Street Fighter

The Year In eSports

In 2014, eSports and competitive video games were everywhere. Some games and their finals invaded regular sports channels on TV, filled huge stadiums, and the streams pulled hundreds of thousands of viewers. At this point, it doesn’t look like the eSports craze will end anytime soon. From January to December, here are the best eSports-related…

Until We Get A New Bloody Roar, Ultra Street Fighter IV Animal Costumes

It’s been over 11 years since we last saw Hudson Soft’s bestial battler series in action, and chances of a Bloody Roar revival are incredibly slim. Thank goodness Capcom is here to provide us our anthropomorphic fighter fix with a whopping nine packs of “Wild Costumes” for Ultra Street Fighter IV. Sure, no one’s transforming…

Street Fighter’s Blanka Is a Monster at Trolling Other Video Games

First, he romped through the real world, making people’s lives miserable. Now, he’s showing up in Dishonored, Minecraft and a few other virtual locales to screw things up. Damn you, Blanka. This clever video by Street Troller switches up the formula established by older Blanka trolling clips and plops the green-skinned World Warrior into other…

Watch Street Fighter V Played Live For The First Time

Capcom capped off today’s Capcom Cup finals with a live demonstration of the recently-announced Street Fighter V. Who’ll wind up with a head full of noodles? Watch and see. It’s the same two characters on the same stage we saw during the game’sreveal last weekend, but now there’s real hands making Chun-Li and Ryu do…

Watch Top Street Fighter IV Players Battle For The Capcom Cup

Technically they’re battling for a portion of the $50,000 pot up for grabs in the grand finals of the Capcom Pro Tour circuit, but I’m sure the cup is lovely. Let’s see which of the 16 competitors takes it home. The show’s already started, with a demonstration of the wacky changes coming in the Omega…

Street Fighter V Is a PS4 and PC Exclusive, It Seems

Street Fighter V has been apparently announced as a PS4 and PC exclusive in what’s believed a teaser trailer for the game. NeoGAFuser Unlucky Kate reports that a YouTube clip, which has since been set to private, revealed the new title. However, it’s still unclear if the trailer appeared on Capcom’s site or was leaked.…

Ten Years Later, One of Gaming’s Greatest Moments Comes to Life Again

A seminal moment in the history of competitive gaming is the Evo 2004 match between Daigo Umehara and Justin Wong. Tonight, the two celebrated the fight the best way possible: Facing off in Street Fighter. Just in case you haven’t seen the original fight, you can watch it below. (Daigo is Ken, while Justin is…

Five Gaming Rumors That Were Too Good To Stay Fake

Lots of things in video games sound too good to be true. But what about when it’s the other way around—when something is too good to not be true? Erhm, you know what I mean. The trivia-themed YouTube channel “Did You Know Gaming?” recently took a look at five myths that became so pervasive among…

I Bet Brock Lesnar Could Beat Up Goku

I doubt the greatest fighters in modern martial arts will square off against Street Fighter or Dragon Ball Z characters any time soon, largely because of rights issues. Also some of the fighters in this equation are, you know, fictional. But oh what a fight card it would be. I recently stumbled across the artwork…

In Defense of Button Mashing

The first time I played Tekken 3, I was hilariously bad. I was used to 2D fighting games, where the buttons corresponded with attack strength, and tapping ‘Up’ meant ‘Jump.’ This new, 3D genre, where each button corresponded with an attacking limb and tapping ‘Up’ meant ‘Sidestep’ (pressing ‘Up’ still meant ‘Jump’), was difficult to…

Poor Man Endlessly Assaulted By Street Fighter Quotes

An innocent man’s work life is wracked with terror, thanks to his coworker’s fiendish use of startling Street Fighter quotes. I’m so glad I work from home. Not because I think any of my coworkers would do something like this to me — they don’t have the stones. No, it would be me on the…

Street Fighter, Improved With A Furious Goat

It’s probably Street Fighter’s biggest shortfall. The fact it focuses solely on bipedal, humanoid fighters. Imagine the possibilities if the roster could be expanded to include man’s surliest foe, the goat. It would also fill a gap in the market, since Goat Simulator leaves out the part where the humans try and fight back about…

This first-person view of Ken punching up a car in Street Fighter doesn’t exactly pan out the way you’d think.

Facebook Status Wars As Street Fighter, Only More Brutal

A never-ending battle to promote yourself, now with multiplayer. Director Dennis Liuputs my constant unease with the social network in terms I can relate to. I’ve been guilty in the past of basking in new baby likes. I may have even milked the fact that they were twins, but since then I’ve maintained relative radio…

Street Fighter II: The Official Curry

In Japan, “Dhalsim curry” recently went on sale. Dhalsim, of course, is the fire-breathing fighter from Street Fighter II. Curry, of course, is delicious. Website Gigazine tried out the curry, which it described as extremely hot, causing the site’s reviewer to break out in a sweat. As you can see, the box says the curry…

How To Get Better At Fighting Games — Using Your Brain

The plateau. Those are the two worst words for a fighting game player to hear. To plateau means virtual fighting death. It stands for stagnation, a halt in progress, or just plain stuck. The questions then pop up: “Can I be a top player?” “Is this really my potential?” To properly answer these doubts, one…

Zangief Is Looking Fighting Fit

Whenever or however the decision was made to genderbend Zangief but keep the chest hair, it was a good decision Cosplay by Kayla Rose. Photo by Micktography (via Fashionably Geek)

Where The World’s Best Fighting Game Characters Come From

Thanks to a tradition that goes back as far as Street Fighter II, fighting game stories are usually presented as world tournaments. It’s a convenient narrative device, as it allows the opportunity to display fighting styles from around the world to distinguish characters from one another. But which of these countries produces the best fighters?…

It’s Time For A Better Class Of Rap Games

Drake and Lil Wayne came to Queens this week as part of a tour the rappers are co-headlining. It was the third such act to pass through the Tri-State area recently, the first two being Beyonce and Jay Z’s “On The Run” and Eminem and Rhianna’s “Monster” tour. But this one was special. It was…

Meet The Guy Who’s Making A Sequel To Chess

Chess is getting a sequel. Yes, that Chess. The game with the little horses and kings and queens has been around for thousands of years. A few video games have transcended our hobby to become household names, but even they have nothing on Chess. They’re footnotes in a gaming history that spans generations, cultures, and…