Latest Airdash Academy Episode Expands On Movement With Airdashing From Guilty Gear XX

You might already know how to jump but now let's learn how to airdash!

Episode seven of Airdash Academy explores how airdashing works in Guilty Gear XX, and how similar and different it is from jumping styles found in more traditional fighting games. Along with explaining the basic properties of an airdash, the video also goes into advance tactics such as chicken blocking and what an opponent can do when facing an airdash.

You can find the video after the jump and follow Norviltataki on YouTube for past and upcoming videos of Airdash Academy!

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Airdash Academy Episode Six Breaks Down Offensive & Defensive Jumps

Here is another episode of Airdash Academy!

Airdash Academy introduces movement by first explaining various jumps you can implement in a match. Each jump including crossups has its own offensive and/or defensive advantages, which work best in specific situations. Players need to understand the position as well as understand the risks and rewards when implemented.

While it shows footage of Super Street Fighter II Turbo HD Remix, these concepts can carry over to other fighting games including Guilty Gear and BlazBlue.

You can find the episode after the jump! Subscribe to Novriltataki's YouTube channel for future episodes!

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Fifth Episode Of Airdash Academy Expands On Chain Attacks

Understanding the nuances when doing chain attacks is important when opposing your offense. Airdash Academy breaks down the necessary aspects when pressuring your opponent.

The fifth episode of Airdash Academy expands on the previous episode's introduction of how chain routes work. While episode four explained both the positioning and commitment aspects of performing chains, this episode delves deeper to what you can do when pressuring your opponent. Topics include using moves that have frame advantage/disadvantage, the gaps in between chains and jump cancelling to help expand your offense.

You can find both episodes four and five of Airdash Academy after the jump!

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Finals Archive Of OVER THE WORLD -REBORN-, Under Night In-Birth Exe:Late Team Tournament

The major Under Night In-Birth Exe:Late tournament held on March 21, 2014 is now available for viewing.

OVER THE WORLD -REBORN- is the second significant tournament for the French Bread fighting game Under Night In-Birth Exe: Late that took place at Club Sega Shinjuku in Tokyo. This team tournament features multiple three-man teams from all over the nation to see who is the best.

Kagecchi Uri, a streamer known for covering the first OVER THE WORLD tournament in 2013 as well the STARTING OVER team tournament series for Super Street Fighter IV: Arcade Edition Ver. 2012.

You can find all of the videos from the top teams after the jump!

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Airdash Academy Episode Four Introduces Chaining Moves In Guilty Gear XX

This new episode of Airdash Academy gets into one of the aspects found in this genre of fighting games, moves that chain to each other.

Using Guilty Gear XX Accent Core Plus R for reference, Airdash Academy episode four introduces traits found in using normals chained to follow up attacks. Chaining attacks is broken down to two sections, positioning and commitment. The former mentions that while bigger ranged normals can be used as poking tools, shorter attacks will yield advantages such as chaining follow up moves. The latter explains particular chain moves that can be best used based your own confidence on to deal with a situation.

You can find the episode after the jump! Stay tuned for a future episode expanding more on chains.

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Third Episode Of Airdash Academy Provides Advice In Digesting Information From Match Videos

Outside of actively playing fighting games, we spectate matches to learn and Airdash Academy has you covered in how to maximize the process.

Watching matches is the central topic in the third episode of Airdash Academy. The video provides advice on what you can do while watching in order to improve your game. Repetition is a major theme as you might have to watch the same matches over and over again until you can fully understand what is happening on screen.

You can watch the video, along with past episodes, after the jump!

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Episode Two Of Airdash Academy Helps Out With Understanding Notation & How To Fully Utilize It

The next episode of Airdash Academy helps players discover how to fully comprehend combos in airdash fighting games.

Episode two of Airdash Academy is all about how to properly communicate and digest move notations and combo structure for games like BlazBlue: Chronophantasma, Persona 4 Arena Ultimax and more. Directional notations shown in the video are based on the keyboard numpad with five representing a neutral with the surrounding rest being specific directions; You can find a detailed breakdown of the notations here!

You can check the latest episode, and the premiere, in the playlist after the jump!

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Episode One Of Airdash Academy Iterates Fundamental Tools

The premiere episode of Airdash Academy will help players get right on track when getting started in games like Guilty Gear by visiting fundamental ideas found in other 2-D and 3-D fighters.

The main topic in this episode of Airdash Academy is all about building the necessary foundation of what to attack within the playing field. While it features footage of Guilty Gear XX Accent Core Plus R, the video also contains both Tekken Tag Tournament 2 and Super Street Fighter II: HD Remix to show that the idea of "why you should do a particular move" can be interchangeable within sub-genres.

You can find episode one of Airdash Academy after the jump! More episodes will be available of Novriltataki's YouTube channel!

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Super Desperation Radio 232 Archive With Giby, Hellpockets, SuperFX, Sanchez, Lord Walkman & Ayaikun

The latest episode of Super Desperation Radio is all about a game still only playable in Japan yet has international interest.

This episode focuses on Under Night In-Birth, the latest game by Melty Blood developers French Bread. They discuss on how UNI's fighting system works as well as evaluate the differences between the original release and the latest revision EXE Late. The crew also talks about the upcoming addition of guest character Akatsuki from doujin fighter Akatsuki Blitzkampf.

You can find the episode after the jump! Super Desperation Radio airs on IPLAYWINNER's Twitch channel every Mon. 6:30 p.m. PST!

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Under Night In-Birth Exe: Late Adds Akatsuki Blitzkampf's Akatsuki As Playable Character

Under Night In-Birth will be updated with an additional character from another fighting game series.

Akatsuki Blitzkampf character Akatsuki is the latest playable character in the latest version of UNI. Akatsuki will still be wearing his regular attire and will likely have a modified movelist to compliment UNI's combo system. Developer French Bread and Akatsuki Blitzkampf creators Subtle Style are known for having a history in creating doujin games.

Subtle Style posted an update to a release date in regards to a download sale of Akatsuki Blitzkampf on Sep. 10. Whether or not it refers to the update Ausf. Achse, more info will be posted in the near future.

For those curious on how the character and Akatsuki Blitzkampf plays in general, you can check out match video after the jump! Under Night In-Birth Exe: Late is now playable in Japanese arcades!

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Under Night In-Birth EXE:Late Developer French Bread Goes Over New Character Chaos

Developer of the Melty Blood and Under Night In-Birth games, French Bread did a video stream of what's to come in the next version of UNI.

Along with a location test in Japan, French Bread shows off Under Night In-Birth EXE:Late in their own stream featuring their newest character Chaos. While they are recording from a camera, there is enough clarity to see how Chaos plays. They also talk and play a bit of the original Yatagarasu in line with the current follow up, Attack on Cataclysm.

You can check out the archive after the jump!

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UNI: Official 3v3 Team Tournament -OVER THE WORLD- Announced For March 2013

In Japan, Under Night In-Birth publisher Ecole and its Hydra GP competitive series announced an official team tournament dedicated to the game. This tournament will last in various dates around January until March 23!

If you live in Japan and want to participate you can check more about the tournament after the jump!

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UNIB: Hilda Now Playable In Version 1.02

For those in Japan playing Under Night In-Birth, the game updated to feature boss Hilda as now a playable character!

UNDER NIGHT IN-BIRTH HILDA SCREENSHOTS

Now the playable characters total at 11. This new addition was the major feature included in version 1.02. There are no other apparent changes reported in this latest update.

For those who want to try her out before going to their local gamecenter, please check out the movelist here!

Under Night In-Birth's Final Trailer Before Debut

ECOLE and French Bread have uploaded the latest trailer to Under Night In-Birth to their YouTube channel. Developed on Sega's RingEdge2 arcade system, the game makes it debut in arcades across Japan on September 20. Watch the video after the jump for an introduction to the full cast!

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Under Night In-Birth System Translations from Beast Note

Daigo fan-site and general Japanese fighting game blog, Beast Note, has posted their translation of the System page on the official Under Night In-Birth website.

There is a detailed breakdown of the EXS and GRD (Grind Grid) meters and how they work together. The EXS meter is a general use meter for supers, EX moves and other things, while the GRD meter is unique in that it is based on the momentum between players.

It is interesting to note that Beast Note mentions that there are no comeback mechanics in this game. Get the rest of the info at the link below.

UNDER NIGHT IN-BIRTH SYSTEM BREAKDOWN

French-Bread's Next Fighting Game Announced

As promised last week, Ecole and developer French-Bread revealed at their event at Club Sega in Akihabara French-Bread's brand new fighting game: "Under Night In-Birth". According to Andriasang, the game will be completely original, uses a four-button control scheme, will be in 720p and is expected to be out sometime next winter.

Additional good news for Melty Blood came out of the event as well. French-Bread stated that they weren't done with Melty Blood at all; plans are currently in place to add two more characters in the spring and summer, and they're even considering an HD version of Melty Blood in the future.

Check out images of the game over on 4Gamer.