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Bandits lead Street Fighter League Pro-Americas 2026 after two days, unbeaten at 4-0
Bandits have 130 points from four matches. Shopify Rebellion and 2Game Esports sit just behind on 3-1.
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Ultimate Frame Data pulls its Street Fighter 6 pages after a Capcom notice
Capcom's IP department asked the site to remove SF6 hitbox and collision data by 30 October. The Smash Ultimate pages stay up.
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Red Dunes win Street Fighter League EMEAA and qualify for the World Championship
Red Dunes beat top seed GTW in London's grand final to book a place at the SFL World Championship.
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FAV go top of SFL Japan Division S with a 40-0 win over ZETA
Fujimura's C. Viper beat MenaRD 3-2 to finish the sweep. iXA got their first win of the season, and every away team won in round 5.
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A Samurai Shodown movie is in the works from the creator of Altered Carbon
Laeta Kalogridis will write it for The Arena, the SNK-backed company that's also making Fatal Fury and Art of Fighting films.
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Capcom says 11.7 million CAPCOM ID records were accessed in a breach
Email addresses and login details were taken. Capcom says original passwords and card details weren't, and Street Fighter 6 and its other games are still online.
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Fatal Fury: City of the Wolves reaches Switch 2 with Mikey and Draken
SNK says the Switch 2 version and the two Tokyo Revengers guest fighters both arrive on 22 October.
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Street Fighter V and Dragon Ball FighterZ go offline for emergency maintenance
Capcom and Bandai Namco took both games' online services down on 21 October and haven't given an end time.
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Ready? Start! brings two days of brackets to St Kilda this weekend
Melbourne's volunteer-run gaming and art weekend, organised by queer and femme gamers, runs FGC tournaments on 24 and 25 October.
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Riddle Order stay perfect in Street Fighter League Japan
A 40–0 sweep of Good 8 Squad keeps them unbeaten in Division F, while Itabashi Zangief helps DetonatioN FocusMe edge Reject.
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Rangchu goes unbeaten at Bronco Brawl Fall in Pomona
VARREL Rangchu went 7–0 through the Tekken 8 bracket at the Southern California TWT Dojo event.
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Phenom takes Europe North/East's Capcom Cup spot without dropping a game in the final
A 3–0 grand final over teammate JuicyJoe sends the NIP player to Capcom Cup 13 in Tokyo.
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The long way round: elieatscrayons at the Oceania World Warrior final
A losers-bracket run to grand finals, capping a season spent near the top of the region's Street Fighter 6 brackets.
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Evo France goes to Dual Kevin, and Europe's World Warrior run rolls on
The final Street Fighter 6 Premier of the Capcom Pro Tour year, two European regional finals a week later, and three more still to come.
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Japan's fourth World Warrior goes to Zabuton, and the US and Canada run-in is still to come
A perfect last round in Tokyo's biggest online bracket, then what's left on the calendar before Capcom Cup 13.
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Street Fighter tops the US box office in its opening weekend
Capcom and Legendary's film took about US$31 million in North America from 16 to 18 October, and about US$51 million worldwide.
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The OCE fighting-game calendar, from Sydney to Tokyo
Where Oceania's Street Fighter year goes next, with dates from the organisers.
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