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The Drop Episode 7: EVO 2017 Wrap Up

Jeremias De Leon

The biggest fighting game event in the world EVO 2017 ran its course this past weekend. During that time news was revealed, friends were made, and a whole lot of video game punches were thrown. In today’s episode of The Drop, I run through the major news that was revealed by Arc System Works, Namco Bandai, Arika, and Capcom. This pertains to the various new characters, and the brand new game that was announced following the tournaments. What was also interesting was that almost each tournament had its own story-lines, or…

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Skullomania & Darun Mister Revealed for Arika’s New EX Fighting Game

Jeremias De Leon

During EVO 2017, Arika revealed more information about its upcoming fighting game, which is currently being called Fighting EX Layer. However, the game itself is actually nameless at the moment. From this trailer that Arika released, it shows two new characters that are joining the game’s roster. These two characters are Skullomania, and Mister Darun. Fans of the Street Fighter EX series should recognize these characters, particularly Skullomania who has been a constantly requested character for Street Fighter games. Now, since the Street Fighter EX series was developed by Arika they are allowed…

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Arc System Works Adds Jubei to BlazBlue Central Fiction

Jeremias De Leon

Following the BlazBlue Central Fiction grand finals at EVO 2017, Arc System Works had a few announcements. One of these announcements was for the new BlazBlue Cross Tag Battle game, which we reported on earlier. However, another announcement was for a new DLC character joining BlazBlue Central Fiction. Yet, this new character is not new to the games, but new to being a playable character as it is Jubei, the One-Eyed Twin Lotus. Now, Jubei or Mitsuyoshi, has made several appearances in the BlazBlue series, with his first appearance in BlazBlue: Calamity Trigger. The…

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Arc System Works Reveals BlazBlue Cross Tag Battle

Jeremias De Leon

2018 – FATES WILL INTERSECT –   After the grand finals for the BlazBlue Central Fiction tournament at EVO 2017, an announcement was made for a Arc System Work’s newest game. This new game is a crossover tag team fighting game with the same development team as BlazBlue called, BlazBlue Cross Tag Battle. This game will feature characters from BlazBlue, Persona 4 Arena, Under Night In-Birth EXE Late, and the Rooster Teeth action series, RWBY. However, at this time only Ruby Rose from the RWBY series is confirmed to be in the…

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Geese Howard DLC for Tekken 7

Jeremias De Leon

“The World is too big for you to control. Leave it all to me.”   Following the Tekken 7 grand finals at EVO 2017, and the Dragon Ball FighterZ announcement, director Katsuhiro Harada announced the reveal for the next DLC for Tekken 7. This new DLC would be for new guest character to the game. That character turned out to be none other than Geese Howard from the Fatal Fury, and the King of Fighters series. Along with the character a new stage will be added that looks to be a recreation of…

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Future Trunks revealed for Dragon Ball FighterZ

Jeremias De Leon

After the grand finals of the Tekken 7 tournament at the EVO 2017 championships, Katsuhiro Harada, director of Tekken 7, and Dragon Ball FighterZ producer Tomoko Hiroki appeared on stage. The two mentioned that they had a few announcements to make. The first was the reveal trailer for Future Trunks in Dragon Ball FighterZ, which can be seen below. Whereas, the second announcement pertained to the upcoming closed beta for the game. The close beta for the Dragon Ball FighterZ will beginning applications next week on Wednesday, July 26th. Dragon Ball FighterZ is set to release next year in…

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Ikaricast Classic – Pre EVO 2017 Discussion

Jeremias De Leon

Fighter xaos and 16 Bit Jeff come together to discuss their predictions, and hopes for this year’s EVO. In addition, the duo discuss the state of EVO and the FGC in general, as the EVO 2017 fighting game tournaments come closer. It all starts this Friday!   New Sources: Shoryuken, EventHubs, Smash.gg, GrayMartigan, EventHubs II   Also follow us at our various social media accounts! Twitter: The GeekFighters Twitter Fighter Xaos on Twitter The Game Riffers Twitter Fighter Xaos Tumblr 16BitJeff on Twitter The Broken Infinite Live streaming: Fighter Xaos The…

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