Shoryuken

Level|Up Series returns tonight with another installment of The Runback, broadcast as always from Super Arcade in Walnut, California. Much like previous events, some of SoCal’s best will be coming together to compete in Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3, King of Fighters XIII, and Persona 4 Arena, so be sure to tune in early and [...]

Last weekend, Kineda and company put on NorCal Regionals 2013, the eleventh installment of the major tournament series, in Sunnyvale, California. Like most events of this caliber, it featured a wide array of talent spread across a number of titles, interesting storylines, and too many hype matches to count. Richard Li, well-known for previous tournament [...]

RyeANDRinGaming is spending some more time with the strange indie fusion of 3rd Strike and King of Fighters that is Yatagarasu. These two videos showcase a variety of combos for Crow, Kou, Chadha, and Jyuzomaru. Most are simple combos that you can get off any random hit-confirm. Full notations for each combo are included in the videos themselves. [...]

If you liked the Malaysia vs. Vietnam team battles from last week, we have some more Super Street Fighter IV: Arcade Edition ver. 2012 action from some of Malaysia’s top players. Hong Kong’s Humanbomb is known as one of the best Sakura players in the world, breaking into top 8 at last year’s EVO. But [...]

As with most fighters, a character’s representation on the tournament scene rarely demonstrates the full breadth of their skills and strategies. Below, you’ll find a few videos that showcase Ghost Rider and what he brings to the table in Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3. First, GhostHawk50 recently sent us an incredibly detailed character guide. Ghost Rider is [...]

Mike Z and the Skullgirls team had even more experimental gameplay changes to show off at last week’s Salty Cupcakes. As far as character balance goes, Fortune was the only member of the cast to receive significant tweaks from last week’s build. However, Squigly has new moves to show off and a whole bunch of new graphical [...]

As fighting games become more graphically complex, fighting game moves become more of a treat to watch. In the days of Super Turbo, supers lasted a second, maybe two. However, current day supers are routinely more than 10 seconds long, with some even breaking the 30 second mark. This new article by GamesBeat looks at [...]

  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, [...]

Haunts and Combofiend return to Darkstalkers Resurrection with episode 8 of Challenge Capcom. Once again, the takes the games impressive GGPO powered netcode for a spin, taking on all challengers in Vampire Savior.  Check out the stream archive below. Source: Capcom

Ken players rejoice, Gamma Slap has put together a new video detailing more ways to use Ken’s HP Shoryuken in Super Street Fighter IV AE 2012. The video, called “Fun With Specials: Ken’s Shoryuken,” focuses on combos and setups that Ken can do with his HP. Shoryuken after either a counter hit or focus crumple [...]

This week’s installment of Next Level Battle Circuit is now streaming live courtesy of Team Spooky. As always, the event is being broadcast from its namesake, Next Level Arcade, in New York City. Tonight, they’ll be running tournaments for Super Street Fighter IV: Arcade Edition ver. 2012, Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3, Street Fighter x [...]

Superscience890 recently uploaded a pretty cool combo/tutorial video showing us what his Magneto/Frank West/Dante team can do in Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3. He points out that if you end Magneto’s air combo with a dash down S, you have enough time to hard tag Dante and use his Million Dollars hyper to level Frank [...]

With the conclusion of NorCal Regionals 11 this weekend now comes the daunting task of uploading footage from the tournament onto YouTube. Haunts starts us off with the top 8 from Street Fighter X Tekken ver.2013. We’ve posted the finals from the tournament below, you can check out the rest over at the official playlist. [...]

The community has been going nuts with Injustice: Gods Among us recently. Combo videos and tutorials and tournament replays, oh my! We’ve rounded up some of the more interesting videos and put them in one place for your enjoyment. UltraTien starts us off with some jazzy Sinestro combos. psychosis5354 created a video showing some near inescapable throw [...]

SmokeyAmp has produced a quick little video showing off a new El Fuerte option select using his far standing roundhouse in Super Street Fighter IV: Arcade Edition ver. 2012. Simply put, if the roundhouse connects the ultra won’t come out and you’ll get a crouching medium kick instead. However, if the roundhouse whiffs due to a [...]