Welcome back to Spot the Difference. Today, we are stepping out of the realm of trivia and into the arena of combat. If you’ve ever watched a high-octane action movie like The Bourne Identity or John Wick, you’ve seen the blistering, rapid-fire hand and weapon movements of Filipino Martial Arts (FMA) in action. But if you try to look up what system they are using, you’ll inevitably hit a wall of…

Let’s be real for a second: the fighting game community thrives on friction. We love the frame-data drama, the tournament pop-offs, and above all, the decades-long proxy war between Capcom and Bandai Namco. Last month, on June 9th, we broke down the initial wave of knee-jerk reactions to Yasmine, the first-ever Filipino character to grace the Street Fighter universe. We talked about why that…