Street Fighter Alpha 3 represents the best of everything Capcom had learned in their many years creating different fighting games. The gameplay is a blend of the more slow-paced and strategic Street Fighter 2 with the more varied and frenetic Alpha series. Air combos, alpha counters, and flashy finishing moves were combined with superior character balancing and deep fighting strategies to make Alpha 3 one of the best fighting titles of all time.

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How many times have you walked into an arcade to check out what’s the latest in arcade hits to play just to find the DDR master ramping up 230+ Perfects on something like the cruel, cruel song The Legend of Max? Or to stretch your eyes to the sight of Street Fighter champion Justin Wong single-handedly (he might as well) pummel every single opponent daring enough to challenge him. Or maybe you are not the type to subject yourself to public humiliation. You really want to play, but you don’t want the crowd’s glaring eye to witness your utter failure as you play on Light mode in DDR or want to challenge the AI solo-style in Marvel vs. Capcom. But seeing these elite players do what they do best is what really fuels a player to want to join the ranks of the elite arcade-goers, flexing their skills to the passing crowd. Who doesn’t wish they could play like that? I am only one of the many trying to climb my way to the top.

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Anyone out there who is just now coming out of a coma, or finding themselves without a console might not know too much about the February release of Street Fighter IV earlier this year. Lucky for all of us PC gamer relics, the game is going to be hitting the shelf early next month, giving us the chance to pummel each other over Games for Windows – LIVE. In addition to all the content that went out to consoles the PC version is going to be shipping with three additional visual filters that will serve to make your game look as if it was a watercolor painting, an ink drawing or a posterize filter that, well, posterizes it.

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All us serious business Street Fighter fans have been doing lately is huffing and puffing about the endless drought throughout the Fightstick Famine of ‘09. The game came out in February and these sticks have been sold out ALL over the ‘net ever since! Both online retailers and down the street shopping malls included. People have been paying upwards of $150 for these joysticks on internet auction sites just because they are so desperate to own one (and own you, in SFIV, of course). Will MadCatz ever deliver?

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With the release of Super Street Fighter 2 Turbo: HD Remix, Street Fighter fans were treated to the ultimate of 2D fighters. As great as the game is, it still had a few flaws. Luckily, the first patch is online as of right now. The new patch is supposed to fix several issues (look here for more details) including the pre-match slowdown and the strangely absent “Players Met” feature not showing any players interacted with.

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