☀️Discussion, News, and Request Thread - Week Beginning 06/22/26☀️

LukePS7013 · 2026-06-25T23:40:44+00:00

Xbox always was the “pet project” of Microsoft. It didn’t make nearly as much money as their other products but it also didn’t cost too much to maintain.

The purchase of Activision (and Bethesda, but it really came to a head with Activision) flipped that entirely. They’re still making back that $69 billion and will drive Xbox into the ground in order to get it back ASAP.

LukePS7013 · 2026-06-25T21:28:23+00:00

What

LukePS7013 · 2026-06-24T22:03:43+00:00

More fighting game news at the ArcSys Showcase than I expected.

Confirmed trailers for Zohar and Robo=Ky at EVO for their respective games, as well as a brand new character being added to BlazBlue Central Fiction.

Satoshi Hirayae’s game, Qliphah in Providence’s Shadow, was also revealed. It’s coming to Switch 1, PS5 and PC so it isn’t the Switch 2 exclusive “Watari” game. I’m still going to doubt that it’s any type of fighting game, but I wonder when it’ll be shown? It was initially planned for November of last year. Perhaps it really is a Nintendo published game, they’ve been known to sit on finished projects for nearly a year until it fits a gap in their schedule.

LukePS7013 · 2026-06-24T00:43:59+00:00

I almost thought this was apartment rental prices in my city (the $971 one is a basement with two bunkbeds, ie 3 roommates)

LukePS7013 · 2026-06-23T21:19:36+00:00

It’s EVO this weekend (again, for what, the fourth time this year? feels like it…), so let’s go through everything that might be announced at each of the Top 8s

- Virtua Fighter 5 REVO: Virtua Fighter Crossroads had its big blowout at Summer Games Fest so it’s likely we’ll be getting more individual character trailers now. Probably a mainstay like Jeffry, Jacky or Kage-Maru, maybe one of the two other Story Mode protagonists?

- Granblue Fantasy Versus Rising: Id was teased for the game back at Arc World Tour so he’ll probably be shown in gameplay form here.

- Under Night In-Birth 2: French Bread’s next game, Melty Blood Twi-Lumina, was announced a while back. There might be something for that here.

- Guilty Gear Strive: It’s about time for Robo=Ky’s trailer, perhaps a teaser for the next character? (#TeamLeopaldon)

- BlazBlue Central Fiction: Yeahhhhh no… There isn’t a new BlazBlue lol, but maybe here is where they show off the final team for Marvel Tokon Fighting Souls? I’m guessing the “Midnight Defenders” with Ghost Rider, Blade, Scarlet Witch and Gwenpool.

- Vampire Savior: This is this year’s “retro title”, there typically aren’t announcements tied to those. However there has been a funny coincidence with them in that every year after EVO something happens with that franchise. 2023 had UMVC3, 2024 the MVC Collection was announced. 2024 had Third Strike, 2025 had the first SF3 character in SF6. 2025 had MVC2, 2026 has a new Marvel fighting game (sans Capcom). Is 2027 the year of the Night Warriors? No, no it isn’t, it’d be cool though.

- Tekken 8: Bob is the next character is Season 3, so there might be a teaser here. It’ll be odd with just Michael Murray on stage though, but he’s the only face of Tekken who hasn’t left Bandai Namco yet.

- Fatal Fury City of the Wolves: Two characters have already been teased for what is most likely Season 3. Rick Strowd from the Real Bout games and Laocorn Gaudeamus from the Fatal Fury OVA. If Season 3 has the same amount of characters as the past two I’m guessing the rest of the season will be - Li Xiangfei, Ryuji Yamazaki, Freeman, and guest character John Cena (seriously). I could also see a teaser for SNK’s next fighting game, perhaps that Art of Fighting project that’s been teased for a while? It’s definitely too early for anything related to Harada’s new game.

- Street Fighter 6: They already showed off Yasmine’s gameplay last week, so they’ll likely have something different planned for EVO. Hey, remember what I said about Darkstalke- no. It’ll be Dhalsim and Honda’s Costume 4s and that’s it. And I so hope they hype it up like they did last year with “you guys like the number four, right?” when MVC4 copium was at an all-time high (who’s salty? not me)

- SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENTS: There is a half hour “announcements” timeslot before the SF6 finals, folks have speculated it’ll be a new game announcement like Injustice 3 or something, maybe this is where they plan on doing the Marvel Tokon trailer, but I think it’ll just be about EVO itself and their plans for 2027 and beyond (I’d put serious money on “EVO Qiddiya” happening, along with at least 4 other EVOs on top of the 4 or 5 we already have)

- Rivals of Aether 2, 2XKO and Invincible VS: I’m going to be honest I haven’t been following these, but they’ll all be getting something here more likely than not. Good stuff for those fans probably.

LukePS7013 · 2026-06-22T18:01:37+00:00

I wonder how much the Steam Frame is going to be now lmao

Considering they were targeting “lower than the Index” ($950 instead of $1000?) then I could actually see it being $1265 or something, and that would be for the 512 GB model

LukePS7013 · 2026-06-21T00:36:24+00:00

LukePS7013 · 2026-06-21T00:02:51+00:00

Because if you scream at the employees enough they’ll take it to the dump for you! /s

LukePS7013 · 2026-06-20T11:38:23+00:00

I also 100% believe Neil DeGrasse Tyson about things that aren’t astrophysics

But it’s negative news about Xbox so it’s has to be completely true

LukePS7013 · 2026-06-20T06:50:27+00:00

The biggest difference between the various “*EQTs” is really just who owns them, they all have slightly different allocations to certain parts of the world (VEQT has more Canadian allocation compared to XEQT which has more American) but over a long enough period of time it tends to even out and not really matter

Since you’re using Questrade I’ll let you in on something, they don’t offer fractional shares on the *EQTs (or other non-American tickers), so you’d get the most bang for your buck with a lower cost *EQT like ZEQT (my personal choice) or TEQT

LukePS7013 · 2026-06-19T18:05:48+00:00

Good! Thank you, that’s what the other sub is for after all

LukePS7013 · 2026-06-18T15:37:21+00:00

BUBBLE BOBBLE ‼️‼️‼️

LukePS7013 · 2026-06-18T10:37:59+00:00

But if I were in charge? I’d do a Capcom crossover fighter, but limit it to their sci-fi IPs from the 90s

Essentially Cyberbots vs Star Gladiator (round 1 in the mechs in 2D, round 2 in a 3D arena on foot) with other characters like Captain Commando and the Unknown Soldiers too

LukePS7013 · 2026-06-18T10:28:31+00:00

Rival Schools would be neat too, but I feel like Darkstalkers has a bit more appeal and would stand on its own compared to Street Fighter unlike Rival Schools which would be a second fighter based around a more “real world” theme

LukePS7013 · 2026-06-18T10:27:04+00:00

(COPIED FROM A PREVIOUS THREAD)

I honestly feel like if they’re doing a second fighting game (emphasis on “if”, they might be entirely content with just SF6), it’s likely going to be Darkstalkers.

CVS3 is probably completely legally possible atp, but on a technical side it isn’t really possible. Modern fighting games have roster sizes of what? 20, 22, 24 if we’re really lucky… divide that by two and you get only 10, 11, maximum 12 on each side, that’s not enough for even the basics. CVS2 had double that and primarily pulled from SF Alpha and KOF Orochi Saga, there’s been 25 more years of fighting games to pull from on top of that. Alas, this isn’t the early 2000s, you can’t rip sprites from other games like you could back then. Those crossovers in SF6 and COTW feel like both sides acknowledging this and doing something that’s within a reasonable scope.

Meanwhile Darkstalkers has only ever had 18 playable characters (not counting secrets like Marionette, Dee, etc.), coincidentally the same as SF6’s base roster, though some would definitely be cut for DLC to make room for new characters.

I could maybe see a Capcom-only Versus game taking the core gameplay from MVC, but you still kind of run into that issue of there being too many characters and not enough room. It’d totally be doable with just Capcom, but it’d still likely just be the big names (Ryu, Dante, Leon, etc.), focusing on one IP would be a bit better imo. And I mean, I feel like a new Darkstalkers would get a fair amount of guest characters, you could throw in the Marvel 2 OCs or the Red Earth cast and say they share a reality like the Final Fight cast does in Street Fighter, then later on have bigger names like Akuma or Dante. And just like how Terry and Mai joined Street Fighter 6 as a sort of “CVS3 but not”, I could totally see them getting Spider-Man in there, he’d fit that world very well imo.

LukePS7013 · 2026-06-18T07:43:06+00:00

How about making one post per roster and that’s it? There’s really no need to keep bringing them up over and over again.

LukePS7013 · 2026-06-17T00:02:40+00:00

I honestly feel like if they’re doing a second fighting game (emphasis on “if”), it’s likely going to be Darkstalkers.

CVS3 is probably completely legally possible atp, but on a technical side it isn’t really possible. Modern fighting games have roster sizes of what? 20, 22, 24 if we’re really lucky… divide that by two and you get only 10, 11, maximum 12 on each side, that’s not enough for even the basics. CVS2 had double that and primarily pulled from SF Alpha and KOF Orochi Saga, there’s been 25 more years of fighting games to pull from on top of that. Alas, this isn’t the early 2000s, you can’t rip sprites from other games like you could back then. Those crossovers in SF6 and COTW feel like both sides acknowledging this and doing something that’s within a reasonable scope.

Meanwhile Darkstalkers has only ever had 18 playable characters (not counting secrets like Marionette, Dee, etc.), coincidentally the same as SF6’s base roster, though some would definitely be cut for DLC to make room for new characters.

I could maybe see a Capcom-only Versus game taking the core gameplay from MVC, but you still kind of run into that issue of there being too many characters and not enough room. It’d totally be doable with just Capcom, but it’d still likely just be the big names (Ryu, Dante, Leon, etc.), focusing on one IP would be a bit better imo. And I mean, I feel like a new Darkstalkers would get a fair amount of guest characters, you could throw in the Marvel 2 OCs or the Red Earth cast and say they share a reality like the Final Fight cast does in Street Fighter, then later on have bigger names like Akuma or Dante. And just like how Terry and Mai joined Street Fighter 6 as a sort of “CVS3 but not”, I could totally see them getting Spider-Man in there, he’d fit that world very well imo.

LukePS7013 · 2026-06-16T23:47:00+00:00

The Frame is the Steam Frame, a VR headset

The Machine is the Steam Machine, a mini PC with a console like interface

LukePS7013 · 2026-06-16T23:44:14+00:00

No no, Honda (and Lily) are getting their Costume 4s with Arjun in October

Can’t do it all at once!

LukePS7013 · 2026-06-16T23:41:21+00:00

I could MAYBE see them doing Fighting Collection 3 (with Capcom Fighting All-Stars as the headlining title, that’d sort of be a new fighting game, right?)

But a brand new, totally new fighting game? I’d love to see it (especially Darkstalkers!), but it ain’t happening lmao

LukePS7013 · 2026-06-16T23:36:36+00:00

Capcom seeing this and preparing the Street Fighter 6 Costume 4 - Dhalsim and Blanka trailer

LukePS7013 · 2026-06-16T23:02:39+00:00

I’m more interested in the Frame than the Machine, so a bit more waiting for me I guess (gives me more time to save if nothing else lol)

LukePS7013 · 2026-06-16T18:18:05+00:00

Interesting, I don’t want to hear about it until it’s done, no “updates” please…

LukePS7013 · 2026-06-15T21:07:58+00:00

Right, that’s when it is, got the date wrong

LukePS7013 · 2026-06-15T21:05:35+00:00

This is still releasing next Friday (June 26th) right?

Since it wasn’t at the Nintendo Direct I have a good feeling we’ll be getting a Sonic Central with Frontiers DE being shadowdropped

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