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Japan’s Most Talented Pro-Gamer Is Now Appearing In A Japanese Manga

As far as Street Fighter players go, they don’t get much bigger than Daigo Umehara. He has an endorsement with peripheral maker MadCatz, and he even authored a book. But it doesn’t stop there. He recently popped up in a Japanese manga.


Street Fighter And Tekken Brought To Life

At a recent Street Fighter X Tekken tourney in Taiwan, a slew of cosplayers showed up, bringing the iconic fighters to life. This isn’t a first for Capcom — and Street Fighter producer Yoshinori Ono once again got in on the act and dressed up as Chun-Li! He’s such a great Chun-Li.


Street Fighter Producer Says Capcom ‘Didn’t Even Acknowledge’ His Harrowing Hospital Visit

Popular Street Fighter IV producer Yoshinoro Ono says even after he worked himself to the point of exhaustion and took a terrifying trip to the hospital several months ago, Capcom put him back to work at breakneck speed.


Street Fighter X Tekken Developer Jokes Tekken X Street Fighter Might Not Be Out Until 2018

So, Street Fighter x Tekken came out and met with widespread acclaim. Good for Capcom. Now it’s Namco Bandai’s turn to produce a fighting game crossover that follows up on an idea that once looked impossible. When might the Tekken be coming out? The guy who made SFxT has no idea.


This Reenactment Won’t Win Any Awards, But Neither Did Street Fighter

Bravo to 1Up for getting Capcom’s Yoshinori Ono, producer of the Street Fighter series, to reenact this gem from M. Bison’s hilariously awful dialogue in 1994′s Street Fighter: The Movie. He dropped by their offices last week to talk Street Fighter X Tekken.


Oh Hi Street Fighter X Tekken Gamescom Trailer

Time for another Street Fighter x Tekken trailer! This one is for Gamescom.


Street Fighter’s Producer Kiboshes Mortal Kombat Crossover Thoughts. Again.

Yoshinori Ono, the Street Fighter series producer, has shot down ideas for a Street Fighter vs. Mortal Kombat crossover before. He says he gets them the time “on my Twitter feed and elsewhere.” He got a question about it from the PlayStation blog earlier this week. Here’s why it ain’t gonna be a thing any time soon.


When Two Fighting Game Producers Go To War, Asses Get Punctured

Yesterday Owen teased us with tales of the series of bizarre challenges that led up to the epic Street Fighter X Tekken battle between Street Fighter producer Yoshinori Ono and Tekken producer Katsuhiro Harada at Comic-Con 2011. Turns out it’s even stranger than he made it sound.


Don’t Hold Your Breath For Tekken X Street Just Yet

Kotaku‘s played Street Fighter X Tekken, but from the sound of it, nobody outside Namco will playing Tekken X Street Fighter anytime soon.


How Street Fighter X Tekken Controls, Why It’s Not Street Fighter Vs Tekken

“Why isn’t your game called Street Fighter Vs Tekken?” I asked Street Fighter X Tekken producer Yoshinori Ono last week in Miami.


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