Rise up, fighting game fans who haven't paid money for Street Fighter V. Capcom just announced a worldwide free trial for the fighting game via Twitter. https://twitter.com/StreetFighter/status/1141873491140124672 The catch? It's only on PC at the moment via Steam. The free trial will last from 25th June until 7th Ju

Here's the second part of the massive reveal by Kinda Funny Games. If you missed our Part 1 writeup, you can head over here. 31. Undermine (PC) [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K8I7YxRTHcI] Undermine is an action-adventure roguelike RPG which has you crawling intro procedurally generated dungeons, upgrading yo

As you play through your bouts of Street Fighter V online, you wonder to yourself: how in the Nine Hells did Capcom come up with the idea of a stretchy Indian mystic with "yoga" powers and flame breath? You're not the only one, as many fighting game fans do ponder about it. Retro game site Shmuplations republished a 2

In a new blog post, Capcom announced that PS4 and PC (Steam) users will be able to play Street Fighter V: Arcade Edition for free starting next week from 23 April to 5 May 2019. Players will have access to all 20 fighters (including the four DLC characters), and every single mode in the game. Keep in mind that PS

In another effort to keep it old school and dish out throwbacks up the wazoo, Capcom is releasing a new stage for Street Fighter V: Arcade Edition that will tickle your nostalgic fancy. https://twitter.com/StreetFighter/status/1106600694096658433 Yep, they're bringing back field stage from Street Fighter II: The Anim

A new challenger has arrived! After doing anime/manga and Metal Gear Rising shirts, it's high time Uniqlo took it to the next level. Starting 15 April, they will not be blinking and be going for broke with new Street Fighter shirts, in collaboration with Capcom. Check out the designs below, from your dragon punch mot

It's the 1st of March, which means that it's Chun-Li's birthday as stated by her creator Capcom. Here's why she's the strongest and best female fighting game female there is. She Started The Female "Fighting F*** Toy" Trend None of the renowned fighting games prior to Street Fighter II wouldn't have a female Fighter

Burns, doesn't it? After crafting so many Street Fighter Hong Kong vinyl-style figures and statues, BigBoysToys is branching out to Capcom's rival. That's right, SNK is getting the anime-esque SD-like treatment from the Hong Kong-based toymakers with its new King of Fighters line. Their first character will be Kyo Kus

Unlike Tekken 7 and SoulCalibur 6, this year's outsiders and away team players were no match for Japan's top Street Fighter 5 players. The top 8 was filled with 6 Japanese players, 1 US player (Punk), and 1 Taiwanese player (OilKing). Fans and players hoping for a turnaround from the US and Taiwanese representative dur

The last time Southeast Asia got Evo gold in fighting games was back in Evo 2013 courtesy of Xian. Fast forward to Evo Japan 2019, and we have two sleeping dragons in the Southeast Asian SoulCalibur scene tearing it up: Singapore's Jovian "Shen Chan" Chan and Raymus "Shen Yuan" Chang Yin Yuan. After some news about so

This story is still in development... A new season draws new. Street Fighter 5's Season 4 patch is up and live on PlayStation 4. Also, we're getting a new fighter named Kage who looks like Evil Ryu with devil horns and can "fly" (or at least has flight-like/airdashes/jumping shenanigans). Points for originality, Capco

A few days ago, Capcom announced the "sponsored content" option starting 11 December where players can obtain additional Fight Money (the currency you use to buy characters and stuff) in Ranked and Casual Matches. Sponsored content/ads will be on fighter's costumes, on the loading screen before a fight, and on stages l

Street Fighter V's eventual fourth season is coming. But did you know that there's allegedly going to be another huge 2019 update called Super Street Fighter V? So much for innovative naming schemes, eh Capcom? In any case, prominent leaker X-Kira (via Eventhubs) did the usual datamining and found out that the update

Fight fire with fire, right? Nintendo finally revealed the last two characters of Super Smash Brost Ultimate as well as a bunch of new features. On with the show! The Three(?) New Fighters Ken (on the feature image above) is an echo fighter of Ryu. He's different from Ryu: he's faster, he has fiery Shoryukens, and he h

Update [24/12/18]: 2B added.  This guide is still under development. We'll start filling it up with more characters as we go along.  The tale of swords and souls, eternally retold for 2018. That's right: Soulcalibur 6 is back and is awesome stuff. It also can be daunting for beginners who don't know how to play

eGG Network, the video game-slash-esports channel on Malaysia's own Astro Network, has shown off a recent trailer of Project Fight Club. It's a 10-episode fighting game tournament with a  reality TV spin. How does it work? Well, 6 folks from the fighting game community -Justin Wong, Marn, Humanbomb, Oil King, Rose

Platform: PS4, Xbox One, PC Genre: 3D fighting game where weapons don't instantly maim people Update: I have tried out network play and so far it's good stuff when fighting against Japanese/Singaporean/Malaysian players on LAN cable. No disconnects save for some rage quit moments because some people cannot deal with m

Panda Global announced recently that Seonwoo "Infiltration" Lee will not be fighting at this weekend's Capcom Pro Tour Premier event at Tokyo Game Show 2018. Why? Because there's an investigation going on about him beating his then-wife physically. Allegations of it, at least. They divorced a few months after their 20

Want to prove that you're the best Street Fighter V player in the Southeast Asia block? Then look no further: the Road To Evo Japan 2019 tournament will be launched this October. Here are the details: Date: 27th October 2018 Venue: Future Games Esports Centre (Taylor Lakeside University ) Slot: 64 Console: PS4 Regist

We can't have a continuous SNK retrospective leading up to Retro DNA's showcase this October without doing a King of Fighters article now, can we? Ask and you shall receive.  Here are the past SNK retrospectives:  Why The Neo Geo Was Successful The Top 15 SNK Games You Must Play Before You Die The Ar