PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds and Street Fighter 5 are the games in September’s PlayStation Plus lineup, Sony announced Wednesday. Street Fighter 5, developed by Dimps and Capcom, launched in February 2016 on PlayStation 4 and Windows PC. Capcom has re-released the fighting game twice since then, with Arcade Edition in January 2018 and Champion Edition in February […]
Street Fighter producer Yoshinori Ono quits Capcom
Street Fighter producer and veteran Capcom developer Yoshinori Ono has resigned from the company and will leave Capcom this summer, he announced on Sunday. In a message on Twitter, Ono addressed criticism of this year’s Capcom Pro Tour tournament structure — the format moved entirely online, due to the coronavirus pandemic — and revealed his […]
Street Fighter Producer Yoshinori Ono Is Leaving Capcom
More than two decades after beginning his work on the Street Fighter franchise and leading it through several console generations, executive producer Yoshinori Ono is leaving the company. Ono made the announcement via his Twitter page on August 9, stressing that “Capcom staff in the new generation” will be responsible for leading the Street Fighter […]
Street Fighter 5 adds Dan, Rose, Oro, and Akira Kazama – plus one secret fighter
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Street Fighter V Gets Extended Free Trial With All 40 Characters
Street Fighter 5 has improved tremendously over the last few years, evolving into a premiere competitive fighter with a great roster of characters. If you’ve yet to try the game for yourself, you’ll have a chance to do so for a full two weeks, and the trial version features all 40 characters. That’s more than […]
Help turn our Street Fighter oral history series into a book
For about a decade now, I’ve wanted to write a Street Fighter history book. Ask people who know me, and they’ll probably tell you this hasn’t been a secret. Like many ’90s kids, I’ve never quite gotten over the series. And as someone who writes about games for a living, I’ve constantly found excuses to […]
Street Fighter 1: An oral history
In February 2021, Street Fighter 2, the best game ever made, turns 30. We decided to start celebrating early. For the past year, Polygon has been putting together one of its biggest projects to date: a series of deeply researched, recklessly extravagant oral histories looking back at Street Fighter’s past. Back in 2014, we dug […]
Street Fighter 5 getting 5 more characters and a fifth season
Street Fighter 5, which was released in 2016, will get a fifth and final season that will add five more fighters to the game. Get it? Five! Capcom teased the future of Street Fighter 5 in a blog post published Wednesday. Details are still slim, with more updates on the new content coming to Street […]
Forza Street, The Free Forza Spin-Off Game, Is Out Now
The spin-off Forza game Forza Street has officially launched on Android and iOS devices, Microsoft and franchise developer Turn 10 Studios announced. You can download it for free right now. Those who play the game before June 5 will receive the 2017 Ford GT, as well as additional in-game credits and gold to buy cars […]
For Whatever Reason, Street Fighter V Just Got a Benchmark Tool On PC
Capcom has made some strides with Street Fighter V over the past four years that have brought it to a much better state. More characters, extra stages, and new costumes: the game is only really missing one thing. Oh, you thought I was going to say improved netcode, didn’t you? No, I was really talking […]