Skillz is taking Street Fighter into the mobile esports for prizes market.
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Skillz takes Capcom’s Street Fighter into mobile esports for prizes

Skillz is announcing that it will take Capcom’s Street Fighter fighting game into mobile esports for prizes. That means players will be able to compete with each other for cash, prizes, or points in a mobile-based Street Fighter game.

San Francisco-based Skillz has been running a platform for mobile prize games for a while, and in its past eight months, the company reported a revenue run-rate of more than $100 million (That means that in the next 12 months, it is on target to generate $100 million in revenue).

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Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.