Kuro Kuro Cup - Random 3on3 Tournament Held in Sapporo

Kuro Kuro is hosting the Kurokuro Cup this weekend up in Japan's northern most island of Hokkaido. The city of Sapporo while a great spot for snowboarding festivities, will host the tournament with participants randomly shuffled into teams of 3. There's going to be some great players such as the Sugamo regulars like Nobi, Take & Shana but Korea is sending two players out to participate: Knee and Naengmyun Sungin. The tournament will go down on the 16th of February which is this upcoming Sunday and hopefully Kurokuro will be providing a stream for it. To help get you into the spirit of things, Shudy has edited a Ace Combat trailer created a trailer introducing it for everyone.

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ATP Live Episode 34 - EVO Game Announcement Plus Inkognito and Rip

Catch ATP Live every thursday night at 8PM on Twitch by following the link below. 

http://www.twitch.tv/avoidingthepuddle

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EVO 2014 - Game Lineup Announced, Tekken is out.

MrWizard just announced the EVO 2014 game lineup on an episode of The Fray on Iplaywinner and it turns out that Tekken is out. The full lineup that you'll see this year at the tournament is Ultra Street Fighter 4, Ultimate Marvel VS Capcom 3, King of Fighters XIII, Injustice: Gods Among Us, Killer Instinct, BlazBlue: Chronophantasma and finally Super Smash Bros Melee but that game's appearance has to be confirmed by Nintendo first. No Tekken at EVO this year.

Namco Bandai Holdings to Close Down 20 Japanese Game Centers

Namco Bandai Holdings. company president Shukuo Ishikawa revealed yesterday that 20 Namco owned, Japanese Game Centers (Arcades) are to be closed down by the end of March due to unprofitability. This comes to a 10% cut reduction to the amount of Namco owned game center facilities which is said to be at 225 at the end of last year. It's mentioned that the reduction in the average young person in Japan using cars and the upcoming April consumption tax increase for Japan will lead to an estimated 1 billion yen cost increase to the company year over year. Additionally, Namco have adjusted their March 2014 consolidated balance sheet with a downward revision from 29 Billion yen to 25.5 Billion yen due to the loss of these stores. Sales of 485 billion yen and an operating profit of 45 billion yen remains however.

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TTT2 - Nina and Anna Tutorials by StudBuddha

StudBuddha has uploaded a Nina tutorial to his Youtube channel. This is actually the only comprehensive Nina video tutorial out there. Thankfully it's also very well done! I've also included his Anna tutorial which was released a while back. Nice work amigo. 

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