Street Fighter

The Street Fighter V Beta Is Back Online If You’re Incredibly Lucky

Back online briefly last night after launch problems brought it down, Capcom’s beta test for Street Fighter V is up and running for those lucky enough to get online past an assortment of numbered errors. Capcom continues to struggle to handle the massive numbers of pre-order customers (and those with codes) who were guaranteed a…

Brand New Street Fighter Character Shown Off At EVO

Have you ever wondered what would happen if a Capcom artist’s two favourite things were Khal Drogo and Asura’s Wrath? This is what would happen. EVO 2015 isn’t just for fighting, it’s also for promo work, and Capcom took the opportunity tonight to show off a brand new Street Fighter character who’ll be appearing in…

Jamie Lee Curtis And Family Went To EVO In Street Fighter Disguises

Attending the annual fighting tournament as part of a graduation trip for son Thomas, actress Jamie Lee Curtis donned the claws and mask of Street Fighter’s Vega to remain incognito in the crowd. While the flesh-colored top isn’t quite good enough to allow 56 year old Curtis to pass as a slim and sexy Spanish…

Street Fighter V Will Be A Constantly-Evolving Fighting Platform

The days of Super/Ultra/Hyper editions may be over. During the Street Fighter V panel at EVO 2015, Capcom detailed its plan to release a single disc with 16 fighters supported by regular digital updates—many of which can be earned simply by playing the game. According to the fine folks at Event Hubs who were present…

Street Fighter II’s Soundtrack Is Getting A Very Fancy Re-Release

Via Tiny Cartridge, Brave Wave Productions have started work on a collection of game soundtracks called the Generation Series. The idea is to take the original soundtracks to classic games, work with experts and the musicians who composed them, remaster them and sell them in sweet new packaging. The first soundtrack to be released in…

Street Fighter’s Ken Has Been Redesigned

Capcom normally keeps things pretty traditional when it comes to Street Fighter’s classic roster. Characters like Ryu and Chun-Li have barely changed since their debuts in the 80s and 90s respectively. But Ken, well, Ken is now different Finally taking the chance to make him more than just a palette-swapped Ryu, Ken now has a…

We’re late on this, but you should still definitely watch the intense Street Fighter finals from last weekend’s CEO 2015 tournament. Kazunoko vs 801 Strider is a highlight, but you can check out more of the great finals over at Shoryuken. Contact the author at [email protected]

Paul Krugman Will Punch Your Fucking Teeth In

I wish all articles on economics had Street Fighter style GIFs. Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman gets turned into retro-style arcade animations in a sharp-looking Bloomberg piece. Walter Newton did the illustrations—the amazing, amazing illustrations. I have to agree with Boing Boing’s Rob Beschizza, because I just ended up staring at them slack-jawed. [GIF: Bloomberg]…

Street Fighter’s Ridiculous New Breasts Are A Glitch, Capcom Says

If you’ve seen recent Street Fighter V footage from E3 you’ve probably noticed something a little different about Chun Li. People are remarking that because Chun Li’s breasts act as if they were made out of jello, Street Fighter has gone “full Dead or Alive” in the upcoming sequel. This is not actually the case,…

Street Fighter V has a PS4 beta coming July 23rd, along with two new characters: Cammy and Birdie, according to Sony’s E3 presser tonight.

How Street Fighter‘s Ryu Works In Smash Bros.

Ryu’s a Smash combatant now, but players familiar with the source material will have a distinct advantage over their Super Smash Bros. foes. Oh, and he’s the only fighter in the series with two Final Smashes. So…he’s new. For starters, Ryu’s attacks vary based on the legnth of time a button is hit. Tap for…

Want to see Ryu and Roy in action in Smash Bros. Wii U? Twitch usercrediar is currently showing off the pair via hacks on his stream, with more footage in hispast broadcasts archive. Update: stream ended and past broadcasts taken down.

Supposed Smash Bros. Leak Shows Street Fighter’s Ryu In Action

If the footage floating around right now is legit, it looks like both a Fire Emblem favorite and one of the most iconic fighting game characters in the world might be joining the Smash Bros. roster soon. Back in April, there were reports that claimed Reddit user shinyquagsire23 datamined Smash Bros. sound files that seemed…

Fighting Game Legend Will Give You $300 If You Can Knock Him Out of EVO

The biggest fighting game of the year is around the corner, and things are already heating up as top players put “bounties” on other people’s heads. Or in this case, their own head. Shoryuken reports that Justin Wong is offering a number of cash rewards to anyone that can eliminate certain players out of EVO.…

How Street Fighter V Is Evolving

Yoshinori Ono claims that he campaigned for years for his employer, Capcom, to bring back Street Fighter. Following the release of the Street Fighter III: Third Strike in 1999, many at the company believed that it had perfected the one-on-one fighting game. There was nowhere left to go. Others, including Ono’s boss Keija Inafune, simply…

If Classic Games Had an Impossible Difficulty Mode

Instead of making some classic games harder using the usual methods—more difficult and faster enemies, timed levels, broken controls—the folks at Dorkly created a special, rather unfair mode for games that weren’t necessarily famous for being impossible. Here’s Pac-Man, Sonic, Harvest Moon, RollerCoaster Tycoon (no fun allowed edition), Street Fighter, Solitaire (hey that game can…

Ultra Street Fighter IV was pretty broken when it launched, but Sony’s trying to patch it back to health. An update is rolling out in North America today, and the full patch are below: Reduce interface lag within menus Addressed disappearing projectiles Fixed Decapre’s teleport animation Fixed Rolento’s audio glitch (during victory screen) Fixed missing…

Busted PS4 Version Of Ultra Street Fighter IV Dumped From Evo 2015

Ultra Street Fighter IV is kinda janky on PlayStation 4. Which was making competitors nervous ahead of this year’s big EVO fighting game tournament, so instead of taking their chances with Sony’s promised fixes, organisers are taking a safer route with the game’s appearance, deciding instead to switch the platform it’s appearing on. As SRK…

Regarding those Ultra Street Fighter IV problems, Capcom tells Kotaku that it is “working to resolve them as quickly as possible.” Read the full statement here.