Hey guys, Spider here again with your regular helping of protein and vegetables.

Today we have an interview with Tekken Director, Harada, Belial's community balance patch poll, and an interview with Partisan as well as his Target Practice Q&A in which he'll answer your game specific questions.

There's also an outstanding fan-made Alpha Patroklos video and in celebration of the Memorial holiday we have Lady Liberty and Queen Elizabeth joining us in Calibur.

Balance Patch Community Vote by Belial

Interview with Tekken Director, Harada:

"Last week, Capcom stated that part of the reason Street Fighter X Tekken's performance "lagged" was because of "cannibalism" in the fighting game genre. Do you believe cannibalism could impact the performance of Tekken Tag Tournament 2 and, in the future, Tekken X Street Fighter?"

I'm not in a position to speak about the performance of Capcom's titles, so it's a difficult question to answer. However, I do know that besides [cannibalism], there were other factors that led to that outcome with SFXT. For example, the condition of several retailers in Europe was not good at all, and their expected sales had accounted for a large part of the expected forecast. So the timing in general was not very good, and quite unlucky... [See the rest here]

June 2nd, 2012

10:00 AM: Road to EVO: Northwest Majors 4, Seattle, WA - June 2nd and 3rd 2012

http://www.northwestmajors.com

12:00 PM: MAT IX : Road to EVO - June 2nd-3rd (Montreal, Quebec)

http://www.mat.mtlsf.com/

June 3rd, 2012

03:00 PM: ATL-FINALROUNDBATS (Atlanta, Georgia)

SCV has been moved to the June 24 date!

06:00 PM: Russian Calibur PSN Torunament #3 (Moscow)

http://ru.twitch.tv/belialrus

Partisan:

Pretty soon I'll be starting a new series within Target Practice focusing entirely on questions from you the community! In a Q&A style I'll be going over your inquiries and demonstrating solutions to the problems you present in video form. The focus here will be character/matchup knowledge and system usage (Quick Step, Just Guard, GI, etc...) but it definitely won't be limited to that. [Ask a question]

Essential Just-Guards

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Wow. This is impressive. [Youtube]

1. What is Cassandra's and Sophitia's brother called?

A. Lucian

B. Patrokolos

C. Rothian

D. Nike

2. In Soul Calibur 3 how many chronicles in 'Chronicles of the Sword' are there?

A. 30

B. 25

C. 15

D. 20

3. Which U.S.A major was not a qualifier for the SCV World Impact Championship?

A. MLG Winter Championships

B. Final Round XV

C. Winter Brawl 6

D. NorCal Regionals

4. Out of the following characters, which is an Ostrheinsburg soldier who serves under Nightmare.

A. Phantasm

B. Solnhofen

C. Helmwige

D. Skeleton

5. What is Xianghua's family name? (Before marriage)

A. Yan

B. Kian

C. Li

D. Chai

6. Finish of this quote.

Drops of blood fall from my blade like _________________

7. True or False. In Soul Calibur V, the Penitentiary of Destiny (Kilik's Stage) is the entrance to the Astral Chaos.