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A French gamer called Olivier ‘Luffy’ Hay has won the coveted Street Fighter IV prize at the 2014 Evolution Championship. Not only did he come through the loser’s bracket to do so, and not only did he win using the typically unflavoured Rose character, but he also triumphed using a …
Read More »Yoshinori Ono resigns from Capcom Vancouver
Street Fighter IV producer Yoshinori Ono has quit Capcom. I resigned from the director position about Capcom Vancouver,” he said on Twitter. Thanks good staff of Capcom Vancouver, and Dead Rising staff. I had take some time, I think over very carefully about next things. I’d like to watch TV …
Read More »Capcom partners with Twitch for year-round Street Fighter league
Capcom and Twitch have joined together to present a Street Fighter eSports league called Capcom Pro Tour. The tour will run year-round and hold worldwide events to determine spots on the tour and eventually crown champions. Street Fighter IV will be the title of choice, at least on this first …
Read More »Capcom and Virgin launch real-money Street Fighter IV multiplayer
Street Fighter IV has been added to Virgin Gaming’s real-money multiplayer roster. PS3 and Xbox 360 players are now able to compete for cash via the service in 1v1 battles in 32-player leagues. It involves a relatively convoluted process requiring use of both the Virgin website and in-game menu system, …
Read More »Another Street Fighter IV coming to retail
Capcom is getting some seriously good mileage out of its 2009 hit, Street Fighter IV. Following on from 2010’s Super Street Fighter IV and 2011 Super Street Fighter IV: Arcade Edition (that was meant to be the final version by the way), comes Ultra Street Fighter IV. The new game …
Read More »Capcom backtracks on SFIV DRM
No doubt fearful of a backlash similar to that suffered by Ubisoft last year, Capcom has announced that it will remove the DRM it had planned for Street Fighter IV: Arcade Edition. The publisher had previously announced that PC players who were not logged into Games for Windows Live would …
Read More »Core franchise growth for Capcom
Three new titles and two new IPs were showcased at Capcom’s Captivate event in Miami last week. The publisher has unveiled three new games – Dead Rising 2: Off The Record, Dragon’s Dogma and Street Fighter IV: Arcade Edition. It also detailed other key titles, including Asura’s Wrath, Resident Evil: …
Read More »‘MvC will thrash SFIV’
Capcom is confident its latest beat-‘em-up can top the record-breaking success of Street Fighter IV. Marvel vs Capcom 3 landed on UK shelves last week (Friday, February 18th) and continues the popular crossover series that sees the publisher’s characters battle against superheroes such as Iron Man. On Monday it debuted …
Read More »MvC3 hoping to match SFIV sales
Just a few years ago people were predicting the death of the 2D fighting game – now Capcom hopes to build on the success of last year’s Street Fighter IV by bettering it at retail with next year’s Marvel vs Capcom 3. MvC3 has a more broadly appealing/recognizable brand with …
Read More »NPD: February market up year-on-year
The North American video games market has once again defied the global credit crunch by showing significant year-on-year gains for the month of February – and Nintendo is the company that continues to impress. Figures from NPD showed that February was up 10 per cent compared to the same month …
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