Virtua Fighter 5 has been getting a nice boost in attention ever since the release of its Final Showdown update a month ago. There’s a lot to love about the technicality of the fighter, and a lot of depth for those who want to dive deep enough into it. Caj814 is one of those people [...]

This year’s EVO held a strong significance to the many who chose to enter the Augustus Ballroom on that July 6th weekend, perhaps most of all to those who were attending EVO for the first time. Maxwell McGee from Gamespot was one such person, and he’s written a great piece detailing his experiences throughout all [...]

Sako Noko is a player whose name rose quite quickly to celebrity status in the fighting game community with his adept blend of technical play and near perfect execution. He had previously been known for dominating Vampire Savior for a number of years, and after a short break returned to pretty much re-invent Cammy from [...]

Namco Bandai made an announcement at Comic-Con today regarding some new DLC for Tekken Tag Tournament 2. The game will feature over 100 different swimsuits (including school swimsuits) for each of it’s competitors. Yes, this apparently includes Kuma and all the male characters as well. The swimsuit’s are being released as a pre-order bonus for [...]

Street Fighter x Tekken – New Character DLC and Balance Patch Capcom had quite a lot to address in its panel earlier today regarding the state of SFxT, and they dropped a fair amount of news. First things first, the release date for the DLC characters has been moved up to July 31st 2012, a [...]

Capcom announced today that they will be releasing Marvel vs. Capcom Origins, a compilation of both Marvel Super Heroes and the original Marvel vs. Capcom, for both Xbox Live Arcade and Playstation Network this fall. The origins of the VS. series have been well documented in countless videos and articles, so I don’t have to [...]

Straight from the horse’s mouth at E3 2012: Tecmo Koei is dropping Dead or Alive 5 on North American shores September 25th. It’s been about 7 years or so since DOA4 was released on the Xbox 360 back in December of 2005. The Dead or Alive series has always had a strong sense of style [...]

Macros in general are frowned upon when it comes to competition, but outside that realm you can accomplish some very interesting things with a little creative application. ilitirit on the forums recently posted this really intelligent batch of Super Street Fighter IV scripts detailing how you can get a lot more out of the training dummy [...]

Those you of you watching the Civil War 4 stream probably heard it, but for those of you who didn’t: Spooky, one of the community’s biggest stream providers, will be discontinuing his streaming of larger events after EVO 2012. The immense workload and the inability to really appreciate these larger events due to the complications [...]

Michael Y. Kwon (MYK) has been a prominent member in both the Tekken and Street Fighter communities for years now. He’s been featured on everything from Level Up Your Game’s tutorial videos to a guest spot on Cross Assault. He’s an incredibly welcoming and good natured guy who’s in some very dire straights right now. [...]

I wish Arcades were so much more these days, and I’m sure Caine does too. He’s a 9 year old kid from East L.A. who built an entire arcade out of cardboard boxes in front of his father’s used Auto Parts store. Its that stuff of innocence and imagination you find very rarely in the [...]

(NSFW) Back a couple months ago, I started reapplying to film school in order to finish up college. As a some of you may know, that in itself requires a small little film or video entailing “what you’re passionate about” or “what drives you.” I circled around my head about what to do, and came [...]

The Developer’s Blog is reporting that SFIV and SFxT producer Yoshinori Ono has been hospitalized after his physical condition began to deteriorate following a promotional event in Asia. Due to this, Ono will not be able to work for quite some time. Regardless of your opinion on Ono, I think we can all agree this [...]

America, I would like to ask you a question. In an election year when so many politicians promise so much only to deliver on so few– how many front runners for the office of president would pile drive the crap out of a three story genocidal robot? I mean, I don’t see Mitt Romney or [...]

If you needed a catharsis FGC, here it is. If there was any doubt in your mind that we were a culture of solidarity, you can silence it. March 2nd began the first day of Final Round, one of the biggest tournaments in the fighting game community. To some of you, the notion that this [...]