Street Fighter

Street Fighter V‘s Rollercoaster Year

It’s funny to think of a fighting game having responsibilities, but that’s exactly where Street Fighter V found itself on the verge of its mid-February release date earlier this year. As the follow-up to what was arguably the genre’s most important release in decades, there was a lot riding on Street Fighter V’s success. Would…

MMA Champion Uses Video Games And Cosplay To Deal With The Stress Of Fighting

Angela “Overkill” Hill is the strawweight champion of the world’s most prominent women’s MMA organization, Invicta. She’s on the verge of a second crack at UFC glory. Last time around, though, she found herself too bogged down by the pressures of fight life to compete as well as she could. These days, she’s using cosplay…

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Hope you like Street Fighter V! Capcom producer Yoshinori Ono told Famitsu (via Event Hubs) that they’ve planned the game’s roadmap “ up to around 2020.” Capcom wants to make sure the game is a solid esports title.

Street Fighter Juri Statue Looks Very Uncomfortable

As a big fan of Street Fighter’s South Korean monster, I was initially quite pleased with the latest statue from Pop Culture Shock Collectibles. Then I took a moment to really look at the straps on the side of her battle bib. Ouchie. For the most part it’s a very nice statue, as it should…

Fighting Game Locations in Real-Life

Many fighting games take place all over the world. So, to bring those locations to life, game developers often stick pretty close to reality. If you’ve ever played a fighting game, this is no surprise whatsoever. As pointed out a ways back by fighting game historian Crayfis on the Shoryuken forums (via website SebastianMihai.com) here…

Street Fighter V Update Makes Losing Matches More Embarrassing

Losing in Street Fighter V is now very, very embarrassing. Last night’s Street Fighter V update added Street Fighter III’s suit-clad human-muscle Urien and a Versus CPU mode, but the game’s new environmental stage KOs are the real… kicker. SFV patch 1.06’s new stage KOs are just vicious. Your limp, defeated corpse no longer just…

Someone Put Harambe In Street Fighter, Because Why Not

Harambe vs Capcom is a real video game that you can play. Not only does HvC bizarrely place everyone’s favorite gorilla (RIP) in a fighting game, it also gives the crossover a story to go along with it. In this rendition of reality, a shadow agency wants to kill Harambe because he has psychic powers.…

The Reason Behind Street Fighter‘s Iconic Button Layout

This week twenty-nine years ago, the first Street Fighter was released in arcades. There was Ken, Ryu, and some very different buttons. As pointed out on Event Hubs, the first cabinets had giant pressure-sensitive pads that you were supposed to POUND WITH YOUR FIST. Which is nuts. Problems arose from players punching the buttons, such…

Sesame Street Fighter Kicks Your As, Bs & Cs

Sesame Street Fighter is a basic little fighting game for browsers that, instead of asking for combos and special moves, is asking you to type stuff really really fast. Characters have different knowledge bases (Cookie Monster is animals, Grover is weather, Oscar is Russian cities, etc), and depending on who you select you’ll face a…

Custom Model Kits Bring Classic Games To Life

16 bit Models was an exhibition held in Akihabara over the weekend. It brought model makers together to pay homage to some of the great games from the 16-bit era (and beyond), and included everything from Street Fighter II to Crazy Taxi to Outrun A ton of great photos were taken of the event’s highlights…

FGC Raw is a new documentary series focusing on “the top players in the fighting game community”. First up is Long Island Joe, who made one hell of a run at this year’s EVO.

The Story Behind Street Fighter‘s Greatest Moment

We probably all know the general story of Moment 37 and the famous Daigo Parry that displayed a serious talent for Street Fighter blocking. But for our second episode of Kotaku Compete, you can get a behind-the-scenes look at the feelings and the people behind the moment, and how it’s affected them since. This piece…

Street Fighter Mods Are Getting A Little Too Nude

Today on Highlight Reel we have good bones and calcium, Mei bullfights, gravity deflects, smooth operators, and more! Watch the video then talk about your favorite highlight in the comments below. Be sure to check out, like, and share the original videos via the links below. Subscribe to Kotaku on YouTube for more! AC: Revelations…

Chun-Li, by JSG Cosplay. Photos by Photosnxs

Street Fighter V’s new story DLC is really ridiculous and silly. You can watch me fumble and laugh through the first 30 minutes or so below. (Worth noting: it’s free!)

Here’s a trailer for the “cinematic” story mode that’s being added to Street Fighter V tomorrow via a free update. More details on the update, including pricing if you want to play the game’s new characters right away ($6) is over at Capcom’s blog

Beautiful Portraits Of…Fighting Game Pros

Kotaku reader Bartosz Hołoszkiewicz—aka Renton Holmes—is also a professional photographer, and he recently took a series of terrific shots of some Street Fighter V players at a tournament. These images, of some of the players taking part in the Capcom Pro Tour Premier at DreamHack Summer 2016, are, well, beautiful. Unless you’re a proper fan,…

Street Fighter V’s June Story Update Arrives July 1 With Extra Balrog

Street Fighter V’s long-awaitedstory mode arrives this Friday on PlayStation 4 and PC. In case you need more incentive stay offline to play an extended single-player mode, Capcom’s releasing Balrog as well. As detailed in Patrick’s lovely what to expect when you’re expecting Street Fighter V story DLC article from earlier this month, all of…

Sounds like Daigo Umehara thinks Street Fighter V needs an arcade release in Japan. Event Hubs reported he wondered if the game will still be played next year. Umehara added that the lack of an arcade release was a problem for Japanese gamers.