Street Fighter

Ultra Street Fighter IV has a “Select” mode, which lets you choose from any character across any version of the SFIV games. Balance be damned!

Does Your Insurance Cover Street Fighter Characters?

I’ll tell you what. When I park my car, the thing I fear most isn’t theft, careless drives, or hazardous weather. It’s Ryu. Courtesy of Kotaku reader Kazegami_1, this commercial for Anadolu Sigorta, one of Turkey’s largest insurance companies, shows the iconic fighting game character making quick work of a sedan in a real-life bonus…

Street Fighter‘s Ryu Has No Idea What He’s Saying

Now that he’s finished harassing the X-Men, Pete Holmes takes his one-man battle against fictional characters to the streets. What does the Ryu say? Fans of Capcom’s storied fighting franchise will no doubt have used Google — as I just did — to figure out that Ryu is saying something along the lines of “Tatsumaki…

There’s nothing more romantic than curling up with someone you love and watching Poison kicking ass in Ultra Street Fighter IV. And here I didn’t get Capcom Japan anything. for Valentine’s Day. I feel like such a heel. I should probably be punished.

Classic Video Games as Romance Novels

The fine folks over at Shutterstock and illustrator Echo Chernik teamed up for Valentine’s Day, and imagined what romantic pulp fiction would look like with video game characters. Here’s The Legend of Zelda, Street Fighter, Super Mario, Pac Man and A**hole dog from Duck Hunt, appearing in a romantic novel for the first time. Head…

Cat Heads Make Gay Anime Love Scene Hilarious

Late last year, the people over at Manga Entertainment started putting out a series of animated shorts where they take a clip of an anime and replace the characters’ heads (and sometimes bodies) with those of cats. The latest of these “ANIMEOW” videos uses footage from homosexual love story anime Junjo Romantica—and really makes for…

A Petition To Change The US National Anthem To…Guile’s Theme

OK, take your usual cynicism for online petitions and give it a rest for a day. Here’s something we can all get behind, even if you’re like me and not even an American. A petitionhas begun on the White House site to change the American national anthem to Guile’s Theme. Unlike most internet petitions, which…

World Class Street Fighter Player Doesn’t Have a Game Console at Home

Daigo Umehara is a Street Fighter titan. He’s one of the best, if not the best, ever to play the game. And he doesn’t have a video game console in his house. Recently, a Japanese morning show spent the day with Daigo, visiting him in his house, and going into his room. This is Daigo’s…

If you like Street Fighter and have a spare chunk of time, check out this gigantor feature on the making of Street Fighter II over at Polygon. Guile’s Theme makes for good accompaniment for any article, but works particularly well for this one.

Taylor Swift Is A Terrible Street Fighter Character

If you were silly enough to be watching the Grammys the other night, you’d have seen Taylor Swift give a bizarre “head-banging” performance. It looked weird, but there may be a perfectly logical explanation behind it, one that went unseen on the original TV broadcast. Taylor Swift Attacked at Grammys [YouTube, via Gamefreaks]

Street Fighter II Reimagined as a Rock Opera, in Three Acts

Seven years ago, an indie band in Texas joked among themselves that the Street Fighter continuity would be fertile soil for an old-fashioned rock opera. Three albums later, they’ve finished the story they want to to tell. It’s the tale of Ken and Chun Li, primarily, though all of the other characters from the Street…

Japanese Woman Got a Driver’s License Dressed as Chun-Li

Well, you gotta wear something when you get your license photo, don’t you? Previously, Kotaku reported that in Japan, you can dress up as whatever when you take your driver’s license photo—just as long as you are not wearing a hat. Also, it’s reported that unnaturally bright wigs are not allowed, either. Other than that,…

Combo Time: if you play Street Fighter on PC, then you might wanna check out the Street Fighter IV combo trainer, which lets you create and test combos—and it comes with built-in functionality that will help you memorize the combos. You can read more about it here, and download it here. (Via RPS)

NHL Team Seeking Suggestions for Chiptunes to Play During Fights

Yesterday we pointed out that the Dallas Stars of the NHL now play Street Fighter themes whenever things get a little rough on the ice. Turns out there’s more of a video game connection here than meets the eye. First off, the guy in charge of this is Michael Gruber, the first-year music director/DJ for…

Street Fighter Themes Go Great With Hockey [Update: Punch-Out!! Too]

Montréal and Dallas hooked up on Jan. 2 and at 4:56 in the second period, the Habs’ winger Travis Moen decided he’d had enough of counterpart Antoine Roussel’s shit. Hockeyfights.com Metacritic’d this spectacle at 84, with Moen clearly winning the fight. Our ears perked up because … wait … is that Guile’s theme? Yes it…

How Street Fighter‘s Ryu Changed Over The Years

26 years of Street Fighter means a lot of change in graphics and art direction, and what a better way to show this than a huge gallery of the series’ main character, Ryu. Here’s EventHubs‘ visual trip from a simplier 1987 to a detailed present day: The Visual History of Ryu in Street Fighter, Vs.…

Ultra Street Fighter IV Makes a Dramatic Comeback with New Features

Ultra Street Fighter IV will get new characters and new stages when it releases next year, but it’ll also pack in a bunch of gameplay changes. This three minute trailer shows off what you can expect. Is it me, or does this Red Focus Attack thing look like a made-to-order Daigo full-parry comeback? Probably not…

Ultra Street Fighter IV is coming to consoles in June, PC three months later. A post on Capcom’s Unity blog (via Event Hubs) reveals the ultimate version of SFIV will appear as a $15 update for the Xbox 360 and PS3 first, to ensure players have time with the game prior to EVO 2014 in…

Artists at Rovio were asked to mix Angry Birds with other games, and this Street Fighter mashup is what Javier Burgos came up with. Awesome coloring! And he really had to make those birds look upset to avoid mockery. Dayshot is an image-based feature, that runs every morning, showcasing some of the prettiest, funniest game-related…

Street Fighter‘s Zangief Has No Respect For Sloppy Drunks

Zangief loves his vodka almost as much as he enjoys punishing those who can’t handle it. Witness him take his frustrations out on the internet’s most amusing drunks. It’s a bit of a stereotype, sure, but what else could be keeping the man warm while he’s doing battle in the freezing cold wearing nothing but…