One of the most celebrated fighting games in history is coming back for another round! Check out the first teaser trailer, art and details for “Marvel vs. Capcom 2″!

Nine years after taking the arcade gaming scene by storm and over six years after making its original home console debut, “Marvel vs. Capcom 2: New Age of Heroes” returns! Slated to hit Xbox 360’s Xbox Live Arcade and PS3’s PSN, expect the same fast, furious and fantastic gameplay you loved with even more awesome online head-to-head action!

The game comes complete with widescreen mode, HD upscaling, no characters to unlock, Custom sountrack options and  ONLINE PLAY, so get your warpneto’s ready for hot action. Thanks Marvel.com for the video!

The game will be $15 or 1200 XBOX points coming this summer!

The word ‘fair’ is an interesting one.  It has a large number of accepted definitions, and much like the word ‘nice’, can be used in an almost infinite number of situations.   Today, I’d like to examine the word ‘fair’, what it means to the fighting game community now, and what it probably should mean going forward.

The fighting game community is a very distinct subculture.  If you were not a part of it, but ended up in line at the airport behind two people boarding a plane for the Evolution Championship Series, what you hear may sound like a different language to you.

“That was when Daigo did a psycic DP and caught ‘Sim’s standing forward full screen”

“Yes, fierce recovers in 8 frames so you can link a low strong, and cancel that into super”

“Oh, that is so pringles”

If you understand what any of the lines above were saying, then you know that most of our subculture’s language is pretty well-defined.  Why, then, do we continue to use the word ‘fair’ (and its ugly sister, ‘unfair’) with such a broad variety of intended effects?

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Game collector extraordinaire and Midwest Street Fighter Championship Director, Jason “DreamTR” Wilson, had his 2009 Gamestop SFIV National Tournament hopes rained on when his flight was delayed due to bad weather. After waiting 16 hours in a Dallas, TX airport, Wilson decided to call it a tournament and head back home.  Earlier in the month, Wilson showed outstanding dedication by driving four hours from Tennessee to Louisville in the Midwest rain to earn one of the 16 finalist’s spots. Jason’s misfortune didn’t go unnoticed, however, as the Gamestop SFIV National Tourney emcee and Capcom community manager, Seth “S-kill” Killian, acknowledged Jason’s debacle during the finalists’ introductions as well as introducing one of the other finalists, Ari “Floe” Weintraub, as “Jason Wilson’s protege.”

Here’s hoping your flight to Evo2k9 will arrive on time.

With so much going on these past weeeks, such as our own nationals and the hype leading up to various new fighting games being released this announcement almost fell through the cracks here in the States.  The Japanese Street Fighter 4 Nationals dvd will be in stock on the 30th of April and it features 128 matches and includes player interviews for those of us who understand moon speak.  Watch Iyo win it all instead of just one match vs RF in Flash video quality, and feast your eyes upon Joe and Dashio (viper) beating Ojisan boy and 2dgodMago (sagat). Coming in at $ 54 before shipping, and alittle over $70 if you use ups shipping from play-asia. I got mine, go get yours sucka.

It was a crazy night in San Francisco as a 2 month long national tournament concluded. Justin Wong was crowned the Gamestop National champion, and then shortly after had to face off against 3 extremely good SF players. Iyo the Japanese national champion, Poongko the Korean national champion, and Daigo the world reknown SF player. All four players battled it out round robin style.

Daigo the beast went undefeated as he won with his trademark character of Ryu. He has been awarded a free trip to Evo to compete against the top players in the world.

See everyone at Evo 2009!

AKSYS Games is releasing BlazBlue on June 30th!  To celebrate the release of the fighting game, AKSYS wants to know, what is your drive?  Preorder your copy today!  Check out the hype video and anime trailer by clicking below!

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There are a few few true moments that live on in never ending Street Fighter history.

I mean, those moments that are so goddamn memorable and legendary beyond belief that they scorch their way into the Street Fighter Global Consciousness and change things forever. The way we play the game, the way we see the game, the way we think about the game. All this changes because of a very few critical defining moments.

It’s like a layman’s view on Evolution (the Darwinian theory, not the Superbowl of Street Fighter that takes place in August each year). In rough rough rough evolutionary theory, you have a tiny little organism that slowly over time evolves, thanks to natural selection. The fish that swims the fastest escapes the predator the longest and sires the most kids. Those kids carry on his genetics, while the slow fish get eaten. Eventually fish get faster and more badass.

Speed isn’t the only quality that is refined and passed on over time. Other great qualities are passed on, and scrubby fish tactics are forgotten. Over time, fish get more and more and more BADASS. Then, one day, a fish decides to go on land. Why the hell not huh? (more…)

Cue dramatic ‘oohs’ and ‘aahs’ from the peanut gallery.  First, a listing for a “Madcatz MvC2 Arcade Stick” appeared on ShopTo’s website, which as since been taken down. Soon after, a very convincing list of achievements for the Xbox version of the game appeared on Xbox360Achievements.org. I’m not sure what else to say, save that everyone who said this could never happen are probably feeling pretty silly right now.  Never give up hope, kids.  The new age of fighting games is here, and we only had to wait one decade. This is still a rumor, but its as juicy as ever.

Hey kids, it’s that time again!

Vic sits down with multiplaycial icons Ed Ma and Peter “Combofiend” Rosas to kick off the second episode of The Dogface Show. This week’s topics include SoCal arcades and Combofiend’s secret SF4 training routine. What do Ed and Peter think of online players? What *are* the essential arcades in socal? (What is multi-play-cial?)



As before, we’ll be splitting up these video interviews into 10-minute segments and releasing them on a weekly basis.

We’ve got a new brighter set and we’ve spiced it up with a mix of new and old Street Fighter posters, as many of you suggested. We’ve also improved the sound quality from last episode, and as always we’d love to hear what you think. Share your comments here or over on the website, where we’ll be posting the follow-up segments on a weekly basis.