Street Fighter Legacy: Assassin's Fist Kick Starter campaign launched - target goal $950,000

The guys behind the Street Fighter Legacy series have opened up a Kick Starter campaign in order to fund their latest project, Street Fighter Legacy: Assassin's Fist. Unlike the first SF Legacy project, this iteration will be a series of episodes and will involve Ryu, Ken, Akuma and Gouken.

The target amount they are looking to raise is £625,000, ($950,000 USD). If you decide to donate a bit of money, there are a bevy of rewards you can receive such as access to their production blog, t-shirts, a DVD collection containing the series episodes, the battle gloves worn by Ken and Ryu, the Akuma beads prop and more.

The Kick Starter will end on May 3 at 8 p.m. EDT / 5 p.m. PDT / 1 a.m. GMT. Check out the video below for more information and hit the jump to see the original Street Fighter Legacy short film.

Two VHS tapes give a glimpse into the past with Street Fighter 2: The World Warrior and Street Fighter 3: Third Strike

Thanks to the efforts of The Urban Arcade and Retro Reality Gaming, we have two glimpses into the past of Capcom's Street Fighter history. The first video gives a look into an arcade tournament held on 1999, the first year of Third Strike's release whereas the second video is an instructional videotape from the Nintendo Magazine System showing players how to play The World Warrior.

There are humorous pieces in both videos, The first contains Yun players using SA2, people actually picking Twelve, a Q player winning, and Chun-li players doing the same low forward shenanigans as always. The second video has takes on how strong some characters are compared to others while showing some of the more interesting move properties in SF2 (such as Honda's Sumo Headbutt not knocking down).

Awesome promo tape from the early 90s claims Genesis Street Fighter 2 Turbo has better graphics and sound than the arcade version

Video game promo tapes from the 90s seem to have a bit of an aversion to the truth. Back in 1993 Capcom sent out about 1,000 VHS cassettes to hype up the release of the Genesis version of Street Fighter 2: Special Champion Edition.

While the other Capcom SF2 VHS strategy guide is fairly infamous and well documented, which you can find after the jump, this version is somewhat more rare as it was released in such limited quantities.

In the tape, you get to find out notable things like:

I think anyone who purchased the home console versions of these games may have had a thing or two to say to the contrary in regards to the music and graphics being better, especially in the Genesis port where the characters sounded like they have laryngitis.

Full results of Capcom's Street Fighter favorite characters poll, as voted by the fans

Capcom has unleashed the full results of the fan voted list of the most popular Street Fighter characters. Back in February, they asked the community to vote on which characters were there favorite, with English and Japanese options available for taking the survey.

At PAX East, they released a portion of this list, but now the whole shebang is available, separated into overall, English and Japanese rankings.

We've translated and compiled this list into an easy to read format, you can hit the jump to check out everything.

Red Fight District 2 results and battle log - featuring Xian, Luffy, ChrisG, Dieminion and more

Updated with final results: This story has been updated with the final results from Red Fight District 2.

Red Fight District 2 kicks off this weekend in Amsterdam. The live stream is being ran by Armshouse.tv by WorstGiefEver.

Notable players scheduled to compete include AGE|NYChrisG, EMP|Dieminion, DM|Xian, Nin, WDM|Luffy, WDM|Cuongster and LLL|Malekith.

You can scope out our preview for the event here. Hit the jump to see an embed of the live stream and a schedule.

Nanyang Polytechnic Chinese Orchestra's Street Fighter 2 medley featuring themes of Guile, Ryu, Chun-Li and more

Over the past couple of years the Nanyang Polytechnic Chinese Orchestra has uploaded musical compositions covering different video game and movie themes. A few months back they created a medley for a game with some of the most memorable theme songs to date, Street Fighter 2.

Included in this particular composition you'll find nicely orchestrated versions of themes from characters such as Ryu, Guile and Chun-Li. Check it out below.

Tip by Gentlegeek.

Winter Brawl 7 results, battle logs, stream archives and more - UMvC3, SFxT, SSF4 AE v2012

Updated with final results: This story has been updated with the final results for Winter Brawl 7, hit the jump to check them all out.

Winter Brawl 7 has kicked off in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and it runs through this weekend, ending late Sunday evening. There are three streams of the festivities being ran by Team Spooky, Bifuteki and 8WayRun.

Notable players in attendance include: EG|PR Balrog, AGE|NYChrisG, EG|Justin Wong, EG|Ricky Ortiz, BT|Dieminion, BT|IFC Yipes, BT|MarlinPie, AGE|Snake Eyez and many more. You can find our preview of the event with additional players who are attending here.

Hit the jump to check out the live streams, schedules and additional notes.

Street Fighter 2: Ryu vs. Sagat - sound effects, music and voices recreated by Marcelo Carvalho

Street Fighter 2 is a classic 2D fighter with sound effects, music and voices that we all recognize and love. Marcelo Carvalho created an awesome video in which he single-handedly recreates a SF2 match up between Ryu vs. Sagat.

Tatsumaki Senpyukakus, Shoryukens, Tiger Shots, you'll hear it all from the mouth of this one guy. That Sagat laugh at the end is spot on!

Via Capcom Unity.

The Beast: Never Say Die - a compilation of Daigo moments from Street Fighter 4, Marvel vs. Capcom 3 and Street Fighter 2

Hola4adola put together a compilation of hype moments from MCZ|Daigo's gaming career. There are clips from various games including the Street Fighter 4 franchise, Marvel vs. Capcom 3, Super Street Fighter 2 Turbo and more.

From the epic double K.O. between himself and EG|Justin Wong in Super Street Fighter 4 to the defeat of CJ Showstopper at EVO in Marvel vs. Capcom 3; there are quite a few great moments showcased here. Check them out below.

Tip by an anonymous reader.

New OCRemix tune 'Shoto Spirits' released featuring an excellent remix of all Street Fighter shotos

OCRemix has officially announced a new Street Fighter remix that combines the themes of all the shotos with excellent congruity. You can catch the information on what themes were used and who the authors of this work are below, along with an embed.

The Evolution of Street Fighter's revolutionary health bars and interface

Digressing and Sidequesting created a great video that analyzes the evolution of the health bar and interface in fighting games. Focusing solely on the various Street Fighter iterations, this video discusses how the life bars from the first Street Fighter game changed drastically in SF2 and how they paved the way for most every other fighting game that proceeded it.

Tip sent anonymously.

About 30,000 people have responded to Street Fighter character poll so far, Ken and Cammy in Monster Hunter

The Street Fighter character poll that Capcom launched the other day has already picked up about 30,000 votes, according to the Japanese Street Fighter blog.

The results for this poll will be revealed at PAX East, March 22-24, 2013. This poll is important, because the information will be used for future games, marketing and licensing.

Also, the team showed off some new skins for Ken and Cammy in Monster Hunter Frontier, to coincide with the 25th anniversary of Street Fighter. Check out the introduction clip below.

Getting back to the character poll, NMS84 compiled all of the votes left as comments on the story here on EventHubs. Hit the jump to check out what he came up with.

Capcom holding Street Fighter character poll to determine everyone's favorite characters, will help future games, marketing and licensing

Combofiend over on Capcom-Unity posted a Street Fighter character poll to determine which characters over the past 20 years have stood out the most to you as a player.

He also notes that the opinions are important to Capcom as the information here will help future games, marketing and licensing.

Below are links to the English and Japanese surveys.

Sent in by Tensa.

Awesome Super Street Fighter 2 Turbo HD Remix speed painting and rap song video from Homeless Heroes

The guys over at Homeless Heroes put together a video that shows off an awesome speed painting coupled with a Street Fighter themed rap song. The work of art features Ryu and Ken in the style of Super Street Fighter 2 Turbo HD Remix and both the song and painting are quite well done.

Check it out below.

Tip by soultruthgemini.

SF25 Grand Finals - Super Street Fighter 2 Turbo Match Analysis from Sabin

Arturo "Sabin" Sanchez is back once again with a new match analysis video. This time he's covering the Super Street Fighter 2 Turbo finals at the Street Fighter 25th Anniversary Grand Finals tournament that features Damdai, Afrolegends and John Choi.

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