This week, the boys get a true taste of their local fighting game scene. Tristan and I both made our way to meetups, and while Tristan is quickly establishing himself as the Tekken king, my experience was more...character building.
I'm all in on Final Fantasy XIV this week as the addiction takes hold, we've got a few stories to tell, and I somehow find a way to turn a date into an FGC match.
We're seeing fighting game knowledge in Olympic Fencing, Developers fight back against the mass layoffs, and I need a third arm.This is Frame Perfect.

GAMES WE PLAYED

Fighting Game Roundup

• The Locals Experience
• Tekken 8 - Lidia is Upon Us, a new era of Rigidity
  
• FFXIV - Stormblood Review, the Clan Experience
• Counter Strike 2 - The Server Spam is still real
  
• Storytime - the Barcade Date
  

NEWS

• Bethesda and Blizzard Unionize
• Fallout London is here
• Overwatch Reverting back to 6v6 possibly
• Guilty Gear Producer talks Lucy, David, and 3v3
• Olympic Games Fencing is just fighting games
• City of the Wolves - Billy Kane announced,
• Helldivers 2 Escalation of Freedom - the freedom was not escalated
• FDC Takes aim at Xbox for Gamepass
• Burt talks his new Build
• Voice Actors fight back against AI
  

WATCHED

• Jujustu Kaisen Season 1 - Review
• Creature from the Black Lagoon - Review