Five Street Fighter legends take on rad animal form in this fan art piece by Chie Yamamoto Boyd. FIGHT!

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Singapore's SingTel kicked off a subscription-based cloud gaming service called ESC, which allows players to play high-powered games over the net via desktops or notebook computers with Pentium 4 chips.

It's also possible to play games via SingTel's fibre-optic set up for televisions.

Games are streamed over the internet in standard def, and there are currently 24 titles so far, including Street Fighter IV and Frontlines: Fuel of War. Players must play $1.99 per day or $9.99 a month for unlimited access.

The service joins other online gaming cloud services like OnLive in the US and Gaikai in Japan.

Cloud gaming now a reality in Singapore [Asia One]

Last week, in Miami, Yoshinori Ono, the cheerful, jokey lead producer of the Street Fighter series had just shown off his team's new game, Street Fighter X Tekken. He and I were just about done talking about it.

I had time for one more question. I need only one more answered: "How thick are Chun-Li's legs allowed to be?"

Outside, there was this poster — the same one you can see above — of Street Fighter heroine Chun-Li. In that poster, Chun-Li's famous legs, always exposed, often used for rapidly kicking of Ken, Ryu, M.Bison and the rest of the Street Fighter brawlers, looked ... freakish.

I wondered if there was a style guide. I told Ono's translator that, sure, I'd be interested in a specific measurement. Whatever the Street Fighter braintrust uses as a rule for their most fetishized fighter's most fetishized body parts.

Ono had an answer for me:

"I get this question every time," he said, "Because, from regular Street Fighter to Street Fighter IV she looked thicker. She appears to be getting thicker from game to game.

"The simple answer to that is: I am looking for the perfect thigh to rest my head on. So whatever size would work as a nice pillow… "

I think that's as serious an answer as I'll get.

For reference:

Chun-Li in Street Fighter II. (1991)

Chun-Li in Street Fighter III: Third Strike (1999)

Chun-Li in Street Fighter IV (2008)

Chun-Li in Super Street Fighter II Turbo HD Remix (2008)

Chun-Li in Street Fighter X Tekken (2012)

Chun-Li in the poster outside of my interview room with Yoshinori Ono last week.

Mike "Broly" Begum is a Street Fighter IV player from Texas. And he's pretty damn good. What makes Mike's success notable, though, is the fact he's so good despite having to play the game with his face.

Begum was born with arthrogryposis, which has left him with only partial use of one arm. While this would normally prevent the less determined from even playing a video game, let alone getting good at one, Mike has found a way to combine his partial hand use with his cheek and tongue to turn himself into quite the Chun-Li player.

Oh, and he's awesome at Smash Bros., too.

Interview w/ Broly Legs, Disabled SSF4 Chun-Li Player [Cross Counter TV]

Taiwanese arcade distributor Wahlap Technologies will be releasing in the Chinese market something of a novelty: a Street Fighter IV arcade cabinet that lets you play the game in 3D.

This isn't the existing 3DS version of Super Street Fighter cleaned up and re-released. In fact, it's not Super Street Fighter IV at all. What it appears to be is the PC version of vanilla Street Fighter IV - which is compatible with 3D technology like nVidia's 3D vision setup - stuffed in an arcade cabinet and played with spare change.

It looks as you'd expect it to - a little ghetto - but if kicking public ass in 3D is your thing (and you don't mind looking like a dork) then this might be to your liking! Provided you live in China, that is, since it seems highly unlikely this thing would be released anywhere else.

Street Fighter IV 3D Arcade version? Plus many more games from China [Arcade Heroes]

Tomorrow, Japanese arcade gamers will get the chance to try out Evil Ryu in Super Street Fighter IV Arcade Edition. He's like regular Ryu, only because some of his attacks are more powerful, they're slower.

Reader Jorge R. says he gave his girlfriend his PC gamepad and a copy of Street Fighter IV. After a week, here's her new manicure.

When Street Fighter IV's ultra combos are recreated in the real world, is the result silly looking or totally bad-ass? As "action company" Thousand Pounds, demonstrates, it's somewhere in the middle.

Watch as Vonzell Carter, James Young and David 'Dax' Bauer beat each other up with a series of dramatic, slow motion death blows lifted (in style and presentation, at least) from Street Fighter IV. Can you guys do Zangief's ultra next?

Ultra Combos #1 - Thousand Pounds [YouTube via Reddit]

The Kinect genie refuses to return to the bottle. Here an enterprising modder rigs up his PC to play Street Fighter IV with Kinect, including shoryukens and hadoukens (and Ken). The video features actual gameplay versus the CPU.

Modder demize2010 wrote the scripts to work with FAAST, the open-source Kinect driver, and another to enable a Nunchuk for movement ("'Cause we're not ninjas," says demize2010). After a brief demonstration, its on to an actual fight against Guile on the game's easiest difficulty setting.

demize2010, noting the game's online multiplayer support, opened up his work, with links to the drivers involved and his script on the movie's YouTube page. How long until we see human-vs-human Street Fighter Kinect?

Street Fighter IV Kinect Hack - Throw Real Hadoukens [Shoryuken]

Super Street Fighter IV is officially available in arcades in Japan and...that's it. If you'd like to import your own, then, you'll need to know where to look. Oh, and bring money.

While some enterprising (and wealthy) arcades in the West have a cabinet or two on display, there are many who simply live too far away from one to play regularly. Or who are rich and would just like to skip the lines.

If that sounds like you, Shoryuken reports that you can get your very own pair of SSFIV cabinets for a pinch under $17,000. That price gets you the two official Taito cabinets (so you can engage in some linked play) with Street Fighter IV pre-installed, along with a 90-day warranty.

Seventeen grand is a little rich for our blood, but if any of you know any rap stars or children of oil magnates, best of luck to you.

[via Shoryuken]