Microsoft Kinect has seen a spawn of so-called Kinect hacks surface across the world. If you’re a gamer chances are you won’t care about half of them. Here’s one to get gamers excited. It’s a Street Fighter IV Kinect hack letting the player perform kicks, punches and, yes, Hadoukens using just their bare hands. Read on to see it in action. It’s worth it.
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It’s not often you you come away from a bruising encounter with a computer, but that’s just what you’ll get with this clever Street Fighter Lenovo IdeaPad Y5600 arcade cabinet mod. It fuses a proper mini arcade unit with a Lenovo IdeaPad Y5600 to bring the fight to portable computing. But will you be able to get your hands on it anytime soon? Read on to find out.
Oh Street Fighter, so much to answer for! Ryu’s fireball shooting skills have been made real by hardware hacker Glass Giant who’s created a wrist-mounted fireball launcher. File this one under Bad Ass But Seriously Unsafe. The Street Fighter-style wrist-mounted flame thrower uses a module strapped to the underside of your wrist which stores and ignites a combination of flash cotton and flash paper.
The flammable materials are kept in a small aluminium tube touching a glow plug which heats it up. A slider switch acts as a safety measure to complete the circuit from the built-in battery to the glow plug. It’ll heat up when the flame thrower is held at the right level producing that Street Fighter-esque Fireball you’ve always dreamed of. Head through to see it in action but as ever, Blue Peter-style, don’t try this one at home you maniac!
Stuff this in your ears and start the day properly: Rapper, producer and all-round nice guy Akira The Don just let loose a mixtape dedicated to the music of Street Fighter. This isn’t any old amateur mix either – production values higher than a Ryu roundhouse and some star cameos make this the finest file you’ll download all day.
Capcom is bringing Street Fighter IV to the iPhone this March with adjusted controls to suit the handheld’s touchscreen interface. But will the button bashing beat-em up translate to the smaller screen?
The murky world of gaming spin offs plunged to new lows last week when publisher Penguin and Ubisoft announced plans to unleash Assassin’s Creed 2: The Novel! But rather than priming a space on our book shelves and promising to read the book before we slide the disc into our PS3, we’ve primed a top ten of the worst gaming spin-offs ever. Hold onto your night vision goggles, we’ve unearthed some ‘classics’.
The Resident Evil series is the best-selling franchise Capcom have ever created. In its 2009 financial results, Capcom revealed that its 56 Resident Evil games (and you thought we were only on Resident Evil 5?!) have sold in total 40 million copies in total. Its Mega Man series came second with 28 million copies sold across 124 games. But what was number three for Capcom?
Street Fighter IV is heading to PC, and Capcom just let slip the arrival date for the big details. Gamers hoping to hurl a few hadoukens on the desktop had better get their calendars out!