Ryu Apprentice just uploaded a new Super Street Fighter IV: Arcade Edition ver. 2012 video that shows off a few very simple setups with Ryu and Vega. Neither of these setups are particularly hard to pull off, but they can net you some massive damage. He also demonstrates a quick and damaging Ultra 2 combo with [...]

If you’re disappointed by the lack of giant claymation dinosaurs in today’s combo videos, then we have just the thing for you. Hanzo Hasashi recently released a brand new combo video for the classic prehistoric fighter Primal Rage. The video, a sequel to his original from 2006, features one titanic combo after another not just [...]

This weekend is the final X-MANIA Europe tournament. To send things off with a bang, players from Europe, Japan and the US are gathering at Neo-Arcadia Gamecenter in Toulouse, France for the final Super Street Fighter II X (Turbo) showdown. As with the previous X-MANIA Europe events, there will be Solo, Solo 3on3 (one player [...]

It’s on. The second installment of Final Strike, a tournament series brought to you by the minds at Level|Up and Shoryuken, is going down tonight. The event, streaming live from Super Arcade in Walnut, California, gives players some last minute opportunities at ranking points for Level|Up’s weekly Wednesday Night Fights and The Runback tournaments. SoCal’s finest are [...]

To celebrate the May 8 release of its latest fighter ARCANA HEART 3 LOVE MAX!!!!!, developer EXAMU is hosting an official release comemmoration tournament at Akihabara Hey in Tokyo, Japan. LOVE MAX!!!!! adds on to the original AH3 with new techniques, like the Arcana Eclipse; system changes, including more stringent Homing limitations; character and Arcana [...]

CPC Kamikaze recently uploaded a brand new Super Street Fighter IV: Arcade Edition ver. 2012 video that features a bit of advanced tech for Abel. Some strategies featured here include armor canceling his EX Change of Direction to save meter and punish attacks, jump canceling his throws to make them immune to counter throws, creating unblockable situations, and [...]

Tonight in Japan is the Melty Blood Actress Again Current Code national tournament, Melty Night. You’ll be able to watch the best Melty Blood players in Japan duke it out at the game center Athena Nipponbashi in Osaka in a 2on2 Waseda-style format. The tournament is being streamed by GODSGARDEN, starting with the final qualifiers [...]

Last June saw the first Devil’s PlayGround tournament, a Vampire Savior singles competition to determine the strongest in the Kantou region, take place. Kaji, who just missed qualifying at three different tournaments (placing second at each), overcame his prior struggles by qualifying just before the finals. He then went on to take the entire tournament [...]

SmokeyAmp has produced a quick little video showing off a new El Fuerte option select using his far standing roundhouse in Super Street Fighter IV: Arcade Edition ver. 2012. Simply put, if the roundhouse connects the ultra won’t come out and you’ll get a crouching medium kick instead. However, if the roundhouse whiffs due to a [...]

Last June saw the first Devil’s PlayGround tournament, a Vampire Savior singles competition to determine the strongest in the Kantou region, take place. Kaji, who just missed qualifying at three different tournaments (placing second at each), overcame his prior struggles by qualifying just before the finals. He then went on to take the entire tournament [...]

Arcade Legacy in Cincinnati, Ohio is one of the few Vampire Savior hotspots in the United States. Kyle Wattula, one of the arcade’s top players, is currently visiting Japan. Last weekend he participated in one of the Vampire Savior tournaments at Takada Baba Mikado in Shinjuku, Tokyo. In a kumite at the event, Kyle’s Morrigan [...]

German Battiston recently uploaded a quick tutorial on storing Guile’s Sonic Boom charges in Super Street Fighter IV: Arcade Edition ver. 2012. The video includes a handcam and slow motion view so you can get the exact timing of multiple charges down. Source: German Battiston

UPDATE: Release date corrected. EXAMU has finally revealed that its newest fighter ARCANA HEART 3 LOVE MAX !!!!! will release in Japanese arcades on May 8. The game was in network location testing until April 30 at certain arcades in the Kantou region. In addition, EXAMU also announced the game’s first national tournament, EXAMU CUP [...]

GammaSlap brings us another Super Street Fighter IV: Arcade Edition ver. 2012 video today, focusing on Ken. The video shows off some of the ludicrous damage you can get off Ken’s counter-hit pokes. Notations, frame data, damage, and stun are shown in the video in a pretty dynamic way. He even points out how lenient [...]

Ryu Apprentice‘s latest Super Street Fighter IV: Arcade Edition ver. 2012 video shows that you can set up some ultras to be unblockable on wakeup. This allows you to score raw, unscaled, ultra damage off a throw or sometimes a sweep, which is pretty huge. These setups might be frame-blockable, but that isn’t the easiest thing [...]