Street Fighter

Here’s hoping the actual concerts are Street Fighter themed in some way, too.

Happy Fiftieth, Ryu!

They grow up so fast, don’t they? Street Fighter characters, that is. One day, they’re just a bunch of pixels in your favorite arcade game. Next thing you know, they’re being cast in live-action dramas including one regrettable movie with Jean-Claude Van Damme Sigh. Enjoy middle age, Ryu. It’s pretty damn impressive if you’ve been…

​My Favorite EVO 2014 Matches Were the Ones With the Least Action

There doesn’t need to be a lot of movement to create excitement in a top-tier fighting game showdown. Just look at these EVO 2014 matches from this past weekend. Sure, the Justin Wong Marvel vs. Capcom win was a moment for the ages and Louffy’s string of victories on his way to the championship was…

Map Of 6000 Street Fighter Players Shows Where They Live, Who They Use

Fighting game community site Event Hubs have done something neat: taking the main character preference and location data from over 6000 users currently playing Ultra Street Fighter IV, they’ve put together a map showing where they all live across the globe, and who they play as. Note that in the interests of privacy none of…

Your Guide To Evo 2014, The Year’s Biggest Fighting Game Tournament

We’re coming up on Evo, the biggest fighting game tournament in America. It will run Friday to Sunday from Las Vegas and be streamed online for the world to see. It’ll be the biggest Evo yet. But maybe you aren’t prepared—there are eight completely different games at this one event, after all, and what makes…

Link Retires From Adventuring, Takes Up…Wrestling

Oakland’s Hoodslam indie wrestling events, which we’ve actually covered before, outdid themselves over the weekend with theatrically combative tributes to not just Street Fighter, but Zelda as well. These clips were taken by @jjsignal (artist on the very cool Read Only Memories, check it out), who had a way better Saturday night than any of…

Why Street Fighter Is More Than Just A Game

More Than A Game is a documentary that was a long time in the making. It chronicles the lead-up to (and events of) EVo 2011, and features interviews with some of the scene’s biggest names. It’s a good watch for fighting game fans, yeah, but also for anyone else, because it gets under the skin…

That’s one hell of a Dhalsim. Cosplay by Michael Vincent, photo by WJS

Poseable Street Fighter Plushies Have Some Epic Eyebrows

The lightest contact with Ryu’s eyebrows from Gaming Heads new line of poseable Street Fighter plushies can probably render a normal human unconscious. What hidden powers do Ken and Chun-Li possess? Rather than simply stuff some cloth with fluff, Gaming Heads fitted each of the new $19.99 plushies based on the legendary fighting game series…

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Capcom has issued an official statement that the next Street Fighter will not be pay-to-win. They did this in response to an article by Japanese newspaper Sponichi Annex, in which a Capcom executive apparently mentioned plans of implementing a pay-for-advantage system in the next Street Fighter. [via EventHubs]

How Well Do You Know Your Street Fighter Butts? Let’s Find Out.

Poison’s ultra in in Ultra Street Fighter 4 gives us all a special opportunity to get up close and personal with some butts. But how good are you at recognizing who those butts belong to? That’s the real question here. nutsVSguts has made a compilation of Poison’s ultra, which gives us all a chance to…

A Whole Bunch Of Classic Mega Man Games Are Bound For Wii U

Capcom’s releasing fifteen of its classic games on Nintendo’s 3DS and Wii U Virtual Consoles. That includes ten Mega Man games. Of the fifteen games, three—Gargoyle’s Quest II, Mighty Final Fight, and Street Fighter 2010—will be to be coming to the 3DS as well as the Wii U. In addition to those, the following nine…

Organizing A Real-Life Street Fighter Tournament Would Be Painful

M. Bison, the host of Street Fighter’s fighting tournament has to realize that destroying Mercedes S-Class cars and temples full of elephants would be a bit expensive, even for a would-be world dictator. Pete Holmes suggests Atlanta for the entire tournament. Well, I know someone here at Kotaku who’d be happy with that location. Street…

​The Live-Action Street Fighter Series Is Out. Watch It Here.

It’s been almost two years since the live-action web series Street Fighter: Assassin’s Fist was first announced. Today, you can watch all the episodes online. The whole thing is on Machinima‘s YouTube channel, or you can watch it all right here, if you’d prefer. Here are all the episodes, in order:

Street Fighter‘s Blanka Can’t Make It Past The TSA

There’s no question that Blanka can fight in the Street Fighter tournament, but he’s got a bigger problem – the Transportation Security Administration. Street Fighter Red Tape [Pete Holmes]

Preorder Bonus Ultra Street Fighter IV Costumes

Check out the five exclusive costumes available as an Ultra Street Fighter IV preorder bonus: Via SF Facebook You are now looking at Screenburn, a Kotaku blog dedicated to the best gaming images, videos and GIFs online.

276-Hit Combo In Street Fighter IV

Above is the culmination of a 276-hit, 1076-damage combo in Street Fighter. Watch video of the combo below: Chun Li’s infinites are a perfect place to start but there’s one major problem. As they only work against crouching characters, after the opponent is stunned (and they reset into standing) you won’t be able to use…

Spring Fighter Tournament Poster

Poster by RVSA for NYU Game Center’s upcoming Spring Fighter tournament. I posted the art without text below, as well as the poster for last year’s tournament. And here’s last year’s poster by the same artist: Previously: Poster for the Shadowloo Showdown Street Fighter Tournament You are now looking at Screenburn, a Kotaku blog dedicated…

Street Fighter‘s Guile Wasn’t Really In The Military

Pete Holmes has pointed out several issues with the tactics other Street Fighter characters use, but there was no need to even go that far with one look at Guile’s military qualifications. One might wonder what war Guile could have fought in, and the answer is apparently “he didn’t.” I went to double check this…