Happy Lies Day, everybody! Hope you’ve enjoyed a wonderful day of lies. It’s time to bring the festivities to an end, however, and settle in for a weekend of extremely serious and definitely happening digital sports. CS:GO is hosting the week’s highest-profile clash, but there’s plenty of LoL, Dota 2, Smite and fighting to go...
The Capcom Pro Tour makes it to the UK this weekend at Hypespotting V in Glasgow. Running for its fifth year and bigger than ever before, I spoke with tournament organiser Walter ‘VS Affro’ Fraser about this year’s event, the Pro Tour, and the future of what has become a marquee European FGC event. “Hypespotting...
With the start of the game’s third season this week, Killer Instinct will finally roll out on the Windows 10 store. The rebooted fighter has been an Xbox One staple since launch, and while apparently it’s pretty good, the best thing about it is it’s free. The only potential snag is whether your PC can run it or not,...
PC is becoming an ever-more attractive platform for fighting games and Japanese devs, and where those overlap lurks Bandai Namco. A Bandai survey doing the rounds is reportedly gauging interest in a PC version of Tekken 7—yet to make its way to the West on any platform. If it does appear, it’ll be the first Tekken game on PC...
Street Fighter V launched with no system in place to punish rage-quitters, a frankly mad state of affairs in this, the year of Zangief. In response to complaints, Capcom vowed to punish naughty quitters—and now those punishments have begun. Writing on the Capcom Unity blog, Capcom’s ‘haunts’ has said that “roughly 30” players had their League Points and...
