JoJo's Bizarre Adventure All Star Battle trailer

During a "JoJo" painting exhibition from Hirohiko Araki, Namco Bandai released a trailer for the new Jojo's Bizarre Adenture All Star Battle. They also launched a website for the game a few days ago that only had a countdown.

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FGTV pre-EVO Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3 stream featuring GX, Kazunoko, Abegen, Neo, MarlinPie, IFC Yipes, Chou, Dieminion and more

Updated: They will be starting the USA vs. Japan 5v5 here in a few minutes at 9 p.m. PDT.

The FGTV crew is streaming a pre-EVO 4th of July BBQ Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3 party. The stream will be up and going pretty much all day and have a ton of great players including some Japanese.

You can expect the normal FGTV guys coL.cc|Filipino Champ, CVPR|PR Balrog, Shady K and EG|Ricky Ortiz along with them will be BT|Dieminion, BT|IFC Yipes, AG|MarlinPie, Neo, Zak Bennett, Abegen, GX, Shimada, Chou, Mamespider, eLive|Kazunoko and Forgenshiro.

Hit the jump to check out both streams.

Tonight's Cross Counter Live will feature a very special guest and something unlike anything the FGC has seen before

The Cross Counter Facebook made an announcement about tonight's episode of Cross Counter Live. Mike Ross will be joined by a very special surprise guest and will be previewing Evo for this weekend. It was also noted that something very special is happening at the beginning of the show tonight.

There was also a mysterious image posted on their Twitter.

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Street Fighter X Tekken PC patch 1.02 out now for both Steam and Games for Windows Live

The Street Fighter X Tekken patch 1.02 for PC is now out for both Steam and Games for Windows Live. This fixes the sound glitch and introduces the gem selector.

With this patch being released we have gotten reports that the online still is having rollback issues as shown by Error1.

Tip submitted by xxMarshy and some anonymous readers.

Seth Killian joins Sony as lead game designer for Santa Monica Studio

Over on the PlayStation Blog, it was announced that Seth Killian has joined Sony as the lead game designer for the external group at Sony's Santa Monica Studio. Here's a quick blurb from the write up.

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Topanga B League results, battle logs and more - SSF4 AE v2012 tournament

Updated with playoff results from Topanga B League: This story has been updated with complete results and a battle log for this competition, including a rundown of the playoff between MCZ|Tokido (Akuma)/Kyabetsu (C. Viper) and Bonchan (Sagat)/Naruo (Evil Ryu).

The Topanga B League was an online Super Street Fighter 4 Arcade Edition v2012 tournament held with Japanese players.

The lineup of competitors was: YHC-Mochi (Dhalsim), Eita (Akuma), Banbaban (Cammy), Dogura (M. Bison), Naruo (Evil Ryu), Sasaki (Cody), Michael-tan (Ken), Pamyu (Balrog), -6 (Akuma), Yasu (Guile), Kyabetsu (C. Viper), Dashio (Seth), VER (Gouken), Ojisanboy (Abel), Juso (Sakura) and Machabo (Fei Long).

Hit the jump to check details about this tournament, including the final results, battle logs and additional information.

Updated again: TAC infinite combos in Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3 for Amaterasu, Viewtiful Joe and many more

Updated with latest TAC infinites: A fresh batch of TAC infinites have been submitted into the site. We've embedded all of the latest videos, and then made a list of all of the older ones, so it's easier to keep track of what has and hasn't been posted.

Luis1luis1 uploaded a video showing Amaterasu's TAC infinite.

Hit the jump to see everything.

Niitsuma likely responds to TAC infinite reports for Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3, adjusting mechanics

Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3's producer, Ryota Niitsuma, has likely responded to the plethora of TAC infinites that have been discovered in the game recently via Twitter.

While Niitsuma didn't say specifically what he was looking at in the tweet, it's highly probable that this would be about the TAC infinites, which have been discovered for many of UMvC3's cast members at this time.

Zhi of Cross Counter Asia was gracious enough to translate Niitsuma's words for the community.

Contributions to this story by Nyoro. Tip from Neoxon.

Famitsu reveals new Dead or Alive 5 character "Rig" and an alternate costume for Christie

DoAWorld has posted about this month's issue of Famitsu, which reveals a new character for Dead or Alive 5 named Rig. Not much is known about Rig outside of the face he is being voiced by Hiroki Touchi who has done a ton of anime and video game voice overs.

You can also see a new alternate costume for Christie.

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Tip submitted by kupowns.

Harada explains complications of bringing back voice actors, talks behind the scenes details

Namco Bandai's Katsuhiro Harada explained some of the ins and outs of voice acting, as it pertains to Tekken Tag Tournament 2, in a recent post via Twitter. Despite doing some very extensive work on the voice acting for the cast members in TTT2, and answering multiple questions about why certain people couldn't come back, Harada was still pestered with requests for certain actors that had previously worked on the franchise.

He made a fairly long response to address these concerns. Hit the jump to read the entire entry.

Living the Dream - A tribute to Seth Killian from OzHadou

Ziggy over at OzHadou posted a very interesting article today in tribute of Seth Killian's recent resignation from Capcom. This post takes a look back at the contributions Seth has made to the fighting game community and focuses on the inspiration Seth has provided for tournament organizers.

Included in this article you will find a bit of Killian's history before he became Capcom's Special Combat Advisor and some of the accomplishments he made during his six years at the company.

Here is a bit from the article.

Be sure to check out OzHadou's full article here.

Tip by an anonymous submitter.

Top players talk about how U.S. stacks up against Japan in Super Street Fighter 4 AE v2012

There's been a lot of discussion in the community on how the U.S. stacks up against Japan after the results of CEO 2012. EG|Justin Wong took first place in Super Street Fighter 4 Arcade Edition v2012, and he and others beat some of Japan's best players along the way.

We wanted to gather some top player and prominent community member's opinions and see how they felt the U.S. stacked up with the competition in Japan for SSF4 AE v2012, so we spoke with coL.cc|Filipino Champ, EG|Justin Wong, TS|Arturo Sanchez, CVPR|PR Balrog and Gootecks to get their insights. Opinions differed a bit among the people we asked, but they all acknowledge the U.S. has leveled up.

To check out what everyone had to say, hit the jump.

Namco Bandai working on new Super Smash Bros. game, 'never-before-seen dream team'

It was announced today that Sora Ltd. and Namco Bandai are working together on the latest Super Smash Bros. title, for the Wii U and 3DS. Project lead, Masahiro Sakurai, and Namco Bandai producer, Masaya Kobayashi (Ridge Racer, Go Vacation), talked about the collaboration.

EventHubs community assist tiers poll for Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3 - part 1

Expanding on our tier listing for Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3, we've decided to take a closer look at the assists in the game, and ask the community to assign a letter grade to everyone's set of helper attacks/moves.

We've also simplified the rankings a bit here, no longer offering grades with a + ranking, and just going with a straight up letter. The available choices are S, A, B, C, D — with S being the highest ranking — and D being the lowest.

Important: Some assists can be powered up, like Arthur's. When voting please take this into consideration. You are not only voting for that assist in its powered up, form but also what it takes to gain access to it. So think of your vote in terms of overall effectiveness of an assist. Part 1 of the assist tiers is now available for your votes, it covers Akuma through Dr. Doom. Here are links to those areas.

Seth Killian announces departure from Capcom

Seth Killian has written a blog on Capcom Unity detailing his departure from Capcom. Below is a bit from Seth on the subject.

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