Street Fighter 6 server maintenance now underway and everything to know for major Akuma and balance update
Update: Street Fighter 6 servers are now officially down for maintenance. You can see for how long and everything else you need to know about the big update that's now available to download in the story below.
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.
Tokido discusses what he's most excited to try with Akuma in Street Fighter 6
Akuma is now just mere hours away from finally launching in Street Fighter 6, and there's one pro player in particular who's esepecially ready to take control of his favorite demon again.
Longtime top competitor Rohto|Tokido recently released a new video going through Akuma's moves in SF6 and discussing what he's most excited to use.
A Dream King combo video send off for Street Fighter 6 Season 1
It has been a very interesting year of Street Fighter 6. From raw Drive Rush shenanigans, Perfect Parries becoming really strong, and 2-touches, there has been a lot to discuss and learn here in the initial year of the game's hopefully long lifespan.
While it's only been just about a year since Street Fighter 6 was released, it has actually been seven years since I last made a full combo video, and making my return for the send off of Street Fighter 6 Season 1 just felt right. As we're mere hours away from Akuma's release and the big Season 2 balance update, here is a good, old-fashioned Dream King combo video to close out the season.
Twitch Plays Street Fighter 6 is creating chaos with Akuma controlled by chat
Update: The Twitch Plays Akuma stream is now live, and you can watch it in the story below.
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.
Cute and cool new Street Fighter 6 challenger screens revealed from 'You've Got This Juri!' artist
Street Fighter 6 will be receiving its largest update to date in a matter of hours, and it looks like even more new content will be included.
Capcom just revealed a new set of challenger screens to use in SF6 that players are probably going to get a kick out of.
Masahiro Sakurai once removed Dolby Surround from a game because he didn't want a single second of players' time to be wasted
Masahiro Sakurai has had quite a career in video game development that has spanned for over 30 years at this point. Needless to say, he has quite a bit of wisdom to pass along when it comes to game design, which explains why he created his YouTube channel in the first place.
Recently, Sakurai teamed up with Hideki Kamiya, creator of the Bayonetta series, while making a guest appearance during the Arcade Archive’s 10-year anniversary event. Sakurai had some interesting things to say. These statements have been translated by Automaton.
'I think you will find there to be some unexpected characters' — Street Fighter 6 Director Takayuki Nakayama on Season 2 DLC
Akuma and the Season 2 update is slated to be released on May 22 — tomorrow. This will mark the end of the Season 1 DLC fighters as Rashid, A.K.I., and Ed have all been released already.
Of course, the roster will continue to expand beyond 22 characters in Season 2 and beyond. Whereas the Season 1 roster was revealed from the very beginning, information about the Season 2 roster is currently very scarce.
King of Fighters 15 version 2.32 patch notes
Patch notes for King of Fighters 15 version 2.32 have been released. Those within the Street Fighter 6 community have mused on X (formerly known as Twitter) how SNK were able to release their patch notes before Capcom, being that fans are currently waiting for the Street Fighter 6 Season 2 patch notes.
Regardless, the latest patch has provided adjustments to just two characters in King of Fighters 15 — Kukri and Kim Kaphwan. What's interesting is that these two combatants are generally perceived to be very middle of the road in Season 2 of King of Fighters 15 in that they're not too strong or too weak in the current meta.
Maximilian breaks his own record with an even higher damage Akuma combo in Street Fighter 6
Earlier this week, popular content creator Maximilian was given the opportunity to check out Street Fighter 6's upcoming DLC character, Akuma, ahead of his May 22 release. He had a limited time with the fighter and was able to show off some of what the returning legacy character can do in the latest iteration of the beloved fighting game franchise.
On top of working through all of Akuma's combo trials, Max was able to hit the lab and try to find some of the strongest stuff he could within the time allotted. Last time, Maximilian shared a devastating Akuma combo that dealt a whopping 6,600 damage, and he has since broken this record and released another combo that hits even harder.
New Character BGM feature and music shop announced for Street Fighter 6
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.
Mortal Kombat 1 server maintenance incoming tomorrow morning
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.
The frame data for the Drive Parry has seemingly changed in Street Fighter 6 Season 2
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.
Capcom releases battle preview for Akuma showing off developer match footage and combos
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.
Jason Voorhees and Agent Smith revealed for MultiVersus
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.
VesperArcade releases final Season 1 tier list for Street Fighter 6 where one character gets a rank all to himself
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.
Why Season 3 DLC characters for Street Fighter 6 may be from Street Fighter 3
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.
Get On My Level X results
Update: This story has been updated with final results.
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.
