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Team Ninja has just announced via their twitter feed that the Ver. 1.02 patch for Dead or Alive 5 Ultimate has been officially released.

It doesn't appear that there are any gameplay or specific character changes, however. This patch only appears to address the common online multiplayer issues, sort out costume conditions, and to resolve the act of characters flying in random directions during a match.

Edit: Patch is now available on Xbox Live (9/19)

The full patch notes are below:

-Improved the matchmaking system to make it easier to match with an opponent when there are many players online.

-Costume unlock conditions for DOA5U: Core Fighters changed to match the full version.

-Costumes that were previously only...

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This coming weekend (September 13th to the 15th, 2013), the first Dead or Alive 5 Ultimate major will be taking place in Raleigh, North Carolina. The event has over $9000 in prize money being given to the winners of the three Dead or Alive 5 Ultimate events: (1) Friday evening is a 3v3 Team Tournament featuring many of your favorite players duking it out in a team-elimination style format, (2) Saturday starts the Singles Tournament, and (3) Saturday evening during the Dead or Alive 5 Ultimate Launch Party (exclusive entry only to those who are in the Singles Tournament), we are doing an Old School vs New School special event where 6 players designated as Old School take on another 6 designated as New School in Team Battle format.

Last night, The Fall Classic staff announced the Dead or...

Tecmo Koei released Dead or Alive 5 last year, followed by Dead or Alive 5 Plus for Vita, and Dead or Alive 5 Ultimate is in stores now. Believe it or not, Ultimate isn’t the final incarnation of Team Ninja’s fighting game. Sega will distribute Dead or Alive 5 Ultimate Arcade throughout Japan this winter. It’s based on the console game with one key difference—Dead or Alive 5 Ultimate Arcade has Tengu a new character. Tecmo haven’t announced if Tengu this extra character will be available as downloadable content on PS3 and Xbox 360 yet.

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You guys don't need a huge article or pretty pictures for this one: Dead or Alive 5 Ultimate has hit retail in North America, with the rest of the world joining in the fun in mere days (with some exceptions). Look for the PlayStation Store digital release, as well as the Core Fighters edition, late this afternoon/early this evening. Also bear in mind that preorder codes for PSN will not be live until that same update so be patient, disc owners.

Now hit the lab, get your friends together, and get to finding some new tech!

Cla said:

FYI Alert: PSN pre-order bonus codes can now be redeemed.

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While most of us are waiting for a day or two more for Dead Or Alive 5 Ultimate to drop, a few lucky souls have gotten their copies early. Happily, a few of these folks (including FSD's very own Jeff "CyberEvil" Rybicki) have been more than happy to create videos for the game. We've compiled a quick "day 0" round up of DOA5U videos over at Shoryuken.com.

You can check out Jeff's contributions below. For the rest of the vids, head on over to Shoryuken.com.

Word just came in from Team NINJA Creative Director Tom Lee in regards to The Fall Classic tournament on September 13th to September 15th in Raleigh, North Carolina.

Tom Lee said:

My DOA Fighters, I've got some good news and some bad news for The Fall Classic tournament. First the bad news...

The "Life & Times" video crew from Jay-Z will not be able to attend TFC due to scheduling conflicts. Sorry fellas, really tried to hook this up for you guys. I'll keep talking to them and see if there's another opportunity for us in the future. Now the good news...

GamesterGear headphones has just signed up to sponsor our highly anticipated team tournament on Friday at TFC! Which means, they will be donating $1500 into the pot for the team matches! So, show some love to GamesterGear when you get a chance.

Therefore, in addition to the $8K we're putting into singles matches, there's now a total of $9500 worth of pot prizes for the DOA5 Ultimate tourneys at TFC! That's a lot of dough for...

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Famitsu has released information on new Dead or Alive 5 Ultimate online features. It's a short list, but are some interesting ideas.

Summer Jam 7 is being held this weekend (August 17th and 18th, 2013) in Philadelphia, PA. The event schedule has been released, and the stream schedule with it.

Below is the current (emergency changes can happen) schedule:

Summer Jam 7 registrants, you are reading that title correctly! Team NINJA Creative Director and long-standing friend of the community Tom Lee will be in attendance, preview build in tow. This is a great opportunity to meet a member of our favorite developer and Tom is looking forward to meeting all of you, new faces and veterans alike. Absolutely anybody, competitor or spectator, will be able to swing through and put the game through its paces ahead of its release early next month. If you are in the Philadelphia area August 17-18, or can be, check the Summer Jam 7 event thread right here for full details on the event, including the address.

Information on available features in the build will be forthcoming, so check back on this post for any updates. For now, get those last minute travel plans squared away. We're sending Dead...

This past Saturday NorCal fighting game tournament BEST of the Battle hosted their 3rd installment in the BOTB series. With 7 games across the board for the day, it's no wonder the venue was overflowed for the FGC event. 1st place honors goes to CrazySteady for taking home his first offline tournament victory. Steady also showed why he's one of the most versatile players in DOA5 with his wide character selection. Persistent Stat had a solid showing with his 2nd place standing. NykNyks took 3rd which makes that his third consecutive BOTB event with top 3 placings.

DOA5 Final Results:
1st - CrazySteady

2nd - Persistent Stat

3rd - NykNyks

4th - SomewhatMental

5th (tie) - HajinShinobi / Pink Nitro
7th (tie) - Shadow / Shytzoo
9th (tie) - Nai / Rekushin

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This Saturday, August 3rd, the third installment of Bay Area fighting game tournament BEST of the Battle III will be taking place in San Jose. This is likely to be the last big DOA5 tournament in the west coast until Ultimate drops. BOTB has been a strong supporter of DOA related events since the release of DOA5 in September. The staff for the event work do their best to make sure each event has something offer for all fighting gamers, especially DOA players.

West Coast DOA heavy hitters HajinShinobi, CrazySteady, Renarism, Shadow, and BOTB 1 champ NykNyks are strong favorites to duke it out for 1st place. BOTB 2 champ Punishere may attend the event to defend his title. Regardless of your skill, come down to the event for a day filled with fighting games. The tournament lineup for the day includes Soul Calibur V, Virtua Fighter 5 Final Showdown, Super Street Fighter 4 Arcade Edition, Ultimate Marvel vs Capcom 3, Injustice: Gods Among Us, and of course, Dead or Alive 5. The event...

Recently, the guys at Eurogamer picked a great time to post an article about the Heart Of Gaming arcade in London. While Mark "Firebug" Starkey isn't the only one deserving credit in this article, it's goes without saying that the accomplishment itself is very gratifying and the recognition helps us realize the scope and scale of what we have on our hands and help do a better service for the community.

Shout outs to Joff and Bulletproof for being the number one soldiers in this struggle and Shadowforce for sacrificing his time and money to come and help us out on some important occasions where help was very needed (and playing some DOA with me when the place was quiet).

What matters now is to build something for the future, including the UK and surrounding European community and supporting our great players, from the stoic and seasoned English players, to the energetic Germans, to the old school French...

Just over two months from now, the first Dead or Alive 5 Ultimate major will begin. Players have been finalizing travel itineraries, reserving rooms or places in them, and picking apart DoA5U trailers to find something to give them an initial leg-up on the competition; it all comes together on September 14th. There's also a little something going on September 13th for the early birds, but we'll get to that in a minute. All of the details for the main event itself can be found right here in the event thread. Head over, RSVP, post up your questions, and start building that hype!

But the most important thing you can do? Register! Either click that fancy red link or the giant banner up top to be taken...

Emmanuel "MASTER" Rodriguez was able to get some time with Shimbori Yohei, the director of Dead or Alive 5 Ultimate, and ask him a few questions from the DOAWorld community. Be sure to check out the interview as there's many good questions I see asked often. For example, Shimbori comments on the network issues from Dead or Alive 5, Costumes and Stage DLC, Dead or Alive x Virtua Fighter, changes in the hold system, and even comments about a Emmanuel's desire to see a global fighting game tournament that has participants from Europe and Japan attend to take America's crown. There are even more questions that are asked, so please check out the interview and discuss below.

Kicking off the ramp up to what is argued as the biggest Dead or Alive 5 tournament of the year, ShinBlanka has released the second trailer for The Fall Classic being held in Raleigh, North Carolina on September 14th and 15th. The trailer even gives Dead or Alive 5 a major spot in it to showcase how serious ShinBlanka, BigE Gaming, L.I. Joe, and SweetJohnnyCage are taking this game and this event.

It should be noted that with the recent announcement of Dead or Alive 5 Ultimate's release date being September 3rd, this event will be hosting a Dead or Alive 5 Ultimate tournament. The community is hoping to make this their biggest event ever, shooting for more than 100 entrants into the tournament. If those numbers hold true then you're looking at a pot prize greater than $1,000. This tournament is sure to be huge as it attempts to be a serious contender to that of Evolution.

The Fall Classic...

Dead or Alive 5 Ultimate: Core Fighters, a free-to-play version of the already announced DoA5U, has been officially announced and will be hitting PlayStation 3 (and potentially Xbox 360) day and date with the full retail release of the game. Currently slated for September 3rd, 2013 in North America and releasing the rest of that week in other territories, Dead or Alive 5 Ultimate is a updated version of the current release, Dead or Alive 5. Complete with new characters, stages, moves, animations, and system mechanics, this release will incorporate ideas and feedback from both Team NINJA itself as well as the fans. DoA5U: Core Fighters is yet another surprise from TN and it also represents something of an evolution on the basic concepts of a demo.

Core Fighters will include all online play modes, stages, and offline play modes, with the exception of the Story Mode. It will include Ryu Hayabusa, Kasumi, Ayane, and Hayate as playable characters out of the gate, with the option to...

This weekend we have two major events going on hosting Dead or Alive 5 across the world.

In the United States, SweetJohnnyCage will be running East Coast Throwdown V in Morristown, NJ. SJC has been running tournaments for a few years now, and is even one of the main event coordinators for The Fall Classic coming later this year. This year's East Coast Throwdown will be held in the same event location as the previous year: Hyatt Morristown. Dead or Alive 5 will be taking place on the Xbox 360 starting Sunday, May 19th at 2 PM.


In Australia, @Berzerk will...

It's official, the new Dead or Alive project that we were all teased to last week with a glimpse of Momiji, has now been confirmed by this week's Famitsu magazine via Siliconera as Dead or Alive 5 Ultimate.

The magazine didn't share much information beyond that, only highlighting that it will include Momiji and additional characters, stages, etc. which, of course, we all already know.

But with E3 only a few mere weeks away, you can definitely expect Team Ninja to drop a few subtle hints and teases leading up to the big unveiling.

You can carry on the discussion in the...

Last weekend, the West Coast DOA scene had it's 2nd tourney major at NCR XI. The Road to Evo event took place in Sunnyvale, California from April 26th-28th. Over 25+ entrants for DOA5 alone marked this as the biggest West Coast major thus far in the game's lifespan. Congrats to Sweet Revenge, who flew out from Texas, for taking 1st place. Additional info + pics from the NCR madness can be found by clicking here.

Final Results

1st - Sweet Revenge (Sarah)

2nd - Galen the Wise (Akira, Mila)

3rd - Air Gear

4th - NykNyks Breezy


The good people over at SturdyPine.com sat down with the DOA community to ask us a few questions.

Top 4...

For players outside the USA, here are some exciting Dead or Alive 5 tournaments coming up around the world. Make sure you show your support for the fighting game scene near you, and help build the DOA community!

If you know of an "international event" you'd like featured, please post in the thread and we'll add it!

For May 2013 - players in the UK and Australia have these respective events to look forward to.

In the UK, on May 26: Ultimate Clash 2

Revitalising the UK scene! Come join us and check out the weekly events as well.

http://www.freestepdodge.com/thread...t-of-gaming-doa5-doa2u-doa2m-scv-london.2764/

In Australia, on May 17-19: Battle Arena Melbourne 5

As part of a major festival of fighting and...

What's up guys & gals of the DOA community I love so much. I bring to you another recap of the DOA tourneys that have been took place over the past couple months. Got a couple majors, couple international, and lots of local tourney results for this roundup. Enjoy.

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CEO Winterfest 2013

Altamonte Springs, Florida

January 26th 2013

Good to see that Florida hosted a DOA tourney! Unfortunately, I could not find any DOA related media from this event nor any information on who used what character. I personally don't recognize any of the competitors names but don't let that take away from the fact that they showed up to compete. Hope to see these names again in future events!

Final Results

1. Jazz Primm

2. Tysen

3. The Law

4. DR Balrog

5. Skeptic

6. Solid Neku

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