East v. West; this battle’s about to explode.

Street Fighter IV may seem dead online, but offline, the game remains popular as ever.

This evening, Gootecks is hosting the latest Bar Fights event featuring Empire Arcadia against some of Southern California’s top talent. Look forward to seeing Justin Wong, Arturo “Sabin” Sanchez, L.I. Joe Marn Phan and Sanford Kelly go head-to-head against Alex Valle, Ed Ma, Combofiend, and  some unannounced participants.

It’s all going down very soon (22 minutes at the time of this article being published). Get hype! Thanks to Triforce for the heads up.

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You know you want to watch em.

New KOFXII videos have surfaced from the location test at Shinjuku Club Sega yesterday courtesy of tomakuntube’s Youtube channel. Various system changes were implemented since the last build, the biggest one probably being the fact that critical counters have their own bar now. The game also received a shiny new hud and a noticable speed boost along with it. Plus the super freeze is back! Enough of my blabbering though, check out the videos yourself! (more…)

First 4 minutes of the digital comic.

If you haven’t heard by now, Udon has partnered with Eagle One Media to bring us digital versions of their Street Fighter comic to DVD. Street Fighter: Round One – FIGHT! collects issues #0-6 featured in the first graphic novel of the same name and will be released on Feb 3rd (next week!). Embedded for your enjoyment is a sneak peak that covers issue #0. Also, be sure to check out the source link for an interview between the president of EOM and Team SFD for more info on the digital comics. (more…)

Akuma vs. Gouken and a promo vid with the whole cast.

We have 2 new videos for you. The first one features Gouken and Akuma fighting to the death in the now signature Street Fighter IV watercolor art. The other video is a Japanese promotional video with a short mishmash of most of the other previous trailers and ends it off by showing off all the characters announced in the console version of the game. Check ‘em out!

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It’s like porn… for nerds!

As if I wasn’t already excited enough about Madcatz’s Street Fighter IV line of arcade sticks, Markman had to go and show us an unboxing video of the Street Fighter IV Arcade FightStick: Tournament Edition. All I have to say is that that thing is BEAUTIFUL! One thing of note is that there is a lack of wires on the stick when it was finally lifted out of the package in the video. Did it suddenly become wireless on us or is there a hidden compartment that houses the wires? The official unveiling of the sticks will be at CES in January so I guess we’ll have to wait till then. Now if you’ll excuse me, I have to go change my pants.

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