ARoleModel.com, a site about psychology and self-improvement, is running a series about the positive effect playing videogames can have on our real lives. Today they examined the psychological benefits of the fighting game by analyzing the gameplay of Daigo Umehara himself. They also take a look at the skills fighting games teach us such as pattern recognition, decision making, patience and… relaxation? You can find an excerpt from the article below. Be sure to check out the whole thing over at ARoleModel.com. ...

The Street Fighter III Online Edition development team has been hard at work going through your feedback, and are now prepping to launch patch 1.02 next week on October 25 for PSN and October 26 on XBLA.





1) Improved YouTube video quality (for PS3 ONLY)
2) Added the ability to unassign “3-punches” and “3-kicks” on the Controls screen.
3) Re-enabled the option to play with a human partner in Training mode.
4) Changed the "recording" feature in training mode. This feature now allows you to practice against a dummy, which repeats your recorded inputs.
5) Fixed a bug that would cause an a negative level value to be displayed on the main menu after hitting the level cap.
6) Fixed a bug that would cause a crash when repeatedly pressing "Confirm" after viewing a Match from a downloaded Match Pack.
7) Added support for Music Pack DLC.
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