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The guys in Bristol are putting on another Sodium Showdown event on the 26th Feb 2012. Super Street Fighter 4 Arcade Edition, Street Fighter III 3rd Strike, Super Street Fighter 2 Turbo HDR, Ultimate Marvel VS Capcom 3, BlazBlue Continuum Shift 2 and King of Fighters XIII will all be present as tournament games. So if you want to support the event and see more Sodium Showdowns in the future, g... more.

On Sunday the 26th February players not only are being given the chance to play Street Fighter X Tekken before realease BUT have the opportunity to win hotel and flights to Melbourne, Australia for Shadowloo Showdown 2012! UMvC3 and SFIV:AE2012 are the qualifying games and if 30 or more people enter Marvel and 60 or more people enter SFIV 2nd place for each of those tournaments will ALSO be sent t... more.

Dont Drop That Combo uploaded a new Kyo tutorial showing and explaining how to perform and use his Instant Air Orochinagi. If Kyo is on your team and you want to improve damage output in combos, take a look. ... more.

It's been a long time, but Ultimate Clash is back for another round of Fighting game mayhem. NeoEmpire's monthly event Ultimate Clash 12, will return at the London Anime Con 4 on the 12th Feb 2012 in London at the Rocket Complex on Holloway road. To keep with the times, UC12 will feature Super Street Fighter 4 Arcade Edition Ver 2012 (XBOX 360), King of Fighters XIII (PS3), and Ultimate Marvel ... more.

It's been around a month since release and on December 18th EXDP will be running tournaments for both Ultimate Marvel vs Capcom 3 and King of Fighters XIII at the Mango Lounge in Earls Court, London.  Both Tournaments are capped at 64 entries so get signed up >>here<< and show us your stuff! SIGN UPS CLOSE FRIDAY 16TH DECEMBER AT 6PM... more.

Arc System Works Europe and PQube are pleased to announce that BlazBlue Continuum Shift Extend will be available for PlayStation® 3, PlayStation®Vita and Xbox 360® in Q1 2012 BlazBlue Continuum Shift Extend is the latest in the BlazBlue series – the most advanced 2D fighter ever made, critically acclaimed for its unique characters, refined and accessible-but-deep fighting system and epic s... more.

After the huge success of the last MANBAT for SSFIV:AE, MBA are proud to announce their next event this time for the recently released Ultimate Marvel vs Capcom 3 on the 11th December in Gamerbase Manchester. With the game only being a month old this will be a great opportunity for people to showcase some new characters and strategies, make sure you're there! You can register by posting here or... more.

So yeah the guys in Bristol are doing another tournament. Dated for the 27th of November with Blazblue Continuum Shift 2 Mortal Kombat 9 Ultimate Marvel vs Capcom 3 Street Fighter 2, 3S and AE Arc System Works EU will also be there with copies of BBCS and AH3! Discuss Sodium Showdown >>Here<<... more.

Gunsmith from Orochinagi is putting on a King of Fighters 13 stream with the latest beta of KoFXIII, which is going to include an interview with Kyzertron. Sat 12th November 8-10pm GMT: The Orochinagi Show 23… it’ll be much more than a show.  We’ll have an interview with the indomitable Kyzertron from the Blazblue community, talking about his first impressions of the game, after he had a... more.

Nth Gen Interactive have done an interview with Arc System Works EU (Formerly known as Zen United) asking all sorts of questions! INSIDE ARC SYSTEM WORKS EUROPE INTERVIEW Rayokarna, Frost, Firei - Geraint, Director, Arc System Works Europe From left to right: Josh, Holly, Geraint, Paul Zen United or Arc System Works Europe there seems to be some confusion! Yeah, it’s Arc S... more.

To celebrate the release of BlazBlue Continuum Shift 2 on Nintendo 3DS and Sony PSP, Arc System Works Europe will be releasing a special Manga Edition on November the 4th 2011. Due to popular demand Arc System Works have translated the BlazBlue: Phase Zero Prologue manga - making it available for the first time outside Japan. No this is not part of the official Manga The Official BlazBlu... more.

Melty Blood Actress Again Current Code 1.07 was released in Japan just recently for arcades. New matchvideos are being uploaded to various places like Nico and Youtube, so here they are! Got a few videos of Archetype Earth, the new character and real matchvideos! Matchvideos MBAACC will see a PC release in December. Discuss it >>here<<... more.

Top 25 at Evo, the winner of Taking All Comers' Marvel 3 event and numerous wins & top 8 placements at WinerStaysOn and Ultimate Clash. Jack "Cheech Wizard" Simpson hit the ground running when Marvel vs Capcom 3 came out and has made his presence known in the southern Marvel scene and then at the global event, Evolution. I recently caught up with him to ask a few questions about Marvel 3, his ... more.

So we got MCM Expo coming around the corner, this time round theres going to be tournaments being run! There is a KoF13 tournament run by Rising Star Games on the saturday at 1500. For AH3 there will be a tournament run by ArcSystemWorks.eu & PQube on the saturday at 1200 and Blazblue Continuum Shift will be run on the sunday at 1200. Posters for each tournament and various links below! Arcan... more.

In case you dont know what Under Night InBirth is, its a new HD Fighter made by Ecole and French Bread (Known for the Melty Blood series) and they've recently updated their site with new images and character profiles for people to see. Here's the screens for Orie and Gordeau, new characters in UNIB Im really looking forward to this game now, the sprites are quite ama... more.

Blazblue Continuum Shift 2 has its european release date confirmed for November the 4th. All DLC characters will be unlocked on this version Two additional stories in the story mode, the NOL story and Sector Seven story. 'Abyss' mode will also be available, I got no idea what that really is though Heres the trailer straight from ArcSystemworks.eu youtube account! There is also BO... more.

On December the 3rd and 4th, NeoEmpire and Nth gen will be hosting Revolution, 2 day fighting games event at the London Games Con in the Rocket Complex. The official Revolution tournaments are. Street Fighter 4 Arcade Edition Ultimate Marvel vs Capcom 3 King of Fighters 13 Blazblue Continuum Shift 2 Arcana Heart 3 Location: Rocket Complex 166 Holloway Road London N7 8D8 T... more.

ChromeAlchemist along with the help of Darkhadou, Kayotskuo and Vulcan786 from the Neo Empire Forums put together a video at the recent EuroGamer Expo showcasing combos and changes in the eagerly anticipated Ultimate Marvel vs Capcom 3. For the thousands waiting to get their hands on Vergil this has a big chunk of information on him especially if you haven't been keeping up with UMvC3's recent rev... more.

Versus Scotland are running their first major tournament in Glasgow on the 24th and 25th of March 2012! Super Street Fighter IV:AE, Ultimate Marvel vs Capcom 3 and King of Fighters XIII have all been confirmed with 2 more tournaments to be decided by community vote in due course. The venue is the Thistle Hotel in Glasgow which is close to transport and has a bar open until 2AM!!! GET HYPE!!! ht... more.

Up in Bristol theres a tournament going on this sunday. Games being played are SSF4 AE MVC3 BBCS2 MK9 and 3SOE. ArcSystemWorks Europe will also be at the event with Arcana Heart 3. 22 Nelson Street Bristol BS1 2LE Tournaments begin at 3pm sharp £1 Entry per tournament game. WINNER TAKES ALL Single Elimination, Best of 3 Official Thread >>here<<... more.

Now that Tokyo Game show is on the day, videos of Persona are going up onto the internet. Heres a video from Jourdal, I dont know where he got it from, but here it is! Also about the extra 50 meter you see in screenshots, it seems that once you have about 30% of your health left, you instantly gain 50 on top of what you already have and the maximum is increased to 150. Thanks to Death By... more.

Every wednesday, there will be a 3S:OE tournament at London Trocadero Gamerbase! Groups into Double Elimination. 5 pound entry to the tournament Oh and despite what the poster displays, Gill is banned Official Thread >>here<<... more.

Manchester has a new season of events coming up all thanks to local Mancunians Yingah and Onezuka! MBA will be alternating tournaments on a monthly basis with many different games getting a showing. First up is a Super Street Fighter IV:AE Tournament on 29th October at Gamerbase Manchester. Super Street Fighter IV: AE 29th October HMV Gamerbase Manchester 12pm Xbox 360 £5 entry W... more.

Yeah, I'm just going to call it P4U or Persona Fighter from now on cause the name is just too long. A new trailer has been released for this game, showing small bits of gameplay and showing off character silhouettes. Official Site >>here<< Discuss P4U >>here!<<... more.

Replay Expo, an event that celebrates our old school gaming roots is back again this year and anyone who attended last year will know how fantastic it was. Everything from Coin-Ops to old consoles, competitions, celebrity appearances, new games and unreleased titles.  Electronic Dojo also ran some excellent fighting game tournaments last year and are doing the same again however this time with a ... more.

I can confirm that today is not April 1st, a Persona fighting game named "Persona 4 the Ultimate in Mayonaka Arena" is actually being released by ArcSystemworks. Apparently they're looking on an arcade release for Spring 2012 and console in summer. 2012 From Adraisang In addition to the commentary Mori, we have a list of modes that appears in Famitsu: Arcade Mode: Face off against CPU op... more.

Street Fighter III 3rd Strike 1st: AS Tome 2nd: LLL MDC Prodigal Son 3rd: AS Gunfight 4th: Kaz The Finale! Left to right: Kaz, LLL MDC P. Son, AS Tome, AS Gunfight 3rd Place Kaz vs AS Gunfight Semi - LLL MDC P. Son vs AS Gunfight Semi - Kazu vs AS Tome Quarter - Roukanken vs Kazu Quarter - Rudi vs Prodigal Son Quarter - AS Gunfight vs Becks ... more.

Community member daytona5bill's legendary event is back! Must be at least 18 years of age to enter. Pre-register HERE BY RSVPing OR also at Bob Hope Community Center. Tournament entrants receive a free MVC3 t-shirt courtesy of Capcom Europe (while supplies last). 1st Place Winner will receive (TBD)! Other prizes will be given out! Door prizes / raffles! Live music by DJ@War! Registration for... more.