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Esports
Street Fighter‘s Best Character Continues To Look Beautiful
Blanka will come to Street Fighter V on February 20 with all his classic obnoxious moves, plus a flummoxing Gumby-like costume. Even without an embarrassing outfit, Blanka has his share of detractors because he’s a reactive character with “troll” moves that work best as punishments for an opponent’s mistakes. Blanka’s haters will doubtless feel all…
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EsportsA Haywire Street Fighter V Character Could Run Amok At Evo Japan
Street Fighter V: Arcade Edition players recently discovered a serious bug that makes one of the game’s most powerful characters almost unstoppable, which could have serious consequences with the inaugural Evo Japan on the horizon. The bug’s simplicity belies its severity. By combining his V-Skill armor, which gives him the ability to shrug off one…
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EsportsFighting Game Legend Plays Street Fighter And Vampire Savior At His Wedding
The people who actually get married at a wedding have so much to do—write the vows, master the cadence of the walk to the altar, personally greet everyone in attendance—that it leaves a miniscule amount of time to really take in the whole affair. One iconic fighting game competitor, however, felt it was important to…
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Esports
Tier Lists Are Full Of Shit
Almost no one played as Blanka in Street Fighter IV. This is because the low-tier green Brazilian is weird, doesn’t play like any other character in the game, and is widely considered not to be very powerful. Nonetheless, Street Fighter V is adding Blanka into the game this January after two years without him. I…
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Esports
10-Year-Old Street Fighter Prodigy Pops Off On Daigo’s Show
The future of Street Fighter depends on its newcomers, many of whom come up as children that simply play fighting games for fun. One such kid, a 10-year-old named Asuna, made an appearance on Daigo Umehara’s live stream last week to test her burgeoning Street Fighter V skills. During her visit to the BeasTV set,…
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Esports
Snake Eyez Stands By Street Fighter‘s Massive Bear Hug Man
Darryl “Snake Eyez” Lewis is one of the best Street Fighter players in the country. But he barely cracked the top-64 at last month’s North American Regional Finals Last Chance Qualifier, and he’s only ranked 20th on the Pro Tour headed into this weekend’s Capcom Cup. Why is the 2017 CEO champion going to have…
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Esports
Street Fighter V Champion NuckleDu Pulls Out Of Capcom Cup A Week Before Annual Event
As the Capcom Cup 2016 champion, Du “NuckleDu” Dang was automatically granted a spot at the 2017 event to defend his Street Fighter V title. But a recent announcement has thrown a wrench in that storyline, shaking up the established competitor lineup for the most important Street Fighter event of the year. Dang took to…
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Street Fighter Transformers? Why The Hell Not
Shoryuken! Hadouken! Spinning Bird Kick! Psycho Crusher! Now transform into a car! Due out in Japan in May, Transformers X Street Fighter II figures turn four existing transforming robots into mechanical world warriors. Titan Returns Hot Rod becomes Ken, complete with a tiny version of himself to serve as his robot head, which seems like…
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EsportsFight Me, Paul Tagliabue, In Real Life Or Street Fighter
Former NFL commissioner Paul Tagliabue doesn’t like the esports trend. He doesn’t bunk with his peers in traditional sports who have leapt to invest in esports teams and leagues. And he doesn’t think esports are “sports.” I think Tagliabue and I would agree on one thing, which is that the term “esports” sucks. It sounds…
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EsportsStreet Fighter Pro’s Wife Does Enough Shit-Talking For The Both Of Them
On Saturday, Marcus “The Cool Kid93″ Redmond fought his way back through the losers bracket in Red Bull Battle Grounds’ Street Fighter V last chance qualifier for Capcom Cup, eventually securing himself the first-place trophy and a spot in the North American Regional Finals the next day. Redmond held his trophy aloft for the cheering…
By Maddy Myers
