Geralt in Soul Calibur 6 Preview from Official Xbox Magazine

With the reveal of Geralt of Rivia as the Soul Calibur 6's guest character, more developer insights behind the merging of worlds have come out and this time it's from the Official Xbox Magazine. The staff at OXM got hands on time with an updated demo build of the game and detail the experience and polish to the game in the May 2018 issue (#163) of the magazine. Developer comments from both Bandai Namco and CD Projekt Red are added to express the level of care done in realizing The Witcher's Geralt in the world of Soul Calibur. Transcribed below are the developer quotes from the issue but if you're interested in reading the full Soul Calibur 6 gameplay preview including their experiences with the other characters in the roster, you can purchase the magazine online to read the section and context in full.

The White Wolf Joins The Fray In SOULCALIBUR VI (@daniellamlucas) ≫ https://www.myfavouritemagazines.co.uk/gaming/official-xbox-magazine-subscription

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Ring Out San Francisco Event Recap with Xephukai, Hates & Ceirnian

An exhibition for Soul Calibur 6 took place last week and the players that managed to make it there were able to get together and tell their thoughts on the experience at the event and on Soul Calibur 6 itself. This recap session with Xephukai, Hates & Ceirnian were streamed live on Twitch but the mic volume levels were off in some places and there wasn't a structure to the recap so skip forward a bit from the intro to the more interesting topics. There's some insightful discussion ion here on how Soul Calibur 6 is shaping up and their current thoughts in the game so feel free to listen if you're interested from hearing from notable SC players. You can catch the YouTube archive of the recap over on Xephukai's YouTube page.

YouTube Channel ≫ https://www.youtube.com/user/SoulCaliburTier

Twitch Channel ≫ https://www.twitch.tv/xephukai

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Registrations Open for Battle Arena Melbourne 10; Tekken World Tour Master Event on May 18-20

The premier Australian fighting game tournament; Battle Arena Melbourne is back this year and this time, it's a Master level event for the Tekken World Tour. As Australia's largest tournament event, BAM10 is expected to be even bigger this year for Tekken 7 with international players flying in to battle the region to grab prizes, points and glory. The event doubles as a gaming convention so there's plenty of merchandising, cosplaying, exhibitons and more also planned to take place. Getting the word out there early that registration for BAM10 is already live so be sure to pre-register (Early Bird offer is still available) if you plan on attending. Registration can be done over on the Smash.gg page for the event:

Battle Arena Melbourne 10 ≫ https://smash.gg/tournament/battle-arena-melbourne-10/

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Tekken-Net Service for Vanilla Arcade Version of Tekken 7 Coming to an End on May 31

A Tekken-net service closure notice for the original Tekken 7 release in arcades is coming to an end on May 31st, Bandai Namco announces. The 'Vanilla' release of the game which is the version of the game that came before the 'Fated Retribution' update will have online network functionality shut down and an update patch to enable simple offline play. This will not affect most of the Tekken playing audience at home with the Console/Steam version or arcades with Tekken 7 Fated Retribution, this will discontinue the online network for the original Tekken 7. This includes some parts of Asia that haven't updated to FR yet, or regions in South East Asia and Oceania which were unable to get the updated version of the game since Bandai Namco decided to not offer it to them. Come May 31, those vanilla Tekken 7 cabinets will no longer allow online matchmaking, Banapass card functionality and Tekken-net online website services. You can check out the details of the closure over on Tekken-Net.

Tekken 7.0 Tekken-Net Service Closure Notice ≫ http://www.tekken-official.jp/news/?p=8242

Tekken-Net English Notice ≫ http://web.tekken-net.org/tk7/top/news/detail/id/26

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Tekken 7 Online Status Update for Matchmaking Issues after Version 1.12

After almost a week and a half since the Noctis update to Tekken 7 came out, the Tekken team finally acknowledges the broken online matchmaking from the update. Version 1.12 which was said to bring online adjustments on top of the DLC guest character inclusion had in effect caused waiting times in Tekken 7 to take far longer or worse, resulted in players not being able to find any matches at all. The tip to get around that which was being passed around was to reset the search by turning off the game and killing the game process in task manager before hopping back in again. The status update on these issues mention that they plan to change the online servers settings for Tekken 7 on PS4. They're still investigating issues with the Steam version of the game but also mention that they're planning a patch to hopefully solve these issues. You can find the status update tweets over on the Tekken Project account.

TEKKEN_Project Twitter ≫ https://twitter.com/TEKKEN_Project

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