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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

The guys from Level Up Your Game have recently posted the second part of their advanced techniques tutorial. This episode goes over different stuns and how to break them, frame data and how you can use it to enhance your game, and how to tag safely. The frame data portion of the tutorial is quite [...]

Dustloop’s wiki is quickly becoming a fantastic resource for everything Persona 4 Arena, and they’ve recently expanded on that by adding hitbox data for every move in the game. All you have to do is visit the dedicated page for the character of your choice, find the move you want more information on, and click [...]

While the Evolution tournament series frequently draws a high number of international players, EVO 2012 seemed to exceed what we’ve seen in the past by a pretty wide margin. Noticing this, a member of our forums named Acku compiled this data from the quarter-finals on for Super Street Fighter IV: Arcade Edition ver. 2012, Ultimate [...]