Interviewing Chun-Li is Awkward
Criticising Chun-Li's outfit is probably not the way one should start an interview with her. But here's Pete Holmes, making every possible mistake in the next installment of his Street Fighter series.
Vega From Street Fighter is Useless Without His Claw
Pete Holmes is back with his latest series, portraying characters from Street Fighter as complete idiots, and this time it's Vega's turn.
Ultra Street Fighter IV has a "Select" mode, which lets you choose from any character across any version of the SFIV games. Balance be damned!
Does Your Insurance Cover Street Fighter Characters?
I'll tell you what. When I park my car, the thing I fear most isn't theft, careless drives, or hazardous weather. It's Ryu.
Street Fighter's Ryu Has No Idea What He's Saying
Now that he's finished harassing the X-Men, Pete Holmes takes his one-man battle against fictional characters to the streets. What does the Ryu say?
There's nothing more romantic than curling up with someone you love and watching Poison kicking ass in Ultra Street Fighter IV. And here I didn't get Capcom Japan anything. for Valentine's Day. I feel like such a heel. I should probably be punished.
Classic Video Games as Romance Novels
The fine folks over at Shutterstock and illustrator Echo Chernik teamed up for Valentine's Day, and imagined what romantic pulp fiction would look like with video game characters.
Cat Heads Make Gay Anime Love Scene Hilarious
Late last year, the people over at Manga Entertainment started putting out a series of animated shorts where they take a clip of an anime and replace the characters' heads (and sometimes bodies) with those of cats.
A Petition To Change The US National Anthem To...Guile's Theme
OK, take your usual cynicism for online petitions and give it a rest for a day. Here's something we can all get behind, even if you're like me and not even an American.
World Class Street Fighter Player Doesn't Have a Game Console at Home
Daigo Umehara is a Street Fighter titan. He's one of the best, if not the best, ever to play the game. And he doesn't have a video game console in his house.
If you like Street Fighter and have a spare chunk of time, check out this gigantor feature on the making of Street Fighter II over at Polygon. Guile's Theme makes for good accompaniment for any article, but works particularly well for this one.
Taylor Swift Is A Terrible Street Fighter Character
If you were silly enough to be watching the Grammys the other night, you'd have seen Taylor Swift give a bizarre "head-banging" performance. It looked weird, but there may be a perfectly logical explanation behind it, one that went unseen on the original TV broadcast.
Street Fighter II Reimagined as a Rock Opera, in Three Acts
Seven years ago, an indie band in Texas joked among themselves that the Street Fighter continuity would be fertile soil for an old-fashioned rock opera. Three albums later, they've finished the story they want to to tell.
Japanese Woman Got a Driver's License Dressed as Chun-Li
Well, you gotta wear something when you get your license photo, don't you?
Combo Time: if you play Street Fighter on PC, then you might wanna check out the Street Fighter IV combo trainer, which lets you create and test combos—and it comes with built-in functionality that will help you memorize the combos. You can read more about it here, and download it here. (Via RPS)
NHL Team Seeking Suggestions for Chiptunes to Play During Fights
Yesterday we pointed out that the Dallas Stars of the NHL now play Street Fighter themes whenever things get a little rough on the ice. Turns out there's more of a video game connection here than meets the eye.
Street Fighter Themes Go Great With Hockey [Update: Punch-Out!! Too]
Montréal and Dallas hooked up on Jan. 2 and at 4:56 in the second period, the Habs' winger Travis Moen decided he'd had enough of counterpart Antoine Roussel's shit. Hockeyfights.com Metacritic'd this spectacle at 84, with Moen clearly winning the fight. Our ears perked up because ... wait ... is that Guile's theme?
How Street Fighter's Ryu Changed Over The Years
26 years of Street Fighter means a lot of change in graphics and art direction, and what a better way to show this than a huge gallery of the series' main character, Ryu.
Ultra Street Fighter IV Makes a Dramatic Comeback with New Features
Ultra Street Fighter IV will get new characters and new stages when it releases next year, but it'll also pack in a bunch of gameplay changes. This three minute trailer shows off what you can expect. Is it me, or does this Red Focus Attack thing look like a made-to-order Daigo full-parry comeback?
Ultra Street Fighter IV is coming to consoles in June, PC three months later. A post on Capcom's Unity blog (via Event Hubs) reveals the ultimate version of SFIV will appear as a $15 update for the Xbox 360 and PS3 first, to ensure players have time with the game prior to EVO 2014 in July. The PC version will arrive…