The guys at Capcom continue to have fighting freaks like me salivating, with the latest info released from Capcom Japan’s blog, and reported on by fighting game site iplaywinner.com. Announced are three additional fighters to the SSFIV roster: Adon, Guy, and Cody.

Posted up are some screenshots that you simply need to check out. In my opinion, Adon, Cody and Guy never looked better with this new art style. While no specifics are discussed with regard to moves, Adon is shown drilling Sagat’s grille his super, Guy is blocking a kunai knife with his saving attack (possibly a Guy specific counter to projectiles?), and Cody is introducing Chun Li to the painful end of a wrench.

Interestingly enough, to my knowledge, the only character from previous StreetFighter games that threw kunais is Ibuki from Street Fighter III. Hopefuplly this is a visual cue as to near future roster additions–hopefully to include my favorite StreetFighter character, Dudley. Time will tell.

One thing that that I’m personally happy to read in the translation from the Japanese blog post, is the apparent massive attention to detail the coders are giving character balance. While the final result won’t be in until the game releases, it looks as if Capcom wants to make this game everything purists could possibly want. It is the hardcore that put StreetFighter on the map and as long as they remember that and keep that the prime focus, this game will be fantastic. Just from these early pics, and the online updates alone, they’ve got my money.