Teased late last year during the Capcom Cup Finals, Charlie Nash is the third fighter to take the the ramen-strewn stage in Street Fighter V. He's looking pretty good for a dead guy.
It's not everyday you can flip on your television in Japan and see major celebrities cosplaying as Street Fighter II characters and talking incessantly about the game.
There are so, so few opportunities to throw a hadouken unironically. "During an MMA fight" is one of the preciously rare moments to channel your inner Ryu and feel like a total badass—as long as you're actually in the fight. Shane Campbell saw such a window during a recent bout with Derek Boyle.
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While it feels like Street Fighter II has been released on every platform ever, that's not true, as Capcom never blessed Nintendo's doomed Virtual Boy with the classic fighter. That's where fans come the rescue, as Hyper Fighting has introduced Street Fighter II to wildly outdated 3D.
Over the weekend, pro gamers Daigo Umehara and GamerBee put Street Fighter 5 through its paces. According to some, its leisurely paces. Cue the unhappy folks.
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Top-tier Street Fighter rivals Daigo and GamerBee face-off in a Street Fighter V exhibition match during the Taipei Game Show, and I couldn't be more bored. New background, please.
Tough? Wasteful? Dull? A handful of martial arts types try their luck at a real-life version of Street Fighter's bonus stage.
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Who knew that Mass Effect would work so well as a fighting game?
"If you own a PlayStation, you may have killed him at some point." Grantland's got a great profile of Reuben Langdon, a motion-capture stuntman who's lent his physical and vocal talents to games like Resident Evil: Code Veronica, Devil May Cry 3 and Street Fighter.
Artist Gabriel Picolo has been doing a sketch for every day of the year. He now has one of the best sketchbooks on the planet.
In 2014, eSports and competitive video games were everywhere. Some games and their finals invaded regular sports channels on TV, filled huge stadiums, and the streams pulled hundreds of thousands of viewers. At this point, it doesn't look like the eSports craze will end anytime soon.
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It's been over 11 years since we last saw Hudson Soft's bestial battler series in action, and chances of a Bloody Roar revival are incredibly slim. Thank goodness Capcom is here to provide us our anthropomorphic fighter fix with a whopping nine packs of "Wild Costumes" for Ultra Street Fighter IV.
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First, he romped through the real world, making people's lives miserable. Now, he's showing up in Dishonored, Minecraft and a few other virtual locales to screw things up. Damn you, Blanka.
Capcom capped off today's Capcom Cup finals with a live demonstration of the recently-announced Street Fighter V. Who'll wind up with a head full of noodles? Watch and see.
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Technically they're battling for a portion of the $50,000 pot up for grabs in the grand finals of the Capcom Pro Tour circuit, but I'm sure the cup is lovely. Let's see which of the 16 competitors takes it home.
Street Fighter V has been apparently announced as a PS4 and PC exclusive in what's believed a teaser trailer for the game.
A seminal moment in the history of competitive gaming is the Evo 2004 match between Daigo Umehara and Justin Wong. Tonight, the two celebrated the fight the best way possible: Facing off in Street Fighter.
Lots of things in video games sound too good to be true. But what about when it's the other way around—when something is too good to not be true? Erhm, you know what I mean.
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I doubt the greatest fighters in modern martial arts will square off against Street Fighter or Dragon Ball Z characters any time soon, largely because of rights issues. Also some of the fighters in this equation are, you know, fictional. But oh what a fight card it would be.
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