Capcom has just announced the final character in the Super Street Fighter IV line-up, a new character by the name of Hakan.
Lets just say he’s… different, and leave it at that.
The video is under the cut, if you’re willing to take the dive.
This one is sure to please the Street Fighter fans. Famitsu has just announced Adon, along with Final Fight’s Cody and Guy (looking like they did in Street Fighter Alpha 3) as playable characters in Super Street Fighter IV.
The scans from Famitsu show the characters in their Street Fighter IV interpretation. and they’re extremely faithful to their original designed, but updated for the HD generation.
Check them out below.
Capcom has just officially announced Super Street Fighter IV, an upgraded version of the existing game with a plethora of new characters and features.
The game will release as a stand-alone disc; this will not be DLC. The good news? It won’t be selling at full price, a good move on Capcom’s part which gives a strong incentive for existing owners of Street Fighter IV to pick up this improved edition of the game.
The game will include include eight characters (although this has yet to be finalised), including classic characters T. Hawk and Dee Jay, and new characters Juri. Who the other five characters will turn out to be is anyone’s guess, but fan favourites from Street Fighter Alpha (and at least one character from Street Fighter III) is a safe guess.
As long as they balance the game so that Sagat and Ken are no longer so over-powered as to be the only characters picked by 99.99% of the player-base, I’ll be happy.
The game is due for release on PS3 and Xbox 360 next spring. Excited?
Talking to the press today, Capcom seems enthusiastic (and rightfully so) about the launch of Street Fighter IV this Friday, and is expecting major financial success from this game.
“If buzz and anticipation equates to sales then we have very high expectations commercially,” said a rep. ““We’re tremendously excited to be launching Street Fighter IV this Friday.”
“It’s the return of the most loved, most played, most bought and most copied fighting game of all time. And Street Fighter IV is the best Street Fighter yet.”
And seeing as even the most hardcore fighting fans have been softening to this game very quickly, many of can agree that not just Capcom stroking their own egos.
According to recent reports by hardcore Street Fighter players have noticed a problem with the standard version of the Mad Catz Street Fighter IV stick.
Members of the Shoryuken message board have pointed out that the joystick gets stuck in the former diagonal position instead of snapping back to the neutral centre point.
“There is a small metal washer between the body of the joystick and spring cap. The washer moves around and the plastic spring cap gets stuck on the grooves where the washer is supposed to sit,” explained one disgruntled user.
Its important to note that the problem has only been reported in the lower cost model. The high cost tournament standard version works just dandy. Consider yourself warned in advanced, should you have any plans to go out and purchase one.
Street Fighter IV, for both PS3 and Xbox 360, sold out in Japan on its first day at retail, and will be hitting US and EU shores later this week.
Well, this is certainly an encourage sign. According to reports from Capcom themselves, Street Fighter IV has completely sold out at retail on its first day on sale in Japan.
The game sold 86,000 copies total in the region, subsequently selling out all available retail copies on both the PS3 and the Xbox 360.
Street Fighter IV launches in the US on February 17, and February 20 in Europe. Will you be rushing out like everyone else to pick up a copy?
Capcom have just released the Japanese cinematic opening for Street Fighter IV.
Here’s the video for you to enjoy, in all its awesomeness.
A new trailer for the upcoming Street Fighter IV has recently been released, dropping a few hints about the game’s story.
We’ll simply let it speak for itself:
Capcom has just announced release dates for its line-up in the first half of 2009.
It looks like it’s going to be a good start to the year for Capcom and gamers alike with titles like Street Fighter IV only weeks away, and Resident Evil 5 and next-gen Bionic Commando coming shortly behind.
- Flock! (XBLA/PSN) – February
- Street Fighter IV (360/PS3) – February 20
- Dead Rising Chop Till You Drop (Wii) – February 27
- Neopets Puzzle Adventure (Wii/DS/PC) – February 27
- Resident Evil 5 (360/PS3) – March 13
- MotoGP (Wii) – March
- Bionic Commando (XBLA/PSN) – March
Those wait for PlayStation Home are going to have to wait a little big longer; it’s still not up, but we’ll be keeping you updated on that one. In the meantime we can enjoy this week’s additions to the Europe PlayStation Store… especially the adorable new Street Fighter sack-people available this week!
We all know that game companies release different version of the same game onto multiple platforms in the hopes of getting us to buy multiple copies, and it looks like Capcom is doing just that with Street Fighter IV, but as most of us can only be able to buy one version which one will you choose?
The PS3 version comes with a Ryu figure, a CD soundtrack, a Blu-ray disc containing the full anime movie and promotional trailers, a Prima hint book with illustrations by Udon and then access to some unspecified downloadable content.
The 360 and PC version will contain the above content, but a different figures.
Also, everyone outside Europe can be jealous… as European copies will get both figures in their collection.
Capcom has just released, it’s 2009 first quarter release schedule for the UK, and amongst its gems is a release date for the new Bionic Commando, and even better… Street Fighter IV!
It’s gonna be an expensive fortnight for most of us UK gamers, it seems.
Capcom’s full 2009 Q1 schedule is after the cut.
Capcom pulled a few surprises with Street Fighter IV at today’s Tokyo Game Show, and revealed Sakura as a playable character for Street Fighter IV, whilst also highlighting Akuma’s general badass-ness.
Both characters seems to have very distinctive fighting styles created for them that are faithful to the older titles whilst keeping things updated and original. Sakura’s attack power is low as always, but she makes up for it with some effective floating combos, whilst Akuma has his trademark brutal attack approach but low defence.
After the cut we have gameplay trailers of both characters in action, as well as a collection of screenshots.
It’s epic stuff. Enjoy.
Ever since the first joke of Sheng Long being a secret character in Street Fighter II started years ago, fans of the series have hoped that, with every installment, this legendary fighter would finally reveal himself.
As time passed, hopes of ever seeing if we actually could defeat Sheng Long to stand a chance seemed very low… until now.
As I mentioned a few days ago, Capcom announced that a new character was soon to be revealed and even hinted that it could be Gouken (Sheng Long as many fans still refer to him). Now it is official, Gouken will finally be appearing in Street Fighter.
After years of speculation and April Fool’s jokes, fans can finally rejoice and test their skills against this legendary character.
According to Capcom’s Japanese developers blog (and members over at Shoryuken.com who have translated the page), there will be a new character revealed for Street Fighter IV on September 26th.
The blog hints that the new character is harder than Gouki (Akuma, who was revealed a few weeks back), and that players may have seen their shape or appearance before. They then go on to say that if you think about who might appear after Gouki, then you may be able to guess who this new character is.
Judging by the hints that were mentioned in the blog, many fans have speculated that the new character will be Gouken, Akuma’s brother and master to Ryu and Ken. Though it is still uncertain as to who the new character will turn out to be, look forward to the unveiling of this new challenger September 26th.
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