Big news has arrived for those playing Street Fighter V, as the SFV Summer Update 2021 has come and gone -- and it presented some new information and details on the upcoming Season 5 fighters Oro and Akira, as well as revealing the fifth and last DLC character for the season in a new fighter called Luke!
As revealed in the Summer Update presentation, Street Fighter 3 veteran Oro and Rival Schools biker gal fighter Akira are going to be available for players to use starting August 16! You can check out the entire Summer Update presentation video below - which also features information on the new season of Street Fighter League, behind-the-scenes on the sound design of the game, and the upcoming Tournament Mode!
One of Street Fighter's most powerful mystic users makes her grand return to the fighting game scene with the franchise's fifth mainline installment, as Capcom welcomes Rose to Street Fighter V: Champion Edition this week! The Street Fighter Alpha veteran and master to Menat will make her fortune telling skills and soul power known to the other fighters - and you can check out the gameplay trailer below.
If you haven't been keeping up with the Street Fighter related news, Season 5 for Street Fighter V has officially started with the latest patch update for the game, and with it comes the very first DLC character for the new season with the master of Saikyo-Ryu and the taunt himself - Dan Hibiki!
Check out the gameplay trailer showing this lovable joke character back in action!
In case you missed the big news from the folks behind Street Fighter themselves, Capcom gave a big update to what's coming in Season 5 for Street Fighter V during their SFV Winter Update online event showcase - and we got to see our first look at Rose, the new V-Shift defensive game mechanic, a nearly complete Dan Hibiki, and details on the release of the new season - which starts on February 22 after the Capcom Cup!
Check out the video below of the Winter Update:
The Demon master of Street Fighter is getting a new costume to his name, as Akuma joins the list of fighters from Street Fighter V: Champion Edition who can unlock an Extra Battle crossover costume from Fighting EX Layer!
Check out the trailer of the new Garuda costume the Satsui no Hadou user will sport!
It's the late 90's and early 2000's all over again, as Capcom has made a surprising reunion with fellow Japanese video game developer and publisher Arika to add some content to their latest iteration of Street Fighter in "Street Fighter V: Champion Edition" - and that's in the form of a special Extra Battle costume for Ryu based on the Fighting EX Layer/ Street Figher EX character Kairi!
For those who don't remember the Street Fighter EX series, it was the first 2.5D spin-off series for Capcom that departed from their traditional 2D animated fighting games. The games were developed by Arika, and while they featured well known World Warrios like Ryu, Chun-Li, Ken, Guile, and Zangief, some new fighters like Hokuto, Allen, and the aforementioned Kairi made their debut in this series. Street Fighter EX would go on to have two sequels as well as updates in true Street Fighter fashion, but the characters developed by Arika would not return in a Capcom game after the release of Street Fighter EX3 for the Playstation 2. Instead, they would appear in their own Arika published game called "Fighting Layer", and recently in a new spiritual successor game called "Fighting EX Layer".
With many fighting game companies working together and allowing crossovers to happen in their titles, Kairi's "addition" as an unlockable Extra Battle Costume for Ryu is the first in years that the two companies are back working together to put an "active character" from the EX series in SFV CE (not counting the Shadaloo profiles database). If you're a fan of these characters and still play Street Fighter, go and log in to unlock this outfit for Ryu! It runs from now until early October!
Check out more info on this by visiting the official Street Fighter Facebook page!
