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The full horror that is Street Fighter: The Movie, The Game is hard to describe. Strange gameplay, digitized renderings of Hollywood actors, and blood-curdling voice-acting add up to a console/coin-op disaster. Finally, though, something good has emerged from the game's ashes. Via Kotaku, a thread on the Shoryuken board (a Street Fighter community) where a game developer is baring his soul to the players he has wronged. What started as some catharsis for 'anoon', the poster and former co-director of Street Fighter: The Movie, The Game, has turned into a fascinating discussion of game development. Along with the unique circumstances the game's creators found themselves in, anoon talks about the possibility of introducing new characters to the Street Fighter world, the ugly business end of the game, and a look at the process of digitizing actors ... slowly.

Thanks to Shoryuken.com for its new post discussing one of the highlights of the recent EVO2K4 fighting game tournament, in the form of "a video of the amazing ending to the Daigo [Umehara] vs. Justin Wong match of the Evolution [Street Fighter 3] Third Strike finals." The video shows in-game footage and crowd reaction to Daigo's nearly dead character "parrying each hit [of a super] individually... then going for a jump in combo." Elsewhere, the brief game-by-game results of the popular multi-title tournament are posted on the official EVO2K4 site.

Thanks to Shoryuken.com for its new post discussing one of the highlights of the recent EVO2K4 fighting game tournament, in the form of "a video of the amazing ending to the Daigo [Umehara] vs. Justin Wong match of the Evolution [Street Fighter 3] Third Strike finals." The video shows in-game footage and crowd reaction to Daigo's nearly dead character "parrying each hit [of a super] individually... then going for a jump in combo." Elsewhere, the brief game-by-game results of the popular multi-title tournament are posted on the official EVO2K4 site.

Namflow writes "Shoryuken.com just announced Evolution 2K3. Evolution is the biggest annual fighting game tournament in North America. This year is especially exciting because not only will there be the normal Capcom 2D fighters, but a host of 3D games such as Virtua Fighter 4: Evolution. Time to start saving..." Even Tekken 4 and Soul Calibur 2 are included this year, as well as traditional classics like Super Street Fighter II Turbo and the newest 2D of Capcom Vs SNK 2, for this big showdown from August 8th-10th in Pomona, California.

Namflow writes "Shoryuken.com just announced Evolution 2K3. Evolution is the biggest annual fighting game tournament in North America. This year is especially exciting because not only will there be the normal Capcom 2D fighters, but a host of 3D games such as Virtua Fighter 4: Evolution. Time to start saving..." Even Tekken 4 and Soul Calibur 2 are included this year, as well as traditional classics like Super Street Fighter II Turbo and the newest 2D of Capcom Vs SNK 2, for this big showdown from August 8th-10th in Pomona, California.

wokness writes with this bit of depressing news. "The arcade business is getting thougher and tougher -- from shoryuken.com: 'The Nikkei Telecom 21, the largest online news & information database in Japan, has reported that Capcom will discontinue sales and development of arcade games.' More info here. This sucks!" Seems like Capcom wasn't making enough money to justify themselves selling large boxes to arcades. Now, they'll go all the way (instead of just using emulation to make cross-platform games) and make games for home consoles instead.