Before I talk about the loketests, I’d like to mention that there is currently a problem with comments on this site. For whatever reason, comments are completely broken. Not only are all of the old comments gone, but it is also impossible for anyone to make new comments. I think that this was caused by a recent flood of spam comments. Either way, I have no idea how to fix it, so comments are pretty much going to be nonexistent for the time being.

Back to real news! Guilty Gear Xrd -SIGN- has been announced to come out sometime this month, and in a somewhat surprise announcement, there is going to be one last location test! It will be going on throughout the entire week of 2/3 to 2/9. No new characters have been announced, but there has been a fair amount of new footage released. First off, the arcade opening has been unveiled on the official ASW Youtube account. Daisuke Ishiwatari made an appearance on the newest episode of Blueraji, and they showed some brief footage of every character along with May’s instant kill. Finally, Pachi was a guest on the Nico stream show Denjin Getcha and did a quick demo of Zato’s first match in his Arcade Mode. Kurushii ripped the clip, which can be accessed here.

The only new information we have is a clarification on YRC: only certain moves can be YRCed, and they can only be done on whiff during an attack’s startup frames. In addition, YRCs can only be performed when the opponent is in a neutral state: meaning, they must not be blocking or getting hit.