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…

How Band Nerds Hijacked Japan’s Biggest Photo Meme

Earlier this spring, a group of Japanese schoolgirls uploaded photos of themselves imitating anime style attacks. The photos spawned numerous imitators, ended up on television, and spread beyond the country’s borders. And now? Now, band nerds are involved. The original meme initially referred to Dragon Ball and, later, Street Fighter attacks. When it reached Western…

Street Fighter “Motion Sculptures” Are A Sight For Any Eyes

Dan the Ad Man, who normally works in…advertising, has found the spare time to put together this amazing Street Fighter video consisting of “motion sculptures”. Taking inspiration from this clip, it visualises the movement involved in Street Fighter moves, not the characters. Beautiful stuff. Street Fighter Motion Sculptures [Vimeo, via Gamefreaks]

Clearly, This Woman Should Be A Character In Street Fighter

Marawa is the “world conquering hoola hoop master”—according to her website. She can hoop up to 133 hoola hoops at the same time, and is basically kind of amazing with hoola hoops. She also likes Street Fighter. Hence…this kind of absurd video. Dat mega hoop combo at about a minute in. Wow. Wow. And hey.…

A Fünke Bit of Arrested Development Makes These Capcom Games Amazing

Arrested Development’s imminent return means that its stars have turned up in the weirdest places. Like frozen banana stands in various cities. And while Tobias Fünke’s sizzle reel had a brief snippet of video games in it, Capcom’s taken things to a whole new level. The publisher of Street Fighter and Dragon’s Dogma took David…

Meet The Real, Ass-Kicking Chun Li

There’s been a gif doing the rounds this week of a French cosplayer performing an impressive rendition of Chun Li’s lightning kick. It’s based on this 2011 clip, and it’s pretty good! I’m not sure who the cosplayer/performer in question is, but seeing it reminded me of a similar clip in which we do know…

An Artist Fights His Creations–Literally

YouTuber and artist Jonny Lawrence put together this neat stop motion video featuring his hand battling what looks like Akuma from Street Fighter. It’s like Master Hand, but in Street Fighter. And less virtual, more epidermis. (via Laughing Squid) To contact the author of this post, write to [email protected] or find her on Twitter at…

Yup, This Is Street Fighter’s Biggest Fan

Um. Literally? …yeah, sorry about that. But pun aside, this fan’s usage of Street Fighter characters is genius, no? Even Blanka could playfully be said to be fulfilling a role: he’s powering the fan while E. Honda does his hundred hand slap and Ken does his hurricane kick . Clever job, BL1TZEN. Now all this…