Sega has announced on the official Virtua Fighter page that the upcoming Virtua Fighter 5 Final Showdown will be officially supporting Twitter, making it the first arcade game in Japan to make use of the popular service. Twitter has been extremely popular in Japan, with 16% of Japanese internet users using the service, and has recently dethroned the popular mixi as the #1 service in the country.
By creating a Twitter account and linking it to your VF.net account (via PC or cellphone), your Twitter account will be automatically updated when you are playing. Also, if you are viewing VF.net and look up a certain player, you can automatically add them to your Twitter following list if they have a Twitter account registered and visible (of course, you can set it to invisible if you wish). Not only that, but since you can look up recent players you’ve encountered with VF.net already,...
Kamaage of vfdojo.net has worked very hard at providing the VF community with a database of VF5R competition and tournament matches! With this excellent resource you can search for your favourite player by their Ring Name in English!
On the 19th of May 2010 Kamaage received an official reply in the mail from SEGA in regards to our petition to port the latest version of Virtua Fighter to console.
Announced in the developer diary on the Official Virtua Fighter Site was a further look into the upcoming release of Virtua Fighter 5 Final Showdown, likely to be hitting Japanese game centers very soon.
This is an official two-part thankyou message to all members of VFDC.
The Console Petition
Firstly, thank you to all members that assisted with the Console Petition. You'll be pleased to hear that VFDC, combined with kamaage's contribution from vfdojo.net, produced a petition exceeding 500 pages!
As a sign of thanks, kamaage enlisted Homestay Akira's help to provide some pointers to the community on how one can improve in VF. In what hopefully turns out to be an ongoing series, Chapter 1 in Homestay Akira's Virtua Education is titled The Road to Becoming Strong. Check it out!
The Gift
Last, but not least, I want to personally thank everyone involved for the wonderful gift and donation sent to me recently. I...
An obvious April Fool's joke, but nonetheless a hilarious trailer! Like a bad car accident you just have to see (perhaps over and over), you'll either laugh, cry, or momentarily lose yourself in the "what-if" fantasy of VF crossing over into SF territory.
In any case, enjoy the trailer for what it is! Happy April Fools!
From May 27th to the 30th, 2010, everyone who wants to kill the lag is gonna wanna be in one place - Riverside, California. For the last four years, players from around the world have come to SoCal in the Spring. This year looks to be all that and more!
