Street Fighter 6 review: The next fighting king?

After years of waiting, Street Fighter is finally back and stepping onto the latest consoles with Street Fighter 6, and while it doesn’t necessarily shout about its newness visually, there are some huge changes under the hood.

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With a significantly beefed-up singleplayer section of the game providing better on-ramps than ever, and a new control scheme that could completely rip up established assumptions about skill levels, it feels a bit like a fresh start for the fighting game giant.

A new scene

Street Fighter 6 makes some serious changes to how it feels to pick up a new game in the series – its main menu now presents you with a three-way split of modes.

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In the middle is the Battle Hub, the online centre of the game, where you can enter bouts against online opponents and work your way up the ranks while getting better all the time.

On the right, Fighting Ground lets you set up fights on your own, with special rules and training packs available to peruse, along with a fairly brief tutorial.

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Finally, the left-most option offers up World Tour, and it’s here that things have really evolved. This is a full single-player campaign that will see you control a customised character that you’ll level up by exploring locations, meeting members of the game’s roster and copying their moves, and completing quests.

It’s a really intriguing twist on how a fighting game can work and features open-world locations that are amusingly janky but full of funny touches and quest-givers. Each quest will generally help you master a mechanic, although some will prove more important to your skillset than others, and there are also a lot of cosmetics to unlock for your custom fighter.

It’s a nice way to introduce the different fighters on offer one by one, and to acclimatise you to their strengths and weaknesses over time instead of all at once, making the process of picking a fighter to concentrate on for online fights a lot less like guesswork if you’re new to the series.

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There are still more traditional (less absurd) story vignettes to sample in Fighting Ground, for those who want a more typical fight-by-fight ladder to climb, but this is a really fun new option that will prove hugely useful to new players, massively stretching out the process of learning controls and moves.

Show me your moves

Those controls and moves, meanwhile, have also had some major surgery done to them. Firstly, there’s the new Drive system – which adds a new bar that you can use for power attacks at any time.

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The game-changer is that rounds start with this bar full, so you can immediately kick off with high-risk damage options if you so choose. Doing so might well prove a mistake, but it makes for a bunch of tactical variety.

The increased aggression this encourages made for quick rounds in our experience, but that ties into the second innovation – an all-new control scheme.

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Called “Modern” in the settings, it gives you the option of automatically launching special attacks with a single button instead of more complicated button presses.

This is amazing for learners and newcomers, making the most intimidating part of any fighting game way more trivial until you know enough to kick off the training wheels and take more control.

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We’re frankly rubbish at the genre but we’ve been able to have way more fun as a result, and early clips are already showcasing some expert fighters using Modern controls in a way that might show they’ve got real legs compared to the Classic option.

Of course, for those who don’t want it, there are classic control options, and when spectating you can also see a list of live inputs to give you a better sense of what people are actually doing – a visual aid that can be a little overwhelming at first.

The end result of these tweaks and additions is a fighting system that feels immediately familiar to anyone who played Street Fighter V, with enough changes to make things feel both fresh and foundational.

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So, you’ll still be playing a careful strategic game as you try to outwit an opponent with unpredictable choices and proper mechanical execution, all capped off by potentially explosive special moves and counters.

Once you’re done with playing solo, heading online in Battle Hub offers up a really cool way to lay out matchmaking in a fighting game, replicating some of the buzz of an actual arcade.

You control the same avatar from World Tour, that you can heavily (ridiculously) customise to your own desires, running around an arcade full of cosmetic shops centred around an array of game cabinets.

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Approach one with an empty seat opposite an opponent to kick off a match, sit at one on your own to invite challengers, or simply spectate an ongoing match by approaching.

It feels great (although menus are there for those who want to cut to the chase), and replicates that social feeling that can sometimes be lost away from LAN tournaments.

How To Clear The Cache on Your Android Phone and Why You Should

If you’re running out of space on your Android phone, finding it’s a bit sluggish or are simply having issues with a particular app then it might well be down to the cache.

A cache is a simple but important part of the system that ensures your device runs smoothly and quickly when you need it to. But sometimes it’s necessary to clear out the cache to fix issues or speed things up.

What is a cache?

A cache is a system of temporary data that is used to help with the loading speed of your Android phone and its apps.

At a basic level, it’s a way for your phone to remember certain things it has done before so that it can do them faster next time.

How does a cache work?

A caching system on your Android phone is designed to store certain information, like images or website data, so that when you return to that same website or app later, the phone can quickly retrieve that information from its cache instead of having to download it all over again.

If some of the assets on the site or app rarely change then they can just be loaded from the cache, which makes opening the app or website much faster than using your cellular signal to download everything from scratch.

A cache can be used for all sorts of things. If you’re often listening to the same old Spotify playlists, for example, then they might be cached to make sure you can jump right back in next time. Spotify says that this helps with playback and prevents lagging.

Cache files are unique to the specific apps on your phone and they aren’t shared across the different apps.

Different sites, apps and games will all make use of cache files to improve your overall user experience and ensure your phone runs smoothly.

Obviously, this can have some other knock-on effects on your device. If you have a lot of different apps installed and each of them is caching data then this can soon lead to your phone storage being filled up.

You can manually clear the cache for individual apps though which is ideal if you’re having problems with particular apps. Though doing so might slow the app down the next time you use it until it caches the particular data again.

How to clear your cache

If you’ve got problems with your phone that can’t be solved by simply turning it off and on again, then clearing your cache might be one option.

In order to clear a cache you’ll need to do it on an app-by-app basis.

Chances are unless a lack of overall phone storage is your problem then it’s one app or another that’s the issue rather than your phone as a whole. If you’re finding that your entire phone is sluggish then you might need to turn to a factory reset instead.

Here’s how to clear the cache of a particular app though:

1. Open your phone and navigate to the settings
2. Scroll down through the settings list and look for the storage option
3. Search through the apps list
4. Click on the app you want to fix
5. Click the button marked clear cache

It’s worth noting that when you clear the chance you may well have to log in to the app again next time you load it up.

Source: www.GhanaCNN.com

Everything we know about Marathon: Trailer, gameplay details and more

Bungie made a big splash when it announced that it was working on a return to its roots at the May 2023 PlayStation Showcase, in the form of Marathon.

While it shares a name with a game that Bungie made way back in 1994, this looks like a pretty comprehensive reimagining, and there are plenty of interesting details already out there, which we’ve gathered for you right here.

Marathon release date

Marathon doesn’t have any sort of release date attached to it yet – Bungie is remaining tight-lipped on that front and didn’t give us even a window in which to expect it.

This means we don’t think you should get your hopes up about it coming out anytime much before 2025 – since we haven’t even seen gameplay yet, and don’t expect to for a while, there’s nothing to indicate a date sooner than that.

Marathon platforms

We do know what platforms Bungie is planning to release Marathon on, and it makes pleasant reading for Xbox fans. Despite now being owned by Sony Interactive Entertainment, Bungie is building Marathon for PC and Xbox Series X/S as well as PlayStation 5.

The game will have full crossplay and cross-saves to let you swap between platforms on the fly, which could also mean that it’s free-to-play, although this isn’t confirmed.

Marathon trailers

Marathon debuted with a pretty bombastic CGI trailer at PlayStation’s showcase of upcoming games in May 2023, soundtracked by a banging Justice track.

It showcases a stylish look at the world Bungie’s building – one where Runners explore a world that seems to have had its entire population vanish overnight, trying to extract loot and gear without dying along the way.

Soon after the trailer, Bungie uploaded a really interesting and more detailed developer diary that goes into more detail on what we can expect from Marathon, and it’s well worth a watch.

Source: www.GhanaCNN.com