Street Fighter

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…

For a Limited Time, This Cafe Will Kick Hentai Customers

Some cafes serve good coffee. Others have delicious sweets. For the next three days, this cafe will dish out pervert attacks. Located in Akihabara, Tokyo’s geek district, Cure Maid Cafe is being converted into Punishment Cafe (おしおきカフェ or oshioki kafe) for the next three days. This is part of a promotion for iOS game Punishment…

Street Fighter’s Producer Doubts Capcom Would Hire Him Today

If you’re a fan of Capcom’s Street Fighter series, you’ve probably heard of Yoshinori Ono: he’s been the series’ executive producer since Street Fighter IV, which was released back in 2009. But he didn’t start out that way. “At the time, I liked games and was more interested in composing music for them rather than…

A classic fighting game based on Dota 2 and its characters would be a really cool thing, right? Redditor Wykrhm played with this idea, inspired mostly by Mortal Kombat and Street Fighter, and created the edit above. The Anti-Mage and Riki fit right in, but some characters, like Juggernaut, would be OP as hell under…

The Worst Martial Artists In The World

Think of this as the internet’s best collection of the worst Street Fighter bonus rounds. I think one there at the end, where the dude falls down the stairs, is faked. The rest? Embarrassingly, painfully real. Ultimate Martial Arts Fails Compilation 2013 [Uniformedia, via Geekologie]

A Next-Gen Fighting Game For Everyone

Undoubtedly, there are fans who are ecstatic to hear that Killer Instinct, the classic fighting game that came in a snazzy black cartridge back in the early 90’s, is going to come back. But when the game was announced earlier this year, there also seemed to be an air of bewilderment about its revival—loved as…

Sony Viral Teases Something Street Fighter For The PlayStation 4

Packed with references to Capcom’s famous fighting game franchise and tagged with the #4ThePlayers hashtag, this viral video from Sony seems to indicate something Street Fighter is happening on the PlayStation 4, but what? VG24/7 looks to have been the first to post the “Hadouken Cabs” viral this morning, sent to them in an email…

It’s hard to tell who’d win this video game tug of war in digital artist Patrick Ballesteros‘ drawing. The team on the right with all the heavyweight characters or the other group with a curiously evil-looking Princess Zelda. Bonus points for the background characters and for the detailed surronding area. Dayshot is an image-based feature…