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Yukiko has become so prevalent as a stand-in training dummy that a few jokes have popped up both lamenting her current fate and showing appreciation for the research she’s enabled.

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Fighting game competitors will take anything they can get when it comes to playing a game early. Before the BlazBlue: Cross Tag Battle beta was widely available, players reported their findings from trade shows and, more recently, compiled spreadsheets of GameStops that made the game available through their demo kiosks. This is less about getting a leg up on the competition, however, and more for the thrill of discovery that continues to act as the main motivating force for most of the fighting game community. Please thank Yukiko for her service in these trying times.

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Ian Walker loves fighting games and writing about them. You can find him on Twitter at @iantothemax.