Results from our November Monthly! Super Street Fighter IV Arcade Edition Ultimate Marvel vs Capcom 3 Tekken Tag Tournament 2 Soul Calibur 5 Mortal Kombat 9 Halo 4 (2v2)   Another great turnout with ~80 gamers in attendance.  We introduced Halo 4 and I was extremely happy with the turnout.  The players were highly competitive and highlighted Halo's potential in our tournament scene.  Matt and Joe held it down and took our first Halo 4 team tournament.  SSF4 AE had a familiar outcome with CORN's alucarD taking ANOTHER Console Combat monthly.  alucarD continues his dominance in this game.  CoCo's Matt Shultz comes in second with CoCo's Brennan Karaba taking third.  OMG itz Andre adds another UMVC3 championship to his impressive resume. 

Mortal Kombat 9 featured some of the best players in the world.  Three time EVO champ, CoCo Perfect Legend, was in attendance.  Galloping Ghost arcade also showed up and came to pl...

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Console Combat Monthly  Tournament Series July 2012 Edition - Player Brackets   Virtua Fighter 5 AE Teams Soul Calibur 5 Mortal Kombat Super Street Fighter 4 AE Singles The King of Fighters XIII Ultimate Marvel vs Capcom 3 Tekken 6 Featured Exhibition Match: CoCo OMG its Andre defeats TFA/RZR Frankie G 10-8

 

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Here are the match videos from April 22nd.  If you would like to view the full archive visit our twitch.tv site here.  Click the link to view all the videos. Mortal Kombat Playlist  KOF XIII Playlist  Ultimate Marvel vs Capcom 3 Playlist  SSF4 AE v. 2012 Playlist  Soul Calibur 5 Playlist  Skull Girls Playlist  SFxT Playlist  

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Click the Link for the complete results Brackets: Street Fighter x Tekken Soul Calibur V Skull Girls Ultimate Marvel vs Capcom 3 Super Street Fighter 4 AE v.2012 The King of Fighters XIII Mortal Kombat  Tekken 6

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In one of the most anticipated tournaments at Proving Grounds, SSF4 AE v.2012 did not disappoint.  Digital Battleground's alucarD did not drop a match until the grandfinals.  Competitors from PA, OH, MI, and IN were in attendence.  Top 8 included a wide range of characters from Dhalsim, Boxer, Ryu, Dictator et cetera.  Some high quality play on display.   Hit the below link for details.  See the full archive at Console Combat's twitch tv site here. Grandfinals
  Winners Semis
  Winners Semis
  Losers Final   Losers Semis   Losers Quarterfinals
  Losers Quarterfinals

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Takashi Nishiyama spent a not insignificant amount of his career basically creating SNK's fighting game repertoire, but this article on 1up also has a lot of classic Capcom information as well. There was a lot of information there that I was ashamed not to know. This has erased some of my shame for the day and I found this article absolutely fascinating!!
Nishiyama has been in this job for so long and has been so silent that this piece filled in a lot of missing pieces about the history of the fighting genre from both Capcom and SNK.

But (for me) every answer it provided created another question. For instance, Nishiyama notes that when SNK was bought out by UEC there were over 600 people in development alone. Mistranlation? What could SNK be doing at the time that needed 600 people? The NeoGeo Pocket?

Nishiyama also mentions future Dimps IP, I fancy the idea of an SNK vs Dimps in the future, whichever form it may take (no idea which genres they're going f...

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Third Strike Online to feature GGPO netcode and Yootoob uploading Powers! OH Thank You Our Lord in Asgard! HOT SEXY NEW TRAILER! THIS IS NOT DONE BY BACKBONE ENTERTAINMENT! AT LAST, OUR LONG NATIONAL NIGHTMARE IS OVER!

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