FISTS were thrown and arcade sticks broken as Street Fighter fans convened at Cineleisure Mutiara Damansara last weekend for the first Street Fighter IV videogame tournament in Malaysia.
The tournament organised by Outpost Events together with Sony Malaysia and RAM Entertainment, distributors of the recently released live-action film Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li, drew close to a hundred participants.
"This is the first time Street Fighter fans have had a chance to compete as the last major tournament took place over 10 years ago," said event manager for Outpost Events Alan Muk. Participants took part in the preliminary rounds last Saturday, while the four finalists proceeded for the semi-finals and finals on Sunday.
Kenneth Aw bested Mak Kien Leong in the final in a furious one-on-one duel to take home the top prize.
A long time Street Fighter veteran, the 26-year-old entrepreneur said he has been playing the fighting game since Street Fighter Zero 3. Aw added that he felt extremely lucky and didn't expect to win the first prize. As a matter of fact, both Aw and his opponent, Mak trained together for the tournament. "Perhaps it was beginner's luck," said Aw. Aw walked away with a Sony PlayStation 3 and a copy of Street Fighter IV for the console.
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It turns out that many moons ago, Microsoft once had its eye on the Sony published LittleBigPlanet series.
Microsoft in a nutshell. Always tried to poach Sony employees, games, 3rd party games and devices like the depth camera that was turned into Kinect but was running on PS2 before Xbox 360. Wouldn't be surprised they wanted LBP. Just like they worked behind the scenes pushing the MLB to bring Sony's baseball game to Xbox instead of making their own.
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They didn't spend years trying to develop their own baseball game. They wanted Sony's game.
They're scum.
"However, Healey said Media Molecule wouldn't have felt right doing that, adding it would have been "morally corrupt"."
Major kudos to Media Molecule for being an upright studio with principles.
Great, more stories like this please. Show the last of the zombies holding the line what we've been saying for years: Microsoft is anti competition, anti industry and has no interest in making games at all.
But hey, at least there's an Xbox Games Showcase to look forward to, right?
Well considering SONY just killed the series, LBP would've been dead by now either way. Though MM probably wouldn't exist by now either, so I'm glad they stayed with SONY, hopefully they don't get shut down any time soon or ever honestly.
Sagat will win
The Final Fight was Ryu VS Ken