Posts tagged Super Street Fighter IV
EVO touts record attendance, Capcom ensures $25k total prize for Street Fighter IV
Jun 26th
The Evo hype train gained some steam this week with the announcement that both attendance and prize pool numbers are breaking records. Chief among the fighting game pools is a Capcom-guaranteed $25,000 for Super SFIV Arcade Edition 2012 in celebration of the series’ 25th anniversary. That’s a nice slice for anyone in the top eight!
Our own Christian Svensson (or Sven, y’know) lays it all out:
“With Capcom celebrating its 25th Anniversary of Street Fighter this year, we thought it fitting that Evo’s Super Street Fighter IV: Arcade Edition 2012 competitors should play for $25,000. Capcom wouldn’t be where it is today without the support of our hardcore fans, and this is just the first of many exciting opportunities to help celebrate this milestone for the Street Fighter franchise.”
Not an SFIV player? Ultimate MvC3 entrants can look forward to a $15,000 pool, and the two-person teams of Street Fighter X Tekken will be playing for $9,000. And if you miss Evo, we still have that year-long tournament series…
Street Fighter's 25th Anniversary Tournament Series!
May 23rd
Back in January earlier this year, we teased that we had some pretty huge plans in store for this years Street Fighter 25th Anniversary. Today we are happy to reveal a couple of core pieces of the celebration: a huge collector’s set (only available in North America) as well as a giant world wide Street Fighter tournament that we’re backing with half a million dollars worth of prizing and amenities!
TOURNAMENT SERIES
Our Capcom-sponsored series of tournaments begins in July and runs right through until December. Games included are Street Fighter X Tekken, Super Street Fighter IV AE v2012, SF III: Third Strike Online Edition and Street Fighter II Turbo HD Remix. (Dates and locations subject to change):
- July 28-29 in Austin, TX
- August 11-12 in the NY area (location pending)
- August 26 in Taipei, Taiwan (location pending)
- Mid-September in the Tokyo Region, Japan (date and location pending)
- September 27-30 in London, England (in conjunction with Eurogamer Expo)
- October 13-14 in Sao Paulo, Brazil (in conjunction with Brazil Game Show)
- October 27-28 in Los Angeles, CA
- October 31 – November 4 in Paris, France (in conjunction with Paris Games Week)
- December 8 Finals in San Francisco, CA (including players who qualify in the prelim tourneys)
As if that wasn’t enough, the first place SFxT player gets a custom Scion FR-S Sports Coupe! It includes a custom video entertainment system from SCEA, modified exterior from Five Axis and other components from other aftermarket companies.
European Street Fighter fans will have TWO chances to take part in the celebrations, with one event in London taking place during the Eurogamer Expo in September, as well as another event in Paris during Paris Games Week in November! More information on both events will follow shortly whilst we finalise the details.
Lastly, there will soon be a new site where you can share your own SF fandom. Head to http://www.streetfighter.com/sf25 for more info – it’s not fully operational just yet, but it will be soon. More on that to come!
See Some Of The Best Fighting Game Pro Players in Action!
May 4th
One of the biggest fighting game tournaments in the world just kicked off Today, and will continue across the whole weekend. Shadowloo Showdown 2012 live from Australia has one of the most impressive lineups of professional fighting game players in attendance, including 5 of the UK’s best players: F-Word, Andreas, Don-D, Zak Bennett, and the one and only Ryan (Prodigal Son) Hart!
They will be streaming all of Capcom’s major fighting game titles, Super Street Fighter IV: AE, Ultimate Marvel Vs Capcom 3, and Street Fighter X Tekken! You can watch the live stream here, right now is the VIP night where you can see some exciting exhibition matches! I’ve also included an embed of the stream above, so just hit the play button to tune in live and support the UK!
Owning it with Oni
Jan 4th
Now that the Ver 2012 update is out (and has been for a while) maybe it’s time to learn a new character. So how about a little bit of Oni? Check out DreamKing’s guide to the even eviler Akuma!
Just rub it in a bit more
Nov 22nd
So you’re going to win a round in Super Street Fighter IV, but how do you make your opponent cry extra salty tears of defeat? Cancel into a special or super to add extra hits after the KO! Here’s a tutorial from Snoooootch to show you how it’s done. I’ve done it a few times, by accident, but it does look cool.
East Vs West
Jul 6th
Fighting game documentary, Finalroundbats, by Scott Popular is the “First of a series of video documents, following the fights at Finalroundbats Tokyo. Finalroundbats is a brawler tournament held in Tokyo with the aim to form a team of strong Japanese players in order to snatch some prize money from American players at the big brawler event in Atlanta.” They play Street Fighter, MVC3 and some other fighting game that we won’t mention…
FINALROUNDBATS//01 from SCOTT POPULAR on Vimeo.
Got some good things on sale!
Jun 22nd
Is it summer yet? Might be! In that case we’re having a Might Be Summer Sale on PSN!
From today until 6th July you can get 50% off loads of DLC for Capcom games on the PSN including Super Street Fighter IV costume packs, Resident Evil 5 Untold Stories and the Dead Rising 2 Skill Packs! Here’s the complete run down of what you can get! It’s all half price – so grab a bargain while you can!
SSF4 Complete Costume Pack
SSF4 Ultra Brawler Pack
SSF4 Ultra Challengers Pack 1 & 2
SSF4 Ultra Classic Pack
SSF4 Ultra Femme Fatales Pack
SSF4 Ultra Shadaloo Pack
SSF4 Ultra Shoryuken Pack
Dead Rising 2 Skill Packs
Lost Planet 2 Map Packs 1 & 2
RE5 Untold Stories Bundle
RE5 Versus
And just a quick note to remind you that Super Street Fighter IV Arcade edition is out now for download and will be in stores this Friday in Europe!
Ibuki stuffs everything
May 23rd
Ibuki’s Raida command grab has some unique properties and in this vid it makes it look like one of the most powerful moves in the game shutting down almost everything you can throw at her. Check the description for more info on how and why this works.
K is for kicking Ken
May 17th
And C is for Chun Li, H is for Honda, R is for Rock Man and V is for Jill Valentine. I think that’s everybody Capcom related in Fabian Gonzalez’s video game ABCs. You can buy Gonzalez’s work on tshirts and more at Society6.
Dan dares
May 13th
A very funny video by Cosmopanda that shows Dan at his best. Or at his big headed and oblivious worst.