Round 16.  Gootecks summarizes the results, talks to Ryan Hart about SF4AE, and discusses the AGE stream flareup. The show also discusses Starcraft, League of Legends, and Call of Duty if that’s your thing.  The Final Round coverage starts 13 [...]

Ryan Hart of Western Wolves and Mad Catz recently had the chance to sit down and conduct a very thorough interview with legendary fighting game competitor Ryo “BAS” Yoshida on a number of interesting topics. They touch on points regarding how BAS maintains a full-time job while trying to remain competitive and the like, but a large [...]

The folks over at Level|Up Series recently put together a short promo titled “Arcades and Rivalries” that revolves around the idea that old-school arcade atmospheres and having rivals both ignite something in competition that casuals and other such training sessions can’t match. The video features community veterans like Daniel “Clockwork” Maniago of BROKENTIER and Alex Valle, [...]

In addition to partnering with Team Spooky to provide footage of the tournament, Hold Back to Block’s visit to Winter Brawl 7 was also spent producing another set of fantastic interviews with a number of notable attendees. Below, you’ll find the entire playlist, which includes a discussion with MarkMan about Mad Catz Unveiled and the [...]

Ryan Hart of Western Wolves and Mad Catz recently conducted an interview for the Low Land Lions website with Razer’s own Itabashi Zangief. While he’s known mostly for his prowess in Virtua Fighter and, more recently, Street Fighter, ItaZan has apparently decided to focus most of his efforts into Soul Calibur V for his upcoming [...]

Players from Japan, the United States, the United Kingdom, Singapore and all over the Middle East were represented at K.O. Fighting Game Festival in Kuwait earlier this month. Zhi took the task of interviewing many of the players who participated in the event, including Team Mad Catz’ Umehara, Tokido and Mago, Western Wolves’ Ryan Hart [...]

Ryan Hart of Western Wolves recently conducted an interesting interview with his Mad Catz teammate Tokido for the Low Land Lions website. Here, they discuss a variety of topics, including his thoughts on a possible Street Fighter 5. In his opinion, Capcom would do well to work on the next title in the series and [...]

While visiting the Street Fighter 25th Anniversary grand finals last month, Destructoid‘s Spencer Hayes interviewed attendees about what Street Fighter and its milestone means to them. You’ll see some well known faces like Seth Killian and Complexity’s Filipino Champ talk about their favorite Street Fighter memories, and hear some awesome and inspirational stories as well. Apparently, [...]

Tonight promises to be a very interesting installment of Wakeup SRK, as Keits and skisonic will be welcoming the one and only Honzo Gonzo of Marvelous Customs onto the program. They will be discussing this past weekend’s SoCal Regionals 2013 as well as how last year treated Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3, so be sure [...]