Street Fighter

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.

Ash From Pokémon Isn’t Teaching Subway Manners In Taiwan 

Of course Ash is not. But this Taipei Metro announcement certainly looks like he is. The announcement gives tips on good manners while riding the subway as well as safety. Say, is that Sakura from Street Fighter? And Kyo Kusanagi from The King of Fighters? The announcement debuted a few years back, but it’s still…

Street Fighter Mod Lets You Play As Tracer From Overwatch 

PC gaming continues to bring us ridiculous crossovers, this time mixing a little Street Fighter V with Overwatch. As showcased by PC Best Mods, you’ll note that this version of Tracer drops her guns in favor of hand-to-hand combat. Really, the Tracer model is just skin over Cammy, so she can’t do any of her…

Cammy Can Pull Packages Out Of Her Butt

Uh. Well. Okay, then. Note: This article might contain spoilers as well as content some readers find objectionable. Previously, Kotaku reported what you could expect with the game’s upcoming story mode. Now, ten minutes of footage seems to have popped up online. The footage shown below looks totally bonkers. The first minute is, well, especially…

What To Expect From Street Fighter V‘s Upcoming Story Mode

Though multiplayer is the main draw for games like Street Fighter V, people have come to expect those games to have story modes for solo players. At the end of the month, Street Fighter V gets one for free. Capcom has been teasing Street Fighter V’s story mode for a while now, but as development…

Capcom USA and Capcom Japan Have Communication Problems

Street Fighter is owned by Capcom USA. It’s developed in Japan. Keep that in mind as we talk about what’s going on with Ibuki’s delayed release. Earlier this year, Capcom USA’s community blog published a road map for this year’s releases, which set expectations for Ibuki to be released in late May. That didn’t happen.…