Street Fighter

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]

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…