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Street Fighting Man

I long for Street Fighter 4. However, Capcom is quite content to port 1999's Street Fighter III: Third Strike and 2000's Marvel vs. Capcom 2 to the Playstation 2, and reshuffle the Capcom fighting character deck for titles such as Capcom Fighting Jam (a mash up of fighters from Street Fighter, Street Fighter Alpha, Darkstalkers, and Red Earth). Thanks, Capcom, for letting millions of fighting game fans finally realize the dream match up of Jedah versus Hauzer.

Alas, Capcom has made no mention of a Street Fighter 4. But recently the rumor mill milled some old rumors, letting slip that "development has just begun on the title, with an estimated Summer 2006 release date" and that "it will remain 2D". Spong got a hold of this story, decided to call GameDaily on it and contacted a Capcom rep, who stated:

"We do have various games, as announced, in the 2D fighting genre right now. As far as there being Street Fighter 4 in development – I’ve never heard anything so ridiculous"

Really? You've never heard anything so ridiculous? A rumor that the next version of your flagship fighting franchise is in some stage of development and may possibly come out in 2006 is that unfathomable to you? Huh. Then I feel pretty confident I can safely confirm that the next game in the Street Fighter series is being developed on a cloned version of Hitler's brain. Consider yourselves scooped!

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