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Still need to get a gift for a friend or love one? With the upcoming holiday, several holidays sales and products related to VF5FS have been announced. The price for VF5FS has been temporarily reduced for the holidays. From December 18th to January 8th, the PSN version of the game is available for $9.99 or $6.99 for PSN+ subscribers (regular cost $14.99). From December 19th to December 31st, the XBL version of the game is available for 600 MSP (regular cost is 1200 MSP).

In addition, the VF5FS guide and move list application that was mentioned during the launch for iPhone and iPad has been finally released for 99 cents (in US currency). Tricky, who purchased the app, said "the app covers the system mechanics, gives you insight into Sega's understanding of their characters, and gives you all the frame information you could want."

The console release of Virtua Fighter 5 Final Showdown was "a critical and commercial success." Today, Sega and Level|Up Series announce the beginning of an annual Virtua Fighter tournament in North America - the Sega Cup. The very first tournament (PS3 console will be used for the event) will be held at the Super Arcade (Los Angeles, CA, USA) on April 20, 2013. There will be cash prizes given to the top 16 players. We will update with more information about the event as more details are given.

A month ago, I interviewed Avery Carey (GentlemanThief), a United States player from Florida. GentlemanThief finished 6th at Evo 2012 demonstrating exceptional skill with a game he had only a month to actually play with. I think one of the nicest compliments given to him were by some of the core Japan VFers asking if GentlemanThief had previously played the game in Japan. In this interview, I asked various questions related to his VF beginnings, Evo experience, goals, and his view on the community.

On December 6th, X-Play the video game-centric TV program on the G4 cable channel did their 2012 Best of the Year Video Game Awards. In the category for fighting games, the PSN/XBL Virtua Fighter 5: Final Showdown game won the award. You can watch that portion of that episode on G4TV.com. You can check out all of X-Play's Best of 2012 Awards Results here. You can continue discussing about this topic in the original thread by cobratron.

Here is a compiled list of archived vids with results from some of the events (NEC 13, Railway Series, and Tokyo Bay) in the past two weeks. If there is an event or results/vids from it. share it with us!

Here you can watch the VF5:FS stream footage of Insomnia 47 located in Telford UK featuring some of the best players in the country such as Feck, Ash Kaiser, MarlyJay, ZeroEx, Jide and Ryan Hart. Footage starts right at the start!

http://www.twitch.tv/unequalledmedia/b/344452586

Ever wonder what some of the characters are saying in Japanese during the game? Modelah translated all 11 of the Japanese-speaking characters' dialogue! This includes the dialogue from their introduction animation, during moves, standard win pose, special item win pose, and during the continuation screen. Check the links in this post for Modelah's Full Script Threads (Bonus! Also translation for the Chatty Bunny and Tiger Doll Items).

Back in July 2012, I reached out to the community seeking volunteers for Character Specialists. I'm now pleased to announce that this effort has been revived and is ready to roll out under the new branding of Content Manager.

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Some sad news for the Virtua Fighter community. The owners of San Francisco's South Town Arcade will be closing their arcade operation on Sunday, November 25th, 2012. One of the owners, Arturo Angelo (Art) was a key member in the promotion of the Virtua Fighter scene through VF5FS pre-release tournament series, assisting with running the Evo 2012 VF5FS tournament, and also hosting the No Mercy Friday events.