Street Fighter

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]

It’s Street Fighter Plus Horse Racing

Oh, plus sumo wrestling. But since E. Honda is already a Street Fighter character, that’s not as unusual as hadokening from a moving horse. To promote the upcoming Japan Cup, the Japan Racing Association has teamed up with Capcom for a horse racing game with SF characters and real sumo wrestlers. It’s a rhythm game…

The Perfect Street Fighter Soundtrack

So, that definitive Street Fighter soundtrack we wrote about a few weeks ago is now out. I’ve been listening to it all weekend, and it’s fantastic. Available digitally, as a CD box set or an LP box set, there are 46 tracks in all. What makes this “definitive” is that the tracks are all lifted…

Goofy Dad Recreates Street Fighter’s Victory Poses

It’s not the sweet-as-pie recreations themselves that get me. It’s the thought of how much practice must have gone into a video like this. The hours, days, weeks spent leaping and thrusting and combing his hair just to get it this right. If it all seems a bit familiar, that’s because Nick Luciano managed to…

Ronda Rousey Is No Match for Holly Holm in Modded Street Fighter, Either

The Street Fighter version of the Ronda Rousey/Holly Holm fight isn’t quite as bloody as the real thing. Still really quick, though. YouTuber Richie Branson—who previously modified Street Fighter characters to stand in for the former UFC women’s champ and Floyd Mayweatherin another video—has a quick clip that uses a modded Chun Li as a…

Examining The Career Of A Pro Street Fighter Legend

Darryl Lewis didn’t know what to expect when he first entered into the Super Street Fighter 2 competition at EVO in 2010. It was (and still is) the world’s largest fighting game tournament, and Lewis, who was 21, had only ever played in one other tournament. When Lewis—now best known in the fighting game community…

Street Fighter Character’s Motivational Speeches Are Hype As Hell 

R. Mika really knows how to get people pumped, let me tell you. Earlier this year, we wrote about R. Mika’s special V-Skill ability, which allows her to become so powerful, she can almost one-hit-kill her enemies—provided, of course, that she can finish the entirety of her speech beforehand. It looked really rad! That’s not…

Giant Street Fighter Graffiti Covers Tokyo Building

Graffiti artist CASE (from German crew Maclaim) is famous for covering buildings in enormous, life-like images. This E. Honda he did last week in Japan is no exception. Done near the Tennōzu Isle Station in Shinagawa, Tokyo it’s around twelve stories high, and because of its size/prominence there’s a ton of cool progress shots of…

Street Fighter EX Character Gets A Badass Tribute Video

It’s an awesome combo video with a twist: Street Fighter veteran Desk used Street Fighter IV’s Mexican luchador El Fuerte and one of the game’s new horror costumes to recreate the goofy fan favorite from the EX series. He even remixed Skullomania’s theme to make it perfect. To contact the author of this post, write…

Capcom’s just announced that Street Fighter V, coming only to PS4 and PC, will arrive on February 16. They also announced six new characters will be released for the game in its first year, all unlockable via in-game currency.

Street Fighter Cosplay Moves Fast

From announcement to cosplay in around a week. Looks like the newest Street Fighter character is going down OK with fans. Cosplayer is AnaLuSauceda, photos by Verde Limon.

Street Fighter Replaces Giant Jesus Statue With… Soccer Trophy?

Cristo Redentor, the giant statue of Jesus that towers above the city of Rio de Janeiro, is one of the world’s great landmarks. It won’t be appearing in Street Fighter V, though, after Capcom decided to swap it out and replace it with…a monstrous replica of what sure looks like the FIFA World Cup trophy.…

Looks Like This Is a Brand New Street Fighter V Character

This is Laura. Apparently! We had never seen her until Japanese game site Famitsu, it seems, accidentally leaked the character today. On Famitsu.com, it looks like the Laura screens were mixed in with the announcement images of Zangief, whose return was officially announced today. The Laura screens (for example, here, here, and here, apparently) have…

Ronda Rousey, Kicking Floyd Mayweather’s Butt In Modded Street Fighter

Ronda Rousey and Floyd Mayweather may never wind up trading blows in real life. But, now we know who’d win if they were Street Fighter characters. YouTuber Richie Branson modded the PC version of Street Fighter IV so that he could make Balrog and Cammy resemble the UFC superstar and the dude she’s talked mad…