Final Round 16 tournament preview featuring Infiltration, Poongko, Xian, ChrisG, Justin Wong, PR Balrog and more

Coming up this weekend on March 29-31, we have one of the biggest tournaments this year in the fighting game community, Final Round. Some of the best players are coming from around the world to participate including Infiltration, CafeID|Poongko, DM|Xian, AGE|NYChrisG, EG|Justin Wong, EMP|IFC Yipes, EG|PR Balrog, EG|Ricky Ortiz and many more.

In addition to the normal tournaments, they will be hosting a few special events including a Curleh Mustache team tournament, Darkstalkers Resurrection invitational and a Marvel vs. Capcom 2 exhibition.

Hit the jump to check out the full details.

Christian Svensson's replies to comments about arcade games being so expensive, notes he thinks JoJo's is a bit pricey

Over on the Ask-Capcom forums, user Hellcat made a thread asking why various Capcom arcade games are so expensive. Typically an arcade game is 800 Microsoft Points or $9.99 on the PlayStation Store, while Capcom's games have been 1,200 MSP/$14.99 to 1,600 MSP/$19.99.

Christian Svensson jumped in once again to give a little insight to the pricing, even noting that he agrees that JoJo's is a bit too pricey.

Do you guys think the prices Capcom asks for their re-releases is fair? Leave a comment in the section below with your thoughts.

Jibbo vs. Uryo SFxT v2013 match analysis featuring Ryan Hunter, Haunts and Combofiend play DSR on PlayStation 3, UMvC3 TOW: Online vs. offline play

KS|Jibbo put together two compilations of matches between himself and Uryo in Street Fighter X Tekken v2013. Jibbo commentates throughout the video and gives us a bit of insight on what exactly was going on during each fight.

After the jump, you can check out part 2 of the matches with guest commentator Ryan Hunter.

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Capcom blog: Darkstalkers Resurrection Q&A with Ayano-San - uploading to YouTube, online BGM bug, training mode Save State explained

Capcom's Ayano-san returns with another blog update featuring a question and answer session about Darkstalkers Resurrection. Ayano addresses several topics including how to properly upload replays to YouTube, the Save State function in training mode and more.

You can check out the rest of the questions and answers by hitting the jump below.

Challege Capcom - Combofiend and Haunts play Darkstalkers Resurrection online, discuss various announcements from Capcom today

Earlier today, Combofiend and Haunts at Capcom-Unity hosted another Challenge Capcom stream. Today, they played Darkstalkers Resurrection on the PlayStation Network against various online opponents.

While playing ranked games, they discuss the news from Capcom today with the update to the Street Fighter 4 series, the Ducktales and Dungeons and Dragons re-releases.

Skullgirls: Stanley's lecture, Sako playing Darkstalkers Resurrection online tournament, Marvel vs. Capcom 2 inversion glitch exhibition

When the Skullgirls IndieGogo started, many people were confused as to why Lab Zero was asking for so much money for the creation of a single character. Jaxamoto has created a short animated video to give more insight on why characters cost so much.

Darkstalkers Resurrection DLC releasing next Tuesday

Combofiend has released some information on the upcoming DLC for Darkstalkers Resurrection on Capcom-Unity. This DLC is being released on both PlayStation Network and Xbox Live Marketplace on Tuesday, March 26th.

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Darkstalkers Resurrection finals from tournament at Super Arcade featuring Floe, Justin Wong, B-Izm, Dyne and more

This past Friday, a Darkstalkers Resurrection tournament was held at Super Arcade in Walnut, California. Many top players showed up to participate including EG|Justin Wong, EG|fLoE, LLND, Thoth, Dyne, B-Izm and more.

Below is the winners, losers and grand finals from the event along with the full top 8 results if you want to check them out.

Patch in the works for Darkstalkers Resurrestion, Marvel vs. Capcom Origins and Street Fighter 3 Third Strike Online Edition

Over on the Ask Capcom forums, Combofiend has been replying to various threads asking for information on updates, patches, DLC and bug fixes to Darkstalkers Resurrection, Marvel vs. Capcom Origins and Street Fighter 3 Third Strike Online Edition.

Up first is the Darkstalkers Ressurection's music and possible DLC.

After the jump, you can see the posts about the music and future patches for both Street Fighter 3 Third Strike Online Edition and Marvel vs. Capcom 3 Origins.

Capcom vs. SNK 2 release on PlayStation Network set for end of April, could change if Sony chooses

Fighting game fans have been asking for a Capcom vs. SNK 2 re-release for quite some time and during September of last year, the PlayStation 2 version hit the Japanese PlayStation Network.

With the port of the PlayStation 2 version being released in Japan, many fans from across the world, were asking Capcom to release it in other regions. While we hadn't heard much about it, Capcom's Christian Svensson jumped on the Ask Capcom forums to reply to a thread about a North American release.

This is good news to anyone wanting to play the game, however as the date is not set in stone and could potentially change.

Challenge Capcom's ep. 3 Darkstalkers Resurrection, game's producer discusses netcode - Dawgtanian's Online Rewind Boxer Bonanza

Capcom have uploaded the replay of this past Friday's Challenge Capcom where they took Darkstalkers Resurrection online to fight various opponents. They run into some high level players including EG|fLoE, they are also joined by the games producer Derek Neal who discusses the game's netcode.

After the jump, you can check out Dawgtanian's Online Rewind episode 3, where he covers various online ranked matches of people using the boxer characters; Steve, Dudley and Balrog.

High level Darkstalkers Resurrection footage featuring Sako, Nuki, Justin Wong, Floe and more

Jr Rodriguez has uploaded some Darkstalkers Resurrection footage from Xbox Live ranked matches. This features Hori|Sako, Nuki, EG|Justin Wong, EG|Floe and more.

Svensson: No changes to Street Fighter X Tekken's PC netcode planned - happy with the current direction of fighting games

Capcom's Christian Svensson said there are no net code changes planned to the PC version of Street Fighter X Tekken, recently on the Ask Capcom forums. He mentions that the PC release has the same netcode as the Xbox 360 version.

Svensson also stated that while it's unlikely for other Darkstalkers games to added to Darkstalkers Resurrection, he doesn't rule out that they can added to different projects depending on how sales goes. He then describes how 2D sprites are unlikely to be used in new fighting games, as that will be left to previous titles, as they're happy with the current direction of the genre.

Darkstalkers Resurrection character tutorials from Combofiend and fLoE

With the recent release of Darkstalkers Resurrection, some big names in the community have been working hard at putting together tutorials for the game to walk you through high level tactics for the cast.

First up, Capcom's Combofiend and Haunts have a new instructional video for Jon Talbain. This is a short but very concise overview of this fighter, covering his movement and attack options.

Hit the jump to see additional footage from EG|fLoE.

Challenge Capcom live stream - Play Combofiend and Haunts in Street Fighter X Tekken v2013 and Darkstalkers Resurrection

Haunts and Combofiend are starting another episode of their Challenge Capcom stream at around 4:30 p.m. PST.

This weeek they will be playing both Street Fighter X Tekken v2013 and Darkstalkers Resurrection. They will be playing on the Xbox 360 with the gamertag "Capcomfighters1." Additionally they will be giving away Darkstalkers Resurrection codes.

Hit the jump to check out the stream.

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