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News Official Japanese Dead Or Alive 5 Ultimate Tournament Announced

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Looks like Tecmo Koei is getting serious about promoting DOA5U competitively in Japan. Alongside the recently announced location test dates for the game's arcade version, TK has announced their official tournament for the game.

Qualifying rounds for the tournament will take place in different arcades throughout Japan staring this November all the way through to January next year.

Here are the dates and locations for the qualifying events.

Qualifying Round
  • November 16, 2013
    • Club Sega Shinjuku West, Tokyo - 2:00PM to 5:00PM
  • November 30, 2013
    • Sega Namba Avion, Osaka – 2:00PM to 5:00PM
  • December 1, 2013
    • Club Sega Nagoya Fushimi, Nagoya - 2:00PM to 5:00PM
  • December 7,2013
    • Game Corner Eastern, Sendai – 2:00PM to...

News The Filthy Rich Cup and Beyond for DOA5U

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We are now on the threshold of a new era for the community. After the strong presence of the community at The Fall Classic, and the increasing numbers at the WNF weekly in SoCal, we have shown that we are a growing and supportive community that will still have a ways to go. Now while The 1st Annual Filthy Rich Cup is not a major by any stretch, its still an important moment for the Dead Or Alive community because of the increased interest since TFC. Over in Philadelphia and Jersey, the scene has grown quite a bit due to the showing at TFC and at the Filthy Rich Cup we can begin to gauge how strong that interest really is. So for those who live in the tri-state, you are highly encouraged to show up if possible and not only compete but teach and continue to get these new players to continue to stick with the game. The Fall Classic was our time to shine, now let's go out there and keep it our star shinning.

Community Promote DOA, Submit your Scene to IPW

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Here's a chance for folks to make the FGC as a whole aware of your community for Dead Or Alive (5U, 3.1 or otherwise). IPlayWinner and The Show That Sucks is doing a special show for their 50th episode where they will talk about how to get into the FGC and in order to do that we need fighting game communities.

As part of this, they are asking folks to submit their local communities to them for the show. They are looking for any community, no matter how big or how small.

This here is a big opportunity for the any local DOA scenes and the greater DOA community general. Small local communities are the foundation from which the FGC as a whole is built upon.

For those with local communities, send them in to the show. All you need is the location of your scene and how you communicate, or how someone from the outside can get information such as the time or location of a session or tournament. This can be a website, Twitter account, Facebook page, forum or anything somebody can use to...

New Stage for DoA5U?

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If you follow the official Team NINJA Twitter (and you should be), you've likely been seeing their recent teases of an upcoming DLC pack. Previously it was believed to be a Halloween-themed costume pack only, however the most recent pictures take place in a completely new environment (or a very cleverly redesigned one). Some images have popped up showing it to be a Halloween-themed Lorelei, so a major fan favorite should be returning shortly. Check out the images below:

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It seems we may be getting a relatively large DLC pack in the very near future. Given the normal DLC release day of Tuesday in North America, we may not need to wait too long to find out. Only a few of those left this month, after all.

Source: Twitter

DOA5U Live Streamed Tournament by 1337 Lounge Live - 9/21/13

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1337 Lounge Live is hosting a tournament tonight which is scheduled to start at 7pm PST. The tournament is taking place in Hollywood, California with many of the best players from SoCal's DOA scene competing such as @ikodomo, @HajinShinobi, @Julian Bernard and @Kal-El3291. NorCal players @SomewhatMental and @NukNuks are also set to compete in the event.

If you check out the website you will notice that it is a 24/7 open lobby. There are multiple camera angles to choose from to see all the action. There will also be a Q & A session during the event. Feel free to join the text chat and ask questions to hear the thoughts of the players.

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News Dead or Alive 5 Ultimate Ver. 1.02 Patch Released

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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...

News The Fall Classic Pools Announced for This Weekend

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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...

A New Character for DOA5U Arcade Edition

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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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Dead or Alive 5 Ultimate Now Available

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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!

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

Shoryuken.com - "Day 0" Video Round Up for Dead Or Alive 5 Ultimate

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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.

BREAKING NEWS FOR DOA5U AT TFC.

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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...

New Online Features Detailed for DOA5U by Famitsu

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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.

Four-player Tag Mode Online
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Developed and integrated due to high demand from Dead or Alive fans around the world, players will now be able to form a tag team with a comrade and fight against another team online. Additionally, players can battle in ranked tag matches in order to become #1 in the world rankings. Separate from solo matches, in tag matches Grade Points (GP) are earned for both team members with each win counting as two toward unlockable costumes.

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Four different ranks can be earned by winning consecutive ranked matches: Bronze Fighter, Silver Fighter, Gold Fighter and Platinum Fighter. Prize Fighters earn extra Grade Points with wins and those who defeat...​

Summer Jam 7 Schedule released

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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:

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The Dead or Alive 5: Ultimate station will be streamed by Free Step Dodge when available.​

SATURDAY

Please note: Event Wristbands are waterproof and should be worn all weekend.

8:00 AM to 10:00 AM: (FRONT DESK) Registration for DOA5 TEAMS (2v2 Tag)

12:00 PM: (3D ROOM) DOA5 TEAMS
(Stream by Team Bifuteki)
1:00 PM to 3:00 PM: (FRONT DESK) Onsite registration for DOA5 Singles

5:00 PM: (3D ROOM) DOA5 Singles
(Stream by...​

Go Hands-on with DoA5U at Summer Jam 7!

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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...

Tournament Results: BEST of the Battle III

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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 :christie::lisa::sarah::pai:

2nd - Persistent Stat :ayane:

3rd - NykNyks :leifang:

4th - SomewhatMental :helena: :kokoro:

5th (tie) - HajinShinobi :ayane: / Pink Nitro :lisa:
7th (tie) - Shadow :kasumi: / Shytzoo :hitomi:
9th (tie) - Nai :ayane: / Rekushin :hayabusa:

Click this sentence for brackets....

Event Reminder: BEST of the Battle III in San Jose, California (Aug 3rd 2013)

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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...

HOG UK Article by Eurogamer and What the HOG Means for the UK Community

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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...

The Fall Classic Approaches...

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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...

E3: Shimbori Yohei Interview by DOAWorld

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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.

The Fall Classic Second Trailer Released!

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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...

Team NINJA Releasing Dead or Alive 5 Ultimate: Core Fighters

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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...

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