Mortal Kombat 11: Aftermath's new Halloween costumes and their various colors NetherRealm Studios released their latest Mortal Kombat 11: Aftermath skin pack ahead of schedule and now fans have new digs for Johnny Cage, D'Vorah, and Sub-Zero. The All Hallows' Eve skins effectively give the aforementioned fighters flashy new Halloween costumes just in time for the spooky season. Now that these new Mortal Kombat skins are in our hands, we've gone in and took a closer look at all this new pack has to offer. Today we're checking out the new gear pieces that come with the All Hallows' Eve costume pack as well as all of the different color options. Continue reading »

Akuma's overpowered status in Street Fighter 5 isn't getting enough discussion, here's how we feel Capcom will address him in upcoming balance changes Akuma and his extremely high power levels are topics we surely enjoy discussing here on the EventHubs Podcast, but with Street Fighter 5's next major balance update looming over the horizon it really is getting to be time for the community to express the kinds of changes they're hoping to see. While Champion Edition has a few sore thumbs one can point to, none are more conspicuous than Akuma. Catalyst and I observe how the character has been performing in this year's Capcom Pro Tour tournaments and examine some of his Swiss army knife abilities to garner an idea of how to best nerf him. Continue reading »

Harada: Working on fighting games made us realize that increasing the health bar makes your fighting game look well-balanced The Tekken 7 Season 4 update will be launching with balance adjustments for the entire roster. Katsuhiro Harada and Michael Murray recently discussed the benefits of upping the health totals for everyone. "Each season introduced characters and new moves that led to high damage or wall carry. This often decreased the strategic back and forth of a match," noted Murray. "That leads me to one of our other major objectives with the update. We wanted to reduce situations where players would lose a hefty amount of health from wall combos, decreasing the number of situations where overly high damage was dealt." Continue reading »

Mortal Kombat 11 appears to have a high chance of Rain in the forecast Mortal Kombat 11 has more DLC content in the works, and while NetherRealm Studios remains quiet on who exactly is going to be joining the time-traveling roster, a large amount of hints suggests there's at least one choice that's quite a bit more likely than the rest. Clues from series co-creator Ed Boon and other recent developments strongly point towards Rain making a grand return in playable form for the first time in almost a decade. Continue reading »

This weird King of Fighters glitch makes Maxima look like he needs an exorcism The early King of Fighters games are some of the most iconic in fighting game history though with that many characters and teams to juggle, there's going to be some bugs that ended up slipping through the cracks during development. Resident fighting game glitch master D-NO recently shared a fun bug from KOF '99 between Maxima and Whip that causes the massively tall fighter to spin like he's been placed on a turntable. Continue reading »

New Super Smash Bros. Ultimate character announcement coming tomorrow Super Smash Bros. fans have been eagerly awaiting to see who will be the second character to join Ultimate's Fighters Pass Vol. 2, and we finally know when to expect to see more. Nintendo announced this morning that the new character reveal for Smash Ultimate will be coming tomorrow, October 1. Continue reading » ,

Dan's wildest arcade ending ever came from Marvel Super Heroes vs. Street Fighter which jokingly suggests Akuma is his father Dan Hibiki's entire existence in the Street Fighter series is one of the most fascinating inclusions in all of fighting games considering he's a direct parody of a rival's iconic characters over at SNK though one of his wildest outings would come before the two company's officially crossed over. In Marvel Super Heroes vs. Capcom, Dan's arcade ending suggests that Akuma is actually his father even though it's painfully clear that's not actually the case. Continue reading » ,

If you haven't taken the time to appreciate Suppi's fighting game art yet, you should definitely change that right now I've spent the last half hour perusing through the channels of an incredibly talented artist by the name of Suppi and now cannot say enough good things about their work. The NorCal artist has a captivating style with a good bit in the way of subtle facial details and a whole lot in the way gorgeous forms. You've already seen workout Chun-Li, Abel and Juri, and airborne Rouge in the banner, but just wait till you check out Zero Suit Samus twins, sun burnt Sakura, and the rest that're awaiting in the gallery below. Continue reading »

Javits' Gill lands Retribution 10 times in one combo, but the mad Street Fighter 5 scientist thinks he can top it Everyone who has a Twitter and enjoys Street Fighter 5 should be following Javits as he's constantly hitting the lab to figure out enticing new potential with characters as he thinks around corners and pushes limits to new extremes. The subject of focus today is Gill, one of Street Fighter 5's newest character additions, and his unique Retribution mechanic. Javits has found a way to make Retribution happen no less than 10 times in a single sequence, and he thinks he can eek out an eleventh. Continue reading »