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Top Tier Gaming posted a video in which they spend some time with Mad Catz’s Mark “Markman” Julio. An interesting video to watch as we get to hear about some of the smaller details of the new sticks such as the Fight Stick V.S.’s larger compartment for the cord and its translucent black body. Check it out below.

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Mad Catz just dropped some serious news if you are fan of arcade sticks. At CES they announced that they will be releasing several new products based on Street Fighter X Tekken. This included new smaller than previous Fight Pads, New Fight Stick Pros and an all new product, the Fight Stick V.S.

The V.S. would be the most interesting of the new products as it allows you to buy a connector kit and combine two sticks to better simulate a real arcade machine.

Ours hats go off to Mad Catz as they continue to innovate when it comes to arcade sticks.

Below you will find pics, video and the press release.

Press Release

Mad Catz® Announce New Range of Street Fighter® X Tekken® Fighting Game Controllers
New FightStick V.S. is First to Allow for Single or Dual Play Tournament Configuration

SAN DIEGO–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Jan. 10, 2012– Mad Catz Interactive, Inc. (“Mad Catz”) (AMEX/TSX: MCZ) announced today a new range of Street Fighter® X Tekken® fighting game controllers, due for release to coincide with the upcoming Street Fighter X Tekken videogame from Capcom® expected to launch on March 6, 2012 on consoles.

Due for release on the Xbox 360® video game and entertainment system from Microsoft and the PlayStation®3 computer entertainment system, the new range of fighting game controllers includes the Street Fighter X Tekken FightPad SD, the Street Fighter X Tekken Arcade FightStick PRO and the flagship Street Fighter X Tekken Arcade FightStick V.S.

“We are excited to support the Street Fighter® and Tekken® franchises with our new range of fighting game controllers,” said Darren Richardson, the President and Chief Executive Officer of Mad Catz Interactive, Inc. “Our new V.S. FightStick and FightPad demonstrate our ability to continue innovating in this category and we believe that the fighting game community will react enthusiastically to our new product designs.”

The Street Fighter X Tekken Arcade FightStick V.S. features genuine Sanwa Denshi™ arcade components. The unique chassis allows gamers to join two sticks together via the Arcade FightStick V.S. Connector Kit (sold separately) for a highly realistic arcade presentation.

The Street Fighter X Tekken FightPad SD features a 15% smaller chassis than previous FightPad designs, inspired by the gaming preferences of legendary Street Fighter producer Yoshinori Ono.

Additional information is available at http://www.madcatz.com/SFXTekken.

About Mad Catz

Mad Catz Interactive, Inc. (AMEX/TSX: MCZ) is a global provider of innovative interactive entertainment products marketed primarily under its Mad Catz® (casual gaming), Cyborg™ (pro gaming), Tritton® (gaming audio), Saitek® (simulation), and Eclipse™ (home and office) brands. Mad Catz also develops flight simulation software through its internal ThunderHawk Studios™; operates flight simulation centers under its Saitek brand; operates a videogame content website under its GameShark® brand; publishes games under its Mad Catz brand; and distributes games and videogame products for third parties. Mad Catz distributes its products through most leading retailers offering interactive entertainment products and has offices in North America, Europe and Asia. For additional information please go to http://www.madcatz.com.

About CAPCOM

Capcom is a leading worldwide developer, publisher and distributor of interactive entertainment for game consoles, PCs, handheld and wireless devices. Founded in 1983, the company has created hundreds of games, including best-selling franchises Resident Evil®, Street Fighter®, Mega Man® and Devil May Cry®. Capcom maintains operations in the U.S., U.K., France, Germany, Tokyo, Hong Kong and Korea, with corporate headquarters located in Osaka, Japan. More information about Capcom and its products can be found at http://www.capcom.com or http://www.capcom-unity.com.

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#SFxT

As expected Capcom and Yoshinori Ono drops a bunch a bunch of news for Street Fighter X Tekken. New fighters, ew gameplay features and more .Check out trailers, pictures, gameplay video and more below.

#StreetFighter #SFxT

Now that the embargo has been lifted we can share some news aout Street Fighter X Tekken> So I got a few trailers as well as some gameplay footage for you. Also Capcom has released some artwork too. So far included characters include Ryu, Ken, Guile, Abel and Chun-Li on the Street Fighter side, and Kazuya, Nina, King, Marduk, and Bob from the Tekken side. Enjoy.

Features
• Dream Match Up – Dozens of playable characters including Ryu, Ken, Guile, Abel, and Chun-Li from Street Fighter® as well as Kazuya, Nina, King, Marduk, and Bob from TEKKEN®.

• Real-time Tag Battle – Fight as a team of two and switch between characters strategically.

• Familiar Controls – In SFxT, controls will feel familiar for fans of both series.

• Robust Online Modes – In addition to the online features from SSFIV, SFxT features totally upgraded online functionality and some new surprises.

#Streetfighter @Yoshi_OnoChin

There seems to be a bit of a drought around here when it comes to Street Fighter news even though there are several Street Fighter games in the works right now (SF3 Online, SFxT, SSFIV:AE). It seems like we may be getting a bone thrown to us soon courtesy Mr. Ono-san.

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You gotta love Ono-san. He is constantly be harassed by fans on Twitter. He get everything from people complaining about the existence of ultras to people wanting to know why Chun Li’s hands are so big. More than anything lately though he has been getting requests for a new Darkstalkers and a Poison appearance in a Street Fighter game. While we all know Ono wants to make a new Darkstalkers, the Poison thing is another matter. I addressed the whole Poison issue here on X-ism a while back and it seems like I may be wrong about her chances of a future appearance.

Well if you go back that, we may see Poison popping up in Street Fighter X Tekken which would be interesting considering Ono had said int he past that he’d want to stick with an “all star” line up of the game. Also Ono made mention that he was doing a proposal to the higher ups at Capcom to get the additions to the Arcade Edition added to the console versions.

@emezie

Awesome video by an animator by the name of Emezie Okorafor. Check what happens when Kazuya and Ryu battle over who has the best win pose.

I stumbled across this video earlier. I’m a bit confused because the video is presented by Gamespot but these are questions that we have heard Yoshinori Ono and Harada asked before. So threre isn’t really anything new here other than the fact that Ono says he wants to see Jun Kazama’s return. If you are familiar with the Tekken series you may know that this may be odd for a couple reason. First she’d be pretty old. Secondly she’s supposed to be dead. Then again Ono has never said these games will be canon.

When Street X Tekken was announced one of the only things that kinda stung was the fact that Yoshinori Ono said it would be another two years before we would have the game in our hands. That’s a long time for a game that using using assets from a previous game (Street Fighter IV). With half the casts having models already created and the game’s engine already in place, it didn’t make much sense. Seems like I’m not the only one who felt this way. Check out what he said to IGN.

“At Comic-Con, I think I said to everyone, probably about two years. But then the day after that, Keiji Inafune pulled me into his office and told me off big time, so I suppose I’ll have to make that a bit shorter.”

Now we can all be happier now.

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Yoshinori Ono continues to make the interview rounds. This time he talked it up with Kotaku about Street Fighter X Tekken and why is it being made instead a new Darkstalkers. Here’s some of Ono’s quotes.

On if the game will play like Tekken or Street Fighter:
“Ultimately what we are heading for is a Street Fighter game, so everyone will have Street Fighter-esque moves. The Tekken characters will be entering the Street Fighter world, so they will play like Street Fighter characters but their moves will be Tekken style.”

How he fits Tekken Characters into the Street Fighter world:
“When I was going through all of these moves for Nina I thought ‘I’ve seen this somewhere before,” he said. “It boiled down to Darkstalkers. In Darkstalkers we have chain combos: Light, light, medium, medium, hard, hard. That is a Capcom version of that rhythmic input command.

We see great possibilities in these two mixing up. In that same sense, like how chain combos are used to play Tekken, we’ll bring back Nina and Law’s (If law is in the game) into Street Fighter X Tekken, incorporating that chain combo style.”

On why we are getting Street Fighter X Tekken instead of Darkstalkers:
“We decided to bring it up to our management but we thought the discussion was going to go on forever. We were expecting them to have a long discussion over years and years, but as soon as they had a one high management meeting together, they just stood up and shook hands two seconds after the meeting. That was the moment the decision to make this game was made. I was a bit shocked.

We have a weekly meeting with (Capcom’s Keiji) Inafune. I bring Darkstalkers up every week and Inafune has still yet to approve it… but I’m going to continue doing it.”

And finally:
“Street Fighter X Tekken is part of a grand scheme of making fighting games the biggest genre of all time.”

[Kotaku]

Seems that not only did audiences get to see a real life Ryu fight a real life Kazuya at the Street FIghter X Tekken event at Gamescom, there was also a dance off between Chun Li and Nina. And I gotta admit, the girl playing Chun Li has some serious skills!

As part of the Street Fighter X Tekken event at Gamescom someone thought it’d be a good idea to have martial artists dressed up as Ryu and Kazuya face off. Seems good enough until the part where Ono shows up dressed like Chun Li. (more…)

Earlier today I said that Yoshinori Ono showed the exact same footage of Street Fighter X Tekken that he showed at Comic-Con. I was wrong. Though the gameplay footage is almost the same, it is different. So he here’s the footage from the Gamescom event.

Yoshinori Ono was getting into a bit of a Twitter batter with Tekken producer Katsuhiro Harada. The result? Ono ended up showing off the character models for Kazuya and Nina. (more…)

Yoshinori Ono just showed off some new pictures of Street Fighter X Tekken. He also mentioned that he will be showing off more of the game when he visits Germany for Gamescom. Check out the pics below which have have quite a bit of Chun Li versus Nina.

This is INVITATION!!! http://p.twipple.jp/vHTehless than a minute ago via ついっぷるYoshinori Ono
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Matt Moylan (from UDON) does a funny little piece that plays off the fact that Tekken seems to have lost a bit of popularity while Street Fighter’s has been surging in the last couple of years. Personally I really haven’t played much Tekken since Tekken 4 but maybe Street Fighter X Tekken will be the game that gets me into Tekken again. (more…)