In our advanced guide to Dragon Ball FighterZ we’re going to discuss the meta game for this and a few others in the genre. Dragon Ball FighterZ is a game where one player controls a three-person team, acting as the brain of a three-headed monster. Tag super attack synergyIn Dragon Ball FighterZ, combos often end in super attacks and then tag super attacks after that. Super meter management and team rolesThough there’s nothing wrong with burning your super meter away as you get it, you will only

While Dragon Ball FighterZ has a very advanced auto combo system that will turn just about any button-mashing sequence into a spectacular combo, if we want to move ahead we should look at the buttons that we’re mashing. Chaining attacksThis will make itself apparent as you play, but in Dragon Ball FighterZ normal moves can chain into each other. Jump cancelsThe auto combos handle all the movement for you, but when you’re doing combos manually, you have to do the jumping and dashing yourself. Her

In return, Spencer will be expected to solve the company’s immediate problem: The Xbox One doesn’t have enough big-name exclusives. The high-profile cancellations of two Xbox One games over the past two years, in PlatinumGames’ Scalebound and Lionhead’s Fable Legends, were blows to Microsoft’s slate of exclusives. “It gives the impression that Microsoft’s exclusives portfolio is pretty meager. But with Microsoft’s exclusives problem, married to its lagging behind PlayStation and its pot of gold,

After a nearly two-year stint at Square Enix Montreal, co-creative director Teddy Diefenbach has left the studio. Joining him at the Montreal studio was Renaud Bédard of Fez fame; the pair collaborated on the game throughout its lifespan. “I think the game reflected the interests and tastes of our whole team, and things we love about Square Enix,” he told us. Diefenbach has made public his love for the studio’s classic Japanese role-playing games, like Final Fantasy and Chrono Trigger, but Squar

Welcome to another episode of The History of Fun. This week we’re exploring the origins of everyone’s favorite winter pastime: sledding. Enjoying The History of Fun? New to The History of Fun? Every Monday, Russ Frushtick, Allegra Frank and Chris Plante explore the hidden backstories behind the things we love to do.

SNK released a new trailer for SNK Heroines: Tag Team Frenzy at Evo Japan 2018 this weekend, and in case there was any confusion, that trailer makes it abundantly clear that the fighting game is all about the fan service. Nakoruru’s appearance SNK Heroines: Tag Team Frenzy, and the dress-up nature of the fighting game, emphasizes just how much fan service SNK is slathering on. Here’s how Nakoruru will appear in SNK Heroines compared to her recent appearance in KOF14. Because SNK has a certain au

Madden NFL 18 predicts a 24-20 Super Bowl victory for the New England Patriots over the Philadelphia Eagles, which would give this year’s cover star, Pats quarterback Tom Brady, a sixth world championship ring. 2011: Interception with 20 seconds left, 24-20 final. In the pre-video era, the Madden simulation was 6-for-7 picking winners. Since the simulation began in 2004, Madden NFL is 10-4 picking winners straight up and 9-5 against the point spread. Madden NFL is 5-2 in that stretch, with its f

Madden NFL 18 predicts a 24-20 Super Bowl victory for the New England Patriots over the Philadelphia Eagles, which would give this year’s cover star, Pats quarterback Tom Brady, a sixth world championship ring. 2011: Interception with 20 seconds left, 24-20 final. In the pre-video era, the Madden simulation was 6-for-7 picking winners. Since the simulation began in 2004, Madden NFL is 10-4 picking winners straight up and 9-5 against the point spread. Madden NFL is 5-2 in that stretch, with its f

The goal of our Dragon Ball FighterZ guides is to help with that. By explaining fighting game basics, as well as systems that are unique to Dragon Ball FighterZ, we want to give beginners a leg up against their experienced competition. There are, of course, many more moves and counters than this in Dragon Ball FighterZ, but it’s important to understand the core relationship. These frequently overlooked fighting game basics will not only help you out in Dragon Ball FighterZ, but in most other fig

After a nearly two-year stint at Square Enix Montreal, co-creative director Teddy Diefenbach has left the studio. Joining him at the Montreal studio was Renaud Bédard of Fez fame; the pair collaborated on the game throughout its lifespan. “I think the game reflected the interests and tastes of our whole team, and things we love about Square Enix,” he told us. Diefenbach has made public his love for the studio’s classic Japanese role-playing games, like Final Fantasy and Chrono Trigger, but Squar

ForsenE is currently the most used emote on Twitch, according to StreamElements, which tracks usage on Twitch chat. Twitch viewers have pushed forsenE to the top of the charts, surpassing “Kappa” and “TriHard,” two of Twitch’s most popular emotes. Tyler1 addresses the nuisance of Forsen’s community spamming the emote in the clip below. Again, the intent isn’t usually malicious, but it causes a disturbance and brings attention to the forsenE emote. The newest Forsen emote — forsenBoys — is curren

In return, Spencer will be expected to solve the company’s immediate problem: The Xbox One doesn’t have enough big-name exclusives. The high-profile cancellations of two Xbox One games over the past two years, in PlatinumGames’ Scalebound and Lionhead’s Fable Legends, were blows to Microsoft’s slate of exclusives. “It gives the impression that Microsoft’s exclusives portfolio is pretty meager. But with Microsoft’s exclusives problem, married to its lagging behind PlayStation and its pot of gold,

For the first time in the show’s five-year history, Steven Universe fans will be able to buy a DVD collection of its full first season. That shouldn’t seem like a major milestone for an extremely popular, award-winning television show, but them’s the quirks of DVD releases at Cartoon Network. You can watch an exclusive clip from that conversation above, in which Sugar discusses the role that music plays in the show. Steven Universe: The Complete First Season will hit stores on Jan. 30. To help c

For the first time in the show’s five-year history, Steven Universe fans will be able to buy a DVD collection of its full first season. That shouldn’t seem like a major milestone for an extremely popular, award-winning television show, but them’s the quirks of DVD releases at Cartoon Network. You can watch an exclusive clip from that conversation above, in which Sugar discusses the role that music plays in the show. Steven Universe: The Complete First Season will hit stores on Jan. 30. To help c

YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki is calling for more experts to help the company’s moderation team deal with dangerous content on the platform. Wojcicki spoke to Recode’s Kara Swisher and MSNBC about the problems YouTube faces in the wake of the events surrounding popular vlogger Logan Paul. “Where I think we are going, and what we really learned over the course of this year, is we need a lot more experts,” Wojcicki said. “If we go to something like extremist content, we have 400 hours [of video] bein

YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki is calling for more experts to help the company’s moderation team deal with dangerous content on the platform. Wojcicki spoke to Recode’s Kara Swisher and MSNBC about the problems YouTube faces in the wake of the events surrounding popular vlogger Logan Paul. “Where I think we are going, and what we really learned over the course of this year, is we need a lot more experts,” Wojcicki said. “If we go to something like extremist content, we have 400 hours [of video] bein

Welcome to another episode of The History of Fun. This week we’re exploring the origins of everyone’s favorite winter pastime: sledding. Enjoying The History of Fun? New to The History of Fun? Every Monday, Russ Frushtick, Allegra Frank and Chris Plante explore the hidden backstories behind the things we love to do.

Fallout 4’s Boston Commonwealth doesn’t really seem like the ideal place to start a new hobby. I began to find that my actions in Fallout 4 were serving as an almost meditative practice that promoted thoughtful interactions with my environment and helped to calm racing thoughts. But digital spaces like Fallout 4, The Elder Scrolls 5: Skyrim or The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild are not merely colorful Matrix-esque worlds that we can slip away into. Michael Nitsche posits that there are five

So many people showed up to a fight last week in Eve Online that the developer had to slow down time in-game so the platform could keep up. Developer CCP Games disagrees. Eve’s lead community developer, who goes by the handle CCP Guard, said that the unprecedented volume of players did cause “some issues” that created an imbalance in the engagement. To enable that, CCP Guard said that the company recently spent more than three million dollars on upgrades to its server cluster. “The biggest poten

Twin Galaxies, the video game record keeper and official source for Guinness World Records, has declared one of the oldest gaming world records invalid after 35 years. Player Todd Rogers has been stripped of his world record for finishing the simple Atari 2600 racing game Dragster, after months of debate over his completion time. That’s a major blow to a prolific record holder, whose career stretches back to the earliest days of console gaming. A thread on the Twin Galaxies’ forum about how Rodg