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A Visual History of Attractive Video Game Characters: The 00s

The first years of the new millennium brought us the seventh generation of video game consoles, and with that came a whole new family of attractive men and women. With new evolutions, this decade introduced the start of increasingly realistic-looking characters. In this decade, we finally started to see male protagonists who aren’t weird action-hero…

A Visual History of Attractive Video Game Characters: The 90s

By the end of the 90s, the 16-bit era ended and 3D took over. With the PlayStation and 3D graphics cards out there allowing for new possibilities, narrative and gameplay, the 90s produced some of the most attractive characters in video game history. Well-known mascots and protagonists made their transitions to 3D, other, yet to…

Watch Two Fighting Game Masters Punch with Words. (Not Really.)

They call one of them The Beast. The other goes by Skillian. Together, they represent the collective passion that have made the fighting game community one of the world’s most vibrant, and dedicated sets of game players. This past weekend, they talked about what it’s like to face off against someone else on a video…

The Most Random Looking Fighting Games

The success of Street Fighter and Mortal Kombat, not to mention all the SNK titles, spawned a crazy amount of abominations. Developers certainly took their inspiration in…interesting directions. Adding some really cool, unique Japanese arcade fighters, we already have a nice list of weird looking fighting games. Dark Edge Dark Edge was Sega’s first attempt…

The Most Amazing Video Game Continue Screens

The continue countdown screen was introduced to arcades in the 80s. It was a simple and effective way of getting players to fork over more money. When you fail, the screen comes up for a limited time with a countdown to insert additional coins or press a button. Most of these games’ continue screens were…

Street Fighter‘s Greatest Fight Visualized

You’ve seen it. You know it. You love it. The Daigo Umehara versus Justin Wong Street Fighter III: Third Match is the stuff of fighting game lore. And now, you can see it again. Visualized. The image below has the iconic match’s move input and damage output in visual data form. It’s fascinating stuff and…

Gender-Bending Mega Man, Street Fighting Ladies And A Batman In Serious Trouble

Artist DCWJ works at Imaginary Friends, a concept studio in Singapore which specialises in design and illustration in creative fields like video games and animation. The studio has worked on properties like Batman, Halo, Superman, D&D, Soul Calibur, Call of Duty, Street Fighter, Spider-Man, World of Warcraft, Everquest, League of Legends and Star Wars. You…

NES and N64 Controllers Drop the Bass In This Mash-Up Music Video

Video game soundtracks have been around for more than three decades, if you count back to the doomp-doomp of Space Invaders. This mash-up video created by Ithaca Audio folds in bits of audio from Tetris, Street Fighter and Sonic next to tracks by David Bowie, Michael Jackson and the old-school Doctor Who theme. And to…

Nearly 20 Years After its Release, Street Fighter II: The Animated Movie is Still the Best Fighting Game Movie I Have Ever Seen

Over the past few weeks, I’ve been thinking a lot about the connection between games and anime and how as a young gamer I would eagerly watch any game adaptation I could get my hands on. Sometimes (many times) I wound up entering a world of disappointment. However, other times I would come across a…

You May Have Already Played A Game Featuring A Beefy, Oiled Up Turkish Wrestler

Yesterday, Buzzfeed published an article featuring Turkish oil wrestling. People took note, because the sport involves men oiling themselves up heavily before wrestling. Winning involves putting your hands down your opponents pants, as you can see in the video above. Probably not something we’d get to do in a game, right? Actually… Fighting games, bless…

Here, Enjoy the World’s Hottest Spin Kick

If you haven’t seen the 2003 Thai action flick Ong-Bak: Muay Thai Warrior, you really, really need to. Here’s one of the film’s most memorable scenes, which just might be the closest we’ll ever get to Fei Long’s shienkyaku Ong-Bak went on to spawn two sequels, Ong-Bak 2 and Ong-Bak 3. The films’ mastermind, Tony…

You Can Now Buy Ryu’s Head. If You Want.

This is a 1:1 scale bust from Pop Culture Shock collectibles. For those who always wanted to see how the size of their head matched up with that of Ryu’s. If the size and design aren’t creepy enough, the eyeballs can be moved, so that he is always watching No word on price or release…

The Craziest Testosterone-Filled Japanese Video Game Characters

When it comes to Japanese developers, creating crazy, nice games isn’t the only thing they’re good at; they also design characters with pumped-to-the-max muscles, half of which don’t even exist in real life and have the size of a truck. And they are all really serious about beating the hell out of everyone around them.…

Proof That Cammy Cosplay Can Be Fantastic Without Having To Flash One’s Butt

Look, I get it, the character design for Street Fighter’s Cammy traditionally calls for a rather revealing lower section. But accuracy isn’t everything in cosplay. Sometimes what looks good on a screen looks… wrong in the flesh, and while authentic Cammy cosplay has its fans, I’ve always found it to be a bit much This…

If Pixar Wants to Make a Street Fighter Movie, They Should Hire This Guy

We’ve shown some of the artwork and character designs that Brazilian artist Victor Hugo Queiroz has been doing for his quirky-cool fan film Street Fighter III – Fuurinkazan. And after a few years in development, he’s released a trailer that pits Ryu against Hugo. Be sure to watch until the very end for a special…

This New Super Street Fighter Graphic Novel from Udon Delivers a Greasy Battle Royale

If you’ve seen an incredibly cool piece of Street Fighter art, chances are it originated from one of the talents at Udon Entertainment. The Canadian artist collective cranks out illustrated works for some of nerddom’s most beloved characters and has been making sharp, stylized interpretations of Capcom’s premier fighting franchise for more than a decade…

The Best Animated Backgrounds Of 2D Fighting Games

The color schemes and the attention to the tiniest details of the backgrounds in classic 2D fighters always fascinated me. Dodgy streets, abandoned buildings, mystical Far Eastern temples: all important elements of these games, just as important as the gameplay mechanics or the featured characters. Here’s our collection of some of the most beautiful animated…

Street Fighter X Mega Man version 2 is out, offering a buffed M. Bison—and a new (secret) challenger.

If Street Fighter IV was a First-Person Game, Here’s What It Would Look Like

Pipoca, the Brazilian animator who brought us First-Person Bomberman, now delivers this concept of Street Fighter IV‘s bonus stage, fought first-person style. It’s a great take, but if the combos are based on your point of view, I’m now completely messed up on how to throw a hadouken. What’s forward? Up? YouTube video uploaded by…

Playing As Bayonetta In Street Fighter

It’s a move you’d only see in fan fiction or mods for the PC version of Street Fighter, so… the fact this is a mod for the PC version of Street Fighter x Tekken probably explains things. It’s just one of a series of great mods that have been under the spotlight this past week,…