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There were rumors regarding popular arcade stick and button company Sanwa Denshi's noiseless hardware for a while. Recently Japanese website 4Gamer visited the HQ to check out the new tech they have been developing.

All the tech they have been doing have been indeed made to reduce noise dramatically. For the joystick, they have individual microswitches with a special harness cable that can connect to regular default Sanwa harness cables through an adapter. The buttons also recieved some upgrades to lower common noise.

Sanwa tested the differences with a Hori stick where they compare stock Hori hardware, the new tech from Sanwa, and stock Sanwa hardware that can be currently bought. Make sure to check out the videos in the link and share your thoughts on it.

Proving that you can't escape his wrath whether you are six feet under or on a 25 year old NES cartridge (too soon?) Yoshinori Ono recorded a video at the offices of 1Up.com today that further solidified his supreme reign as the grand high troll of the FGC.

Those of you looking to play dress up with your favorite Soul Calibur 5 characters will have a lot of decisions to make come February. As reported yesterday by Dualshockers, Namco Bandai already has plenty of DLC on the way for their latest and greatest, with three separate DLC packs being released within weeks of one another.

It's an eclectic bunch of stuff for sure. Namco saw fit to include a wide assortment of bikinis, masks and tats in this round, ensuring maximum troll factor when beating people down online with your custom character. Check out our full gallery of pics here.

All I can say is... THERE BEST BE SOME HORSE HEAD UP IN THIS BITCH!

This week’s edition of Friday Night Skullgirls was recently posted on Gametrailers, pitting Sanchez’s Parasoul against Render’s Valentine. The game looks better and better every week, and this match certainly continues the trend. Valentine gets a lot of love in this footage, offering us a look at her nasty Level 3 super.

 

Source: Gametrailers

SoCal's most famous commentators in the fighting game community, UltraDavid and Jchensor, have now begun their premier broadcast of their collaboration stream!

They will be taking a look at various tactics in fighting games and other topics.

Check out the video after the jump! Also follow them on Twitter (@UltraChenTV)!

SoulCalibur V is coming out next week and the final developer stream is on now!

They are taking a look at the online features including a spectator mode!

Go check out the stream in the jump! SoulCalibur V is out on Jan. 31 for both Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3!

With both the US and Japanese qualifiers over, we are now in the final phase before the big championship show. Korea is now streaming their qualifiers!

Players like Poongko and Infiltration are there to compete to battle for the qualifying spot. Winners will face the likes of Wolfkrone, Justin Wong, and Fuudo in the finals!

Check the stream after the jump!

Continuing his impressive line of King of Fighters XIII guides, Persona uploaded two videos that revolve around Mature, the ruthless assassin of Team Iori. The first is a combo tutorial that builds from the ground up, providing a solid foundation and moving into slightly more technical strategies to help new players acclimate to her play style. The second is a combo exhibition that highlights some of the more impractical and flashy things an experienced player can pull off.

Source: Persona

 

Dear readers, please welcome the latest additions to the IPLAYWINNER collective, Carlo Dela Cruz (The Phantomnaut) and Paul Dziuba (SuperFX). We wanted to introduce you to the newcomers, as well as the cadre of contributors that help us to produce content from a variety of perspectives.

After the break, check out bios of the new recruits and some of the old standbys you may not be familiar with.

Level Up has a special weekend treat in store for King of Fighter fans tomorrow - a 3v3 KoF XIII tourney with each player locked to 1 character all the way through the bracket. Entry fee is $30.00 per team and the action starts at 5pm PST at Super Arcade in Walnut, CA. Show up beforehand to register. 

If you don't have the guts or the cash to throw down in some real honest fighting, then make sure to stream monster it up here.

Continuing off their recent announcement of DLC for Soul Calibur V, Namco Bandai released a few screenshots showcasing the various customization options that will be opened up to players who purchase the add-ons. There’s bikinis, wings, face paint, animal costumes, and all kinds of crazy pieces to spice up your characters. Also added in were new screenshots of Kilik, Edgemaster, and Xiba, so check them all out below.

 

Source: Dual Shockers

Round five for the TOPANGA League is about to begin but here are the results from round four.

Kazunoko didn't participate in the round but still was able to retain his #1 spot with Sako coming close with five wins only two losses. Recent LG Japanese qualifier champion Fuudo has been placed eight place after being beaten by Sako and current third place competitor Haitani. RF has played a lot in the round but had the unfortunate matter of losing all of his matches putting the Sagat player in last place.

Make sure to check out the full statistics and match info thanks to Tokido fan blog Tokido77 after the break. If you are interested in watching, follow Fubarduck's article on how to pay through Nico Nico Douga and go to this link to help get started. Round five will be airing soon!

The Korea qualifiers for the LG Cup Street Fighter 4 HD tournament should start at 9pm PST and with TwitchTV being announced as an official sponsor ...

Jr Rodriguez has uploaded a bunch of Super Street Fighter 4 Arcade Edition v2012 ranked match replays onto his YouTube channel. Each video is roughly 30minutes ...

With the reveal of Bad Box Art Mega Man in Street Fighter X Tekken, some fans have asked for him to make an appearance in Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3. One user by the name of ACBreaker asked for this on the Ask Capcom forums on Capcom-Unity. Capcom’s Rey Jimenez responded saying:

Interesting, but unless the team planned for him to be in UMvC3 as a DLC character, it would be very hard to do. It’s near impossible post release to add content to a title that wasn’t planned for before the title was released.

That’s sad, because I would have jumped at the chance to put Bad Box Art Mega Man on my UMVC3 team.

This brings up an interesting question though. Consider this together with Seth Killian’s statement that no further UMVC3 DLC is planned at this time. Does this mean that our chances for receiving further UMVC3 DLC are slim to none?

Source: Capcom-Unity

Tonight marks the last qualifier event on the road to the LG Cup Global Championships. As always, there will be two separate tournaments, one for Super Street Fighter IV: Arcade Edition ver. 2012 and the other for the LG exclusive Street Fighter IV HD. Infiltration, Laugh, Poongko, Zzangmoo, Naraks, and M.Lizard are all expected to attend, which should make for some highly exciting tournament play. The action is all going down tonight at 9 PM PST / 12 AM EST, and will be live streamed on the official LG Cup TwitchTV channel.

Watch live video from lgsf4 on www.twitch.tv

Source: LG Cup, Laugh via Ben G.

PandaxGaming, for those of you who aren’t familiar, runs a streamed event called Ultimate Fight Night: Battle in the Pandagon every Monday night that pits some of the fighting game community’s best players against each other in first to five sets. This week’s main event included a set between RZR|Latif’s C. Viper and Snake Eyez’s Zangief. The conflicting play styles make for quite an exciting match, and the whole set was uploaded to PandaxGaming’s Youtube channel. Check them out below, and be on the look out for next week’s matchup between RZR|Latif and Weirdo Neo, two competitors who have never lost a match in the Pandagon.

Source: PandaxGaming

The Errant Cluster put together a short blog with a bunch of artwork from an artist named Kei-Suwabe. Who created some artwork of what seems to ...

The fine folks over at Sega recently sent us some information on a cool new contest they’re working on for their loyal Virtua Fighter fans. All you have to do is come up with a name for one of the random enemies that appear in Virtua Fighter 5 Final Showdown’s single-player mode and their tagline before battle, as well as the preferred character you would like them to go up against. This is a fun way to get your name or the name of someone you know in the game if it’s chosen by the developers as one of their favorites. The official blog post has all the rules and regulations you need to know to enter, but be quick, because the deadline is next Tuesday, January 31st.

Source: Sega

An interesting video was shown to me about two boards used in arcade sticks. One of which "Qanba Q4RAF" is used in all of your sparkling new EightArc sticks.  The test is pretty much to show if there is lag, not between the console and board, but if one board responds quicker than the other. The person who did the test is called Toodles who has been around for a while in the FGC and is the person who owns Godlike Controls a site that serves in your arcade stick needs and the Cthulhu board being tested. The boards that are being tested are Qanba Q4RAF and MC Cthulhu.

Two different tests were done and you can check out both of them and some more information after the jump.