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Lupe Fiasco Beat Daigo In Street Fighter V

Remember how Lupe Fiasco wanted to fight Daigo in Street Fighter V? Well, he got his wish. And then some. Somehow, despite his opponent being one of the greatest fighters to have ever lived, Lupe…won? You can watch the whole thing as it happened below.

Yep, That’s Street Fighter On Kanye West’s New Album

If you’ve listened to The Life of Pablo, Kanye’s new album, you might have noticed a few familiar voices barking throughout a couple of songs. That’s because Kanye actually sampled Street Fighter II (as is tradition for rap artists, by this point). From the very first verse on FACTS, you can spot Street Fighter II’s…

Check Out R. Mika’s Backstory In Street Fighter V‘s Story Mode

The version of Street Fighter V that comes out tomorrow isn’t packing a full-fledged story mode. That’s coming later. But the plot-driven vignettes available on launch are still enough to get players to like or loathe some of the game’s cast. Some people think fighting games don’t need story modes. I’m not one of them.…

Miss Chun-Li Contest Has an Unlikely Winner

During a recent Street Fighter event in Japan, a handful of Chun-Li cosplayers were assembled for the Miss Chun-Li Contest. And the winner? The dude who was dressed like Zangief. Because if you are going to have a Miss Chun-Li Contest, you might as well give it to the muscle-bound entrant in tight, red underpants.…

Street Fighter V Noodle Restaurant Opening in Tokyo

Yes, it’s called “Hadouken.” Opening this Friday for two days only, this pop-up restaurant is a collaboration with ramen chain Kagetsu and will be serving up Street Fighter themed ramen. The cool thing? According to Capcom, the ramen is being offered for free. The Street Fighter ramen stall will go up in Shinjuku. Get yours…

Fan Remakes Street Fighter III‘s Q In 3D

Unlike the main characters, Street Fighter III: 3rd Strike’s mysterious Rorschach-esque fighter never got the 3D treatment. Poor Q always remained a 2D sprite and he’s never appeared in any of Capcom’s newer games ,either. So modder Pior Oberson thought it’d be a good idea to make a slick 3D version, with a similar art…

Lupe Fiasco Wants To Fight Daigo At EVO

Hold onto your potatoes. Earlier today, a fan asked Lupe about EVO: Next thing you know Mad Catz is on the scent: And just like that, Lupe was in, Note this hasn’t been confirmed; Twitch and Mad Catz (who sponsor Daigo) are merely working on it. Though really, who’s going to say no to this…

Street Fighter V, Turned Into Nightmare Fuel

Things get pretty freaky when you switch up the movesets and animations available to your favorite Street Fighter character. Street Fighter V Mods ( SFV ) has spent some time messing with the fighting game, and the results are as strange as they are hilarious. Take, for instance, Laura. Typically, she looks like this: …but…

Street Fighter V won’t have an in-depth story mode when it launches on February 16, but Capcom’s announced a “cinematic expansion” coming next June for free. It’ll apparently go “deep” into the series’ mythology, taking place between the events of Street Fighter IV and Street Fighter III Contact the author at [email protected]

Mod Turns Star Wars Shooter Into 2D Fighter

You won’t be able to see whether Darth Vader’s lightsaber can deflect a hadouken or witness the power of Chun Li belting the snot out of Han Solo, but it’s a cool twist on Jedi Knight that should at the very least help rectify the memory of that trashy Star Wars beat-em-up from the 1990’s…

VR Could Change the Way You Watch Fighting Games

Don’t think of how VR headsets could change the way esport games are played, but rather, imagine how they could change they’re viewed—in particular, fighting games. Capcom’s Yoshinori Ono explains how. In an interview in the latest Weekly Famitsu, Capcom’s Yoshinori Ono and Namco’s Katsuhiro Harada briefly touched on this topic. “For fighting game competitions,…

This is how you cosplay Zangief in December. Spotted by Twitter user Sol_Getnews (via Afternoon News) at this year’s winter Comic Market in Japan. Glorious.

A New Way To Play Street Fighter With The Steam Controller

Street Fighter is a game of precise input and output—a delicate tightrope walk of fistic physicality. Hacked together Steam controller motion controls? Maybe not the best idea. And yet… On a whim, ConstableBento took a crack at a motion-centric Ultra Street Fighter IV control scheme that—among other things—replaces the joystick with movement of the controller,…

Tekken 7 Arcade Update Adds A Street Fighter X-Over

While it doesn’t feel like Tekken X Street Fighter is coming any time soon, fighting fans will be getting a little Akuma-flavored taste of those two worlds colliding again in Tekken 7’s upcoming “Fated Retribution” arcade update. Announced at the end of the 2015 King of Iron Fist Tekken 7 Tournament (via Shoryuken), Tekken 7…

Why A Street Fighter “Butt Slap” Was Removed

Last month, observant fans noticed that some changes had been made to Street Fighter V character R. Mika. Namely, that her ass-smacking celebration—first shown off in August—had since been toned down to keep the slapping out of view. Here’s the before-and-after: While some cried CENSORSHIP, and everyone else got on with their lives, there remained…

E-sports marriage! Street Fighter pros Yuko “ChocoBlanka” Kusachi and Yusuke Momochihave announced they’re getting married. Congrats to them both.

A Real-Life Shoryuken Would Knock Your Head Clean Off

Using the power of math and science, Vsauce determined that an average-sized fist performing a Rising Dragon Fist would apply enough force to decapitate a normal human being. Then they built a dummy to test their work. Jake and some special guests came to this conclusion by taking Street Fighter’s most powerful rising uppercut, courtesy…

Though Daigo Was Defeated, He Pulled off the Coolest Capcom Cup Moment

Daigo Umehara did not win the 2015 Capcom Cup. That’s okay. He did won the hearts of fighting game fans once again with another spectacular comeback. Kazunoko, playing as Yun, dominated the tournament, taking the top spot and willing the $120,000 prize. His fellow countryman, Daigo, playing as Evil Ryu, came in second, winning $60,000.…

Watch The World’s Top 32 Street Fighter IV Players Battle For The 2015 Capcom Cup

The 2015 Capcom Cup Ultra Street Fighter IV tournament is taking place today at Sony’s PlayStation Experience event, with 32 of the best players in the world battling for their piece of a $250,000 prize pool. Watch it live right here! Daigo’s there. Justin Wong is there. I’m rooting for Luffy, but that’s just me.…

Pretty neat Street Fighter fan-art. Both Cammy and Chun-Li look like illustrations, but these are actually paper sculptures made by Belinda Rodriguez. Reminds me of the art style in Samurai Jack To contact the author of this post, write to: [email protected]