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Capcom Says It’s Working on a Patch as Four Infinite Combos Found So Far in Street Fighter X Tekken
This past week saw multiple YouTube videos demonstrating infinite (or nearly infinite) combinations across multiple characters in Street Fighter X Tekken One involves some gem usage, and believed to be tool-assisted, but four others are confirmed. It’s enough of an issue that Capcom on Friday informed fans the game’s development team is looking at a…
By Owen Good Published March 18, 2012 -
This is how You Make a Street Fighter Music Video
This snappy little video, put together by MikeDiva as a promo for Street Fighter X Tekken, does just about everything you want from a live-action Street Fighter sequence. Which is include proper face-kicking, and include Vega.
By Luke Plunkett Published March 16, 2012 -
Capcom Built Four-Way Multiplayer into Street Fighter X Tekken‘s PS3 Version, Then Gave Up on the 360
Street Fighter X Tekken has just been a post-release comedy of errors, whether we’re talking about on-disc DLC and the apologies for it, or bizarre character endings (that also highlight the on-disc DLC scandal.) Many have noticed that four-man cooperative play is supported on PlayStation 3 but not Xbox 360. Why is that, Capcom man?…
By Owen Good Published March 15, 2012 -
Kotaku East
She’s Not Just the Tekken Lady. She’s a Bowler.
To promote Street Fighter X Tekken, Capcom roped in a handful of women to cosplay as the fighting game characters. Dubbed “Miss St. X”, the women are bikini models and starlets. One, however, stands apart when wearing funny shoes and throwing big, heavy balls. See, Rina Ohtsuka, who is cosplaying as Tekken‘s Nina, is a…
By Brian Ashcraft Published March 13, 2012 -
Video Game Character or My Little Pony? Yes.
Some would say that the My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic phenomenon has nothing at all to do with video games. I’ve got several images that prove otherwise. Grown men in love with a cartoon aimed at little girls? Preposterous! Outrageous! Truly, truly, truly outrageous! The Brony phenomenon is really nothing new. Over the years…
By Mike Fahey Published March 12, 2012 -
Kotaku East
This Lady Loves Dressing as Fighting Game Characters
She really does! This is Rui, and she’s done a myriad of cosplay, including a handful of fighting game characters. Her gaming father instilled a love of video games in her from a very young age. Besides Street Fighter Zero 3, favorites include Final Fantasy IV, Final Fantasy VI, and many, many others. Rui is…
By Brian Ashcraft Published March 12, 2012 -
Street Fighter X Tekken Drops Game Critics with a One-Two Punch
Street Fighter. Tekken. Game titles followed by periods. These are the sort of weighty things on the minds of video game critics as they explore the fighting genre’s latest epic crossover. Epic. Crossover. Street Fighter X Tekken combines the great taste of Street Fighter with a creamy Tekken-flavored filling. It’s the first part of a…
By Mike Fahey Published March 6, 2012 -
Capcom Says On-Disc DLC Is For ‘Easy Compatibility,’ File Size
A whole bunch of Street Fighter X Tekken fans contacted us over the weekend to complain about what appeared to be on-disc downloadable content in the fighting game, which comes out tomorrow for Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3. Some gamers have outspokenly criticized the idea of on-disc DLC—after all, if content is ready in time…
By Jason Schreier Published March 5, 2012 -
Sounds Like Those Vita-Only Street Fighter X Tekken Characters are On-Disc DLC for the Console Versions
YouTube user SoulReaperTTG has managed to get a hold of all the introductions for the 12 PS Vita-only characters in Street Fighter X Tekken which releases for PS3 and Xbox 360 on Tuesday. That above is Blanka and Sakura’s. The rest are available through the link below. The prologues have no narration, just moving art.…
By Owen Good Published March 3, 2012 -
Esports
See All the Action Here in this Weekend’s Final Round/Cross Assault Fighting Tournaments
Final Round XV is a fighting tournament currently under way in Atlanta, with action today and tomorrow in 10 different fighting titles. Four different live streams are available to watch; we’ve embedded all of them below. Team Sp00ky and FunkyP are handling the feeds for the main action, which is Street Fighter, Marvel vs. Capcom…
By Owen Good Published March 3, 2012 -
Street Fighter X Tekken‘s Mecha Pac-Man, Fat Mega Man Free to PS3 on March 13
The PlayStation 3 version of Street Fighter X Tekken will offer, free, the bonus fighters Pac-Man and Mega Man on March 13, a week after the game’s release, Capcom says. You can see what they look like in action in a video here Mega Man is based on the crappy box art of the original…
By Owen Good Published March 3, 2012 -
Sexual Harassment is a Joke to These Fighting Game Fans [Update]
Apparently, it’s okay to make fun of sexual harassment in the fighting games community. That’s what happened last night, as one of the biggest fighting game streaming broadcasts mocked the controversy that followed an episode of Capcom’s “Cross Assault” web series Wednesday Night Fights, produced by Level|Up and sponsored by fighting game mecca Shoryuken, aired…
By Evan Narcisse Published March 1, 2012 -
Kotaku East
From Generic Bullet Fodder to Distinguished Heroes: Koreans in Video Games.
“Are you a North Korean?” I’ve been asked this question as often in America as I’ve been asked by Koreans if I own a gun, because all Americans own guns. The answer to both is “no”. The two questions are too absurd to be borne, and the answer to both questions is obvious, but if…
By Chi Lee Published February 29, 2012 -
Competitive Gamer’s Inflammatory Comments Spark Sexual Harassment Debate [Update]
Competitive fighting gamer Aris Bakhtanians has prompted some ire with inflammatory comments he made during a recent episode of Capcom’s “Cross Assault.” “Cross Assault” is a promotional competitive web-TV series that pits a team of Tekken players against a team of Street Fighter players. On the show, Bakhtanians made remarks about the entrenched sexism in…
By Kirk Hamilton Published February 28, 2012 -
You Can Play Street Fighter X Tekken Tomorrow… in PlayStation Home
Sony’s virtual playground turns bloody tomorrow, as the Street Fighter X Tekken Total Game Integration event elevates into violence. For the first time, PlayStation Home avatars will be able to beat the living crap out of each other. They’ve built a replica of one of the upcoming fighting game cross-over’s stages in PlayStation Home, and…
By Mike Fahey Published February 28, 2012 -
Is This Lady the Perfect Chun-Li?
You might have a notion of who you’d think could pull off the perfect Chun-Li. Then again, you didn’t develop Street Fighter II so what the hell do you know? Japanese illustrator Akiman, one of gaming’s most celebrated artists, illustrated Chun-Li—and a whole bunch of other cool characters. Recently on Twitter, he posted a series…
By Brian Ashcraft Published February 28, 2012 -
Let This Street Fighter II Song be Your Gateway to Shirtless Keyboard Fun
As Sonaje starts playing the Street Fighter II intro on guitar, you might think this is just another boring video of some guy playing the Zelda theme on violin, or the Mario theme on a tamborine, or whatever. It’s not. Stick with it. There are keyboards. Sonaje is a delight. And watching this video let…
By Luke Plunkett Published February 24, 2012 -
Kotaku East
Let a Fighting Game Master Teach You Secrets. For a Price.
IIf you follow the competitive fighting game circuit, you probably know Japanese Street Fighter player Tokido. If not, read this. And then stand up and pretend you are a SF character. Tokido is one of the top four players in Japan; he is up there with Daigo Umehara, who is arguably the most famous Street…
By Brian Ashcraft Published February 23, 2012 -
The Very Last Face I’d Expect to See on an Arcade Stick
I’ve seen many a custom arcade joystick in my days, but none moved me quite as much as the world’s first and only Michael McDonald Arcade Fighting Joystick, now available on eBay. Not possessing a joystick featuring former Doobie Brothers front man and five-time Grammy award-winning singer / songwriter Michael McDonald might be the one…
By Mike Fahey Published February 20, 2012