Tag: STREET FIGHTER

Share Producers and directors, take note: the video game movie -- and the inevitable franchise that follows it -- will never succeed as a film. Sure, that may sound hyperbolic, especially since movies like 'Tombraider' and 'Pokémon' have had significant box office success, but the formula, as it is, it will never work. At Switched, we are the video game generation. We grew up with ...

Last Friday, the folks at Capcom unveiled the full list of Street Fighter IV's characters, Joystiq reports. The long-awaited new version of the famed arcade fighting game -- the first since 1999 -- will be made available for U.S. consoles on February 17th. Plenty of the latest version's characters are old favorites, including Ken, Ryu, Chun-Li, Guile, M. Bison and the like, but others are new ...

We stopped by STREET FIGHT! - the Street Fighter 2 Challenge at Rope in lovely Fort Greene, Brooklyn on Sunday night. The tournament was set up in pro fashion with big-screen projection and dual arcade-stick pedestals. Winner Addai Borden took the final round using Guile against runner-up Arthur Young. Young, the underdog and crowd favorite due to his use of the weaker Dhalsim character, ...