Street Fighter

Show Us Your Favorite Fighting Game Ultras and Supers

One thing I can’t help but admire about fighting games is how well the genre uses moves and kinetics for characterization: sure, not every game has a fantastic story attached to it, but that doesn’t mean a fighting game can’t have well-defined, unique characters, you know? You don’t need hours of exposition to understand characters…

Chun Li from Street Fighter Is Jealous. Of Everyone.

Take an assortment of cheesy embarrassment videos from all over the internet. Add in the blistering attacks of Street Fighter’s Chun Li. Stir well. Laugh heartily. Yes, the premise that Chun Li would kick people into oblivion because people are talking her big thighs is sexist and unnecessary. But this latest video by Parodie Pub—tacky…

If Disney Princesses Were Old-School Street Fighter Characters…

Yes, that’s a Chun Li x Cinderella mash-up. Oh, there’s more—artist Mike V took the ever-iconic Disney princesses, and re-imagined them as many of fighting game characters we know and love. Not all of these are Street Fighter characters, but, check ’em out. Pay attention to the stances, which are the main nods to what…

The Most-Played Characters In The Most-Played Fighting Games

The experts at the major fighting game site EventHubs have crunched some numbers to figure out which characters their thousands of users prefer in major fighting games. Top-played Super Street Fighter IV character? Ryu. Any guesses on the top Super Smash Bros. Melee one? This guy: (On the other hand, Ike is tops for Brawl.)…

Capcom’s Heroes Look Awesome as Samurai

Ever wonder how Capcom’s greatest heroes and heroines would look as samurai? Or ninja? Or geisha? Well now is your chance! Onimusha Soul is a Japan-only browser (and smartphone)-based customizable card game. Much like in the Valkyria Chronicles browser game, you build your own squad and battle against the squads of other players. But the…

Don’t Expect Street Fighter V Until Around 2018!

In an interview with VG247, Capcom producer Tomoaki Ayano explained that making each numeric entry in the Street Fighter series takes a long time. A long, long time. “If you look at the history of the series,” Ayano said, “it took six years to go from Street Fighter II to Street Fighter III, and nine…

Homeless Man Is A Walking Street Fighter Wiki

Meet Emanuel. This homeless gentleman is going to talk about one thing today: Street Fighter Art director Ken Lin filmed this interview back in 2010, but recently located it on a hard drive. Explains Lin: “I ran into this homeless guy named Emanuel Swanson who was yelling “Sonic Boom!” to himself. Being a Street Fighter…

An Outstanding All-Vocal Cover Of Ken’s Theme From Street Fighter II

I always did think Ken was the coolest. Sure, Ryu is the iconic Street Fighter character. But Ken wore RED, man. This new video from Smooth McGroove is just as smooth, groovy, beardy and cat-adjacent as his past stuff. I could listen to this dude sing all day.

This Street Fighter Cosplay Will Kick Your Ass

Pulling off the stern badassery of Street Fighter’s Sagat is no easy feat—and yet that’s exactly what Laphotonet manages to capture with Miss Sinister Cosplay.You can practically imagine her in a live-action flick, no? Take a closer look: And for comparison’s sake: (Via Laphotonet)

Street Fighter Player Wins Great Match at EVO With Unpopular Character

In a sea of Akumas and fireballs during this year’s EVO, any change-up in character selection was welcome. Even so, you don’t expect one of the “worst” characters on the Street Fighter roster to suddenly make an appearance in a top 8 match. Thank god it did, because Infiltration pulling out Hakan to go up…

EVO Wasn’t The Only Impressive Tournament This Weekend

It was a massive weekend for eSports. Gfinity—a Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 Tournament that granted the winner $55,000—dominated the UK and EVO broke new ground for the fighting game community in Las Vegas. Not only were the events themselves a big deal but there were shake-ups with some of the top Call of…

Ultra Street Fighter IV Will Be Out In 2014

The update to Street Fighter IV that spilled out yesterday now has a name: it’s going to be sold in a complete pack as Ultra Street Fighter IV, which adds five new fighters to the game, along with a range of tweaks. Four the five fighters have been announced. They’re Rolento, Poison, Hugo and Elena.…

Street Fighter IV Getting Five More Characters, One Never Seen Before

From EVO 2013 comes news that Street Fighter IV‘s next update will deliver four new characters—and a fifth never before seen in the series. Rolento, Elena, Hugo and Poison will join the roster, plus an unnanounced fifth fighter. The characters, plus six stages and the usual complement of adjustments and balances, will come to PS3,…

The Coolest Exclusive Goodies Of Comic-Con 2013

Completely arbitrary headline alert! This is a list of what I think are the hottest, mostly video game-themed toys and books of next week’s San Diego Comic-Con, based on years spent developing tastes and whims specifically geared towards making me spend entirely too much money on colorful pieces of plastic. There are so many excellent…

Blanka Is A Troll

Goddammit, Blanka. Look at him go on his public rampages, totally unapologetically. Causing all sorts of havoc! I’m definitely the sort of person to laugh at this kind of slapstick humor, but it’s even more golden with Blanka involved. I somehow missed the first episode of this, so in case you did too, here you…

A Beginner’s Guide To Street Fighter

Unless you grew up with it, or were born with the mechanical aptitude to quickly adapt to the rigorous timing and dexterity required, getting into Street Fighter can seem daunting Try as they might, Capcom haven’t been able to do a good enough job teaching players themselves via tutorials, so it’s left to helpful souls…

A duel between Mr. Fantastic and Dhalsim would be interesting, thanks to their similar elastic abilities. Maybe we’ll see them both in a future Marvel vs. Capcom fighter. Until then, it’s Flyingmouse365 who’s playing with the idea of their meeting. Dayshot is an image-based feature that runs every morning, showcasing some of the prettiest, funniest…

Watch the Silly Secret Origin of Street Fighter’s Hadouken Right Here

You’ve often wondered if there was a connection between the signature Dragon Punch projectile offensive move in Capcom’s Street Fighter games and, well, dookie. Or maybe midichlorians? Nope, it’s not affiliated with either. Whew. This video by LowBrow Studios offers up a completely made-up history of the fireball attack wielded by Ken, Ryu and other…

The World Needs A Cat Version of Street Fighter

Cats can be combative, albeit playful jerks—which makes them great choices for a fighting game, no? Well, if nothing else, this utterly silly (but fun!) rendition of a cat version of Street Fighter by ThePetCollective puts a smile on my face. Street Fighter Parody – Cat Fighter [The Pet Collective]

A Million More Reasons Why Blanka Sucks

I’m sure it’s a familiar story. You or your friend gets a Super Nintendo with Street Fighter II. A horde of friends bumrush your house to play. One little bastard always figured out how Blanka’s electricity move didn’t he? And proceeded to dominate everyone before we figured out how to Hadouken. Screw that kid. Ever…