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How an underdog Street Fighter 6 player beat the odds to win $1 million
It didn’t take long for last year’s excellent Street Fighter 6 to take the fighting game world by storm. Capcom’s critically praised fighting game didn’t just revitalize the Street Fighter series, but reignited interest in the fighting genre as a whole. Capcom then focused on growing the competitive side of Street Fighter 6 by hosting a new entry of its tournament circuit, Capcom Cup, with a first-place prize of $1 million.
The EA Play subscription service is getting more expensive
Electronic Arts just raised the price of its EA Play subscription service. The standard EA Play tier increased from $5 per month to $6 per month, while the annual fee rose to $40 from $30. These updated prices also impact premium EA Play Pro subscriptions, which allows access to the publisher’s games as soon as they launch. This tier now costs $17 per month, an increase from $15, and $120 each year, an increase from $100.
The actual, real, one-of-a-kind Spawnmobile is on auction at a shockingly low price
If you're in the market for a new car, and you really, really want to impress (and annoy) all your neighbors, consider pulling up to your house in the Spawnmobile, a classic relic of '90s comic book excess that is now on auction via the memorabilia selling site Whatnot.
A year and a half after its bitter breakup with NetEase, Blizzard has reportedly made a new deal to bring its games back to China—with NetEase
After being gone for more than a year, it looks like Blizzard's biggest games are on the cusp of returning to China. Researcher and analyst CN Wire and the South China Morning Post have both reported that a new deal between Blizzard and NetEase, its former publishing partner in the country, is expected to be announced as soon as tomorrow.
The number of Japan arcades ‘has declined by 8,000 in 10 years’
The number of arcades in Japan, the world’s third-biggest games market, have declined by nearly 8,000 over the past decade, according to a new report.
Star Wars Outlaws Pre-Orders Are Starting Soon at GameStop
Marketing for Star Wars Outlaws is about to kick off in a big way, with the world premiere story trailer slated to air on Tuesday, April 9 at 9 AM Pacific Time/noon Eastern Time/6 PM Central European Time.
'Stop Killing Games' campaign demands end to live service shutdowns: 'It is an assault on both consumer rights and preservation of media'
Ubisoft pulled the plug on The Crew this month, rendering the 10-year-old racing game unplayable due, it said, to «server infrastructure and licensing constraints.» It's hardly the first time an online game has been sent to a farm upstate by a publisher that neither wants to continue supporting it nor offer players a way to play it offline or on private servers, but rather than accept the status quo, YouTuber Ross Scott is putting up a fight.