Tag: #Change
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In the Esports Swamp, You are Only Someone’s Plaything
Counter Logic Gaming is dead. Team SoloMid is pausing its Esports endeavors after suffering massive losses from the fall of disgraced cryptocurrency exchange FTX, which had brokered a lucrative $210 million naming partnership. Activision-Blizzard’s Overwatch League is continuing its freefall into a full-fledged fiasco. Riot Games’ League Championship Series is experiencing a significant decline in…
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Millions of Dollars Can’t Hide the Ugly
Capcom has announced that their annual Capcom Pro Tour circuit will grant a $1,000,000 prize for 1st place in 2023, and that curdling squelch you hear is the sound of blood rushing to the skulls of fighting game players as they collectively blow their top. Street Fighter 6 will have, merely by existing, the largest…
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Arturo Sanchez, Matcherino, and the Slow Heat Death of the FGC
AUTHOR’S NOTE: There has been an official update to this situation, which I have responded to. You can read that by clicking here. Some of the information in this blog was disproven, and if so, the text will be struck through like this. Thanks for reading. If I had to find some sort of definition…
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I Don’t Make ‘Content’
Most days I conscientiously try to avoid being perceived as ‘pretentious’. It’s a pretty nasty marker in many circles. There’s often a social pressure to present oneself on the internet as the ideal over the real, and no one’s ideal has traits that aren’t cool. But I will be pretentious today, because I’m goddamn sick…
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The View Never Changes – Hitbox and Eternal Stasis
There are roughly three topics that will always come up in any discourse related to fighting games, and they are all very dull: The first two are boring in the sense that it always seems to devolve into arguing about a weird, Highlander-like future in which there can be only one, which leaves zero room…
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This is What Capcom Wants, and They Will Never Stop
Capcom certainly kicked off the announcement of Street Fighter 6 with a doozy, eh? For anyone who hasn’t heard, Capcom recently published a long post on the Capcom Pro Tour website that explained, through extensive legal language, the assumed responsibilities of any organizer, no matter how small, who wished to use Street Fighter V at…
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Road Diaries – Frosty Faustings, a flint that sparks hope again
Living in the valley under the sun, snow isn’t really something you get used to, unless you’re one of those sickos that goes to NAU. As my flight landed at O’Hare a couple weeks back, though, I could see I was in for it. I actually ended up skipping the worst of it by a…
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Is Private Equity Coming for the FGC?
Imagine, if you will, that you’re a screenwriter. You start your career, but you need help. You need someone to fight for you in a shark-infested town. So, you get an agent, who works for one of the three biggest agencies in Hollywood, to get your stuff made. Okay, maybe not so intense. Either way,…
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Breaking the Habit
I have a confession to make: I wasn’t particularly moved to anger at this tweet from the Capcom Fighters account This was far from the fawning praise of the infamous Evo tweet which included the full video of the celebration afterwards, just a still image noting the fact that Seon-Woo “Infiltration” Lee won the event…
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From Ashes
“I knew right away when I agreed to do it. Either everything goes well and we get an investment and I take care of my players, or I’m fucked. I should have trusted my gut.” The sigh proceeding this statement from Jeremy McLamb, known to friends and fans as “Lambzy”, is weary and weighty, encompassing…
Them's fighting words!! 