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Japanese artist Kei Suwabe created profiles for characters that don't exist in Street Fighter IV, but Japanese pop culture. More »
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For years, fighting game fans in the New York City area gathered at Chinatown Fair, to hone their skills at the location's stand-up machines. That all ended earlier this year to the dismay of many. Chinatown Fair's legacy lives on across the river in Brooklyn's Next Level but you can relive the glory of days past in a new documentary. Directed by Calvin Theobald, King of Chinatown features competitive gamers Justin Wong and Daigo Umehara, too, and shows the pivotal role Chinatown Fair played in their relationship. It's been out for a while but you can get it on iTunes this week. If you miss Chinatown Fair or love fighting games, give the film a look. More »
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Square Enix's first two Street Fighter IV figures, based on series "heroes" Ryu and Chun-Li, have just hit shelves. Part of the company's Play Arts line, they're big, they're detailed and they're a little on the expensive side. More »
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At a New York University conference about game design this past weekend, a conversation about misogyny broke out. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5854819&view=rss&microfeed=true Shinsuke Shimada, one of Japan's most famous comedians, retired from the entertainment industry this week after yakuza connections were revealed. Shimada was also an advisor at Dimps, the game developer behind Street Fighter IV, stepping down earlier this week. [Sanspo] More »
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Filmmaker Jon Rafman made about arcade fighting games, childhood, junk food, and the tragedy of beating a video. There's a lot of big ideas here, and Codes of Honor is worth a watch. More »
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In today's award-winning edition of Speak Up on Kotaku, cold-hearted commenter Monsieur.Froid wonders if other gamers are beginning to catch on to this whole Game of the Year trend. More »
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Street Fighter IV was released in 2010. This year, in 2011, Super Street Fighter IV Arcade Edition was released. What about next year? More »
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The team at Animatronic Ackbar is putting together a documentary on video game culture. It's looking good! More »
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Competitive gaming and eSports are not a new phenomenon. More »
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Can't get enough Street Fighter? Love making a positive impact in the world? Then today's your lucky day. More »
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Here's a look at Finalroundbats, a Tokyo-based fighting game tournament. If you've ever wondered what the fighting game scene looks like in Japan, this is a window in. More »
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Besides being a model and a TV personality, Kayo Satoh is one of Japan's top Street Fighter players, more than holding her own against the likes of legendary player Daigo Umehara. More »
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Capcom will remove the "limited offline" restrictions DRM places on the PC versions of Super Street Fighter IV: Arcade Edition, saying its community convinced it that such measures meant legitimate users would have a worse experience than the pirates the DRM means to thwart. More »
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Kayo Satoh, aka "Kayo Police", is one of Japan's most talented Street Fighter players. She's also a popular fashion model. But she wasn't always a she. More »
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Five Street Fighter legends take on rad animal form in this fan art piece by Chie Yamamoto Boyd. FIGHT! More »
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Singapore's SingTel kicked off a subscription-based cloud gaming service called ESC, which allows players to play high-powered games over the net via desktops or notebook computers with Pentium 4 chips. More »
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Last week, in Miami, Yoshinori Ono, the cheerful, jokey lead producer of the Street Fighter series had just shown off his team's new game, Street Fighter X Tekken. He and I were just about done talking about it. More »
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Mike "Broly" Begum is a Street Fighter IV player from Texas. And he's pretty damn good. What makes Mike's success notable, though, is the fact he's so good despite having to play the game with his face. More »
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Taiwanese arcade distributor Wahlap Technologies will be releasing in the Chinese market something of a novelty: a Street Fighter IV arcade cabinet that lets you play the game in 3D. More »
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This is the story of one hipster-doofus, loose on the streets of Tokyo in an attempt to prove his worth as a Street Fighter IV player. And it's more enjoyable than I just made it sound. More »
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The nuttiness continues, with Street Fighter producer Yoshinori Ono "caught" red-handed trying to steal from rival studio, Namco. As see on Katsuhiro Harada's Twitpic. More »
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The last of "action company" Thousand Pounds' series of Street Fighter IV flicks is now live. For a bunch of guys jumping around doing imaginary kicks, it's brutal as hell. More »
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This spring, the story of pro gamer Mike Ross is getting the feature-length documentary treatment. The film is a portrait of how Ross spent 2010, traveling around the country and competing in Street Fighter. More »
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We've already seen how dramatic, Street Fighter IV-style ultra combos look in real life. But Thousand Pounds' previous combo video was kind of a sausage fest. This time, the fairer sex shows off some ultra combo ass kicking. More »
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Reader Jorge R. says he gave his girlfriend his PC gamepad and a copy of Street Fighter IV. After a week, here's her new manicure. More »
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When Street Fighter IV's ultra combos are recreated in the real world, is the result silly looking or totally bad-ass? As "action company" Thousand Pounds, demonstrates, it's somewhere in the middle. More »
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The Kinect genie refuses to return to the bottle. Here an enterprising modder rigs up his PC to play Street Fighter IV with Kinect, including shoryukens and hadoukens (and Ken). The video features actual gameplay versus the CPU. More »
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Super Street Fighter IV is officially available in arcades in Japan and...that's it. If you'd like to import your own, then, you'll need to know where to look. Oh, and bring money. More »
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I don't know what it is about fighting game fans that makes them so passionate about their genre of choice they go and make documentaries about it, but I like it. More »
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As someone who is more often on the receiving end of Street FIghter combos, I can only look at this man string together 149 hits in a row and applaud. More »
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Daigo Umehara is a world class champ. You? You might be a world class chump. More »
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Executing a 125-input combo in Street Fighter IV seems like a challenge that should pay more than $50. Nonetheless, it's out there, and if you can do it, a legal tender picture of Ulysses S. Grant is yours. More »
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When someone says "it's a game of cat and mouse", this isn't what they're talking about. Though it probably should be. More »
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Not only does this trailer feature gameplay of Super Street Fighter IV for the Nintendo 3DS, it also details how Tag Mode for the game will work. More »
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When Street Fighter IV was first released, you couldn't throw a fireball without tripping over somebody playing as Ken. Over a year on from its release, though, and it's time to find out who's really the most popular fighter. More »
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Don't like the Super Street Fighter IV outfit? Street Fighter producer Yoshinori Ono has been twittering up a storm with character costume art. Have a look and hit us up with your favorites in the comments section. More »
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Capcom reckons that the 3DS version of Street Fighter IV will be a "perfect port". In terms of gameplay, of course, not graphics. More »
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