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Willow Smith vs. M. Bison In Fashion Battle of the Decade
MTV’s hawk-eyed Mary H.K. Choi spotted the preternatural fashion selection of Willow Smith, best remembered for her now-decade-old hit, “Zygote To Dance (Feel That Kick)”, and dashing dictator M. Bison of Street Fighter and “Still sorry, Raul Julia” fame. [Style.MTV.com]
By Joel Johnson Published March 22, 2011 -
A New Perspective on Super Street Fighter IV
Super Street Fighter IV 3D Edition is one of the must-have launch games for the 3DS. It’s packed with a lot of neat extras like online multiplayer, 35 playable characters, figurine mode, spectator mode and one option that will completely change your perspective on Street Fighter games… literally. It makes sense that a game coming…
By Brian Crecente Published March 17, 2011 -
Bored Of Fighting Games, Man Destroys Windshield Wipers
Thirty-one year-old Kenichi Moriai was unemployed. But after his fighting game-inspired rampage bent on destroying windshield wipers, he wasn’t just out of a job, he was arrested. Again. On January 28, in Yashio City in Saitama Prefecture, eight trucks in a freight company parking lot had their windshield wipers bent and mangled. According to the…
By Brian Ashcraft Published March 9, 2011 -
Street Fighter’s Akuma And The Art Of The Zanku Hadouken
There is a lot of power packed into this Street Fighter fan art by Tyler James Zanku Hadouken by Tyler James (Blog) (deviantART) (CGHUB) Need your daily fill of geek eye candy? If so, head over to Justin Page’s Rampaged Reality and get your fix. Republished with permission.
By Michael McWhertor Published March 7, 2011 -
What’s Your Super-Powered Signature Move?
Today in Speak-Up on Kotaku, commenter GunFlame craves his own super-powered video game special move. If you could have one, which would you choose? I wish I could do a Hadouken…no! a Rising Storm, no! a Buster Wolf, no! a Grand Viper…man, if only I had some kind of sci-mana-magic-tec-arte-skill-spell-synt-hyper-type power…:( About Speak-Up on Kotaku:…
By Mike Fahey Published February 18, 2011 -
These Video Games Are Now Art
For the next week, the CRG Gallery in Chelsea, New York, will play host to an artist who slips video games like Civilization and Street Fighter into his work. By “employing the visual language of engravings writ in the modern medium of ballpoint pen”, as the exhibition’s press release tells us, artist Butt Johnson “generates…
By Luke Plunkett Published February 13, 2011 -
Some Of These Plastic Figures Might Not Be Work Safe
Wonder Festival is a bi-annual event for figurines and cosplay. It’s one of the biggest of its kind, with D.I.Y. hobby figure-makers showing off their pieces as well as companies that specialize in turning resin into bookshelf sculptures. Here’s a taste of the figures on display, ranging from Nintendo DS love simulator Love Plus to…
By Brian Ashcraft Published February 7, 2011 -
Resident Evil Studio Working On Two Big Original Titles For 2011
It’s January, typically gaming’s slow month. But Capcom, best known for Street Fighter and Resident Evil, is hard at work on two big time original games. One will make you question Capcom’s sanity. Capcom is not one to shy from sequels or resurrecting its popular games. But in the latest issue of Japanese game magazine…
By Brian Ashcraft Published January 26, 2011 -
When Street Fighters Go On A Gender Bender
French artist Bastien Vives has taken the cast of the Street Fighter series and reworked them. Most of them are now a different gender. Others are the same gender, they’re just…looking at the world in a new way. Guile, for example, is now a lady with a much more fashionable haircut. Dee Jay is also…
By Luke Plunkett Published January 25, 2011 -
Throw Hadoukens In Your Living Room With Street Fighter On Kinect
The Kinect genie refuses to return to the bottle. Here an enterprising modder rigs up his PC to play Street Fighter IV with Kinect, including shoryukens and hadoukens (and Ken). The video features actual gameplay versus the CPU. Modder demize2010 wrote the scripts to work with FAAST, the open-source Kinect driver, and another to enable…
By Owen Good Published January 19, 2011 -
One Valid Excuse For Sucking At Fighting Games
Do you suck at fighting games? So does Kotaku commenter Masterage, but he actually has a valid excuse. Feel free to borrow it! I love fighters, but they don’t love me. I’ve just been told that my dyscalculia could actually be stopping me from correctly remembering complex combo chains. Would explain a lot, actually, as…
By Mike Fahey Published January 6, 2011 -
What If Street Fighter’s Best Wrestled For WWE?
John Cena not your idea of an ideal pro wrestler? And Dhalsim is? No to HHH, but yes to Blanka? Street Fighter fan “jim784m” made this Street Fighter version of pro wrestling using the character creation tools in WWE Smackdown vs. Raw 2011. Anyone with the game can download it and wind up with many…
By Stephen Totilo Published January 5, 2011 -
Follow The Fortunes Of Fighting Game Fans
I don’t know what it is about fighting game fans that makes them so passionate about their genre of choice they go and make documentaries about it, but I like it. “Run It Back” is a short doco by Zaid Tabani, which takes a look at a group of Street Fighter players working their way…
By Luke Plunkett Published January 5, 2011 -
Two Ryus Ready To Square Off On The Grid
Two more challengers emerge from Kode Logic‘s excellent TRON / Street Fighter collection. RyuTRON takes on his devilish counterpart Evil RyuTRON Related Rampages: Street Fighter TRON | BisonTRON RyuTRON | Evil RyuTRON by Bosslogic (deviantART) (Twitter) Need your daily fill of geek eye candy? If so, head over to Justin Page’s Rampaged Reality and get…
By Michael McWhertor Published January 4, 2011 -
The Most Disgusting Version Of Doom You’ll Ever See
This stop-motion video starts off innocently enough, but soon the cute Street Fighter homage and sneaker-based racing give way to a version of id Software’s classic Doom made entirely out of raw meat. Warning: Not safe for stomach. I just saved a whole lot of money on lunch by watching this video. It’s the creation…
By Mike Fahey Published January 3, 2011