Matt Dahlgren over on Capcom-Unity, posted registration details on the upcoming Street Fighter 25th Anniversary tournament being held in Austin, Texas on July 28th - July 29th.
The quest for some of the largest cash prizes the fighting game scene has ever seen, along with the coveted keys to our one of a kind custom Street Fighter Scion FR-S, is now underway. Registration for the first qualifying event in the Street Fighter 25th Anniversary tournament series is now open.
The first tournament takes place in Austin, Texas on July 28th-July 29th.
Since these tournaments are for the fans, these will be free to enter. Additionally, every person who registers and shows up to the tournament will receive a free Street Fighter 25th Anniversary t-shirt. We do require a 20 dollar registration fee to save a spot, however if you show up to the tournament, this will be refunded. The tournaments cap at 256 players, so make sure to register fast.
Posted by Catalyst
— July 10, 2012 at 8:18 a.m. PDT
The original release of Street Fighter 2 had a bunch of odd system mechanics, at least in comparison to modern games. Desk's latest combo music video revisits the title that started the fighting game craze for many, and runs through some of the zanier combos that were possible.
Posted by Catalyst
— July 8, 2012 at 11:45 p.m. PDT
EVO 2012 final results posted: EVO 2012 has finished up and all of the results, tons of battle logs and more have been added into this story. You can check out everything by clicking the link below.
The world's largest fighting game tournament kicked off on Friday. EVO 2012 is now complete and there was full coverage of this competition here on EventHubs throughout the weekend.
Top fighting game players were in attendance, including RZR|Fuudo, RZR|Latif, MCZ|Daigo Umehara, EG|Justin Wong, TH|Poongko, Hori|Sako, MCZ|Mago, AVM|GamerBee and many others. For a more complete look at who's attending and who the favorites are heading into this weekend, check out our preview here.
Posted by Catalyst
— June 17, 2012 at 9:05 p.m. PDT
Updated with final results: This story has been updated with the final results for day 2 of CEO 2012.
Day 2 of CEO 2012 is underway now and a bunch of games are being played. There are two streams going, one hosted by Team Spooky and the other by IPWDeuce ran on CEO Gaming's TwitchTV channel.
You can view our preview for this tournament here, which recaps the notable players who are attending, who's expected to contend for top honors and more.
Hit the jump to check out the live video feeds, results, battle logs and more.
Posted by DreamKing23
— June 17, 2012 at 3:40 p.m. PDT
Sf2kuroppi has uploaded a trailer for the Super Street Fighter 2 Turbo Tournament of Legends that will be taking place at Evo 2012. This tournament will feature numerous events including an East vs. West 32-man team battle, a first to 10 high stakes money match between Afrolegends and Damdai and top 8 for this tournament will be featured on the main Evo stage Saturday July 7, 2012.
There are a slew of legendary players competing in this event including MCZ|Daigo Umehara, MCZ|Tokido, LU|Alex Valle, WW|Laugh, Afrocole, Nuki, John Choi and many others.
Updated with final results: This story has been updated with the final results, battle logs and additional details for North West Majors 4.
KhaosGaming is presenting North West Majors 4 this weekend which is taking place in Des Moines, Washington. This tournament is featuring SSF4 AE 2012, UMvC3, KOF13, Skullgirls, MK9, SFxT, SC5, BBCS Extend, Mystery Tournament, Tekken 6, Virtua Fighter 5: FS and Super SF2 Turbo.
High-level players include EG|Ricky Ortiz, coL.cc|Filipino Champ, CVPR|PR Balrog, CCG|Air DMG|iPeru, John Choi, Buktooth and Jason Cole are also in attendance. Hit this link to see the brackets for every pool.
Earlier this month, GameSpot did a Street Fighter Marathon for Video Game History Month. They go play through a ton of Street Fighter classic games starting with the game that started it all Fighting Street then going into Street Fighter II, the Alpha series and more.
The level of play isn't the highest but they discuss a lot of history for all of the games they cover.
Posted by DreamKing23
— May 27, 2012 at 12:36 p.m. PDT
TS|Sabin has sent in the video archive and results for the Super Street Fighter 2 Turbo King of GGPO Spring 2012 Edition round 3 tournament. Below you will find the full archive and after the jump you can check out the results.
Also, after the tournament concluded the winners from round 1, 2 and 3 played a first to 10 round robin set against each other. You can find the video archive for this set of matches and the results after the jump.
Posted by Catalyst
— May 25, 2012 at 9:20 a.m. PDT
Many people had questions about the exact details of the 25th anniversary package for Street Fighter that Capcom announced yesterday. As luck would have it, Andrew, the product manager behind this release stepped in to provide some clarity.
Hit the jump to read everything.
Andrew: I realize that Capcom is going to disclose more information about this set, but I felt like posting this to potentially save Capcom some time so that they know which questions people have about the upcoming SF collection. The following are my questions and I'm sure other people will have questions of their own to add.
Where can we pre-order it from? I know the Capcom store already has it up, but I have had bad experiences with Digital River and would rather not have to deal with them.
We are working with the big guys, and they should have their order pages up shortly. In fact, Amazon's order pages are up right now:
The guys at ThePixelKingdom has put together a short comedic video where the cast of Super Street Fighter 2 play with a portal gun.
Hit the jump to see Maximilian's Soul Calibur 5 The Online Warrior Episode 12 and the Street Fighter X Tekken rival battles with all of the characters in their 3rd alternative outfit.
The YouTube replay of Week 2 of the King of GGPO tournament featuring Super Street Fighter 2 Turbo has been uploaded by Arturo "Sabin" Sanchez. This continues from last week with a lot of top players making an appearance to duke it out on the original GGPO netplay system.
Sabin also keeps track with the names so you can tell who is playing at all times.
TheShend has uploaded a 5on5 team tournament for Street Fighter 3 Third Strike from the Game Spot Versus Arcade in Tokyo, Japan. Some of the players you might recognize are Rikimaru, Kokujin, Oryu and many more.
Arturo "Sabin" Sanchez just uploaded the complete YouTube version of the King of GGPO Spring Edition tournament that took place yesterday. Featuring a lot of great players facing off in Super Street Fighter 2 Turbo, this video contains great matches with Arturo's informative commentary.
The visual clarity of the recording is also clear. Round 2 of The King of GGPO is taking place next Saturday at 7PM PST / 10PM EST.
Dr. Sub-Zero has uploaded a video in a new series called Growing The Bear. Where AmirXL and Dr. Sub-Zero take Street Fighter 3 Third Strike Online Edition for some ranked games online and try to complete special challenges.
Updated with final results: The final results for UMvC3, SSF4 AE v2012, SFxT, KoF13 and Soul Calibur 5 have been added into this story, along with an embed of the latter part of the tournament.
Team Spooky and Medina4life are streaming the Seasons Beatings: Summer Slam event taking place today at 11AM EST (8AM PST, 3PM GMT). Games included in the tournament are Super SSF2 Turbo, Mortal Kombat 9, King of Fighters 13, Soul Calibur 5, Street Fighter X Tekken, Super Street Fighter 4 AE 2012 and Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3.
Top players in attendance include coL.cc|Mike Ross, coL.cc|Combofiend, WW|Laugh, WW|Infiltration, EG|Ricky Ortiz, PR Balrog, BT|Viscant, BT|Dieminion, BT|IFC Yipes, TFA|Razer Banana Ken, CoCo|OmgitzAndre, UVG|Noel Brown and Damdai.
Hit the jump to see both streams. Medina4life is doing a Mortal Kombat 9-only stream for the weekend while Team Spooky is doing the rest of the games.