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After spending awhile covering the cast of Street Fighter EX, the CFN Portal site has returned to regular characters, showcasing more background characters and relatives to some of the most popular World Warriors, courtesy of the Shadaloo Activity Report.

First up, we have Sakura’s best friend, Kei Chitose!

Private Nakagawa: This time it’s a normal schoolgirl. A beautiful girl with long hair. She doesn’t fight. Ah, she’s the best friend of Sakura.

Basic Info:

Name: Kei Chitose
Height: 155 cm
Weight: 41 kg
Blood Type: 0
Birthday: November 14th
Country of Origin: Japan
Likes: Handsome Guys
Dislikes: Rollercoasters

Private Nakagawa: She watches patiently over her friend, so into Street Fighting. Her school records aren’t particularly good nor bad. She possesses a wonderful memory, though, and never forgets the face and name of a person she met, even only once. She collects any sort of merchandise that’s cephalopods-alien related. [as popularized by H. G. Wells’ The War of the Worlds. Apparently, Japanese have a particular fetish for them, as their presence as Mars People in Metal Slug can attest…]

Next up, we have another member of the Glade of Ninjas, who appeared in Ibuki’s Street Fighter III: Third Strike intro, holding a punching bag, Yūta Homura! You can see an in-game image of him below.

Private Nakagawa: His name is read as “Yūta Homura.” He’s affiliated with the same shinobi village as Ibuki.

Basic Info:

Name: Yūta Homura
Height: 167cm
Weight: 63kg
Blood type: A
Birthday: June 16th
Home Country: Japan
Likes: Training, Mantou [A type of cloud-like steamed bread or bun popular in Northern China. The name mantou is said to have originated from a tale about Zhuge Liang.]
Dislikes: Centipedes

Private Nakagawa: A ninja who is affiliated with the shinobi village. He’s a passionate young man who aspires to open his own store. He trains alongside Ibuki and Sarai Kurosawa. His taijutsu is great, but his ninjutsu is horribly weak. He’s talented at playing beat ’em up games. Apparently, it’s a piece of cake for him to clear a whole game with Jennety using one coin. [Jennety: aka Mack the Knife, aka Mummy Commando from the Captain Commando series.]

Now, we present Sakura’s little brother, Tsukishi Kasugano!

Private Nakagawa: Kasugano….? Apparently, this is the brother of that Sakura girl. He too can probably shoot Hadokens and stuff just by watching and imitating them. Huh, he’s just an ordinary boy? Great that’s good to know.

Basic Info:

Name: Tsukushi Kasugano
Height: 159cm
Weight: 49kg
Blood type: O
Birthday: March 29th
Home Country: Japan
Favorite things: Video games, plastic models
Dislikes: Umeboshi [often translated to English as, “Japanese Salt Plums,” a type of pickled ume fruits common in Japan that are extremely salty and sour.]

Here he is at home playing the Fighting RPG “Ryuken Tsuyoshiki” [“Dragon Punch Adamant Tale”]

Private Nakagawa: He’s a noble and honest kid who loves games. However, he doesn’t like to move his body around too much. During SF Alpha 3 he was doing a speedrun of “Ryuken Tsuyoshiki 2” and barely went outside. With the current launch of the CPSP2 he’s obsessed with the super-fighting RPG “Ryuken Tsuyoshiki Gaiden Chapter Roar.” By the way, he’s also very talented at drawing pictures, which he’s even been awarded for at school.

Now we head back to SFIII to take a look at the hot-blooded tsundere tomboy, girlfriend of Yun, Hoimei!

Private Nakagawa: She’s the girlfriend of Yang’s brother Yun since they were kids. She works at her father’s grocery shop. She also has a sister named Shaomei.

Basic Info:

Name: Hoimei
Height: 155cm
Weight: 46kg
Blood type: B
Birthday: November 13th
Home Country: Hong Kong
Likes: Youthful People
Dislikes: Scoundrels

Private Nakagawa: She lives near the restaurant Yun and Yang work at that’s run by their grandfather. She’s just an ordinary girl who works at a grocery store. She dislikes people who have a wonky character. Because of the brother’s troublesome nature, she keeps a keen eye on them. Apparently, she has favored Yun ever since they were childhood friends.

Finally, we have her sister, and Yang’s girlfriend, Shaomei!

Private Nakagawa: A girl who knew Yun and Yang since childhood. Younger sister of Hoimei. She is a quiet but reliable girl.

Basic Info:

Name: Shaomei
Height: 152 cm
Weight: 42 kg
Blood type: AB
Birthday: July 1st
Home Country: Hong Kong
Likes: Chihuahuas
Dislikes: Tomatoes

Private Nakagawa: She appears docile and quiet, unlike her active and lively sister. But she is actually someone who really battles on when needed. She firmly supports her sister, who worries about the brothers, set off on a journey. It seems she has a kindlier feeling towards Yang.

For a closer look at Shaomei and Hoimei, they appear in Yang’s Third Strike ending and Yun’s AE ending, as seen below.

And so ends another round of CFN Portal profiles; you can check out the final round of Street Fighter EX character profiles, covering the Cycloids and Ace, here.

Sources: CFN Portal; streetfighterscene; Channel of classic and not-so-classic video games [Thanks to bakfromon and Midgardsorm for the translations and footnotes]

We’re over halfway through with Super Street Fighter Carnival 2016! Mikado Arcade is nowhere near close to running out of surprising titles to throw at i’s (extremely skilled) patrons.

Samurai Shodown 64 (known simply as Samurai Spirits in Japan) was SNK’s first foray into 3D fighters. The weapons-based fighter may not have caught on at it’s arcade only release, but it did well enough to see a sequel on it’s Hyper Neo Geo 64 arcade board. The game is a predictably odd mash of 2D and 3D, combining longer chain combos (normally not present in Samurai Shodown OR 3D games!) and duckable grabs into the same engine.

SSFC2016’s catalog this year has been particularly unorthodox, so a classic game like KOF ’98 might have been a sigh of relief for some players by this point. Given the skills shown off in the variety of bizarre titles up until this point, it’s safe to say Mikado players know what they’re doing in this beloved title. Also, Spoiler:  If you’re as much of a fan of the American Sports Team as I am, you’re going to want to watch this. 

As always, you can follow along Mikado’s upload schedule on YouTube, or try to catch them live on their UStream.

Source: Mikado

After finishing the Street Fighter EX2 characters by covering Shadowgeist and Sharon, the CFN Portal site completes the Shadaloo Activity Report’s Profiles on the playable members of the EX cast, by shining the spotlight on the Cycloids and Ace!  As always, NIN, Senior Official of Shadaloo and alter-ego of ARIKA founder Akira Nishitani, joins Private Nakagawa in providing additional commentary on the characters he had a hand in creating.

First up, we have the wireframe warrior who debuted in 1997’s EX Plus, Cycloid Gamma!

Private Nakagawa: Barba, the father of Pullum Purna, has been constructing combat weapons. Barba had created various products but now he’s willing to work for Shadaloo! (I just don’t know where they are.)

Basic Info:

Name: Cycloid – γ
Height: 180cm
Weight: 80kg
Blood Type: None
Date of Manufacture: January 17th
Place of Manufacture: Shadaloo
Likes: Learning combative techniques and maneuvers
Dislikes: Being treated carelessly

Private Nakagawa: It had originally been produced for Shadaloo as a devastating weapon. Thankfully, with the help of Barba, who is now affiliated with Shadaloo (forcefully), it’s been promoting our plans for world domination. Since the final adjustments had been halted and refused by Mr. Barba, Shadaloo’s Technology Department took the initiative to finish it. During the occasional times that it runs away, it adds to its collection of skills, which makes it an excellent fighter. It’s orange wireframe-ish look is certainly fashionable.

Huh, oh, it escaped! Oh dear, wait a second. This just in, I just received word from our Senior correspondent!

NIN: For some reason, I wanted a character which gave off a strange vibe, and thus it was created. Naturally, at first it was just a wireframe and merely a representation of textures, but the lines were being magnified as the camera came in for a close up. Overall, I think it was rough. The manner in which we drew the lines directly, eventually that became its current look. Doctrine also used similar wires which resulted in the same blunder, so I remember deciding to draw the lines.

Next, we have it’s more humanoid-looking counterpart, which also debuted in EX Plus, Cycloid Beta!

Private Nakagawa: I don’t know where this mysterious weapon came from. It seems composed of a translucent pale blue material. I wonder if it’s cold to the touch.

Basic Info:

Name: Cycloid – β
Height: Unknown
Weight: Unknown
Blood Type: Unknown
Date of manufacture: Unknown
Production field: Unknown
Likes: Unknown
Dislikes: Unknown

Private Nakagawa: The last time Cycloid – γ escaped, it had discovered an unidentified weapon it was tracking. It seems to like the activity of running away like Cycloid – γ. Other than that, it’s shrouded in mystery. Similar to Cycloid – γ it has learned mixed martial arts skills from other fighters.

NIN: Just like γ we wanted him to have a strange vibe. It’s just, in the world of programming around that time, mirror surface processing, refraction of light through transparent objects, and representation of flames, had all started to become the new craze. I wanted to know how we could introduce these elements in EX.  Though we were a bit late for the time of being pioneers, we maintained in releasing the character, and later as the character’s representation became interesting, I got a sense of wanting him to reappear.

Finally, we have the last playable EX Character, and the only New Challenger to appear in EX3, the cyborg with a fully-customizable fighting style: Ace!

Private Nakagawa: Apparently, a spy has infiltrated our Shadaloo base and has accomplished his mission in securing the confidential blueprints of the “weapon.” If he understands it, then he’s discovered a lot!

Basic Info:

Name: Ace
Height: 182cm
Weight: 83kg
Blood type: B
Birthday: May 5th
Home Country: Japan
Likes: Training
Dislikes: Horror movies

Private Nakagawa: The man who is rumored to be a talented and competent agent. He has a device implanted in his spine which can analyze cards that hold data on fighting skills, and by loading them, he can learn every type of mixed martial art, holding the ability to possibly master them all.

NIN: He’s able to be edited with a variety of techniques. In fact, there was a grand scheme, I had wanted to add him into a side-scrolling action mode.

Examples of the obstacles were:

• Darun’s Indra Bahsi A, B, C due to the continuous jumping up and down you could slip out of it conveniently.
• Doctrine’s wire being swung like a pendulum. It would disconnect whenever the opponent was on the opposite side of it, and with good timing, you could slip through it.

We could’ve made edits according to the situations needed and continued to go ahead with the project. But it was just a dream, no matter how irrational the decision the project was abandoned during production.

Well, that closes the curtain on all of the Street Fighter EX profiles, as the entire playable cast has now been covered. For more information on the EX Characters, you can check out the profiles for the rest of the cast below:

• Darun Mister, Doctrine Dark, Pullum Purna and Blair Dame
• Hokuto, Kairi and Bloody Hokuto
• Allen Snider, Cracker Jack, Skullomania and Garuda
• Nanase and Hayate
• Vulcano Rosso and Area
• Shadowgeist and Sharon

Stay tuned to Shoryuken for continued coverage of more CFN Portal profiles! Let us know about your experiences with the EX series in the comments below! Do you hope any of these characters could return in a future Season of Street Fighter V?

Source: CFN Portal

When he announced that he was leaving Avyd, Alex Jebailey originally stated that he was going to focus full-time on his Community Effort Orlando. However, it seems that he’s once again being called to help organize fighting game events for another esports organization.

In a recent Tweet, Jebailey has announced that he is will be the head fighting game community tournament organizer and event planner for DreamHack in 2017.

Excited to announce I will be the Head #FGC TO & event planner for @DreamHack 2017! See you in Austin, Atlanta, Denver, Montreal & Sweden!

— Jebailey @ #RBBG (@CEOJebailey) October 31, 2016

With this, Jebailey will be involved in all the fighting game tournaments at all of DreamHack’s events next year. That said, he will still be focusing on CEO as well, and will actually miss DreamHack Summer 2017 due to scheduling conflicts with CEO 2017.

We here at Shoryuken wish Alex Jebailey and DreamHack the best success in this new relationship.

Source: Alex Jebailey

Pop Culture Shock has done a bang up job with their line of Street Fighter based collectible statues. For the past couple of years, they’ve been releasing a steady line of figures for both Street Fighter IV and Street Fighter V. For their latest statues, they’re going back to the former with a new set of Evil Ryu statues.

This latest series of Evil Ryu statues comes in two distinct variants. The first, called “Murderous Intent” shows Evil Ryu in his default Street Fighter IV look – a corrupted Ryu with the big hole in his chest. The second one however, called “Dark Hadou” has him in his long haired alternate costume.

Both statues are now available for pre-order exclusively at Pop Culture Shocks website. The “Murderous Intent” version goes for $389.99, while the “Dark Hadou” version goes for $399.99.  However, those who pre-order can avail of a 10% discount, bringing the prices for both down to $350.99 and $359.99 respectively.

Both statues are expected to ship in December 23, 2017. In the meantime, here check out some photos of them in the gallery below.

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Source: Pop Culture Shock

After a very successful event the past two years running, Combo Breaker is back again as the FGC’s most prominent Midwest event. 18 tournament games will be featured, with the full game list being released next month.

As far as today’s announcement goes, it confirms the event to be held on May 26th-May 28th, 2017 on Memorial Day weekend. Registration will be announced December 20th. There will be some returning features from prior years, like the Artist Alley, Cosplay Contest, Auction Tournaments, Indie Showcase, and of course a 24-hour venue.

Source: Combo Breaker

We’ve been reporting on the remastered, expanded version of Chaos Code, subtitled “New Sign of Catastrophe” that’s coming exclusively to PlayStation 4. Among new modes such as network play and two additional characters, news has surfaced about the game’s release date.

Arc System Works announced the Japanese and Asian release date for Chaos Code: New Sign of Catastrophe as November 9th. It will cost 1,980 yen (close to $20).

While F K Digital, the developer, hasn’t said anything about a Western release, Gematsu reported the Asian version will include an option for English text.

Learn more about Chaos Code mechanics as well its cast of characters like Kagari, Catherine, and Bravo by watching character trailers.

The next version of Chaos Code is slated for Japanese arcades sometime in 2017.

Source: Gematsu