P4U sequel revealed with 2 new characters

News flash from Famitsu has revealed this morning that there will be a location test of the sequel of Persona 4: The Ultimate in Mayonaka Arena on August 16-18 at Tokyo Akihabara Hey and Osaka Nipponbashi Taito Station. Two new characters from Persona 3 series are revealed - Yukari Takeba and Junpei Iori.

The JRPG Persona 3 was first released for PlayStation 2 in 2006. A remake version was released on PSP in 2009. Persona 3 The Movie is scheduled for November 23, 2013.

Persona 4: The Ultimate in Mayonaka Arena (or Persona 4 Arena) had sold more than 130,000 copies in its first week in Japan, making it the best selling conventional fighting game in the past 4 years in the country.

Update: Famitsu has follow-up play report.

Umehara confirmed for pre-PAX Prime MadCatz Unveiled

MadCatz and MarkMan revealed that Daigo Umehara will join pre-PAX Prime MadCatz Unveiled in Seattle on August 29 and will be playing exhibition match against Xian. The match will also be streamed.

In March, Umehara played against Alex Valle in pre-PAX East Mad Catz Unveiled.

PAX Prime will be held between August 30 to September 2 in Seattle.

Umehara and Xian last fought each other in TOPANGA Asia League in what considered to be an epic match.

Nico to stream Persona concert today

Niconico will be live streaming Persona concert "Persona Music Fes 2013 in Nippon Budokan" today at 18:30 JST.

This's pay-per-view and the net ticket is 2,000 yen. For those who will miss this, you can still buy the ticket and watch the recorded stream which will end on September 30.

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Persona 4: Arena (known as Persona 4: The Ultimate in Mayonaka Arena in Japan) had sold more than 130,000 copies in its first week in Japan, making it the best selling conventional fighting game in the past 4 years in the country.

The soundtracks of Persona 4 series is one of the most famous of its genre. Despite most of the songs being English, all of the soundtrack CDs combined have sold over 100,000 copies in Japan. The arrange album in 2011 was top of the weekly sales chart, which is very rare for a game OST. The band in charge of the music performance is Persona 4 Music Band. The vocalists are Shihoko Hirata (most of Persona 4 songs) and Yumi Kawamura (Persona 3 songs). Last year, they had their own concert and were selected to perform in Animelo Summer Live 2012 (the world's biggest anime song concert).

Video: Hirata (miniskirt) and Kawamura singing Key Plus Words (Persona 4: The Animation 2nd opening)

[Video] Umehara's Guilty Gear legend from Tougeki 2003

 

- This's a documentary about team "Ore to Omae to Daigorou" (Me and You and Daigorou) in Tougeki 2003's Guilty Gear XX finals. The format was 3 on 3.
- The team consists of Arisaka (Slayer), Pachi (Faust), Daigo Umehara (Sol).
- Pachi is now working on BlazBlue series in Arc System Works.
- Umehara qualified for the (Tougeki 2003) finals (last day) on 4 games: Capcom vs. SNK 2, Street Fighter III 3rd Strike, Guilty Gear XX, Super Street Fighter II X.
- Arisaka and Pachi formed the team and invited Umehara.
- It has matches until semifinals. Arisaka couldn't win a game before that.
- You can hear Gama no Abura's voice in the background as he was Tougeki commentator.
- The legendary match was when they faced team "Hoshi no Koe". Denpa Jikkyou meme was born from the game between Umehara and Shishamo.

MadCatz reveals plan for Tokyo Game Show 2013

Famitsu reported.

- Daigo Umehara, Tokido, Mago, Xian, Ryan Hart, Kayane are confirmed to be at the booth.
- There'll be exhibition matches on September 21, 3-4 PM.
- A 64-man SSF4AE2012 tournament will be held on September 22 (11 AM - 4 PM) at the MadCatz booth. From semifinal will be first-to-five. Co-organized by TOPANGA. Champ will earn a seed in Capcom Cup that will be held at the end of this year in the US.
- There'll be players photo session on September 21-22, 4-5 PM.
- MadCatz's android based home console called M.O.J.O. will be showed.

Tokyo Game Show 2013 will be held between September 19-22 at Makuhari Messe.

How not to make a good fighting game

http://youtu.be/ufuK7YsGo-Y?t=42m29s

A 61-hit combo
- out of a normal grab
- that deals only 20% damage
- and wastes 30 seconds (preventing late game comeback)
- with no way to escape (no Burst out of hit-stun)
- and you don't even need half of the meter
- and you end up having more meter!

Well, if you're still interested in this game we just happen to have a How to Play Under Night: In-Birth.

Umehara named one of 10 greatest players in esports history

Tip from MadCatz's MarkMan. Daigo Umehara has been named one of The 10 Greatest Players in eSports History by an online newspaper The Daily Dot.

Umehara is one of the two fighting game players on the list. The list has 4 StarCraft/Warcraft players, 2 FPS players, 2 Dota players.