The final countdown for Akuma has arrived with the year-long wait just about to come to an end in a matter of hours.
Capcom just confirmed Street Fighter 6's impending server maintenance to prepare the game for Akuma's arrival, the major balance patch and more.
There's now only just over a day left until Akuma finally hits the stage in Street Fighter 6 as the last DLC character of Season 1, but it seems that everyone will technically get to play him a bit earlier than that.
Capcom just announced an unexpected event that's sure to bring a ton of chaos to the battlefield.
The time has almost arrived with just over a day until Akuma arrives in Street Fighter 6, and he's bringing some new toys to play with as well.
Capcom just announced a new Character BGM feature that's been highly requested for SF6 as well as a shop to contain said music.
Although Street Fighter 6 players are the ones currently hyped up for an update this week, it seems like they might not be the only ones.
NetherRealm Studios announced today that server maintenance is also incoming for Mortal Kombat 1 quite soon.
We're just a few days away from the release of Akuma and the Season 2 balance patch for Street Fighter 6. Leading up to this date, Maximilian Dood was apparently given early access to the new update with permission to stream by Capcom, so long as he didn't do a deep dive into character changes.
While we're still waiting on the official patch notes, members of the community have noticed some changes from the streams. Thanks to some keen observers, it's been noticed that there's a change that will impact every character universally.
After waiting for almost a whole year, fans can almost finally get their hands on Akuma in Street Fighter 6, but not quite yet.
Instead of patch notes just yet, it seems that Capcom is gifting us all a new SF6 battle preview for Akuma showing off the demon in action some more.
After the MultiVersus Open Beta went down in the middle of 2023, Player First Games went silent about MultiVersus for months. Just recently, it was announced that MultiVersus would be returning on May 28 on the PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, Xbox Series, and PC.
Since then, the Joker was revealed as a playable character and Mark Hamill was reprising his role as the character's voice actor. Following that, Banana Guard was also revealed a playable fighter, even though he previously functioned as a usable item during the beta.
Street Fighter 6 is rapidly approaching some big changes in the coming days with Akuma and a balance update on the way, but it's not here just yet.
VesperArcade recently put together his final tier list for Street Fighter 6 Season 1 where one character stands above the rest.
Following up on our previous theory of why Season 2 DLC characters for Street Fighter 6 may be coming from Street Fighter 4, today we're examining Street Fighter 3 for its potential to be the basis of SF6 Season 3's DLC characters in 2025.
Street Fighter 3 is one of the most controversial games in the entire franchise, because Capcom brought in 15 newcomers to the series, and left quite a few of the most popular characters on the cutting room floor, like Guile and Dhalsim.
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Get On My Level is back for its tenth installment this year with Get On My Level X and as usual it's taking place in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Notable players participating include Bandits|MenaRD, Nouns|Cody Schwab, LG|Sonix, Zain, LG|Tweek, Moist|Light, LG|MkLeo, Stride|Shadic, RB|aMSa, Liquid|Hungrybox, C9|Mango, 26R|Onin, Liquid|Riddles, LG|Maister, NYCT|FearOfSilence, PepperySplash, Liquid|Dabuz, Moist|Kola, WIN|Lima, FLY|Jmook, Moist|Moky, Soonsay,FluxWaveZ, Joe Umerogan, 801 Strider, Wizzrobe, Tempo|Axe, Spark, KoDoRiN, Brutus, BoosterBlast, YCR|Pok8, TTT|NeoRussell and many more.
Street Fighter 6 is now just a few days away from receiving its largest update ever (up to this point), and it seems like it's going to come packing quite a lot for players.
We obviously knew about Akuma, new combo trials, and the big balance patch, but now there's pretty much confirmation of at least one more new feature being added to SF6 as well.
One of the things we certainly missed out on during the Covid era of tournaments were the pop offs on the big stage, and this might have been the biggest of the year so far.
At the start of Super Smash Bros. Melee top 8 at Get On My Level X, Liquid|Hungrybox, who's been known to pop off now and again, absolutely went off on stage.
Late last night, Maximilian Dood announced on X (formerly known as Twitter) that Capcom had provided him with early access to Akuma in Street Fighter 6. As such, Maximilian Dood has spent a lot of time exploring Akuma during his recent stream.
At one point, a particularly nasty combo was shown off. It turns out that Akuma can link from a raw heavy Adamant Flame if it hits as a punish counter in the corner. This might seem impractical, but the way that Akuma weaves backwards before thrusting forward with incredible reach means that this could actually happen in a real match.
We're just three days away from the release of Akuma and the Season 2 balance update for Street Fighter 6. Of course, the Gokuento stage, Akuma's home stage in Street Fighter 6, will also be available for download.
During the gameplay debut trailer, a giant stone head is sent flying towards the player avatar. Following this, we can see him standing on top of a headless statue, which causes the player avatar to begin shaking uncontrollably.
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The Versus Festival is a new event taking place in Chennai, India and aims to celebrate various fandoms and show Indian competitive players on a grand stage.
Notable players participating in the event include PKT|Aster, TF|Seco, YYYY|Ravioli, Sui, Vik, TBH|Starboy, Llama, EL Deech and many more.
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This weekend we'll be seeing Paradise Game Battle happening in Abidjan, Ivory Coast.
Notable entrants participating include Falcons|JoKa, Dragons|Raef, K-Wiss, FATE|Jodd, BIG|Sephiblack, FATE|Khan, NIP|Bilal, AMD, Shaoling, Skywalker and more.
Street Fighter 6 is about to undergo its biggest update so far on May 22. Not only is Akuma being released as a DLC fighter, but there will also be plenty of balance adjustments made to every combatant.
Earlier today, Capcom announced that there will be new combo trials packaged along with the Season 2 update due to the upcoming balance changes. Of course, this implies that characters will have access to brand new combos, while other combos may no longer work.