Sakura Fight Festa Preliminary Information 20th-22nd March 2015

SAKURA FIGHT FESTA #1

I would say THE UK ANIME TOURNAMENT IS BACK...but this is meant to be something completely different...in the same venue...

We figured that...while we wait for November there is nothing in between for UK Anime. So bam, March Event

Guaranteed Games

1. [ 64 Player Limit ] Blazblue Chronophantasma (PS3)

2. [ 64 Player Limit ] Guilty Gear Xrd (PS3)

3. [ 32 Player Limit ] Dengeki Bunko Fighting Climax (PS3)

4. [ 32 Player Limit ] Under Night In-birth Exe:late (PS3)

5. [ 32 Player Limit ] Persona 4 Arena 2 (PS3)

6. [ 32 Player Limit ] Melty Blood Actress Again Current Code (PC)

Revolution 2014 Results

Thank you for attending Revolution 2014! The team thanks everyone for coming and watching the event. The event has been a blast and there was a lot of fun to be had, but alas it’s had to come to an end. Saying that, we have our winners for each tournament:

A Look Around London Games Society

Last Friday afternoon I went down to High Cross United Reformed Church in Tottenham, to a gathering of NthGen Interactive's fighting, portable and card game-focused London Games Society. London Games Society meets up once a month, normally on a Saturday, but this month was a bit different thanks to the epic fighting game fest Revolution 2014 taking place over the following weekend.

Apart from the changed timing, though, everything about the meet-up was just the same as ever. You could go head to head on fighting games like Arcana Heart; sit down to card games like Weiss Schwarz (and if you've never played, you can come along and learn!); and play alongside fellow portable gaming fans with games like Monster Hunter and Freedom Wars. The entry fee is £5, and you can stay as long as you like, from 2pm until 8pm.

To see the action up close, watch the short video I made and hear NGI's Rayokarna talk about what's going on with London Games Society:

Vita Club London: Prison Breakout

With the release of Sony Computer Entertainment Japan’s big hit for this year, it’s the best time to get an early meet and greet. This game being the Hunting/TPS with a heavy emphasis on both teamwork and competitiveness it’s the perfect time to meet people offline that you can take with you to the world of PSN.

Location: Las Vegas Arcade Soho 89-91 Wordour Street, London. W1F 0UB

Time: 6pm til 9pm

Entry Fee: Free

Stream: twitch.tv/nthgenmedia

Facebook Event: https://www.facebook.com/events/1475536952713734

If you need any assistance with any missions within the first week this is the perfect time to get help. Teaming up with people will is the most important thing about this game so time to make it count. Hoping to be the first of many meetings.

Recording on Arcade Machines 1: DJ Max Technika

Stream Arcade Machines Article 1: DJ Max Technika

This article will be a series covering ways of successfully getting footage from an arcade machine. The first machine we are going to look at is the DJ Max Technika machine. While this machine is quite old and the franchise pretty much killed by Neowiz, it is still one of the most difficult machines to capture on if you don’t know what you are doing. The first thing to point out is that this machine has several layers of encryption. It has them for both visual and audio so you have to be careful where you decide to split cables.

Revolution 2014 UK Anime Fighting Games Cup -Updated-

Nth Gen Interactive will proudly present Revolution 2014: UAFGC. This is our second time holding our flagship event and now it's dedicated completely to anime fighters.

The current games list (Subject to change due to availability*):

Blazblue Chronophantasma

Arcana Heart 3: Love Max

Gundam Extreme Vs: Full Boost (2v2)

Jojo: All Star Battle
Under Night In-Birth: Late Exe

Persona 4 Arena 2: Ultramax Ultra Suplex Hold*

Guilty Gear Xrd*

Astral Heat Overdrive: June 14th 2014

Held on 14th June 2014
Location: Yates Harrow, 269-271, Station Road, London, Harrow, HA1 2TB
Venue is open 12-8pm, entry fee £5
Tournament entry fee, £5 per tournament

Tournament Format: Double Elimination best 2-out-3, Grand Finals best 3-out-5

Main game line up:
BlazBlue Chrono Phantasma (PS3)
Guilty Gear XX Accent Core +R (PS3)
JoJo's Bizarre Adventure All stars Battle (PS3)

Results: Wardour Street Battle 2

The usual Street Fighter 4 tournament held in Las Vegas Arcade Soho. This is currently running Super Street Fighter IV Arcade Edition.

The results are:

1st: Kai (Vega)
2nd: JP (Ryu/Yun/Abel)
3rd: Miiria (Guy/Ibuki)
4th: John (Ryu/Balrog)

Stream archives are after the jump.

LGS: London Games Society, 17th May 2014

This is London Games Society, where everything we do (minus the Arcade Games) are brought under one roof at our new home in the High Cross Youth Community Center. This event will include aspects like London Training Grounds, Portable Gaming Center and will include the new section for card games like Dominion and Weiss Schwartz.

Date: 17th May 2014

Address:

High Cross United Reformed Church, Colesterworth Road
High Road Tottenham
London
N15 4BN

Nearest Station:

Seven Sisters (Victoria Line/National Rail: Liverpool Street to Enfield Town/Chesunt)

Buses: 149, 279, 259, 349, W4, 230, 341, 41

Entry Price: £5

Time Start: 2pm

Nth Gen Interactive Update 17/04

Rayokarna here,

Nth Gen Interactive has been quite quiet as of late as myself has been busy with University crunch time and also a few of the other members of the group have their own personal responsibilities to attend too so there hasn't been much content as of late. We apologize for the silence but if there has anything specific you need to contact us about, contact me directly on Twitter (@Rayokarna) and I'll get back to you as soon as possible. This update is going to cover a couple near future to far future stuff so if you are interested in anything NGI related then you should read on.

Sound Race Ranking 2 March Results and Videos

Small turn out last night but had a ton of casuals and some excellent play. Hope everyone had fun.

Winners:

Popular Ranking:

7Ten

Technical Ranking:

S2K

Specialist Ranking:

Malindi

EX Ranking:

Tibsy

Nth Gen Interactive Presents: Revolution 2014: European Anime Fighting Games Cup

It's back, after a two year absence it's back and it's ready for new blood.

Nth Gen Interactive will proudly present Revolution 2014: EAFGC. This is our second time holding our flagship event and now it's dedicated completely to anime fighters.

The current games list (Subject to change due to availability*):

Blazblue Chronophantasma

Arcana Heart 3: Love Max

Gundam Extreme Vs: Full Boost (2v2)

Jojo: All Star Battle

Persona 4 Arena 2: Ultramax Ultra Suplex Hold*

Guilty Gear Xrd*

Valentine's Special: Xynnia and Rayokarna Play Galgun ぎゃる☆がん

Xynnia: Hey guys, Xynnia and Rayokarna here with a special joint blog post!

Rayokarna: Yo yo.

Xynnia: Obviously we're putting it up a bit late, but officially this is a Valentine's Day special. On Valentine's Day we did what all normal couples do and sat down to play a game about girls having orgasms. That's right - none other than the Japanese rail shooter Galgun.

Rayo has been going on about this game for some time now, but I've never quite got my head around what it's all about. Well, today you can follow along with my confused attempts to make sense of the game as Rayokarna plays through it. The fact that it we're playing it in Japanese as there's no localised English version bodes especially well for my ability to understand what is going on. Are you ready?

Quick Import Reviews: Gundam Breaker

Gundam Breaker Review:

Developer: Namco Bandai

Publisher: Namco Bandai Games

Release: 27th June 2013 (JP/PS3) 31st October (JP/Vita)

Probably one of the most interesting Japanese releases in 2013 was Gundam Breaker. A half Gundam, half hunting game which brought different aspects from Monster Hunter, Ragnarok Odyssey and Soul Sacrifice wrapped up into one with a hint of Dynasty Warriors Gundam in the mix too. This is definitely an interesting take on the Gundam Franchise that quite a few people haven looking forward to which involve the ability to mix and match their Gundam preferences is something that has been talked about and this is the first game to make it happen.

Sound Race Rankings 1 Results

Results from Sound Race Rankings 1:

EAG 2014 Interview: Lauren Harrison from Namco Bandai on Animal Kaiser

In the middle of a busy day at EAG, Commander Nippon and I ran into something we haven’t seen since we were in Japan: a card terminal game, very common in Japan but almost non-existent in the west. Games like Yu-Gi-Oh!, Idolmaster, Love Plus and Dragon Ball Z have all had arcade games based around their collectible cards, but none of those saw a western release. Needless to say we were quite surprised to see the machine; not only that, but it appeared to be in mid-translation from Japanese to English. Luckily for us, Lauren Harrison from Namco Bandai was on the scene to give us more information about the game.

Xynnia Reviews Video Games Amino: A Gaming Community With a Difference

Video Games Amino is a portable gaming community. And by that I don’t actually mean a community for players of portable games (like, say, DS London or our very own Portable Gaming Centre) – I mean a gaming community that’s literally portable. If you have a portable iOS device like an iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch, I recommend taking a look at the Amino apps. I’ll be focusing primarily on the Video Games Amino in this review, but there is an Amino app for almost every hobby and each one is free to download and use.

Quick Review: House of the Dead 4

House of the Dead 4 PS3 Quick Review

To be honest, House of the Dead 4 is a pretty simple game. At its heart it’s a rail shooter, and it wears its heart on its sleeve. This game is a direct port of the 2005 House of the Dead 4 which broke into arcades as one of the first high-definition arcade games of the era. 

EAG 2014 Firest Impressions: Aliens

First Impressions: Aliens

Ah another Alien game, another rail shooter. Damn, I've already played Transformers, can’t be any worse than that, and to be fair it wasn't. But it was that far off, if it wasn't for Transformers however I’d be damn annoyed about this game.

Portable Gaming Centre 2014: February 22nd

Portable Gaming Centre will be making a comeback for 2014 with it's first one at the new venue of Playnation Games, Croydon. The event will feature both Playstation Vita and 3DS games as usual. Perfect time after the holidays from picking up new games and consoles and you need people to play with.

EAG 2014: First Impressions: Batman

First Impressions: Batman

I was generally surprised to see this sitting under the Namco Bandai booth actually. A Batman game that is based around the driving, what is this madness!? Anyway it’s a part of EAG so it’s going to be one of few times I’ll get to practice on it for free.

Xynnia Reviews 'Depression Quest'

Developer: Zoe Quinn

Release: 14th February 2013 (PC, online)

Trigger Warning: This review contains some discussion of depression in the context of a game.

The free indie PC game Depression Quest came onto my radar about a month and a half ago, after I saw a Twitter shout-out to support the game on Steam Greenlight. The game was first released on Valentine's Day of last year, but the journey to greenlight it on Steam was long and filled with sexist harassment directed against developer Zoe Quinn. After being taken down once and resubmitted, the game was finally greenlit just earlier this month.

2014 Site Update

We are currently updating the site so it's more relevant for this year. Please bare with us while we rearrange links and information so it's easier to navigate.

Rayokarna

EAG 2014: Interview with Hirofumi Kami

Interview with Hirofumi Kami

One of the Many Creative Minds behind Time Crisis

Astral Heat Overdrive: Arcana Heart 3 Results

Arcana Heart 3 is the ultimate mix of niche and action, broken hit boxes, ridiculous rush down, superfast game play and more. Astral Heat brought a lot of the London veterans like Frost, Pawndriver and LordSpectreX. Out of towners like AngelDarkSong also entered to make quite an action packed tournament.

Videos and results inside the jump.

EAG 2014: Transformers First Impressions

First Impressions: Transformers

Well as a major fan of rail shooters, I look at any arcade game of interest which comes within that genre and this game was just up my street. However when I walked up to the machine I had a bit of a Rambo feel about this game which is not good, anyway I tried I anyway and here is what I got.

Astral Heat Overdrive: Guilty Gear +R Results and videos

Astral Heat is known for its Blazblue action but that’s not the only Arc System works game on show. The Guilty Gear Accent Core XX +R action was on with people like Gatk ThunderLips, Pawndriver and TU101UK all in the fray. Here are the finals from the tournament.

Videos and Results after the jump

Sound Race Rankings: London's DJ Max Technika 3 Release Event

We are proud to announce the one of many events we have lined up, and it's an old favourite of ours and it's DJ Max Technika 3. Even with the shut down of the server we are still glad that Toby who is working at Las Vegas Soho has been able to get us the upgrade from Technika 2 so we can at least experience the game. Especially that it gives us a reason to host this: Sound Race Rankings!