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This Reenactment Won’t Win Any Awards, but Neither Did Street Fighter
Bravo to 1Up for getting Capcom’s Yoshinori Ono, producer of the Street Fighter series, to reenact this gem from M. Bison’s hilariously awful dialogue in 1994’s Street Fighter: The Movie. He dropped by their offices last week to talk Street Fighter X Tekken We’ll remind you that Ono-san is not an English speaker, so this…
By Owen Good Published January 29, 2012 -
To-Do in Washington, DC: See Mortal Kombat, Street Fighter and G.I. Joe Invade in the Mushroom Kingdom in a CGI Art Exhibit
What happens someone who grew up on the N64 makes art? You get Cammy, Sub-Zero and G.I. Joe rolling up on Mario’s stomping grounds in tanks. That’s part of what you’ll see in the premise of Jonathan Monaghan’s The Sacrifice of the Mushroom Kings, which is currently showing at the Curator’s Office gallery. Here’s their…
By Evan Narcisse Published January 27, 2012 -
See Mecha Pac-Man and Fat Mega Man Beat Ass Galore in Street Fighter X Tekken
We’ve known for a while that Kuro and Toro, the Sony cat mascots, would find their way into Street Fighter X Tekken. Also, Cole McGrath from inFamous. The inclusion of classic (i.e. shitty) box art Mega Man and Pac-Man also weren’t much of a mystery, but their appearance is confirmed in this video, along with…
By Owen Good Published January 27, 2012 -
How Tales of Symphonia Created a Rabid Fighting Game Fan
Has one genre ever made you change your opinion of another? Commenter File2ish explains how Namco’s Tales of Symphonia made him a fighting game fan in today’s Speak Up on Kotaku. What game genre did you not like when you first played it, but you now like (after an extended period of time of not…
By Mike Fahey Published January 25, 2012 -
Street Fighter X Tekken Spawns the World’s First Fighting Game-Centric Reality Show
Not content with merely streaming live matches leading up to the March release of the Street Fighter X Tekken fighting game crossover, Capcom has teamed with iPlayWinner and Team Spooky to create Cross Assault, a live week-long $25,000 tournament masquerading as an internet reality show. Cross Assault will see two fighting game veterans attempting to…
By Mike Fahey Published January 23, 2012 -
Six New Challengers Appear for Street Fighter X Tekken, Plus a Vita Version Surprise
With Street Fighter X Tekken due out in early March, now is not the time for a tight trickle of new character reveals. That’s why Capcom has dropped six new fighters on us today, three from their team and three from the opposition. Has your favorite character been confirmed? Well that all depends, now doesn’t…
By Mike Fahey Published January 17, 2012 -
I Should Be Much More Excited By a Live-Action Chun-Li Versus Cammy Battle
Dominique “Chun-Li” Vance and Lane “Cammy” Kwederis do a fine just looking and acting their roles in Eddie Lebron’s live-action ode to Capcom’s Street Fighter franchise. Unfortunately they battle like a couple of actresses brand new to fight choreography. For all I know they are just that, and that’s not their fault whatsoever. Like I…
By Mike Fahey Published January 13, 2012 -
Capcom Bar Serves Resident Evil “Brains”. You Can Eat Them.
On Jan. 25, Capcom, the game company behind Resident Evil and Street Fighter, will open…a bar. It’s called Capcom Bar. Clever. As previously posted, the bar will have booze and food, and it will play host to Capcom promotional events. Wonder what to expect? Monster Hunter meat (fitting), Ace Attorney seafood pasta (oh), and Resident…
By Brian Ashcraft Published January 13, 2012 -
Capcom Celebrates 25 Years of Street Fighter
We can’t believe it’s been two-and-a-half decades since Ryu first roundhouse kicked himself into our hearts. Capcom has big plans to celebrate 25 years of Street Fighter this year, starting with the official 25th Anniversary logo. [Capcom]
By Mike Fahey Published January 11, 2012 -
It’ll Be Mortal Kombat vs. Street Fighter x Tekken vs. King of Fighters XIII (and More) for EVO 2012’s Tournament Season
Fighting games thrive on competition. And trash talk. Especially trash talk. For fans of video game brawling, the biggest—yet most respectful—competition is the annual EVO series, which brings fight-stick masters from around the world to fireball their way to ultimate supremacy. The promotion’s organizers have just announced the games that’ll be featured in this year’s…
By Evan Narcisse Published January 4, 2012 -
Bison, Ling Xiaoyu Are In Street Fighter x Tekken
This screenshot, posted on Street Fighter x Tekken’s Xbox Marketplace website, accidentally (?) reveals two new characters for the crossover title. You won’t see them punching; you’ll find them in the character section up the top of the screen. They’re Tekken’s Ling Xiaoyu and Street Fighter’s M. Bison. For Tekken, the day Bison graced this…
By Luke Plunkett Published January 2, 2012 -
Asuka Leads a Girls’ Fight Out in This Street Fighter X Tekken Trailer
What do you get when you mix Chun-Li and Cammy of Street Fighter with Lili and Asuka of Tekken? I don’t know, some sort of giant woman creature with eight arms and legs? Spider-Woman? Forget it; it was a stupid question. Just watch the video. I’m not really sure what’s up with all of the…
By Mike Fahey Published December 22, 2011 -
Super Meat Boy Blowing a Hadoken Through a Saxophone!
Did that headline get your attention? Good, because you should go and read this super-cool piece by Kill Screen‘s Lana Polansky about mechanics, practice, saxophone, jazz, and Street Fighter. (It also features the amazing illustration above, drawn by Daniel Purvis.) “Hey,” you may be thinking. “Doesn’t Kirk write about that sort of thing too, sometimes…
By Kirk Hamilton Published December 20, 2011 -
Pepper Spray Cop is an Ass-Kicking Street Fighter
Pepper Spray Cop will be one of the enduring images of 2011. While most tributes to the man have been simple PhotoShops, though, this piece by Pazero goes to the trouble of being an all-original illustration. Ken VS Lt John [DeviantArt, via Gamefreaks]
By Luke Plunkett Published December 13, 2011 -
Bet You Couldn’t Play Street Fighter with Your Feet
AJ loves arcade games, and he’s not going to let his disability get in the way of that! In the above video, AJ plays everything from fighters to shooters to classic arcade games—with his feet. Check out his YouTube Channel, appropriately titled OnlyUseMyFeet. How I play Arcade Games with my FEET! [YouTube]
By Brian Ashcraft Published December 12, 2011 -
Ryu, Stop Humping the Car
In Street Fighter‘s famous bonus stage, the goal is to smash cars. That’s the same goal in Super Street Fighter IV: Arcade Edition Ver. 2012—even if it looks like the goal of SF character is something else entirely. The glitch appears to happen after Ryu unleashes a shoryuken on the car. Even when time runs…
By Brian Ashcraft Published December 7, 2011 -
Watch Tekken’s Warriors Fight It Out in 2D in This New Street Fighter x Tekken Video
So, fighting game fans everywhere know that Namco and Capcom will be pitting their marquee martial arts franchises against each other. Each company’s making one game and Capcom’s first out the gate with Street Fighter x Tekken. This new video shows how the Street Fighter publisher will be implementing the recurring characters from the King…
By Evan Narcisse Published December 2, 2011 -
CultureTotal Recall
The Best Part of Fighting Games? The Stupid Quotes.
There’s a charm to fighting games that’s irresistible. I mean, aside from all the face-punching, the character rosters are usually insane, and there’s a tongue-in-cheek vibe that runs deep through most titles in the genre. Nowhere is this more evident than in the stupid little quotes you get after a match in most games. To…
By Luke Plunkett Published December 2, 2011 -
Japan’s Most Talented Pro-Gamer on Television. Set to Music.
As far as Street Fighter gamers get, they don’t come much bigger than Daigo Umehara. He endorses fight sticks and has his own t-shirts. And here, he’s profiled on Japanese TV. This is a best-of collection, with Daigo footage you’ve probably seen before. There’s also a page from a Famitsu article from 1998 with a…
By Brian Ashcraft Published December 1, 2011
