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This wasn't a major event, but it was a tournament streamed yesterday by a pretty big name in the fighting game community, Team Spooky, and it's not the kind of closeup Killer Instinct was hoping for. The tournament lost its Internet connection and, well, this console couldn't continue.Read more...

Hmm, another up-rezzed remake of a fighting game? Here we go agai--C-C-C-C-Combo Breaker!!

The great Maximilian shows off two full uncut mtches of Orchid in action.

What does being a next-gen game or hardware mean, exactly? While the answer is kind of murky—in some ways, the coming generation doesn't feel like a huge departure from our current generation of hardware —one of the places we can see concrete changes is when it comes to multiplayer games. Read more...

Watch as Double Helix shows you how to use Thunder like a pro and also get a glimpse of who the next character will be.

We clear up some misinformation about Microsoft's new console.

Microsoft's Phil Spencer comes across as more of an infomercial guy than a talk show guest here in this stint on Jimmy Fallon earlier tonight, but hey, he's not the focus here. The Xbox One and some games are. Namely Killer Instinct and Forza 5. Not sure they were the two best games to bring on the show, because, well, watching it on the TV screen (or on someone else's TV screen on YouTube) it's tough seeing much of an improvement over the Xbox 360, even when Spencer outlines the "laser capture" work done on Forza 5. Who's looking at the background in a racing game? What is easy to see, though, is Jimmy Fallon's button-mashing and grandma-driving, which are both terrifying and adorable respectively. In the wake of E3 game companies have got their hooks into Fallon's show all week, with Sony, Ubisoft, Activision and Nintendo to each get a spot for the rest of the nights this week.

Trash talk never sounds good—the things you say in the heat of the moment don't make sense and cursing is unbecoming. So the awfulness when a Killer Instinct producer and an Xbox live community manager took the stage and trash talked isn't unsurprising, although having it be scripted trash talk takes the awkwardness to a whole other level. That, and as game developer Jonathan Blow recently said on Twitter, "'Let's bring a woman on stage and joke about how she's bad at games, and say stuff like 'relax, just let it happen, it'll be over soon'??" Kind of unreal.