作者彙整: Suriel Vazquez

Dota 2‘s International tournament has begun! We’re still in the group stages to determine who will start the playoffs where, but we’ve already had some pretty good matches on a semi-new patch. It’s a whole week of Dota! (Stream / Schedule)

The Pokémon World Championships has events this weekend for the trading card game, Ultra Sun and Moon, and Pokkén. It’s the biggest Pokévent of the year! (Streams and Schedules)

Teh Call of Duty World Championships for Black Ops 4 are here, and by “here,” I of course meant “at the UCLA Pauley Pavilion!” Catch the best teams in the world battling it out for the game’s most prestigious prize. (Stream / Schedule)

We also have a Rainbow Six Siege major in Raleigh, NC, in which 16 teams will fight for the $200,000 first-place prize. (Stream / Schedule)

Halo 3 is also seeing a competitive resurgence, and you can watch some high-level play at the Faceit Ignite European Open for the game. (Stream / Schedule)

Rounding out our quartet of shooters, the Overwatch League continues. Next week is the last week for the group stage, and then it’s time for the playoffs! (Stream / Schedule)

League of Legends‘ leagues also continue unabated this week, so you can watch matches from across the various circuits this weekend. (Stream and Schedule)

This weekend’s fighting game event, Fight Club NRW, takes Street Fighter V and Tekken 7 to Cologne, Germany. (Street Fighter V Stream and Schedule / Tekken 7 Stream / Schedule). We also have a second Tekken 7 event in Lima, Peru’s Collision tournament. (Stream)

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After leaks made it very clear Janemba is coming to Dragon Ball FighterZ, we finally got our first glimpse of the character in action, as well as a release date for the character. We also got a look at Super Saiyan Blue Gogeta, who will be arriving at a later date.

Launching August 8 in FighterZ, Janemba is the big bad of the film Dragon Ball Z: Fusion Reborn, and his array of flashy energy sword maneuvers, portals, and horned appearance have made him a popular villain over the years. He looks like he might have interesting mix-up tools at his disposal, which should make him fun to play and annoying to play against.

Gogeta, whose appearance in FighterZ was already known (and puts him in contention for the coveted Goku of the Year award), also looks rad. It’s a fun trailer!

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With the release of Koji Igarashi’s Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night capturing the feel of the genre he helped create, we thought now would be a good time to revisit some of the more obscure entries in that lineage. This time, we focus mostly in the Game Boy Advance Castlevania games.

Join Andrew Reiner, Kyle Hilliard, Leo Vader, and myself as we backtrack through a number of older Castlevania games, dissect running animations, do a little voice-acting, and more.

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Reviews of 2019’s Samurai Shodown review are hitting today, but we’re holding off on delivering our final verdict for just a bit longer. We tend to wait until we’re able to play on launch-day netcode for most fighting games, but we also need to dive into Dojo Mode, which creates A.I. “ghosts” of players by recording their data as they play and uploads them to a server for others to fight. The mode is only now being populated with ghosts as more people get their hands on the game, so we need a bit more time to see how well it works.

From what we’ve played offline and online, however, Samurai Shodown is solid fighter that’s low on memorization and high on risky play. While short combos are still possible and certain moves require more intricate motions not found in other modern fighters, Samurai Shodown wants every move to feel like a gamble; quick jabs of your blade yield piddling damage and don’t connect into combos, but heavier attacks leave you wide open if you whiff them. This puts an emphasis on learning your opponent based on which moves they use and when, then betting you can predict their next move and counter, as opposed to stringing together long combos or developing tricky mix-ups after you knock down your opponent. 

Samurai Shodown isn’t the deepest or flashiest fighter out there, but I’m having a good time so far. That said, beyond some baseline single-player modes like arcade, survival, and time trial, there isn’t much for the lone player to do, so those looking to jump in will most likely want a friend by their side or online.

Check back soon for our full review. For now, make sure to check out our New Gameplay Today of the game.

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With the recent Cadence of Hyrule making waves and the Cuphead developers saying they’d love to make a Zelda game, Zelda spinoff fever might be at an all-time high. So we want to know: which Indie developer would you want to make a Zelda spinoff?

Personally, I’d like to see Wargroove developer Chucklefish take a crack at making a Legend of Zelda tactics game. Where Wargroove borrowed from Advance Wars, their Zelda spinoff could borrow more from Fire Emblem, giving players a more retro game in the vein of the series’ arrival in the West on the Game Boy Advance. Along with Link and Zelda, players could take control of other races like the Goron, Deku, and Zora. Lots of characters from throughout the series could make an appearance, too. The more fan service the better!

But that’s just me. What kind of game would like to see Zelda turn into? A Limbo-style platformer? A monster hunting and cooking show like Battle Chef Brigade? Let us know in the comments.

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