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ELEAGUE has announced that its next competition will feature Street Fighter V. The ELEAGUE Street Fighter V Invitational will see 32 of the best Street Fighter V players head to the ELEAGUE studio in Atlanta to battle it out for one of the larger prize pools in the game’s history. …
Read More »Team YP adds a Street Fighter player to its Overwatch roster
Team YP, the eSports organisation owned by YouPorn, has announced that it will add Valentin “Valmaster” Petit to its Overwatch roster. Valmaster is better known as a Street Fighter player, but is looking for a new challenge and is picking up Overwatch. He will join the rest of the team, …
Read More »Capcom Pro Tour details to be revealed at the end of February
Capcom has revealed that it will announce the first details of the 2017 Capcom Pro Tour at the end of February. “Full details on #CPT2017 will be released in late February on http://capcomprotour.com,” read a tweet from the Capcom Fighters account. “In the interest of helping players plan their travel, …
Read More »ULTRA STREET FIGHTER Ⅱ: The Final Challengers announced for Nintendo Switch
One of the bigger surprises from the Nintendo Switch reveal event was the announcement of ULTRA STREET FIGHTER™ Ⅱ: The Final Challengers. The title is somewhat of a remix of the classic fighting game, with new characters and features. Evil Ryu and Violent Ken are the two new confirmed fighters, …
Read More »Akuma arrives in Street Fighter V
The second season of Street Fighter V has kicked off, with a new playable character and a ton of new changes. Akuma is now available to purchase and play along with his story, premium battle and nostalgia costumes. Akuma is the first of six new characters due over the course …
Read More »Capcom to support Street Fighter V until 2020
Brawler Street Fighter will be supported for the next four years. That’s according to a Famitsu interview with producers Yoshinori Ono and Tomoaki Ayano – as translated by Event Hubs – in which Ono said that the road map of future content extended beyond one or two years. In fact, …
Read More »Capcom has shifted less than 100,000 copies of Street Fighter V since May
Capcom’s financial report has revealed that less than 100,000 copies of Street Fighter V have been shipped since May. Back in May the publisher reported that it had shipped 1.4 million copies of Street Fighter V since the game’s launch in February. Overnight the company updated its financial results, but …
Read More »Over $90,000 added to the Capcom Cup prize pool thanks to crowdfunding
The Capcom Cup prize pool has grown by more than $90,000 thanks to crowd funded items introduced to Street Fighter V at EVO. The Capcom Pro Tour DLC, which has only been available for a few months, boosts the prize pool of the Capcom Cup whenever someone purchases it. At …
Read More »Capcom bans Team YP and other “adult content” sponsors
Capcom has banned Team YP from all Capcom Pro Tour events, with a new rule that forbids sponsors of “adult content”. The new rules that were published at the end of last week, state that Capcom will not allow any players who are sponsored by “adult content sponsors, such as …
Read More »Capcom bans Team YP and other "adult content" sponsors
Capcom has banned Team YP from all Capcom Pro Tour events, with a new rule that forbids sponsors of adult content”. The new rules that were published at the end of last week, state that Capcom will not allow any players who are sponsored by adult content sponsors, such as …
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