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Street Fighter 6 Release Date to Be Unveiled at The Game Awards?
Officially unveiled earlier this Summer, the hype for Street Fighter 6 is certainly on the rise. Particularly since it has been over six years now since the release of the last instalment from the franchise and more so the fact that this has predominantly remained one the most popular series…
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Capcom Teases Announcement With Mystery Countdown Clock
It would appear that Capcom may have some kind of huge announcement on the way as following an update to their website, a new countdown clock has appeared that, if my maths is correct, suggests that something is set to get launched or revealed on February 20th. What could it…
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AI-Generated Realistic Street Fighter Faces Are Nightmare Fuel!
While many beat-em-up titles have, in more recent years, erred more towards a realistic character design, Street Fighter has always retained something of a cartoon quality. What would their roster look like though if they were actually real people? Well, thanks to Twitter user ‘Siberian_644′ and the use of Google’s…
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Street Fighter 2 Myth Proven True After 30 Years
More than a few urban myths surrounding video games have managed, despite regularly being disproven, to continue to be spread. One such example is the Tomb Raider cheat code, where you could supposedly make Lara Croft nude. And just in case you needed confirmation, no, this never existed. Well, not…
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Capcom Cyber-Attack Reveals Game Launch Schedule up to 2024
Following a number of rumors earlier this month, Capcom finally confirmed just a few days ago that it had indeed received a colossally huge cyberattack. One that resulted in around 1TB of massively important data being (in some cases, potentially) compromised, encrypted, or stolen! – With this including a huge…
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The Street Fighter II CPU Was A Big Dirty Cheater!
On home consoles or in arcades, there are few games as iconic as Street Fighter II. Particularly those that emerged in the earlier 90s. While playing another person was great fun, there was always the challenge of fighting your way through all the characters in single-player to beat M. Bison.…
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Japanese Student Wins (and Loses) $46,000 at Gaming Contest
In recent years, the prize pools given at competitive gaming tournaments have gotten pretty amazingly high. At some competitions, you can win as much as 7 digit prizes for being the best at a particular game. This does, however, get a little more complicated if you’re entering an eSports competition…
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Osaka Police Use CAPCOM’s Street Fighter in Recruitment Drive
Characters Used as Mascot with CAPCOM’s Blessing CAPCOM, the Japanese video game publisher, has been working with Osaka Prefecture Police since 2013 to implement crime prevention awareness campaigns. This year however, Osaka Prefectural Police has requested the use of CAPCOM’s Street Fighter characters for their cyber crime investigator recruitment drive.…
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New Footage of the Greatest Street Fighter Match of All Time Surfaces
The Enduring Legacy of EVO 2004: Daigo vs Justin Even those who are not fighting game or eSports fans have probably seen this legendary footage. It took place during Evolution 2004, the largest annual fighting game tournament on the planet. On the stage was Daigo “The Beast” Umehara of Japan…
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Bandai Namco’s Tekken 7 Reaches Three Million Sales Milestone
Over 47M Copies Since Series Launch Bandai Namco has proven that fighting games are alive and well in 2018, especially now that Tekken 7 has surpassed the 3M sales milestone. This puts the total game copies of the series sold at 47 million worldwide. Not bad at all even with…
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Capcom Announce Plans For 2 Major Releases By March 2019
Capcom Announced Two Major Games By March 2019 At this time of year, it’s not unusual to hear companies discuss finances and fiscal plans. In this, game publishers are no different. As such, hearing that Capcom plans to release a game by March 2019 wouldn’t be surprising. In a report…
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CAPCOM’s Street Fighter is Being Adapted as a TV Series
Street Fighter TV Series In Development Although CAPCOM‘s iconic Street Fighter fighting game franchise is not exactly setting the video game world on fire these days, the property itself still has plenty of steam left. Which is why it comes as no surprise that somebody in Hollywood intends to adapt…
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CAPCOM Releasing Street Fighter 30th Anniversary Collection
CAPCOM is celebrating the 30th anniversary of one of their most iconic game franchise: Street Fighter. The revolutionary arcade game which changed the fighting game genre and game controls forever will get a collection of 12 titles in one package. Specifically, this collection will include: Street Fighter, Street Fighter 2,…
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Street Fighter V Adds Schoolgirl Uniforms in Latest DLC
CAPCOM’s flagship fighting game Street Fighter V is dropping another DLC set on Tuesday. This update brings quite a bit of new costume changes for many characters, plus new (old) music and a new stage. Cammy and new character Menat in particular get schoolgirl uniforms for the start of the…
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Counter-Strike Fan Re-imagines it as a Fighting Game
Counter-Strike is one of the most enduring first-person games in history. Its iconic maps and gameplay is also so ingrained in many gamer’s minds that it is difficult to imagine it in any other way. However, animator Chris Le has re-imagined a world where CS:GO is actually a 2D fighting…
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