This is mainly a brief addendum to both the recent announcement we made in this Medium post, as well as a summary of what we saw in our poll asking players about our beginner event formats. To clarify: It seems that even after reading the original post, many players assumed…

An update on WNF GGST, WNF GGXXAC+R, and upcoming format changes. If you don’t want to read the article, there is a companion video where I go over everything in this document on YouTube. It’s been a year since Kim/doedipus and I took over the reins of Wild West Guilty…

EDIT: JasonRiot has been unbanned almost as fast as he had been accused, due in no small part to the excellent counter-investigation led by OmegaTomHanksFL and OreoSpeedwagon. This document will continue to exist for transparency and posterity, but the companion video has since been privated. …

A look back at Wild West Guilty Gear’s weekend The first Evo I attended was the one in 2016, which was the last Evo before they finally settled on the Mandalay Bay consistently. At the time, I was only there to play Smash 4, but the events for other games…

What the pros and cons of F2P models could look like The most predatory fighting game I’ve purchased in recent history was probably Granblue Fantasy Versus. While it now has a majorly reduced price for both the base game and the Legendary Edition that includes the entire past two years…

I would like to preface this with a few statements: Kim and I have been running the GGST bracket since October 2021- more than half of the game’s lifespan, and longer than the previous Wild West Guilty Gear crew ran the game. While we are functionally neophyte TOs relative to…

What’s working and what’s not Full disclosure: Late last year, when the first DNFD beta (and the second KOFXV beta) launched, I didn’t get to play it. I had just started working at a school and one of the kids passed along maybe-COVID to me (not all the symptoms quite…

Investigating how fighting games are developed- by designers and players Before we begin, I must point out that this is going to be unraveling a long thread of discourse, and while it seems like it may be meandering or retreading old ground, there’s value in understanding these arguments. If we…

And how the learning curve in both genres demand the same things Elden Ring launched on February 24th, 2022 to critical acclaim and commercial success. Everyone on my Steam friends list has been playing it nonstop, going back and forth between posting their reactions to certain areas and boss fights…