Northern California’s premier fighting game tournament returns to the scene in style as the final major for 2009. This year’s NorCal Regionals tournament will be held on November 21-22 at the beautiful Domain Hotel in Sunnyvale CA, just down the street from the historic Sunnyvale Golfland Arcade. 

This year’s revamped lineup of titles features fresh and familiar faces, like the highly anticipated Tekken 6 and fan favorite Street Fighter 4, as well as old friends like MvC2 and NorCal favorite CvS2. Duke it out in any or all of our tournaments, or cheer on your favorite players in our special exhibition SF4 team grudge match: NorCal vs. SoCal.

The highest level of elite players from all over the country including EVO top 8 finalists Alex Valle, Ed Ma, Ricky Ortiz, ShadyK, Combofiend, Chunkstah, and West Coast Warzone SF4 champion Marneto, are confirmed to attend to stake their claim as “The Best In 2009.”

NCR will be utilizing official tournament-grade EVO equipment, and Shoryuken staff members Seth Killian, Ponder, James Chen, and Mr. Wizard will be present to oversee the tournament. Spectating is free and there will be plenty of  giveaways from sponsors including Namco, Madcatz, and Sugar Betty.

Can’t make it this year? All of the action will be livestreamed courtesy of the folks at iplaywinner.com and additional coverage will be provided by Kineda and Get Your Tournament. Pre-register by November 13 to save. To register, visit the official NCR website or browse the SRK thread for additional information.

At Evolution 2009 this past summer, a very special LIVE Dogface Show took place with some very special guests: Tom “inkblot” Cannon and Tony “Ponder” Cannon, creators of many Fighting Game Community standards such as Shoryuken.com itself, the Evolution Fighting Game Championships, GGPO, and more!

Part 1 of this interview was posted up here on SRK earlier. You can try to catch part 2 before watching this final part 3 of the Live Dogface Show. And this episode is noteworthy because or a special award given at the end, so stick around until the end of the interview to see a very special award introduced at Evo 2009.

In the continuing coverage of the upcoming release of Tatsunoko vs Capcom: Ultimate All Stars today IGN “revealed” 2 more characters of the game’s roster. Science Ninja Team Gatchaman’s Joe the Condor for Team Tatsunoko and Maverick Hunter Zero from the Mega Man X series for Team Capcom. Joe’s gameplay seems to be rooted from within the anime series while Zero’s bag of tricks seems to be rooted from earlier games in the X Series. Mainly the 4th and 5th iterations of the series to be precise. From the gameplay shown they seem to fit right in with the rest of the cast while being diverse in their own right. You can take a look at the full story from IGN in the source link below and the both vids of Joe the Condor and Zero in action.So revel in this and KEEP HYPE ALIVE EVERYBODY!!! Don’t forget that Tatsunoko vs Capcom: Ultimate All Stars is slated to be released in the US on January 26, 2010.

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At Evolution 2009 this past summer, a very special LIVE Dogface Show took place with some very special guests: Tom “inkblot” Cannon and Tony “Ponder” Cannon, creators of many Fighting Game Community standards such as Shoryuken.com itself, the Evolution Fighting Game Championships, GGPO, and more! Watch this very, in Victor “Dogface” Ratliff’s own words, insightful interview with two people who have influenced the Fighting Game Community in more ways than you probably know.

As before, we’ll be splitting up these video interviews into 10-minute segments and releasing them on a weekly basis. Share your comments here or over on the official website, where we’ll be posting the follow-up segments on a weekly basis.

Capcom has finally confirmed the widely rumored followup to the smash hit Street Fighter IV. Borrowing the SUPER title from the 90’s (and same exact logo), super implies bigger, badder, and beastlier. This sequel is shaping up to be one of the most anticipated fighting game sequels in 10 years.

Information is pouring out of Japan, just after the TGS show has ended. An interview with Ono, has revealed some juicy details about the game, including some of the new cast. T. Hawk, and Dee Jay are included, as well as a new Korean Tae Kwon Do martial arts expert named Juri, who is rumored to be one of Seth’s henchmen.

Last week, several websites had reported some rumors regarding the rest of the cast, and had the name of the new character before it was released yesterday.

Some of the information was listed as two new characters, Juri, and Hakan (Hakan being a Arab grappler associated with lots and lots of oils), and EIGHT returning cast members from other Street Fighter games. Dudley, Ibuki, and Makoto from the Street Fighter III series. From the Street Fighter Alpha series, we have Cody, Adon, and Guy, and from the Super Turbo series, we have T. Hawk and Dee Jay. We will have to wait and see what Capcom reveals to see if any of these rumors turn out to be true.

Expect massive changes in all the old returning cast as well. Improvements and overall gameplay will be fine tuned to make this the best Street Fighter to date.

Coming Exclusively to XBOX 360 and Playstation 3 in Spring 2010! Get Hype!!

Edit: Here is a video of T. Hawk, Dee Jay, and Juri in action!

Now as you may or may not have heard, the “alleged” remaining roster of Tatsunoko vs Capcom: Ultimate All Stars was leaked 2 weeks ago. With the 2009 Tokyo Game Show in full effect we’ve seen the first fruit from the Tree of Leaks in the confirmation of everybody’s Zombie Killing Journalist, Frank West representing the Dead Rising series. But his gameplay style is something that just has to be witnessed. But for right now that’s all that’s been revealed to us as of now. I’ll leave some links just in case you need to catch up. Until next time, KEEP HYPE ALIVE!!!!!

Tatsunoko vs Capcom: Ultimate All Stars TGS 2009 Trailer

Tatsunoko vs Capcom Ultimate All Stars Exhibition featuring Frank West

Tatsunoko vs Capcom Ultimate All Stars Exhibition featuring Tekkaman Blade

One more thing before I go. The release date for the US version is January 26, 2010. So go ahead and mark off those calendars and prepare yourself for battle.

Usually the words ‘wireless’ and ‘arcade stick’ don’t mix, but with TEKKEN 6 and the limited edition bundled fighting stick from Hori… TEKKEN team director Katsuhiro Harada wants everyone to know how this is a match made in heaven…

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Thanks to forum member mumu, and the web programmer at Capcom Japan, we have discovered the 5 new characters that will be in Tatsunoko vs Capcom US version.

The roster is as follows:

Mega Man Zero (or Zero Gouki)
Frank West
Yatterman #2
Joe Asakura
Tekkaman Blade

Capcom has since plugged the leak on their site, but the damage is done. Check out this thread for more information.

I call it TvC: USA (United States of America), they call it UAS (Ultimate All-Stars).  Either way, Tekkaman Blade is joining the cast of characters in the updated and rebalanced release of this awesome (but still Wii exclusive) fighting franchise!  But please, don’t let that stop you from enjoying a game that I know you’ll love once you start digging into it.  For now, enjoy this screen shot of Tekkaman’s cooler looking clone/friend/whatever.

Oh, and ‘hi”!  I missed you all, too.

SPACE LANCE!!!!

Thanks to Gamespot for the image!

Capcom-Unity revealed the new Mad Catz ‘Femme Fatale’ Tournament Edition Stick.  Limited to a 1000 Unit Run only, the new stick will be available exclusively at Capcom’s booth during this weekend’s PAX and on the Mad Catz GameShark store site.

Make sure to grab one this weekend at PAX or online before they are gone forever. This is your chance to own one of the unique sticks for the Street Fighter IV series.

More information after the jump.

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