East Coast Throwdown 5 results, stream archives and more featuring ChrisG, Justin Wong, Dieminion, PR Balrog, Filipino Champ, Ricky Ortiz

Updated with final results: This story has been updated with the final results from East Coast Throwdown 5.

East Coast Throwdown 5 is about to get going, with the pools being shown on stream from 12 P.M., live from Morristown, New Jersey. The tournament will take place during May 18th-19th, and features Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3, Super Street Fighter 4 Arcade Edition v2012, Street Fighter X Tekken v2013, Injustice: Gods Among Us, Tekken Tag Tournament 2 and more on the main stage, with lots of side tournaments going on as well. For a full rundown of the titles being competed in, hit up our tournament preview.

Hit the jump to check out the streams, with main streaming duties being handled by TeamSp00ky. Secondary streams will be held by Deadly Bison Entertainment, KombatNetwork and Bibiquadium.

Tekken Tag Tournament 2 misses sales target, Soul Calibur 5 doing fine

In their financial report released today, Namco-Bandai specified that Tekken Tag Tournament 2 has fallen short of their expected sales for the title. Namco was hoping that the game would have hit 1.7 million copies shipped to retailers at the end of March 2013, but it ended up short with only 1.5 million copies shipped.

On a more positive note, Soul Calibur 5 was reported to be doing fine, having reached 1.05 million copies shipped during the current fiscal year, bringing its total to 1.7 million. Given the franchises' different sales history, it is likely that initial expectations for Soul Calibur 5 were also lower than that of Tekken Tag Tournament 2, making this Namco's current success story when it comes to fighting games.

Despite this unforeseen shortcoming, the company revenue as a whole is up compared to last year, from $192 million up to $324 million. Namco reported that they are forecasting a revenue of $233 million for the upcoming fiscal year, a profit of almost $100 million lower than their current results.

For a more thorough report, including sales numbers of other Namco-Bandai titles such as their Naruto fighting games and Tales of Xillia 2, hit up our sources at Siliconera and VG247.

Stunfest 2013 live tournament stream featuring Ryan Hart, Kyabetsu, Eita, Kindevu, Luffy and Mizoteru

Stunfest 2013 is streaming live this weekend from Rennes, France, it runs from April 26th to the 28th. WW|Ryan Hart, Kyabetsu, Eita, WDM|Luffy, Kindevu, Mizoteru and many others are in attendance and it should make for one exciting event this weekend.

Competitions will be held for SSF4 AE v2012, UMvC3, KoF13, SFxT, SF3 3s, GGXXAC, DoA5, BBCSX, TTT2, CvS2, SC5, SSF2T and VF5.

Hit the jump to check out the live feed and a schedule of events.

DOA5 tutorial #06 - knockdowns and recovery featuring Mochi-A, Blood Burger's SC5 Wonder Woman and Kula create a soul and more

EMPER0RC0W brings us part 6 in his 12 part Dead or Alive 5 tutorial series this time focusing on knockdowns and recovery. The video features Japanese player Mochi-A providing commentary and explaining how both mechanics work in the game.

Hit the jump for more.

Tournament trailer roundup - Tournaments featuring Justin Wong, Mike Ross, Yipes, Xian, GamerBee, Dieminion and more

Today we have a bunch of tournament trailers and bundles of information for all of our readers, detailing four different events taking place this year.

Two of them are in the near future, while two others are a bit further off, but nevertheless, with big names like Justin Wong, Mike Ross and Yipes set to show up to some of these events, it sounds like all four will be bringing us hype matches in a multitude of games.

Hit the jump for a full rundown on these upcoming events.

Texas Showdown results, battle logs and stream archive - featuring Xian, Justin Wong, ChrisG, Alex Valle

Updated with final results: This story has been updated with the final results for Texas Showdown 2013.

Texas Showdown featured Super Street Fighter IV: Arcade Edition 2012, Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3, Street Fighter X Tekken v2013, Tekken Tag Tournament 2 as well as many other titles.

Notable players in attendance included: EG|Justin Wong, AGE|NYChrisG, DM|Xian, LU|Alex Valle, AGE|Romance, EMP|Kor and more.

For a ton more information regarding the event, check out our full preview.

Hit the jump for the stream and full coverage of the event.

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.

Red Fight District 2 results and battle log - featuring Xian, Luffy, ChrisG, Dieminion and more

Updated with final results: This story has been updated with the final results from Red Fight District 2.

Red Fight District 2 kicks off this weekend in Amsterdam. The live stream is being ran by Armshouse.tv by WorstGiefEver.

Notable players scheduled to compete include AGE|NYChrisG, EMP|Dieminion, DM|Xian, Nin, WDM|Luffy, WDM|Cuongster and LLL|Malekith.

You can scope out our preview for the event here. Hit the jump to see an embed of the live stream and a schedule.

World Game Cup 2013 results, battle logs, brackets and more

Updated with final results: This story has been updated with the final for World Game Cup 2013. Hit the jump to check them out.

This weekend, the World Game Cup 2013 is taking place in Cannes, France at the Palais des Festivals. Notable players in attendance include: MCZ|Mago, MCZ|Tokido, AVM|GamerBee, CafeID|Poongko, EMP|Dieminion, RZR|Itabashi Zangief, BCN|Alioune, WDM|Luffy and CafeID|MadKOF.

Many of the the top tournament games in the scene are being competed at this weekend, including SSF4 AE v2012, UMvC3, SFxT and KoF13. You can scope out our preview of this event for additional details.

Hit the jump to see an embed of the live stream, early brackets and more details.

Kayane takes on Soul Calibur 5 challenger without looking at screen

At Paris Manga, Mad Catz's Kayane took a unique approach to some of the sets she played. Known as one of the top Soul Calibur 5 players on the planet, Kayane attempted some of her crowd challenge matches by playing one-handed, and also without looking at the screen — the video below shows the latter.

Kayane uses the crowd's facial expressions to key when she should do certain attacks and such, as she notes the game's sound wasn't really clear. Players who participated in these challenges could win donated prizes from Mad Catz, Capcom, Namco Bandai, Warner Bros Games and Red Bull.

From Kayane's YouTube channel, via the Tokido blog.

Itabashi Zangief lists his bottom 10 characters in Super Street Fighter 4 Arcade Edition v2012

Ryan Hart recently conducted an excellent interview with RZR|Itabashi Zangief in which they discuss various topics including his attendance at World Games Cup 2013, the Virtua Fighter franchise, how the Japanese community trains and more. Players usually divulge who they feel are the top characters in Super Street Fighter 4 Arcade Edition v2012, but this time around, Ryan asks for the bottom 10.

Itabashi also gives his thoughts on who he thinks is the best player around right now. He states that Fuudo is the most complete player all around and more complete than any other player on the planet.

Check out a couple of snips from Ryan's article below.

Winter Brawl 7 results, battle logs, stream archives and more - UMvC3, SFxT, SSF4 AE v2012

Updated with final results: This story has been updated with the final results for Winter Brawl 7, hit the jump to check them all out.

Winter Brawl 7 has kicked off in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and it runs through this weekend, ending late Sunday evening. There are three streams of the festivities being ran by Team Spooky, Bifuteki and 8WayRun.

Notable players in attendance include: EG|PR Balrog, AGE|NYChrisG, EG|Justin Wong, EG|Ricky Ortiz, BT|Dieminion, BT|IFC Yipes, BT|MarlinPie, AGE|Snake Eyez and many more. You can find our preview of the event with additional players who are attending here.

Hit the jump to check out the live streams, schedules and additional notes.

World Game Cup 2013 latest trailer confirms attendance of Mago, Tokido, Gamerbee, Poongko, madKOF, Alioune and Luffy

World Game Cup 2013 is kicking off their promotion campaign for the tournament by releasing a new trailer that shows off the register-able games and the long list of power players both local and abroad.

The tournament takes place on March 1st and will be provided with two streams, in French and English (presumably one hosted by Gamekult). WGC has traditionally been an extremely large tournament with a lot of international participation.

Ibuki and Killer Instinct's Orchid in Soul Calibur 5 - create a soul video walkthroughs from BloodBurger

BloodBurger recently sent us a couple more of his create a soul videos in which he walks us through the process of creating characters in Soul Calibur 5. Featured below, you will find custom characters of Street Fighter's Ibuki and Orchid from Killer Instinct.

If you like to check out even more custom Soul Calibur 5 characters from BloodBurger, you can check out his playlist here that contains 77 videos.

Hit the jump to check out Orchid's create a soul video.

Namco Bandai's third quarter sales for Tekken Tag Tournament 2 and Soul Calibur 5

Namco Bandai has released it's third quarter fiscal results.

Below are the sales for both Tekken Tag Tournament 2 and Soul Calibur 5.

For some comparison, Dead or Alive 5 sold 580,000 unites and Street Fighter X Tekken moved 1.4 million units.

Via Gaming Everything and sent in by Skyrimer.

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