Capcom has announced the release date for the console versions of its anticipated brawler Street Fighter IV, and it is Febuary 17, 2009.

The Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 versions will launch on the same day.

Offering a whole lot of characters, the fighter will arrive on European shores in the same week, on February 20.

A PC version is still in the works, but will be released at a later time following Capcom's recent policy of delaying PC releases to fight piracy.

Street Fighter IV was released in Japanese arcades in summer 2008, but was never officially exported from its home country before now. A handful of anxious fans imported "gray market" machines into arcades in Western countries as Capcom looked the other way.

Capcom has released a new Street Fighter IV trailer featuring Gouken. Or is that Sheng Long? Who knows.

Street Fighter IV hits PS3 and Xbox 360 in February, with a PC release later in 2009.

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Unless the image at left is a painstakingly produced fake, that's the current incarnation of the character selection screen in the upcoming home versions of Capcom's Street Fighter IV (PC, 360, PS3).

The image, reportedly a photograph taken at the N.E.X.T. consumer expo in Belgium, was featured on the Shoryuken fighting game forums and picked up by gaming blog Kotaku.

25 characters are shown on screen, with a question mark-filled space saved for those who want to play with a random character. Second from the left on the bottom row is believed to be Rose from Street Fighter Alpha.

If Capcom confirms the legitimacy of the image and the inclusion of Rose, she would be the latest character to join the ever-expanding ranks of console-exclusive fighters in Street Fighter IV. Recently, Fei Long, Dan, Cammy, and Gen were premiered, prompting Shacknews editor Chris Faylor to call Fei Long a misogynist.

The increasingly-complex console version of Street Fighter IV will hit Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 in February with a PC port following later.

Capcom has issued a new trailer for Street Fighter IV, detailing boss character Seth, who, as the company points out, "coincidentally shares the same name as [Capcom community manager] Seth Killian."

The urban brawler hits PS3 and Xbox 360 in February, with a PC release later in 2009.

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A number of new Street Fighter IV screenshots have surfaced over at Gamed.nl, showing off some of the console exclusive characters--including Dan, Cammy and Fei Long--that PS3 and Xbox 360 owners will find in the fighting game come next February.

Also included are several images of Fei Long punching girls in the gut, hard.

Update: Capcom tells Shacknews that "North American and European ship date announcements are coming soon, along with some additional information."

Original Story: Capcom's Street Fighter IV will indeed make its promised release of "this winter," but only just: the highly anticipated fighter sequel will hit Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 in February of next year.

Capcom's official Japanese Street Fighter IV site pegs the 360 and PS3 versions as coming out in February of 2009, but an exact release date has not been given.

Meanwhile, UK gaming site MCV claims to have obtained the publisher's release list for Q1 2009, which shows Street Fighter IV in the week of February 15.

As expected, the PC release of the classic fighting revival will come sometime after the February release.

While the home versions of Street Fighter 4 are slated to arrive in the vague "winter" timeframe, developer Capcom has stepped in to clarify that the estimate only applies to the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 editions--not the promised PC iteration.

"[A] PC version is in the works, but will come post-console release," the company told IGN. "'Winter' is the only timing we've given as of yet for console release."

The console-first, PC-later strategy is nothing new to Capcom. Both Lost Planet: Extreme Condition and Devil May Cry 4 debuted on consoles roughly 5-6 months before the PC edition arrived. While a PC release of Resident Evil 5 has not yet been confirmed, many expect a PC version to follow its March 13 arrival on consoles.

Street Fighter IV producer Yoshi Ono has revealed that the fighting sequel will hit consoles sometime this winter. "We don't want to start rumors that it's this year, but definitely this winter," said Ono to G4.

Street Fighter IV is expected to be released on the PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, and PC platforms.

Added the Capcom developer: "At some point you'll be sitting in you winter coat looking at snow out the window... and right then we'll kind of heat you up a little with some hot street fighter action."

Capcom, not content with trotting out the schoolgirl character Sakura from Street Fighter IV during last week's Tokyo Game Show, sent along five new screenshots showing the young lady taking on Ken in a whimsical fight underneath some train tracks. Also visible is a van down by the river.

Street Fighter IV will hit the PC, Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 sometime next year, but lucky arcade-goers in the States can find SF4 machines in certain cities.

The Tokyo Game Show has its fair share of costumed girls all over the Makuhari Messe convention hall outside Tokyo. Capcom, not to be left out, brought their own schoolgirl to the party, and she's Sakura, the brawler from Street Fighter Alpha 2.

Sakura won a poll among Japanese gamers asking what character they wanted to see in the fighting sequel. The guy with the white hair on the right? Sheng Long.

Street Fighter IV is currently sneaking into American arcades but will hit the PC, Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 next year.

Capcom today released a new trailer for Street Fighter IV during the Tokyo Game Show.

Street Fighter hits PC, PS3 and Xbox 360 next year.

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The story: The longest-standing rumor in video games has finally come to fruition. The mythical, never-once-seen Sheng Long from the Street Fighter series has made it into the game's fourth incarnation now sneaking into American arcades.

The set-up: It all started with an April Fool's joke in the April 1992 issue of Electronic Gaming Monthly. It was the greatest April Fool's gag in the history of gaming journalism, and one that's remained in gaming lore since.

The trick: Beat the arcade version of Street Fighter II, using Ryu, without getting touched. Then survive ten rounds against M. Bison, without dealing or taking damage, and letting the time run out every time. After the tenth, Sheng Long--the supposed... Read more

Resident Evil and Street Fighter developer Capcom has sworn off the practice of making "next-generation" games exclusive to one home console like the PS3 or Xbox 360.

"All major titles launched during the next fiscal year or thereafter will be developed as multi-platform games," reads Capcom's shareholder report for its fiscal year 2008, which ended on March 31 of this year.

Henceforth, Capcom will develop many of its games using its internal MT Framework technology, "an integrated development environment built to provide common development tools for Xbox 360, PS3 and PC platforms."

As a result, the company "will aim to increase revenue and dramatically increase the number of users by launching, for example, Resident Evil 5 ... Street Fighter IV ... and Bionic Commando [on multiple platforms]."

Capcom's strategy appears to already be in action. Aside from its work on MT Framework platforms, the zombie-smacking Xbox 360 action title Dead Rising is already getting some multi-console love, and several games including Street Fighter IV may be Wii-bound.

Capcom today confirmed that Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun Li, the forthcoming feature film adaptation based on its acclaimed fighting series, will see a release in February 2009.

"Following the launch of the arcade video game Street Fighter IV in Summer 2009, its Hollywood movie version Street Fighter is set to be released worldwide in February 2009," reads a portion of the company's Annual Report 2008.

The February release puts the movie in close proximity to the home versions of Street Fighter IV, which are slated to hit PC, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 by March 31, 2009.

Starring Kristin Kreuk, Michael Clark Duncan, Neal McDonough and more, the Chun Li-focused flick, which does not include Street Fighter regulars Ken or Ryu, was written by Justin Marks and helemed by Doom film director Andrzej Bartkowiak.

Console versions of Capcom's new brawler Street Fighter 4 will not have characters exclusive to one platform, says producer Yoshinori Ono.

"I don't want to give an exclusive character for any particular console," elaborated Ono to VideoGamer.com, adding, "And that applies to downloadable characters as well ... because it's not very fair."

The revelation follows Project Soul's recent inclusion of platform-exclusive characters in Soul Calibur IV (PS3, 360).

Among the playable characters set to appear in the home versions of... Read more

Furthering our knowledge of Street Fighter 4's visuals, Capcom has issued new screenshots of the thruway combat game, which hits PC, PS3 and Xbox 360 next year.

Publisher Capcom is considering one or more of its in-development properties for release on the Nintendo Wii, corporate officer Christian Svensson revealed on the company's official forums.

Responding to complaints that few of Capcom's efforts on the PC, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 are also en route to the Wii, Svennson said that "one or two" titles in development at the company's North American-based studio Capcom Entertainment Incorporated are being considered for release on the Wii.

"We'd like to see how they do on their initial target systems before doubling down on additional SKUs," Svennson noted.

While the upcoming fighter sequel Street Fighter IV is internally developed at CEI, the remaining titles—Proper Games' Flock, Certain Affinity's Age of Booty and Airtight Studios' Dark Void—are part of the studio's publishing operations. Lost... Read more

Capcom's deluge of Street Fighter IV (PC, PS3, 360) screenshots continues unabated, with today's bounty including new shots of the final boss Seth, previously announced characters and anime style endings from the fighter revamp.

Though little about Seth has been revealed, the ending shots reflect Capcom's recent announcement that Street Fighter IV's home console versions will include fully animated endings, while the arcade version will sport still-frame conclusions.

Street Fighter IV arrives in arcades this summer, with online-ready PC, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 releases expected the following winter.

Nearly four minutes of in-game Street Fighter IV footage, complete with awesome voice-over work, should more than make up for yesterday's gameplay-less "art trailer." Street Fighter IV is slated to hit arcades this summer, and should arrive on PC, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 early next year with new content and functionality.

Street Fighter IV producer Yoshinori Ono revealed several new details of the upcoming fighter update at Capcom's Captivate 08 including the existence of an "arcade-perfect" stick to be released alongside the game and clarification of its character roster. A new trailer for the game was also released.

Ono told Kotaku that while the PC, PS3 and Xbox 360 conversions of Street Fighter IV will feature characters not seen in the arcade version, the previously reported home-exclusive appearances of Dan Hibiki and Fei Long have not yet been confirmed. In fact, the team hasn't yet decided who will be added to the roster.

The producer also revealed that the home versions of the fighter may... Read more