News from Hollyweird: several more actors have been cast for the 2009 movie Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li that Capcom is producing with Hyde Park for Fox. Filming has also begun, so pop the champagne!
Smallville mega-hottie Kristin Kreuk will be playing Chunster, and will be the main character in the movie. Who knew Kreuk was of Chinese descent? Plus Dutch and Canadian. She’s a veritable smörgåsbord of hotness. Umlaut!
Michael Clarke Duncan from The Green Mile and Sin City will be Balrog. Look at those guns!
Taboo out of Black Eyed Peas will be Vega. Hopefully, backflips are a big part his on-stage dance moves.
Neal McDonough will be donning the peaked cap and flappy cape of Bison, everyone’s favorite crime lord/would-be dictator. McDonough has been in a ton of movies and TV shows you’ve seen, including Band of Brothers and Minority Report.
Chris Klein’s role as Charlie Nash was announced a few weeks back. His on screen name is cool, as it actually incorporates the two different names this character is known by. For some reason that even I can’t remember (and I’m old and know lots of odd Capcom secrets and weirdnesses), the character of “Nash” in Japan became “Charlie” in the US. Justin Marks, the screen writer cleverly slammed both names together — an idea borrowed from the comics, evidently — which should make people happy regardless of country of origin.
Over on their side of the tubes, Games Radar is celebrating a week of Street Fighter. They plan on bringing you character bios, charting the evolution of the art and style of the game and (perhaps) even playing a little bit of SFIV. To get things rolling, they’ve decided to highlight some of the weirdest slams of the series. Who could forget those awesome, ire-inducing screens that pop up after you lose a match. Being spoken smack to by an arcade machine (or Super Nintendo cart) is a guaranteed way to make the average gamer’s brain explode with great violence and furious anger, innit? Bump over to the Radar and relive those controller-chucking moments of your youth.
Here’s the straight story on the glorious highs, devastating lows, and delicious middles behind making Super Street Fighter II Turbo HD Remix, from the game’s producer, Rey Jimenez:
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Long time, no see Street Fighter fans. Sorry for not writing in a few months, but hopefully David Sirlin’s articles have been keeping you in the loop on HD Remix news. The reason I haven’t posted in a while is that there has been a lot of changes in HD Remix and we really had to focus on what was going on with the game. But now, I think it’s time I give you guys the run down on what’s been going on the past few months.
First of all, creating HD Remix has turned out to be a much more difficult task than we could’ve anticipated. There have been many recent challenges ranging from developing rock-solid netcode from the ground up to creating super-polished art for that truly lives up to the name Street Fighter. If we had gone the “good enough” route, you probably would be playing the game right now, but that wasn’t the route we wanted to take here at Capcom.
UDON is cooking up a cool new art book, featuring character interpretations from artists who grew up on Street Fighter. The best part is that in addition to their handpicked contributors, the contest is open to anyone that wants to submit! Click here for the details and submission guidelines.
“The Street Fighter fans who were young players when the franchise first launched are now grown up, but their love of the game continues. This high quality art book, showcases a cross section of brand new artistic interpretations of the Street Fighter characters in a series of full size pin-up style illustrations. The book will launch at this year’s Comic-con International: San Diego as part of Capcom’s Street Fighter Celebration content.
UDON artists and other comic, video game and freelance illustrators have been invited to interpret their favorite Street Fighter characters for inclusion in this special book. Along with these invited artists UDON is sending out a widespread open art submission call to the video game fan artist community to submit artwork for possible inclusion in the tribute volume.
You could be part of Capcom history as part of the Street Fighter Tribute art book and have your artwork showcased alongside top names in the industry! It’s time to show UDON and Capcom your unique vision of Street Fighter!”
Street Fighter scientist Majestros‘ has brewed up a lovingly edited tribute to the original SF2 combomaster, TZW.
Back in the SF2 days, I was such a nut that I paid some punk from usenet $20 for an 8th generation VHS dub of a TZW video. When I got it, it was so fuzzed out that all I could see was the bottom 20% of the screen (their feet) and hear the sounds. If this sounds like a disappointment, you couldn’t be more wrong–the feet + the sounds were plenty for me to realize exactly what was happening on screen and take my first steps toward recreating the magic.
Poke through the rest of Maj’s site to find more of his amazing efforts.
TheSwitcher continues his one-man crusade against the Street Fighter cartoon on USA, this time putting it up against the Japanese animated Street Fighter movie. Fei Long at 2:21 ftw!
After years of internal debate, Capcom has reached a consensus. I am imagining these men meeting in a smoky room, arguing for hours, wadded paper spilling from an overfilled trash bin, before finally hashing out this landmark piece of Street Fighter canon.
M. Bison’s (aka “Vega’s”) shadowy group that’s up to no good? Henceforth, it shall be known as Shadaloo. Not “Shadoloo.” Not “Shadowloo,” but simply Shadaloo. Looking back, it’s hard to imagine how we could have even considered those other ridiculous spellings. Let us go forward in unity with a single mind and single spelling.
For the record, according to googlefight, it also appears that “Shadaloo” is already the most popular spelling, but dissenting spellers can now be hunted down and killed with a clear conscience.
Also for the record, no I am not kidding–this is an official position statement from Capcom. It really is Shadaloo or the highway. Hugs.
So, the latest ep of Street Fighter: The Later Years isn’t as high-larious as previous installments, but it does have plenty of plot and fighting, which are normally the parts that we fast forward through in porn. Wait, sorry, need to refocus. To sum up: #8 has less swears, but Guile/Popeye does manage to drop a few salty nuggets; less jokes than usual, but still more than a few chuckles. What it does have is 100% more burning Blanka chest hair than ever before. Smell the victory on College Humor.com, as long as you’re over 17.
The most awesomely named tournament in the universe is back for 2008, sure to be full of hot arcade action as always. The Super Battle Opera (called boring old “Tougeki” in Japanese), is Arcadia magazine’s annual arcade fighting game tournament, with qualifying events held across Japan leading up to August’s three-day finals.
Although “SBO” is primarily a Japanese event, they have added qualifying spots for foreign players as well in recent years, based on the strong international competition found at events like the EVO Championship Series. Although the Japanese ran rampant at this year’s EVO finals, no foreign player has ever won SBO. Americans have finished as high as 3rd in years past, and last year the infamous Wolfe brothers (Alex and Graham) placed 5th in the Hyper Street Fighter II: Anniversary Edition tournament. Check out the video above of the Wolfe’s leveraging extreme patience and old fashioned cheap tactics to take out two of Japan’s most famous old-school players, Otochun and Komoda Blanka.
This year’s SBO game lineup includes Street Fighter III: Third Strike, as well as the original Super Street Fighter II Turbo. Click here for the full SBO 2008 game lineup.
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