Super Street Fighter IV: New Character Info Rumors

Jorge — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 17:18:17 +0000

Street Fighter news/ community blog Event Hubs updated last night with some exciting news concerning the existence of 4 extra characters yet to be revealed for Capcom’s update to Street Fighter IV. As many of you know, Event Hubs was one of the first sites to reveal the leak for the character list/ change details late last year for Super Street Fighter IV, and so far that rumor list has been spot on. As characters were being revealed, fans were awaiting the announcement of the Street Fighter III: Third Strike characters Makoto, a young female karate practitioner, Ibuki, a young female ninja and rival to Makoto, and the triumphant return or the super-classy Dudley, who you might say is London’s boxing Batman… Or I would just like to imagine that.

Makoto looks like a boy.

Ibuki is a ninja student, minus the crappiness.

Dudley is a rich business man... Who has an older butler... Who drives him around... Dudley is Batman.

Anyhow, the final character to add to that list is a new character that was rumored to be a Turkish oil wrestler. (!)

This is Turkish Oil Wrestling... For realsies...

Recently some images posted on MagicBox showed a terrifyingly Dudley-free character select screen that caused some confusion, (the previously shown images/videos had 4 empty slots that were thought to have been reserved for the new characters.) Those images were promptly dismissed as early-build examples and a crisis was narrowly averted. Now with the April release date of Super Street Fighter IV approaching fans have been hoping that Capcom wouldn’t hold off showing the new characters till GDC and Event Hubs has heard, from a credible source no less, that we should be getting information on the last 4 characters somewhere between February 18th and March 11th, which would give them just enough time to show 1 character a week leading up to GDC. (March 9th-13th) It would be safe to assume that Street Fighter will have a strong presence at GDC and the hype-train will be at full speed for the April release.

Head over to EventHubs to see the full story and stick around to check out the BattleField Arcadia 11 tournament highlights.

Evolution 2009 Tournament Results

Jorge — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 20:15:06 +0000

The 2009 Evolution Fighting Game Championships rocked The Rio Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada this past weekend, as fighting game players from around the world showed up to compete in arguably one of the largest and most densely high-level player packed tournaments ever.

The games available to compete in were Soul Calibur IV, Tatsunoku VS. Capcom, Guilty Gear Accent Core, Blazblu, Marvel VS. Capcom 2, Street Fighter III: Third Strike, Super Street Fighter II Turbo: HD Remix and of course Street Fighter IV. The attendance for the event was huge with entries for SFIV reported as high as 1100 players.

Great players from all over the world arrived to represent their respective countries, but most notably, Daigo Umehara from Japan and the surprise newcomer, Eduardo Perez from Puerto Rico. On the American front, west coast and east coast players were present as well, with notable players such as Alex Valle, Mike Watson, John Choi, David Sirlin, Graham Wolf, Justin Wong, Sanford Kelly and Martin Phan, amongst many others, making strong showings.

Although the weekend was filled with great moments and tons of great matches, most notably Sanford Kelly’s pair of victories over Justin Wong in Marvel VS. Capcom 2, and Takashi “Dan” Hukushi in Street Fighter IV, (with Cammy no less!) the gem of the tournament had to be Justin Wong and Daigo Umehara’s set of Street Fighter IV matches for the Evolution 2009 SFIV championship. Justin Wong, after being sent to the losers bracket in the finals, won the losers bracket after defeating Sanford Kelly and played a fantastic series of matches with Daigo, forcing a reset (Sending Daigo to the losers and starting a final set of matches.) Justin Wong showed a wide spectrum of knowledge of the game and his match-ups as well as an amazing ability to zone his opponents with his basic moves. Unfortunately for Justin, his skill was not a match for Daigo as he was unable to defeat Umehara’s Ryu after initially picking Abel, (which Daigo had some trouble with earlier but was able to defeat soundly in his subsequent match with smart use of his crouching strong (medium punch).) after being told by the crowd to change characters, Justin settled (surprisingly) on Balrog (boxer (Justin typically plays Rufus)) with which he had the most success, bringing the set down to the wire. Daigo was able to fend Justin’s tricky, powerful Boxer off and become the world’s first Street Fighter IV champion.

Here is a tournament results list for those who are interested.

Street Fighter IV Tournament Results

1. Daigo Umehara (Ryu)
2. Justin Wong (Rufus, Boxer, Abel)
3. Ed Ma (Akuma)
4. Sanford “Santhrax” Kelly (Akuma, Cammy)
5. Long “ShadyK” Tran (Akuma)
5. Eduardo “Vvv scrub” Perez-frangie (Boxer, E. Honda)
7. Takashi “Dan from Japan” Hukushi (Ryu)
7. Ricky Ortiz (Rufus)

Super Street Fighter 2 Turbo HD Remix Tournament Results

1. Hung “Afro Legends” Nguyen (Boxer, Dee Jay)
2. John Choi (Ryu)
3. Damien “Damdai” Dailidenas (Ken, Zangief)
4. Graham Wolfe (Boxer)
5. David Sirlin (Fei Long, Cammy, Dictator)
5. Louis “Thelo” Paquin (E. Honda)
7. Alex “CaliPower” Valle
7. Alex “Sin” Salguero

Street Fighter III: 3rd Strike 2v2: Final Results

1.Justin Wong (Chun Li) and Issei Suzuki (Yun)
2. Jimmy “Emphynaps” Tran (Urien) and Rommel (Yang)
3. Ryan “Fubarduck” Harvey (Chun Li) and Mark “Mopreme” Royogski (Ryu)
4. Alex Valle (Ken) and J.R. Rodriguez (Akuma)
5. Lee Cephas (Dudley) and Starboy (Ken)
5. Amir (Chun Li) and Thomas “The Pad Player” (Ibuki)
7. Mike Zaimont (Makoto) and Sanchez (Alex)
7. Ricky Ortiz (Chun Li) and Chang (Yun)

Marvel vs. Capcom 2: Final Results