Sakura graduates to the Street Fighter V roster on Jan. 16, 2018

Capcom has released the gameplay trailer and information about Sakura, who will launch as the first DLC character of Street Fighter V's Season 3 on the same day that Arcade Edition becomes available to the public.

Sakura retains most of the same moveset she wielded in Street Fighter IV, but has gained the Tengyo Hadoken, a fireball shot diagonally upwards that can be used as an anti-air. Her V-Skill is Haru Kaze, which functions almost like a demon flip and grants her a throw, a divekick or her signature Sakura Otoshi. Her first V-Trigger, Haru Arashi, powers up her fireballs by giving them both an additional hit that leaves opponents in juggle state, and her second trigger, Sakura Senpu, allows you to follow up her Shouoken and Shunpukyaku with her V-Skill for more damage.

As with previous seasons, players will be able to buy Sakura separately or as a part of the Season 3 Character Pass. Readers can check out the Sakura trailer after the jump.

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Blanka, Cody, Sagat, Sakura & two new characters coming to Street Fighter V season three

With Street Fighter V: Arcade Edition on the horizon, the characters of season three have been announced.

Capcom's Yoshinori Ono presented a video at the end of Capcom Cup 2017 with Sakura coming to SFV. The trailer shows off a new look for Sakura and reintroduces her stage from Street Fighter Alpha 2. She will also have three additional costumes including her iconic legacy outfit. 

In addition, Ono showed off the opening video of the upcoming story mode for SFVAE which also featured Blanka, Cody and Sagat returning. New characters Falke and G have been featured as well.

You can get access to all six characters with the season three pass, starting with Sakura, on January 16, 2018, the same day as Arcade Edition's release.

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Capcom announces Street Fighter 30th Anniversary Collection

At the beginning of the top eight for Street Fighter V at Capcom Cup 2017, the maker of Street Fighter announced a new compilation game celebrating the series' history.

Street Fighter 30th Anniversary Collection will include 12 titles spanning the history of the SF franchise. Every game from the core series, including Street Fighter, SFII, SFIII and the Alpha series, will be part of the package. The games will all come with "arcade perfect gameplay," and Street Fighter II: Hyper Fighting, Super Street Fighter II Turbo, Street Fighter Alpha 3 and Street Fighter III: 3rd Strike will have online play with rollback netcode.

This collection is developed by Digital Eclipse, recently known for working on the Mega Man Legacy Collection series. Along with the core features, Digital Eclipse added a variety of extra modes and features such as a gallery of the series, a music player, in-game save states and more.

The Street Fighter 30th Anniversary Collection will be releasing on PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Steam and Nintendo Switch in May 2018. The official announcement post from Capcom Unity can be found here. Readers can check out the trailer below.

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Input lag reduction coming to PS4 version of Tekken 7 via patch on Dec. 14

Tekken 7 players on PlayStation 4 will be able to enjoy the game with less inherent latency in the coming days.

Bandai Namco Entertainment's Motohiro Okubo, producer of Tekken 7, announced during the Tekken 7 West Tournament finals that the coming Dec. 14 patch will reduce input lag. Okubo's statement was directed towards the PS4 version only. There is currently no info whether or not if this will be applied to the Xbox One or PC builds.

Tests of Tekken 7 revealed that the PS4 version had the highest amount of lag compared to the other versions. Katsuhiro Harada and Michael Murray addressed to viewers during Tekken World Tour Finals that they were working on a patch to reduce the lag. This came out of updates done to Unreal Engine 4, T7's engine, where games running at 60hz would get a lag reduction of two frames.

You can read Okubo's tweet about it here.

Soul Calibur VI revisits series history, introduces new mechanic

Soul Calibur VI was revealed during The Game Awards on Dec. 7, and the PlayStation Blog has offered more details on the upcoming title.

The characters seen in the announcement trailer were, in fact, Sophitia and Mitsurugi, but they looked a bit different because SCIV takes place during the same time frame as the original Soul Calibur. The plot promises to bring back these events to "uncover hidden truths."

Soul Calibur VI will also include a new gameplay mechanic, Reversal Edge, that was likely responsible for all the red-energy glow seen in the trailer. Reversal Edge will give players "an opportunity to read an opponents’ attack and land a powerful counter," which sounds a bit like a simplified version of the series' previous Guard Impact counter system.

Soul Calibur VI is set to release for PlayStation 4, Xbox One and Steam sometime in 2018.

Soul Calibur VI coming in 2018

During The Game Awards on Dec. 7, Bandai Namco announced the next entry in its Soul Calibur series of games.

The game's brief teaser trailer showed characters that look like series mainstays Mitsurugi and Sophitia in combat, along with multiple-hit guard impacts and what could be EX moves.

Soul Calibur VI will be coming to PlayStation 4, Xbox One and Steam sometime in 2018. Readers can check out the announcement trailer after the jump.

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Secret character Lamia discovered in Fight of Gods

It seems that Santa Claus wasn't the only surprise coming to Fight of Gods players before the end of 2017, as a secret character has been found.

Lamia was uncovered by Yohosie during an inspection of the game's assets. Lamia plays much like a standard shoto-style character, with a fireball and dragon punch. She also has a dash move that can cross behind the opponent.

According to Yohosie, Lami is unlocked by inputting the Konami Code (up, up, down, down, left, right, left, right, light, medium) when starting from the random slot on the game's character select screen.

The official Fight of Gods Twitter account applauded the discovery, saying, "That was fast! Good sleuthing, Yohosie."  

For more on Lamia, readers can check out Yohosie's videos showing the character's moves and general strategy after the jump.

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Santa bringing a Yuletide beatdown to Fight of Gods

Digital Crafter's deity-based fighting game has received a new character just in time for the holidays: Santa Claus.

Ignoring for the moment that Santa isn't exactly a god, Father Christmas brings with him presents to throw at opponents and attacks with both his bag of toys and a candy cane. He can even call the reindeer and his sleigh to run over foes.

Fight of Gods is currently in Early Access on Steam and is temporarily on sale for $5.35. Readers can check out the Santa trailer after the jump.

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Size matters: Atom comes to Injustice 2 on Dec. 12, 2017

NetherRealm Studios and WB Games have released the full gameplay trailer for the first part of Injustice 2's Character Pack 3.

Atom comes to DC's fighting franchise with gadgets and the ability to radically alter his size. As seen in the original teaser trailer, Atom's size-changing abilities give him great evasion and movement. He can slightly adjust his size to avoid projectiles, or shrink to the size of a speck to seemingly avoid all attacks. Atom also has the technological advantage, using a ray gun and different chemicals to assault opponents.

As with all other Injustice 2 trailers, it is uncertain which moves will be standard for Atom and which will be attached to gear. Readers can check out the trailer after the jump.

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Mikado's Tenkaichi Budokai returns for third series

Mikado arcade in Japan will once again be holding its eight-person Guilty Gear league, Tenkaichi Budokai, this time from December 2017 into January 2018.

Tenkaichi Budokai is an arcade-based, offline league where eight of the best Guilty Gear players in the world are split into two groups in a round-robin format. The player with the most points in each group is then moved into the final round. Those two players will be joined by a third player who wins a "last chance qualifier" comprised of the next-highest-placing competitors.

Omito (Johnny), Ogawa (Zato-1), Zadi (Raven) and Haaken (Sol) will make up group A, while Nage (Faust), Tomo (Leo), Tourio (I-No) and Fumo (Elphelt) will make up group B.

The first round of competition begins on Dec. 23, 2017, with Omito squaring off against Zadi. All the action will be broadcast on Jonio's Twitch channel, with English commentary by MajinObama.

For more information on Tenkaichi Budokai 3, including small player profiles, readers can head to TwitLonger. Readers can also follow MajinObama and Jonio on Twitter for updates including potential schedule changes.

Adult Gohan not kidding around in new Dragon Ball FighterZ trailer

Bandai Namco has released a new gameplay trailer for Dragon Ball FighterZ, this time focusing on adult Gohan.

The brief clip shows adult Gohan using flurries of physical attacks to get the advantage on his opponent. Gohan also has access to his Super Kamehameha and can "power up to the very limit" to gain unknown benefits.

Dragon Ball FighterZ releases for the PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One in North America on Jan. 26, 2018. Readers can check out the adult Gohan trailer after the jump.

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Blair Dame coming to Fighting EX Layer

Another of Arika's classic Street Fighter EX characters will be coming to its forthcoming title.

In a short teaser posed to YouTube, Arika showed off Blair's new model along with the tagline, "She will surely come back." No other information was included at this time.

Readers can check out the teaser after the jump. Fighting EX Layer's two-week public beta test begins on Dec. 11 for PlayStation 4 as players get to stress test the game using Kairi, Garuda, Skullomania, Darun Mister, Allen Snider and Shirase. Fighting EX Layer is set to release sometime in 2018.

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Details on Gundam Versus 1.08, AGE-2 and Mudrock trailers released

Banda Namco has released trailers for the two mobile suits that will release simultaneously across regions on Dec. 5, and has also updated Gundam Versus with more alterations aimed at balancing the arena fighter.

Gundam Versus version 1.08 has sought to once again better balance strikers, decreasing the tracking on shots from both the Gundam "Zephyranthes" Full Burnern and Crossbone Gundam X-3. The patch has also buffed many individual mobile suits, and 300 and 200-cost suits have gained a universal improvement to burst gauge gain. The full 1.08 patch notes can be found at GGEZ.

AGE-2 and Mudrock, meanwhile, will launch at the usual $4.99 price in North America, and players can check out the trailers after the jump to see if they want to add the mobile suits to their collection.

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Think pink with new Kid Buu gameplay trailer for Dragon Ball FighterZ

Bandai Namco has released the second of three gameplay trailers showing off the newest additions to Dragon Ball FighterZ, this time focusing on Kid Buu.

Unlike his bigger counterpart, Majin Buu, Kid Buu is small and fast with stretchy limbs that can attack characters from across the screen. He retains the ability to devour his opponents, and in addition to his Planet Burst technique Kid Buu also has the Human Extinction Attack/Assault Rain as another of his super moves.

Dragon Ball FighterZ releases for the PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One in North America on Jan. 26, 2018. Readers can check out the Kid Buu trailer after the jump.

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Springtron tests his iron will in ARMS 4.1

Spring Man's robotic doppelganger and various balance adjustments have been rolled out by Nintendo for the new update of ARMS.

Springtron was formerly only a boss character, but now players will get a chance to utilize his unique abilities. While he shares the same ARMS as Spring Man, Springtron's shockwave ability disables ARMS instead of simply deflecting them.

The 4.1 update also brings changes to Misango and the new ARMS from version 4.0, as well as other alterations and new badges for players to unlock. Players can check out the full list of updates at Nintendo.

New premium skins coming to Marvel vs. Capcom: Infinite

A dozen new costumes will be coming to MvCI along with the game's balance update and new characters Winter Soldier, Black Widow and Venom on Dec. 5, 2017.

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Rocket Raccoon, Gamora, Nova, X, Zero and Strider will all gain costumes as part of the Cosmic Crusaders Costume Pack, and Ultron, Thanos, Spider-Man, Frank West, Haggar and Jedah will be part of the Stone Seekers pack. Spider-Man in particular will be in his Superior Spider-Man outfit that was previously only available by preordering a digital copy of the Spider-Man: Homecoming film.

Each costume pack will cost players $11.99, but players can purchase each costume separately for $3.99 or get these and the first wave of premium costumes as part of the Premium Costume Pass for $29.99. 

London to host European qualifier for StrongStyle 6

Unequalled Media, Cool Kids Table and Electronic Dojo are partnering to provide European Tekken players a chance at a free trip to StrongStyle 6.

The three entities will be holding a StrongStyle qualifier tournament on Jan. 13, 2018, at EXP Leisure in London, England, with the winning player receiving a paid flight to SS6.

Full details of the event can be found on Smash.gg. StrongStyle 6 takes place in San Jose, California, on Feb. 10-11, 2018. Players can register for the event now at Eventbrite and check out the official StrongStyle website for more details.

Geese Howard coming to Tekken 7 before the end of November?

The former boss of South Town will be making his way to PlayStation 4 and Xbox One before December, if Microsoft and Sony websites are correct.

The European PlayStation blog posted that Geese will be available starting on Nov. 30. This comes more than a week after outlets including Shoryuken noted that the Microsoft website lists Geese's release date as Nov. 29, and neither a statement from Bandai Namco or a retraction from Microsoft has occurred. Microsoft has, however, moved the listed time of the character's release from 11 a.m. to 11 p.m., much closer to Sony's Nov. 30 date.

It seems out of the ordinary for Bandai Namco to not advertise the impending release date, but for now players will have to wait and see if Geese makes his appearance in the next few days. There is currently no information on a Steam release for Geese at this time.

Noctis takes the wheel in new Dissidia gameplay trailer

Previously revealed at Tokyo Game Show 2017, Noctis Lucis Caelum now has an official gameplay trailer for his appearance in Dissidia Final Fantasy and its console version.

Noctis is mostly a melee fighter but can throw his weapon and then teleport to it. He can also use the power of Armiger to summon different weapons, allowing him to swap between them during his combos.

Along with Noctis, Dissidia is also a receiving a new stage that recreates the void of nothingness and field of flowers from the climax of Final Fantasy VIII.

Readers can check out the trailers for Noctis and the stage after the jump. Dissidia Final Fantasy NT is scheduled for release on the PlayStation 4 console on Jan. 11, 2018, in Japan and Jan. 30 in North America and Europe.

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Data miner released for King of Fighters XI, NeoGeo Battle Coliseum

New tools from Vans have been designed to help players learn more about the inner workings of two of SNK's team-based fighters.

The miners for King of Fighters XI and NeoGeo Battle Coliseum provide hitbox data for characters in the games as well as more detailed information like sprite timings and velocities. 

Vans has released a 20-minute tutorial video, giving players a guide on the information his tools reveal, how to use that data and other resources for players. King of Fighters XI and NeoGeo Battle Coliseum have similar systems, so the data miners will work the same way for both titles. 

Players can check out the tutorial, which includes a link to the data miners, at YouTube.