Akuma will be a playable character on Aug. 29

Posted on Aug. 22, 2008 at 12:24 p.m.

According to translations of the official dev blog from the readers on the Shoryuken.com message boards, Akuma will be playable in the arcade version of Street Fighter 4 on August 29, 2008.

Before he was unlocked via a code that Capcom sent out to arcade vendors around the world, so the assumption is this will happen again.

It will be interesting to see in the future how many other features/characters are unlocked this way — and if anyone manages to crack this system and unlock stuff before Capcom intends them to.

Posted by Balrog on August 22, 2008 at 2:55 p.m. #1

I wonder how balanced Akuma is going to be. They got him right in 3rd Strike, but since he's a boss character I really wonder.

Posted by Struggs on August 23, 2008 at 3:14 p.m. #2

Some people said that Akuma is a weak boss character, so he might be balanced alright with everyone else. Weak compared to Seth.