I met Rob and Hailey from Coin-Op TV last year at Comic-con for the first time. Oddly enough, I think I met them on the dance floor at a club in San Diego, shortly after Jim Lee (yes, that Jim Lee) boogied up and did a sexy dance on my leg. Where was I? Oh yeah, the Coin-Op TV guys and gals are a great crew and they're huge SF fans, as evidenced from Rob's excitement over scoring one of the SOLD OUT, limited edition Mad Catz TE Fight Sticks. Check out this episode, where they're joined by Ryan "Gootecks" Gutierrez (about 25 minutes in), who should be a very familiar face/voice/name to all you Street Fighters out there.
Coin-Op TV Live - Gootecks talking SFIV Watch This Episode on www.theStream.tv
PS - Rob, you're a jerk for flaunting the Flynn's Arcade shirt, 'cause I am lame and missed it during the con. Boo!
IGN is now starting to stream video from the amazing Street Fighter IV finals on their site. The catch is that you need to fork over some dough to become an Insider. These guys give you so much for free, that $15 for a year's worth of additional goods is nothing. Sign up here and check out Justin vs Daigo for the crown!
While we're on the EVO subject, here are some of the winners from this year:
Street Fighter IV 1) Daigo Umehara (Ryu) 2) Justin Wong (Rufus, Balrog, Abel) 3) Ed Ma (Akuma, Zangief)
SSF2T HD Remix 1) Hung “Afro Legends” Nguyen (Balrog, Dee Jay) 2) John Choi (Ryu) 3) Damien “Damdai” Dailidenas (Ken, Zangief)
Marvel vs Capcom 2 1) Sanford “Santhrax” Kelly 2) Justin Wong 3) Michael “IFC Yipes” Mendoza
Seth, Shawn and the majority of the Capcom crew are still in San Diego, where they are being hampered by a combination of poor planning (we forgot the Capcom Unity digital camera again?!?!) and really atrocious internet connectivity at our booth (convention center internet does not like Macs?!?!?). Thank god for Frank and Emily -- they get gold stars for keeping something happening here. Seth and Shawn and I will all do penance next week.
While we're attempting to get our act together, I'm going to steal some Capcom-related content from other websites, such as our good friends at Kotaku, who managed to snap a picture of this awesome cosplaying Blanka dude who came by the Capcom booth a few times during the show.
The boys at Udon are prepping a bunch of new Capcom art books, which are all gorgeous. Just in time for pre-Comic-con news, they've let slip info today on SF20: The Art of Street Fighter.
SF20: The Art of Street Fightergathers over 1,500 illustrations by Capcom’s top artists over the past 20 years. Included are character designs, concept art, rough sketches, game covers, promo artwork, crossover pieces and even some never-before seen artwork from Street Fighter’s past and present. Plus Capcom artists Akiman, Kinu Nishimura, CRMK, Edayan, Dai-Chan, Ikeno, Shinkiro and others give commentary on their favorite pieces and discuss what it’s been like to help forge the Street Fighter legacy.
