EMPER0RC0W released the sixth episode of his Dead or Alive 5 tutorial series earlier today, this time featuring special guest commentary from Mochi-A. This installment covers knockdowns, recovery, and what you can do from a prone state. Timestamps can be found below the video. – Knockdowns 0:35 – Recovery 1:56 – Wake Up Attacks 3:22 – Quick Recovery 4:49 – Untechables [...]

Tekken Tag Tournament 2 at Atlanta’s Final Round on the end of March will be getting a special pot bonus. Tekken has been a popular game at Final Round and this year with Tekken Tag Tournament 2, the stakes will be high. Bandai Namco Games has stepped in with an incentive to the game’s pot with an extra $5000 [...]

DOATEC TV recently uploaded a full playlist of bread and butter combos for the entire Dead or Alive 5 cast. A recap of a weekly series that took on two or three characters each week, these videos are a great place to start if you are looking to pick up a new character. You can [...]

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 [...]

Russian Virtua Fighter 5 player ZBEP has put together a video of some of the most interesting match moments the game has to offer. You might call them funny… or cool if you will. The video is full of strange move interactions, double KOs, and overall weird moments. Source: ZBEP, tip from Akai

forwardownforward recently went into Dead or Alive 5′s training mode and recorded the frames of every move used, and found something strange in the process. The game’s training mode is actually wrong! Every move in the game is actually behind two frames on startup. 9 frame moves are actually 11 frames. 14 frame moves are actually [...]

Subculture Gaming’s ”God Squad” has posted this new Soul Calibur V multi-character video that shows off some nifty setups and combos. The video doesn’t really focus on damage maximization as much as it focuses on flash. There are a couple EVO Moment #37 style just defend parries, peculiar evasive technique which utilize even more peculiar move interactions, and [...]

tmd02 brings us this new Virtua Fighter 5: Final Showdown combo video featuring Jeffry McWild. Though the ground throws and stagger hits can be broken out of, this video shows off some “best case scenario” combos that get close to killing the opponent in one touch. Source: tmd02

Apocryphic Visions has produced a sequel to his original Virtua Fighter 5 Akira combo video. The video shows off some hard to perform links and situational wallbound combos, as well as a strange glitch that makes it appear as if the opponent is standing on your back when you get behind them. A full transcript [...]

Tecmo Koei America recently uploaded another combo video showcasing the current build of Dead or Alive 5. This combo video features Hitomi, Hayabusa, Chrisie, Bayman, and La Mariposa, and will be the last combo video they release before Tougeki. Yohei Shimbori, the games director, was told he “could only use characters that we’ve announced already” which likely means [...]

The guys at Tecmo Koei America put together another combo video featuring the balance test of Dead or Alive 5. Ayane, Hayate, Tina, Bass, Zack and Sarah are showcased in this one. The team admits that many of these combos are rudimentary, considering the game isn’t even out yet. Sarah’s combos are particularly interesting considering they mostly come [...]

EMPER0RC0W recently began a brand new tutorial series for Virtua Fighter 5: Final Showdown. His first video focuses on Sarah Bryant and details the many ways she can switch stances, as well as how to attack from a stance and remain there. Though the Flamingo stance receives much of the video’s focus, Switch Step, Back Roll [...]

Virtua Fighter 5 has been getting a nice boost in attention ever since the release of its Final Showdown update a month ago. There’s a lot to love about the technicality of the fighter, and a lot of depth for those who want to dive deep enough into it. Caj814 is one of those people [...]

In his latest Virtua Fighter 5: Final Showdown combo video, Apocryphic Visions takes on a character some believe to be the hardest to master in any fighting game: Akira Yuki. Even with the strict timing and positioning, but he does a good job of providing combos for all weight classes and offering a look at [...]

Sithlord is back with yet another Virtua Fighter 5: Final Showdown combo video. This one takes on Lion in the most unpractical way possible. While many of these combos can be escaped, this video is more of an overall study of the character’s damage potential, as well as his stances and frame data. Source: Sithlord