Street Fighter 6 has just had yet another battle pass announced for it as it enters the 2025 season, filled with cosmetics for player avatars, stickers, and online challenger portraits. However for Street Fighter 6 fans who've been fiending for new costumes for the main cast, the announcement has gone down terribly.
]]>I've played Guilty Gear: Strive, Tekken 8, and Street Fighter 6 against people in the states over the weekend, and I think it's safe to say that the war for better netcode in fighting games is pretty much won at this point.
]]>It's been a great year for fighting game events. Not only did Evo 2024 — the biggest fighting game tournament in the world — wrap up after breaking records, but we've seen growth across the genre, and across the globe. It feels like more attention than ever is on a historically niche style of game, as well as the culture of high level play surrounding it.
]]>Earlier this year, we saw the biggest open bracket video game tournament conclude - Evo 2024. With over 16,000 tournament entrants and many spectators alongside them, Evo made clear to the Las Vegas crowd that it's not going away any time soon. Or, well, you could argue it said the opposite! Not in terms of a permanent goodbye, but more of a holiday abroad, as Evo international events in France and Signapore were announced live during the Sunday finals.
]]>Ever since I've been playing video games, I've been playing them on a pad. The lovable Xbox 360 pad. The brilliant PS4 pad. These days, the bulky and boisterous PS5 pad. I have never owned an arcade stick. This was not for lack of want - an arcade stick even today is a sign of gaming prestige as a Ferrari is for driving. Imagine my shock when earlier this year this all changed with the Vitrix Pro FS. In my late 20's, without kids nor mortgage, an ever-expanding waistline and ever-receding hairline, I am in theory the ideal market for such a product. It felt natural on my lap.
]]>Street Fighter 6 just got a new teaser trailer for Terry Bogard, showing a bit of in-game cinematic footage of the legendary Fatal Fury and King of Fighters character in the World Tour mode. Alongside this comes a release window: Terry will be launching as DLC in Autumn 2024.
]]>Big news has just been dropped around the future of the Evolution Championship Series (Evo). Live on stage, Rick Thiher general manager announced several new locations for the event's near future. This includes a Los Angeles event in Feburary 2025 (where the recently announced Evo Awards will be held), but also an event in Nice, France in October.
]]>In a crossover no one saw coming, senior developers from both Zenless Zone Zero and Street Fighter 6 have recently come together for a roundtable discussion about their games, game design philosophy, and perhaps most interestingly the thought process behind how to keep players invested in each title, while maintaining depth for hardcore players.
]]>Competitor regristration for Evo - the world's biggest fighting game tournament - has concluded. With its closure, the tournament's organisers have revealed that it's surpassed 10,000 unique competitors, making it the largest video game tournament in history. This figure also does not include non-competitor ticket sales, which will remain available until the tournament's start in July.
]]>Last year, we learned that Capcom and Legendary Pictures had teamed up to develop a new live-action Street Fighter movie, and Talk to Me directors Danny and Michael Philippou were promptly attached to it. Now, the filmmakers have just departed the project due to scheduling issues, but that isn't stopping distributor Sony Pictures from setting a tentative release date anyway.
]]>It turns out that the developers behind Street Fighter 6 had considered unifying the character names across all regions, but eventually gave up. This means that, at least for the foreseeable future, M. Bison will be Vega, and Dictator. Oh, and Balrog is still M. Bison in Japan. Call 'em what you like.
]]>Year 2 of Street Fighter 6 will soon be getting underway in earnest, with the competitive pro tour getting back on the road and four new characters set to join the roster over the next twelve months. But this time, something truly different is happening: guest characters.
]]>Capcom might be working on a brand new Street Fighter film, but it turns out the original one still makes a surprising amount of money.
]]>Oh dear, the Street Fighter movie has had to pause progress, as it has just lost its pair of directors.
]]>According to senior developers on Street Fighter 6 meta events for Akuma - including a Twitch plays community stream and a raid boss style encounter inside the game's battle hub - were a success in the eyes of the development team at Capcom.
]]>Street Fighter is crossing over with SNK yet again via the Street Fighter 6 season 2 DLC. Terry and Mai from the King of Fighters series are set to make a return, as well as Street Fighter favourites M. Bison (somehow) and Elena.
]]>If you forgot a new Street Fighter movie was happening, don't worry, me too, but the film's logo is here to remind us it exists.
]]>Earlier this month, fighting game players across the US learned that the Wyndham Orlando Resort International Drive hotel was to close suddenly, pulling the rug out from under the upcoming CEOtaku tournament. This sucks for a variety of reasons, obviously. At a base level, a lot of hotel staff are getting laid off. For the attendees of CEOTaku, it will force a sudden change in travel plans, and the organizers must now undergo the expensive process of tracking down and securing a new venue on short notice. But more than that, it means that one of the last remaining in-person gaming subcultures is losing a home of sorts.
]]>Akuma is ALWAYS a problem.
]]>Street Fighter 6 entering its second year can mean only one thing - a meta-shattering balance patch. About damn time.
]]>Akuma has just gotten a shiny new gameplay trailer at Evo Japan, signaling the imminent arrival of the fighter to Street Fighter 6. Alongside the trailer, we now know that Akuma will be coming to the game on May 22nd.
]]>To help you out, we've written this quick guide that'll run you through everything you need to know about the Evo Japan schedule. It'll answer a variety of questions like when is Evo Japan? Where do I watch Evo Japan? And who can forget, what games are at Evo Japan!
]]>Dust off that fight stick - Akuma has just been revealed in a lush new cinematic Street Fighter 6v trailer. He'll still be coming to the fighting game in Spring 2024 as was established in the past, though no exact release date has been given at time of writing.
]]>Capcom is hosting a double-duty livestream event called Capcom Highlights this month, in which some of its biggest games like Dragon's Dogma 2, Street Fighter 6, Monster Hunter Now, and Monster Hunter Stories will feature.
]]>Evo 2024- the world's biggest fighting game tournament - has revealed the line-up of games that'll take the main stage later this year in Las Vegas. Even if you don't care about the competitive side of gaming, those with a taste for exciting new reveals and announcements should mark their calanders.
]]>Street Fighter 6 is the Game of the Year. Yeah, 2023 has been a truly incredible year for game releases (though certainly not for the industry, what with all the brutal rounds of lay-offs), but even among such stiff competition, Street Fighter 6 stands tall.
]]>Street Fighter 6 has announced its next collaboration, this time to commemorate the upcoming release of Spy x Family Code: White.
]]>With Street Fighter 6, Capcom nailed it. The mood of the series, the visual look, the balance. Its online modes are sublime, and the company finally found a template that works for single-player. It’s one of the best games of 2023. But before its release year is out, Capcom is threatening that reputation with silly over-the-top monetization.
]]>The game line-up for Evo Japan 2024 has been revealed, and it includes a nice mix of both expected favourites and some of 2024's most anticipated fighting games. This will likely be the first major international tournament for Granblue Fantasy Versus: Rising, Under Night In-Birth II Sys:Celes, and Tekken 8.
]]>Later this month, the Xbox Series X / S will be undergoing a massive change that 99% of users won't notice. Nonetheless, it threatens to leave players with niche hardware out to dry.
]]>It's not confirmed what it is yet, but Capcom still apparently has an "unannounced major title" due out before March 2024.
]]>The president of Capcom, Haruhiro Tsujimoto, has stated he would "gracefully decline" any offer of acquisition from Microsoft, in an interview with Bloomberg.
]]>Street Fighter 6 gives players the opportunity to get to know the various heroes, villains, and famous world warriors of the SF series more closely than ever by training under them as part of the World Tour single-player mode. As well as sparring and learning new moves, a huge part of impressing the Master characters, as they’re known, is by giving them gifts.
]]>Capcom’s first major crossover content in Street Fighter 6 is ridiculously priced, but fans are at the very least seeing the funny side.
]]>A few months ago, a decided to throw the retirement plan to the wind and drop and a good chunk of my savings on a flight to Las Vegas. Not for blackjack, but for a far sillier gamble. As of writing, I've blown roughly £2,000 for Street Fighter 6.
]]>Grab some pizza and settle in - it looks like Street Fighter 6 and theTeenage Mutant Ninja Turtles are teaming up for a crossover event. This'll be available for all players Tuesday, August 8.
]]>A.K.I has been revealed for Street Fighter 6 in a glorious new reveal trailer.
]]>If you've experienced issues with the Battle Hub tournaments in Street Fighter 6 recent, don't worry, it's not just you! These events are busted across the board right now.
]]>Street Fighter 6 has been out for a little over a month, and surprisingly Capcom has already seen fit to drop its first major content addition for the game in an update led by returning fighter Rashid.
]]>Fighting game tournament Evo 2023 is set to be the largest open bracket video game tournament of all time, according to Evo general manager Rick Thiher. This comes following the explosive launch of Street Fighter 6, which has led to a staggering 7,061 unique competitors registering to travel to Vegas to compete in August.
]]>Rashid is officially out now in Street Fighter 6. He's proving to be an incredibly popular character, with numerous players jumping into the game to try him out for the first time. However, thanks to those skilled at quickly uncovering the secret spice in newly released characters, it's starting to look like Rashid is a real powerhouse.
]]>It's the weekend. That means it's time to relax and do something fun. Basically, anything that isn't related to work.
]]>It looks like Street Fighter 6 is going to be flipped on its head very soon, courtesy of Rashid. Having just got his official character guide video released online, we can now see clear as day just how rancid Rashid's selection of attacks and specials is.
]]>Among the lengthy laundry list of things that Street Fighter 6 excels at, one of the most impressive has to be the sense of community and scale around the game’s online component. The MMO-style Battle Hub environment does a brilliant job of fostering arcade-like community over the internet – but did you know that the adventures can also continue, to some degree, on your browser?
]]>Number crunchers online have compiled threads posted on the Street Fighter 6 Reddit, using them to determine which characters are the scariest in the mind of the fighting games' online community. Who came out on top? The answer may surprise you.
]]>When you really step back and think about it, Street Fighter is really one of the first ever games as a service. Sure, in the 90s it meant a different thing - but few games ‘lived’ for as long as Street Fighter titles did, receiving updates that’d deliver new moves, new characters, balance changes, and even entirely new gameplay mechanics.
]]>Rashid - the first DLC character for Street Fighter 6 - is coming to the game July 24.
]]>Street Fighter 6 has been out for a solid month now. With a bombastic tournament wrapping up over the weekend, the debate surrounding character balance is back in a major way. But are players too nerf happy? It's a conversation as old as old web forums and arcade brawls, louder today due to a huge wave of new players flocking to Street Fighter 6.
]]>We're halfway through the year now, and to mark the occasion Metacritic has highlighted the highest-rated games of 2023 so far.
]]>On March 6, 2023, house bill 1521 was filed by Florida-based government officials. It would strictly determine what bathrooms people could use based on their assigned gender at birth – an attempt to prohibit the freedoms of non-binary people within the state. This bill, part of a wider political assault on the transgender population currently taking place in the USA, is set to go into effect today, July 1.
]]>A new technique in Street Fighter 6 has been discovered and shared online, essentially removing the threat from any incoming throws regardless of what character you're playing or fighting against. It is already being investigated by Capcom, and banned from most upcoming tournaments.
]]>Several weeks following the launch of Street Fighter 6, clubs dedicated to Juri's feet remain some of the most popular you can find online. It seems like the dedication of Street Fighter foot fetishists has legs. Toes too, we assume.
]]>Last night, over 1,000 players signed up to the Coinbox Street Fighter 6 tournament, hosted and organized by professional Smash Bros player Hungrybox. During this tournament, racial slurs were attributed to two players live over the course of an entire match.
]]>Street Fighter 6 has been out for over a week now, and it turns out the most challenging foe online isn't Honda mashing heavy headbutt or Brazilian Ken players, but Drive Impact. For those new to the game, or nearing the age of forty, reacting to this new attack is proving troublesome.
]]>I am not very good at Street Fighter. 2D fighters have never been my jam, I’ve always been a 3D kid – so much so that I even took a trip to Japan when Tekken 7 was arcade-only and sat on one machine as a couple of locals threw themselves, hopelessly, at my King. But that doesn’t stop me playing games like BlazBlue, Street Fighter, Guilty Gear and more besides on release – I love fighting games. Can’t get enough of them. My limited skill ceiling shouldn’t affect that too much.
]]>Street Fighter 6’s new World Tour story mode is a revelation for the series. Less a ‘cinematic story’ and more more an RPG experience that allows you adventure through an open-ended Street Fighter theme park, it’s a wonderful mode that pays loving homage to years of gaming history. But its secret weapon is that it isn’t just a Street Fighter experience at all.
]]>Street Fighter 6 is clearly already doing quite well for itself, as the latest in the fighting game series hit one million players within its first three days.
]]>Street Fighter 6 is something a bit special, isn’t it? As Alex mentioned in his Street Fighter 6 review, you can tell from the second you start to get your teeth into Capcom’s latest fighter that this, really, is an all-timer. The incredible balancing of the fighting system, the well-considered comeback options, the weight with which you can punish whiffs, the variable and meaningful options open to even the most gimmicky characters… it’s Street Fighter at its peak, and a solid foundation for the next decade – if not decades – of the series’ life.
]]>World Tour is a bold new direction for Street Fighter – and it’s actually where we’d recommend you start your journey in Street Fighter 6. It’s where you’ll create your avatar to represent yourself online, and also one of the most friendly and clever implementations of a training tool ever to feature in a fighting game.
]]>Street Fighter is finally big on PC. The release of Street Fighter 6 has not only demonstrated that to be the case, it also showed that the long-running fighting game series is capable of outselling even the most popular fighting games on Steam.
The fighting game scene on PC has never really been massive, at least when you look at the different games' Steam numbers at launch and beyond. The only major player in the space has, unsurprisingly, been Mortal Kombat - but NetherRealm's reign is seemingly over.
Having debuted less than 24 hours ago, Street Fighter 6 is now firmly Steam's most played fighting game ever, having peaked at 65,873 concurrent players (via SteamDB). Even setting aside the potential for the player base to grow further throughout the day, and over the weekend, this is already a new record for the series.
More importantly, it overtook Mortal Kombat 11's 35,147 peak concurrent, which the NetherRealm game set at its launch in 2019. Setting aside free-to-play hits like MultiVersus with its massive 153,433 peak concurrent, Street Fighter 6 is far and away the most popular premium fighter ever on the platform.
At the time of writing, 45,508 players are currently discovering the silly wonders of World Tour mode, duking it out online against other players, or simply having some friendly matches against local players. That's enough to land it at number 13 on Steam's charts, and it's already the top-selling paid game on the platform.
With its modern controls, a suite of modes for players of all skills to enjoy (something Street Fighter 5 severely lacked), and a modern visual style that strikes a balance between realism and graphical fidelity - Street Fighter 6 always looked well-positioned to change things forever for the series, and the fighting game genre as a whole.
Find out why this is a revolutionary fighting game in Alex's Street Fighter 6 in-depth review at the link.
]]>Probably the hottest topic in online gaming in the coming weeks – if not months – is going to be an endless, grinding debate about Capcom’s major new revelation for Street Fighter 6: Modern Controls.
]]>The Street Fighter 6 community are throwing punches at eachother online following the revelation that wifi indicators will appear next to players heading into online lobbies. With this out info out in the world, debate surrounding the merits of wired vs wireless connections has sprung up yet again.
]]>In gaming, as in any art, you sometimes have to learn to take the rough with the smooth. No artist, director, studio, production house, or franchise is infallible. But the failures aren’t always just missteps. Sometimes, they’re stepping stones on the route to triumph.
]]>Street Fighter 6 is shaping up to be a strong followup to its predecessor, and it seems that Capcom's president has some high hopes for how many copies it will sell.
]]>Street Fighter 6 may well be one of the greatest turn-arounds in gaming history. Cast your mind back to 2016, to the release of the deeply flawed Street Fighter 5. The bones of that package were pretty strong - but there also wasn’t much meat on them. In fact, if you didn’t want to play multiplayer, you were pretty much out of luck. It was a shocking, sloppy-feeling launch package.
]]>If you had access to the Street Fighter 6 beta, and you've continued to play outside of designated hours, you might want to cut that out before Capcom finds out.
]]>Capcom hosted a Street Fighter 6 showcase yesterday with Lil Wayne as the MC and dropped new information on the upcoming game.
]]>A Street Fighter 6 showcase will be going live tomorrow! It'll be just over 30 minutes long and will feature Lil Wayne for some reason. Okay!
]]>A new Street Fighter movie is in the works at Legendary Entertainemnt, the studio behind Detective Pikachu, Pacific Rim, Godzilla vs Kong, and more.
]]>Are you s**t at video games? Maybe AI could be your key to finally getting good, either that or it could put you out of a job. As a fighting game player, that last fear is something you're likely used to - so you may be happy to hear about one concept AI program that could analyse your Street Fighter matches.
]]>This morning, Capcom announced a change to its rules regarding the upcoming Street Fighter 6 Capcom World Tour. This change, a seemingly simple rule regarding direction inputs, may have a widespread impact on not just Street Fighter 6, but the fighting game scene as a whole.
]]>It's nice to have flashy trailers that really show off an art style, or that really dig deep into an aesthetic. But to really understand a fighting game – I mean, really know how it'll actually feel on the stick – you need to watch people that know what they're doing have a fight.
]]>A new Street Fighter 6 trailer was shown off at last night’s Sony State of Play, showing off gameplay footage of Cammy, Zangief, and a new character Lily.
]]>The official line-up for Evo 2023 was announced today. Street Fighter 6 is making its Evo debut, while plenty of community favourites like Guilty Gear: Strive and Tekken 7 are getting another go at the main stage too. Each game with have a prize pool of at least $25,000 each.
]]>Two men, AJ and Brian, are driving in a white van, proudly donning Republic of Ireland plates, into Northern Ireland. It takes no time at all for them to be stopped by police once they cross the border. Questioned by the cops, the pair had to explain they weren’t headed to Belfast with nefarious intent. They were heading there to pick up 30 monitors for a gaming event: Celtic Throwdown.
]]>Modders are already hard at work creating custom skins for Street Fighter 6 characters, months before the game is released. Whether they're classic throwbacks, recolours, or something altogether more bizarre, the Day Zero SF6 scene is wild with cosmetic fervour.
]]>Content creators on YouTube are having Street Fighter 6 videos taken down, placing strikes on multiple channels that feature footage from a pay-per-view tournament showcase.
]]>You can play Street Fighter 6 right now, close to six months before its launch date, as long as you don’t mind being naughty and searching for an unofficial version of the game.
]]>Well, there we have it: it looks like today's leak about Street Fighter 6 arriving in June next year was accurate after all. Capcom confirmed the launch date of the upcoming fighting game via a new trailer at The Game Awards, and we're all pretty excited about it.
]]>The release date of the highly-anticipated Street Fighter 6 has been the subject of a lot of speculation, but it looks like we may finally be getting closer to an official announcement.
]]>Street Fighter 6 is getting an exciting new feature, allowing players to reduce the input delay. In basic terms, this means the time between you pressing a button and an action happening in-game is shortened, a massive boon for any fighting game where reactions are key.
]]>Capcom has released its financial report, covering the six month period starting March 2022 up until September. Not only showing the success of its released titles within that window, it’s also left us with key info regarding the next six months leading into 2023, including the fact we’re not going to see Street Fighter 6 until later in the year.
]]>^Stay tuned after the ads for our Street Fighter 6 Beta impressions, and loads of pristine PS5 footage.
]]>When Capcom revealed that Street Fighter 6 was going to be split into three distinct menu options that each lead to relatively separate experiences, I was curious – but I thought it was just a gimmick. Experiencing the Battle Hub in the beta has shown me that it's more than that; it's a way to honor the past.
]]>Jamie is a brand new addition to the long-line of Street Fighter characters, and a damn fun new addition to the overall Street Fighter 6 roster. They’re a drunken fighter archetype, weaving tricky combos together and buffing their own strength and moves with sips from the jug.
]]>Street Fighter 6 is slowly but surely approaching, with new characters revealed often and a whole lot of new injected into Capcom’s legendary fighting game series, there’s so much to wrap your head around. New moves, new mechanics, new game modes, and more.
]]>Luke is the blond haired, hard-hitting cover star of Street Fighter 6, sharing the initial announcement spotlight next to Ryu when the game was first shown off to the world. As in SFV, he’s a super-powerful member of the cast able to deal absurd amounts of damage when going in. However, in order to perform online, you’ll want to know his SF6 move list inside and out.
]]>Ryu is Mr Street Fighter, the main guy, the front cover star. He was front and centre the moment Street Fighter 6 was announced, and has returned in style with some refreshed attacks and a brand new look in Street Fighter 6. If you’re looking for a full breakdown of what he can do, we’ve got the full Ryu move list for Street Fighter right here.
]]>Chun Li is back in Street Fighter 6, and is packing a mix of familiar and brand new attacks in their most mature iteration yet. Whether you’re a longtime fan of the series, or are a newbie looking to learn more about Capcom’s master of kicks, there’s plenty to learn with the release of Street Fighter 6.
]]>Capcom has released a trailer showing off the launch roster for Street Fighter 6.
]]>Street Fighter 6 is shaping up like it might be one of the greatest ever apologies in gaming history – and the world of video games is one where a lot of developers have had to make embarrassing admissions that their previous project was, y’know, a bit crap. I’ve always been a strong supporter of Street Fighter 5, and the fact that it got significantly better over time... but lord knows, the difference between SF5 and SF6 is night and day.
]]>Street Fighter 6 is looking polished as hell - let’s make that clear from the off. It represents a massive course-correction from the controversial mis-steps of SFV, but it hasn’t jettisoned everything from the previous game: everything salvageable has been iterated and improved upon, resulting in a blend of SF4, SF5, and a breadth of new ideas.
]]>A hot new trailer for Street Fighter 6 was just dropped during Capcom’s Tokyo Game Show live stream, giving us a look at several returning world warriors, the battle hub, character creation in the single player mode, and the return of good ol’ fashioned car vandalism.
]]>VsFighting X, the 10th instalment of the UKs biggest fighting game event made its glamorous return this past weekend in the heart of central Birmingham. Walk past all the construction through the doors of the Millenium Point venue and excited crowds of competitors and spectators dominated the space. However, as brilliant as the tournament itself was, one of the most popular attractions was Street Fighter 6 on the 2nd floor.
]]>It is honestly a really good time to be a fan of fighting games. Guilty Gear is good, there’s a new Smash alternative in Multiversus, there’s probably a new Netherrealm game on the horizon, there’s definitely a new Tekken coming, and Street Fighter 6 is well and truly on the way, in the thick of what’ll presumably be a relentless promotion cycle over the next nine months or so.
]]>Street Fighter 6 has received a brand new trailer as part of Evo 2022’s Street Fighter 5 tournament - this time revealing Juri and Kimberly as official additions to the cast. Set to launch in 2023, this trailer raises the total official character count to seven as we march closer to the eventual release of the highly anticipated 2D fighter!
]]>Evo - the largest annual fighting game tournament in the world - has announced the Evo Lounge. This will be a dedicated live show running alongside the show August 5 - 6 that will present new game and DLC reveals, as well as curated highlights from the tournament itself. If you’re more interested in the big reveals than the hours upon hours of excellent competition, this is for you.
]]>Street Fighter has long been known for its music: since the early days of the series, characters in the game have been given their own themes that hype players up during a fight. Whether it's Guile's infamous theme (that clearly goes with anything) from Street Fighter 2, or the incredible Rashid theme from Street Fighter 5, the music that goes with the series is almost as important as the gameplay.
]]>It's looking like Street Fighter 6 will have cross play and rollback netcode, two highly sought out features for fighting games.
]]>If there's one lesson that sports stories impart, it's that sometimes you have to get knocked down, or even get knocked out, to get better. It's the lesson at the core of the world’s most famous fictional fighters, from Rocky to Ryu: every now and then you need to get your ass kicked, and have a good old fashioned montage, in order to get better. It's a tale as old as time. And it just might be the story of Street Fighter 6.
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