Tag: Street Fighter
"That's something I'm interested in"
Capcom recently prompted a backlash from fighting game fans when it revealed plans to place its official Street Fighter 6 finals behind a paywall — but fresh comments from Tekken boss Katsuhiro Harada perhaps shed a little light on why the publisher's going down that road. The answer is money, obviously, but...
News Street Fighter 6's Sales Hit Another Noteworthy Milestone
The only way is up
Street Fighter 6 is a sublime fighting game, so it’s reassuring to see it continue to sell so well. The game has been steadily accumulating sales milestones since its release in 2023, and now it’s topped a very respectable six million units to date. The game previously topped 5.7 million units as of 30th September, so that...
News Street Fighter 6 Pays Homage to an All-Time Capcom Classic on PS5, PS4
Arthur, is that you?
Fans of Ghosts ‘n Goblins and its successor Ghouls ‘n Ghosts may want to pick up the new Fighting Pass in Street Fighter 6, which includes various references to the 80s arcade classics. As always, this Fighting Pass includes a variety of different in-game items, including avatar outfits inspired by protagonist Sir Arthur,...
News Capcom Refuses to Back Down on Crazy Street Fighter 6 Pay-Per-View Plan
Sorry not sorry
Capcom will go ahead with its plans to paywall Capcom Cup 12 and its accompanying Street Fighter League: World Championship 2025. The annual events will be adopting a pay-per-view model, meaning that if fans want to watch the official streams, they'll need to cough up. Naturally, the announcement of such a model went down...
News We're Lovin' This McDonald's x Street Fighter Collaboration
Available in Japan now
McDonald’s Japan has teamed up with Capcom on a Street Fighter 2-themed promo that’ll be hard to top. The promotion – named Street Burgers – has rolled out with a ton of promotional pixel art, showing series protagonist Ryu chomping away on a Samurai Mac and shady Shadaloo villain M. Bison clutching his takeaway order...
News Here Comes a New Challenger! C. Viper Struts into Street Fighter 6 on PS5, PS4
Flame haired fighter arrives
Anticipated Street Fighter 6 addition C. Viper is available now. The character comes with a cavalcade of new content, including World Tour quests, Battle Hub events, and of course new combat trials and story in Fighting Grounds. You can get a glimpse of all what’s on offer in the trailer embedded below. In...
News Capcom 'Reviewing' Price of Pay-Per-View Street Fighter 6 Finals Following Fan Disbelief
The return of Crapcom
Last month, Capcom revealed that it would be locking next year's professional Street Fighter 6 finals behind a paywall, with watchers being asked to cough up for a pay-per-view model. As you'd expect, this decision was met with some serious pushback; many fans, players, and prominent community figures have argued that Capcom...
News Zangief's New Look in Street Fighter 6 Really Didn't Need to Go This Hard
Introducing Mech Zangie-F
We already knew Zangief would be getting his Outfit 4 at part of next week’s big Street Fighter 6 update, from 15th October. (Which also includes C. Viper as a new DLC character.) But man, Mech Zangie-F really didn’t need to go this hard. He looks like a cross between the Russian grappler and Jack-8 from Tekken 8...
News Fans Left Speechless as Capcom Locks Street Fighter 6 Finals Behind Paywall
Good luck with that
Every now and then, a big publisher will make a seemingly inexplicable decision that leaves onlookers in a state of disbelief — and this latest move from Capcom is right up there amongst the most baffling. So, every year, Capcom hosts the Capcom Cup for the current iteration of Street Fighter. It takes the world's best players...
News Get Abreast of the Situation with C. Viper's First Street Fighter 6 Gameplay Trailer
She's coming 15th October
You’ll only have to wait two and a bit weeks to get your grubby mitts on C. Viper in Street Fighter 6. But if that’s still a little too far away, then here’s your very first glimpse of her gameplay. It’s all smouldering split-kicks and electro-charged fisticuffs – a familiar mix of flaming cross-ups and lighting...
News Street Fighter Movie's Crazy Full Cast List Revealed, Releases Next Year
Here comes a new challenger
Legendary’s Street Fighter movie is in full production, with a release date scheduled for 16th October, 2026. The film, which will be the first of a three year alliance between the filmmaker and Paramount, will be set in 1993 – around the same time the legendary Street Fighter 2 dominated arcades. As we’ve been...
News Sun's Out, Guns Out Is the Mantra of Street Fighter 6's New PS5, PS4 Outfits
Sunshine season
The sun is shining, and the cast of Street Fighter 6 are looking hot to trot. This new trailer shows off the new batch of outfits being added to the game on 5th August, all of which focus on swimwear-style costumes for a chunk of the cast. The characters featured include Luke in trunks and sunnies, Kimberley in training gear,...
News Phew! C. Viper's Turning Up the Temperature in Street Fighter 6 on PS5, PS4
Eyes up, everyone
Sony appears to have accidentally leaked the first glimpse of upcoming Street Fighter 6 DLC character C. Viper, who’ll launch at some point in Autumn 2025. As has been the case with all of these reveals, it’s introduced the character with her World Tour cutscene, where she’s created some kind of holographic version of M...
News Street Fighter 6 Community Rocked by AI Art Controversy
And so it begins
Welcome to the world in 2025, folks. Capcom recently launched an art competition in Street Fighter 6, where it tasked its uber-talented community to come up with artwork for each character, with the winning entries eventually intended to be added to the ‘Here Comes a New Challenger’ screen. The final selections were recently...
Random Wrestlers Cosplay as Street Fighters in New Mattel Action Figures
Ryu Mysterio
The upcoming Street Fighter movie will see a variety of wrestlers assume the role of famous characters from the Capcom franchise, but if you’re eager to see more WWE stars make the transition, then Mattel has you covered. At the San Diego Comic-Con this week, four new action figures have been revealed, casting the likes of The Rock...
News Street Fighter's Dhalsim Is, Like, Super Sexy Now
Yoga fire
Dhalsim is among the most famous faces in Street Fighter’s roster, but we don’t think we’d ever describe him as hot. His spindly limbs, skull necklace, and – in Street Fighter 6, at least – thick white beard make him more mysterious than mouth-watering. (Depending on what you’re into, of course! No judgement here!) In...
News Street Fighter 6's Sagat Gameplay Trailer Signals the Imminent Arrival of Year 3
Tiger punch
Here’s your first look at stalwart Sagat’s gameplay in Street Fighter 6. As you’d expect, the lanky Thai fighter uses his enormous limbs to close space, while his iconic Tiger Punch gives him the ability to attack from distance as well. To our eye, there’s a bit more grappling to his move set than in past Street Fighter games,...
News Legendary's Live Action Street Fighter Cast Is Crazy, By the Way
It was just Tuesday
Almost every day, it feels like a new actor signs on to Legendary’s live action Street Fighter adaptation. Recently we reported on Callina Liang taking the role of the thunder thighed Chun-Li, and now we have our M. Bison: The Life of Chuck’s David Dastmalchian. This follows the announcement last week that rapper 50 Cent...
News K-Pop Supergroup Aespa Gives Street Fighter 6 Whiplash in PS5, PS4 Crossover Event
Virtual idol Naevis signs on as new commentator
As was leaked weeks ago, k-pop supergroup Aespa is infiltrating the world of Street Fighter 6. The headline here is the inclusion of a new outfit for Juri, inspired by one of the band’s most iconic looks. This Outfit 4 will be available from 4th July for one year only, so grab it while you can...
News Street Fighter 6 Swimsuit Outfits Incoming, Sagat Arrives 5th August
Money makers
Muay Thai madman Sagat will kick tree trunks when he arrives in Street Fighter 6 on 5th August, as part of the release’s Year 3 Pass. The character will be accompanied by a new Thailand stage and World Tour content. He’ll be preceded by a new Fighting Pass on 4th July, which for the first time will include Battle Grounds content,...
News Meet Callina Liang: The New Chun-Li in Legendary's Live Action Street Fighter Movie
Leg it
Candian actress Callina Liang may be spending a lot of time in the gym moving forward, as she’s been recruited to play Chun-Li in Legendary’s upcoming live action adaptation of Street Fighter, Deadline reports. While plot details are still very much under wraps, sources say that the Presence star has landed the lead female role in the...
News Street Fighter 6 Confirms Collab with K-Pop Supergroup AESPA
Winter is coming
The new batch of classic Famicom games added to Street Fighter 6 were a surprise earlier today, but an intended one. However, a new Juri outfit emblazoned with the name of k-pop group AESPA seems like more of a mistake. Players accidentally found the costume while playing against V-Rivals in the Battle Hub. This is the mode that...
News The Superb Street Fighter 6 Has Now Surpassed 5 Million Sales
KO
Street Fighter 6 just recently celebrated its second anniversary, and coinciding with that is a new sales milestone the 2D fighting title has just reached. Publisher Capcom has announced the game has now sold more than 5 million copies: The Street Fighter series as a whole has sold 56 million units (as of March 2025), meaning the latest entry...
News Street Fighter 6's Year 3 Roster Includes Sagat, C. Viper, Alex, and Ingrid
Here comes some new challengers
Capcom nonchalantly revealed Street Fighter 6’s third season during Summer Game Fest today. The lineup is as follows: Sagat: Summer 2025 C. Viper: Autumn 2025 Alex: Early Spring 2026 Ingrid: Late Spring 2026 Ingrid is perhaps the most interesting inclusion here, as she’s the character who first debuted in the...
News Street Fighter 6's Big Balance Patch Bundles in Four Famicom Favourites for Free
Available for everyone
A big new balance patch is out for Street Fighter 6 today, alongside the long-awaited inclusion of Elena, who first debuted in Street Fighter 3: New Generation of course. But while the new update demands attention in its own right, there’s a secret update for retro game fans: four Capcom classics from the Famicom era...
News Street Fighter 6's Fresh Round of PS5, PS4 Outfits Look Fantastic
Mai! Terry! M. Bison! Elena!
Capcom has revealed new outfits for some of Street Fighter 6’s most popular characters, including SNK stars Mai Shiranui and Terry Bogard, as well as Shadaloo villain M. Bison and returning challenger Elena. To be honest, there’s not a bad one among the bunch. Terry’s new look is uber-casual, pairing a basketball...
News New Street Fighter Movie Targeting Jason Momoa, Roman Reigns
Here comes new challengers
Capcom’s big screen Street Fighter adaptation, which it’s cooking with Legendary Pictures, is eyeing the Minecraft movie’s Jason Momoa and WWE’s Roman Reigns to join its cast. Other actors on the list include Andrew Koji (Bullet Train) and Noah Centineo (Warfare). It’s not clear who Momoa is being coveted to...
News Monster Hunter Wilds Reveals Free Akuma Armour and More in Street Fighter 6 Crossover
Chun Li and Cammy are DLC, though
Monster Hunter Wilds has unveiled its upcoming collaboration with Street Fighter 6, and it's actually all about Akuma. The demonic fighter is making his presence felt through a free armour set, which can be unlocked through a new quest, suitably titled Ultimate Strength. Additional arena quests, named Demonic...
News Street Fighter 6's Elena Is Alive and Kicking in Full PS5, PS4 Gameplay Demo
Footsies
Elena, first introduced in Street Fighter 3: New Generation, is days away from making her Street Fighter 6 debut. The Kenyan capoeira combatant is as agile as ever in this gameplay demonstration, using her long legs to unleash devastating damage. She seems particularly adept at closing distances, and unleashing swift combos before breaking...
News Here Comes a New Challenger! Street Fighter's World Warriors Invade Overwatch 2 on PS5, PS4
Perfect
Overwatch 2 is no stranger to a cool crossover, and its latest collab with Capcom should draw some of you back to the hero shooter, starting 20th May through 2nd June. According to Blizzard, this isn’t “simply cosplay”, with many of your favourite characters given new animations and visual effects inspired by Street Fighter 6. So,...
News Monster Hunter Wilds Update Teases Some Kind of Street Fighter 6 Crossover
Hit the streets
It looks like Street Fighter 6 is coming to Monster Hunter Wilds in the near future. Based on a teasing social media post, which shows a palico's paw icon in Street Fighter 6's spraypainted style, some kind of collaboration is in the works. Obviously, both games are from Capcom, and the company has always liked to cross its...
Random This Anime About School Girls Who Play Street Fighter 6 Could Be One to Watch
Yuri already dead
Yuri manga Young Ladies Don’t Play Fighting Games – which has been running since 2020 and has accumulated eight volumes to date – is getting an anime adaptation from Diomedéa later this year, and Capcom has signed on to make Street Fighter 6 the star of the series. A live action web drama was previously released for this...
News Capcom Remembers PS1 Classic Rival Schools for Free Comic Book Day
Art book also on the way
Just what is going on with Rival Schools right now? The legendary PS1 fighter is enjoying a bit of a moment, with Dreamcast sequel Project Justice included on the upcoming Capcom Fighting Collection 2 and a new Udon Entertainment comic on the way. Street Fighter vs Rival Schools will feature as part of the lineup for this...
News Here Comes a New Challenger! Street Fighter 6's Elena Revealed for PS5, PS4
Kenya handle it?
The conclusion to Street Fighter 6’s second season is close, and here’s your first look at returnee Elena, who first debuted in Street Fighter III: New Generation. She’ll join the fracas from 5th June, alongside the newly announced Fighters Edition of the game. While this trailer doesn’t feature any of the new...
News Street Fighter 6 Is Getting a Big New PS5, PS4 Bundle for New Players
The streets will hear about this
Street Fighter 6 is comfortably the best fighting game on the PS5 and PS4, but if you don’t own it yet you’ll have no excuse with the new Years 1-2 Fighters Edition. As you may probably expect, this will bundle in a bunch of the content added since launch as DLC. Here’s exactly what you’ll get if you...
News Iconic PS1 Fighter Rival Schools Returns in New Street Fighter 6 Fighting Pass
Crazy diamond
Rival Schools is back – well, sort of. A new Fighting Pass launching in April for Street Fighter 6 will allow you to unlock various avatar outfits inspired by the legendary 1997 brawler. Among the unlockable items includes a school uniform with a giant Josuke-style pompadour, as well as Akira Kazama’s motorcycle helmet. You can...
News Street Fighter 6's Ridiculous New Music Video Is Pure 90s Nostalgia
Sing along
Capcom has released a new Street Fighter 6 music video for a song that can be unlocked in World Tour mode – but only if you have God given fighting game chops. The music video is based on classic 90s karaoke videos, and shows a man dressed in Ryu’s gi playing on an old CRT screen and eating various different foods. These are...
News No Objections to Street Fighter 6's Surreal Ace Attorney Crossover on PS5, PS4
The Steel Samurai sentences you to a smackdown
In one of the stranger, but nevertheless appealing crossovers we've seen in recent days, Street Fighter 6 players had better prepare their defenses, legal or otherwise, as a crossover with Capcom's long-running, often ludicrous court-room brawler, the Ace Attorney series, is set for a showdown. The...
News Mai Oh Mai! Street Fighter 6's New Challenger Is Out Now on PS5, PS4
Ready, fight
After an extended build up, buxom Fatal Fury babe Mai is available now in Street Fighter 6. As with all DLC characters, she comes with her own World Tour quests, arcade ladder, customisable content, and more. She’s also joined by a fresh Fighting Pass, which features Mai-themed content. You can learn more about that, and impending...
News Street Fighter 6's Crummy PS5, PS4 Battle Passes to Get Better in the Future
Capcom has reassessed their contents
Capcom has addressed the feedback to Street Fighter 6’s crappy Fighting Passes, which are short-lived Battle Passes available periodically in the game. <related ids="171421"> In a statement, the celebrated publisher first promised that more outfits are on the way for its various cast of characters, but...
News We're Already Big Fans of Street Fighter 6's Mai, Launching As DLC Next Week on PS5, PS4
Modern controls were made for this
Is it fair to say Mai Shiranui is the most anticipated Street Fighter 6 addition to date? The buxom Fatal Fury heroine is certainly up there, right? Capcom has released a six-minute gameplay guide trailer which shows off all the ways you can use the new character, and she looks like a ton of fun. <related...
News Critically Maligned 90s Street Fighter Animated Series to Make Shock Blu-ray Comeback
Darkstalkers adaptation, too
Capcom’s crappy 90s Street Fighter animated series is making a surprise comeback, courtesy of boutique Blu-ray publisher Discotek. The re-release, which will feature all 26 original episodes, will be preserved using a format the publisher is dubbing SD-BD. This basically means that the content will be presented in its...
News Fatal Fury's Mai Makes the Jump Over to Street Fighter 6 Next Month
Out on 5th February
Capcom has revealed by way of a new gameplay trailer that the second crossover character in Street Fighter history will be available from 5th February 2025. Mai from the Fatal Fury series is joining Terry Bogard in Street Fighter 6, and you can catch a glimpse of how she plays in the trailer above. Mai utilises a mixture of...
News Street Fighter 6 Brings Ryu, Chun-Li, Cammy to Destiny 2 in Themed Items
Emotes, Ghost shells, and finishers from 19th November
Three classic Street Fighter characters will be used as inspiration for a set of newly themed items in Destiny 2. On 19th November 2024, Ryu, Chun-Li, and Cammy will be brought to the Bungie universe by way of new emotes, finishers, and Ghost shells, presumably purchasable using real money. You...
News Darkstalkers Fans May Find Street Fighter 6's Fighter Pass a Touch Cruel
Night warriors await
To be fair to Capcom, it has ported the Darkstalkers games to modern consoles with the Capcom Fighting Collection, so it’s not letting the franchise rot. The chance of a new title in the series seems low, though. At least fans can look forward to a new Street Fighter 6 Fighting Pass inspired by the franchise, however – and...
News Street Fighter 6 Still Kicking, Over Four Million Copies Sold
Perfect K.O.
Capcom's excellent, latest entry in its long-running Street Fighter series is proof there's life in the venerable IP yet. The company announced that lifetime sales for the title (released in June last year) have now exceeded four million across all platforms. The Street Fighter account on X shared the happy news, which shows that a...
Preview Capcom's Fighting Game Crossovers Will Take You for a Ride in 2024
Hands on with Terry Bogard in Street Fighter 6 and Marvel vs Capcom Fighting Collection
Capcom has always been one for a crossover battle, but the stars have now aligned in such a way that Capcom fighting games are crossover-central for the rest of 2024. We just had the re-release of SNK vs Capcom: SVC Chaos, and now SNK poster boy Terry Bogard is...
News Terry Bogard Looks Both Rad and Mad in Street Fighter 6 PS5, PS4 Gameplay Reveal
Okay
King of Fighters star Terry Bogard is joining Street Fighter 6’s roster on 24th September, and here’s an extended look at him in action. In addition to a short clip from World Tour mode, we also get to see his combat style, which seems largely reminiscent of the character’s source material. There are a lot of familiar moves here for fans...
News Have Some Fun in the Sun with Street Fighter 6's Summer Samba Fighting Pass on PS5, PS4
Saturday Night Slam Masters is the available retro game
There’s new summer content to enjoy in the outstanding Street Fighter 6 this week, with a new Fighting Pass featuring a sunny samba theme. The premium tier comes with a ton of goodies, including some distinctly elaborate avatar gear, an emote, Mike Haggar’s theme, and much more. You’ll...
News Fatal Fury's Terry Bogard Tips His Iconic Cap in Street Fighter 6 PS5, PS4 Teaser
Okay
Here’s your first look at Fatal Fury’s Terry Bogard kicking ass in Street Fighter 6. The iconic SNK character, equipped here with his legendary red-and-white cap, is shown taking down a muscle-clad pretender before pulling out his famous win pose. This appears to be a cut-scene from World Tour mode, so there’s no actual gameplay footage...
