The latest piece of content to arrive on Verizon’s Go90 service comes from Machinima. The gaming and pop culture network is behind Street Fighter: Resurrection, which adapts its titular fighting game franchise in dark and gritty fashion.
The team behind Resurrection, creator Joey Ansah’s World Warrior Limited, first began producing Street Fighter fan films independently. In 2012, World Warrior joined forces with Capcom, the publisher behind the Street Fighter games, for Assassin’s Fist, a web series that would ultimately be distributed by Machinima. Assassin’s Fist performed well, generating 17 million views across all its episodes, though it has since been removed from YouTube.
Resurrection continues the Street Fighter story by picking it up ten years after the end of Assassin’s Fist. All of the fighting game franchise’s most popular heroes are here, and World Warrior has rendered them faithfully. A sneak-peek clip from the show, for example, shows a meeting between old rivals Ryu and Ken.
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As the above clip makes clear, Resurrection features a very serious tone, and its pace will be driven by its action sequences, which feature dazzling fight choreography. A few appearances from popular YouTube creators will add some flavor as well; Machinima partners Amy Johnston (from Bat in the Sun) and Terroriser both have roles in the series.
If you want to watch Resurrection, you’ll need to download Go90 first. Machinima’s action series is part of a huge content push from the mobile video platform, which launched last year. Its app is available on both iOS and Android.
