Street Fighter

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.

Ultra Street Fighter IV Is Kinda Broken on PS4 [Update]

Bugs, glitches, lag. You name it, and people are reporting that Ultra Street Fighter IV’s PS4 port has it. Update: Capcom issued the following statement to Kotaku: We are aware that some users are experiencing problems with the PS4 version of USFIV, which is published and developed by SCEA’s Third Party Production group. SCEA and…

Street Fighter Mod Lets You Recreate Goku vs Frieza Showdown

You know, I never realized how similar Goku and Ryu actually are until now. Look at this guy. With a wig, he could pass as Goku on a particularly grumpy day: This screenshot comes courtesy of PC Best Mods, which shares footage of a Dragon Ball Z mod by Salimthat lets players use Goku and…

Ultra Street Fighter IV will support PlayStation 3 fight sticks, as Sony’s going to include the backwards compatibility drivers created by Skullgirls developer Lab Zero. The game launches next week, on May 26. You can reach the author of this post at [email protected] or on Twitter at @patrickklepek

Deus Ex Meets Street Fighter

It’s not the likeliest of crossovers, but it’s definitely one of the most interesting. Street Fighters with augments, hands that turn into guns, kitchens full of cereal… These (and the other images below) were done by Anthony Jones, an artist we featured here (and who has worked at Blizzard, Sony and Hasbro) back in 2012…

Where Pro Street Fighter Players Look

Sako is one of the best Street Fighter players in Japan—and the world. This video tracks his eye movement, offering a fascinating insight into how he plays. As pointed out by Event Hubs, Japanese website 4Gamer used the Sentry Eye Tracker to follow Sako’s vision during this Ultra Street Fighter IV match. Notice how Sako,…

Street Fighter II: The Animated Movie, In Gifs

One of the all-time great adaptations was this animated spectacular

The Beauty Of Street Fighter‘s Parry

Hadouken, Shoryuken, Sonic Boom… Street Fighter’s moves are as iconic as the characters that wield them, but one move in particular has had a greater impact on both the Street Fighter series and its competitive gaming history than any of those—the parry. Parrying was introduced in Street Fighter III, which was released way back in…

Capcom Uses Wrong Street Fighter In Tournament, Has To Replay Games

Over the weekend, the NorCal Regionals of Capcom’s Street Fighter 4 Pro Tour ran into a problem: the tournament was accidentally using the wrong version of the game. As The Daily Dotreports, it wasn’t until a bunch of rounds had already been decided that two players noticed the game they were using was the wrong…

Guile’s Theme With Lyrics Could Have Been A Great Cartoon Intro

Even if Guile from Street Fighter looks like a guy who’s been through a lot, and the lyrics are about his eyebrows, Animation Domination‘s latest clip really proves that Guile’s theme goes with everything. They added lyrics and animation—showing Guile and his unique pre-fight ritual—to the background music and made it look and sound just…

Sexy Fighting Game Characters, Redesigned

Anna Nilsson, from Swedish site Svampriket, has some ideas on what some of the “sexier” female fighting game characters should look like. Mostly, this involves putting some damn pants on. Nilsson’s redesigns take two things into account: she’s toned down the more, ahem, exaggerated aspects of their physical design, and made their outfits more practical.…

The First Time Street Fighter‘s Charlie Has Seen Action In A Long Time

Teased late last year during the Capcom Cup Finals, Charlie Nash is the third fighter to take the the ramen-strewn stage in Street Fighter V. He’s looking pretty good for a dead guy. I mean yeah, a large portion of his face is missing, but that’s the sort of thing that happens when you bite…

Street Fighter Comes To Life with Japanese Celebrities

It’s not everyday you can flip on your television in Japan and see major celebrities cosplaying as Street Fighter II characters and talking incessantly about the game. Last week on variety show Ame Talk, a handful of famous Japanese people who are into video games dressed up and recounted their Street Fighter experiences and memories…