ON Show 23 - This Saturday (Tomorrow)

I will be joining Gunsmith, and Cristina, on the Orochinagi Show tomorrow where we will be streaming live footage of KOFXIII.

Amongst the things we should be showing are basic character tactics/'tutorials'.

I will be demonstrating with Athena, and a joint demonstration with Gunsmith about Clark.

Check out Orochinagi for more details, and the actual stream will be running on General Skirmish's Twitch channel.

MCM Expo - KOFXIII Tournament - Semi Final pt.1

Gamespot uploaded the matches from the MCM Expo to their Youtube channel a couple of days ago, only just found out whilst browsing through Neo-Geo.com's forums.

The uploads include the missing video from the archived stream, where I played MichelS in the semi finals.



Also seen on Neo-Geo.com's forums is that the latest issue of Neo Magazine (no relation to Neo Geo) contains a feature on KOFXIII, according to the topic creator it is a four page spread/review.

If I get the chance I will try to browse through (maybe buy if I have the spare cash) at some point during the weekend.

Usagi - New Elisabeth Cosplay Photo

Usagi has just uploaded a new photo of an Elisabeth cosplay to her Cure page.

Also whilst browsing through her gallery again today I found an older photo with her cosplaying a Maximum Impact version of Athena. <3

In unrelated news I went to pick up the results of my working holiday visa to Japan today, and my application was successful. So I will be off to Japan for a year from the 27th December, all I have to hope for now is that the £ -> Yen exchange rate improves before I go !

DontDropThatCombo - EX Iori

Dontdropthatcombo has updated his Youtube channel with a special EX Iori combo showcase, amongst the things shown you can see his tap -> scumgale, and his EX hcb+KK blowing them up on the floor.  (This is also shown in a video uploaded by EXDragonProject, see second video.)





I'm liking the hcb+K -> DC -> scumgale.

KOFXIII - Wednesday Brawl - GamerBase Live Stream

Streaming right now @ http://www.twitch.tv/exdragonproject

[Edit]: I ended up heading out to Gamer Base after work since I finished work earlier than usual, and although I did not enter the tournament I did play a few casuals.

Unfortunately the machine which was being used for casual matches did not have Saiki, Billy or EX Iori unlocked for play, the machines used for the tournament did have them, so I did not get the chance to test out much new things.

Cristina did tell me however that it is possible to do tap -> scumgale with EX Iori, as she had tried it out.

I mainly started to learn how to use Daimon and messed around a little bit with his dp+K -> Super cancel -> heaven to hell (hcbx2+P).

After heading home I watched the end of the stream, which you can watch the archived version of here.


Watch live video from EXDRAGON Project on Justin.tv

KOFXIII Official Blog Update - Console Changes pt.4

The next part of the console changes have gone up on the Official KOXIII blog, an English translation is available over on MMCafe's front page.



From what I've been reading on forums, the reaction is that Kensou has been considerably buffed although I'm not too sure considering I still haven't worked out how to play Kensou in XIII yet.

Duo Lon is also looking quite interesting, possibly the closest thing I am going to get to Lin in this game, so I might try to pick him up at some point.

Finally a video I watched a couple of weeks back but forgot to post, a great match on KOF02UM featuring Kyappu.

KOFXIII Sprites / Backgrounds

As you may have noticed I changed my blog's banner last night. As Raiden's drop kick was a point of personal obsession for a while I have dedicated it to (some of) the wonderful drop kicks of KOFXIII.

The sprites themselves come from a site called Logical Bends (click here for sprites), which i found via MMCafe's forums.The great thing about these sprite rips is that they are all on a transparent background, so are perfect for creating avatars/sigs/banners without having to manually remove white backgrounds.

Not all characters are available currently but there is enough there to have some fun with editing character sprites.

Here's one i made earlier:

As seen via DreamCancel's forums a dub of the third place match from MCM Expo, which made me laugh quite a bit.



And finally over an hour's worth of footage from France of the console version where you can check out various console exclusive changes in action:



As noted by SABCA in the video comments -

Saiki Cancel Combo at 32:20
Hwa Jai using Drink Mid combo at 33:44
New Benimaru Pressure, setup, combos 1:11:34
Use of Duo's new-style f+AC for combo extension: 1:12:20
Hwa Jai's new-to-console pressure strings: 1:18:20
Goro's new Throw Super Cancel in action! 1:20:50
Vice with the new Splash -> Overkill Cancel: 1:22:20