The game, unveiled last night, is in development at indie studio SuperBot Entertainment and features the likes of Kratos, Parappa The Rapper, Sly Cooper, Twisted Metal's flame-haired clown Sweet Tooth, and Fat Princess. More >
The feature, revealed at Capcom's Captivate event in Rome last week, is a first for the Street Fighter series, and will doubtless be a cause of some concern for PS3 owners given that the Vita version will offer a simplified control scheme, making use of Vita's touch capabilities, and multiplayer battles over 3G. More >
Designed by a competitive fighting gamer, but can it fix the genre's longstanding flaws?
12Capcom has defended the storage of planned DLC on Street Fighter X Tekken discs to the Better Business Bureau, arguing that there is "no distinction" between content stored on a disc or offered as a download. More >
22D fighting game Skullgirls will be released for Xbox Live Arcade on April 11, developer Reverge Labs has confirmed. The date was revealed by Peter Bartholow, Reverge's community manager, in a post on NeoGaf, confirming the date and admitting Microsoft had until the last minute been pushing for its release a week earlier. A recent leak on xbox.com suggested the game would be released on April 4. More >
A more immediate entry in the revered fighting series, but also a less accomplished one.
Bayonetta will be a playable character in the western release of Platinum Games' upcoming multiplayer brawler Anarchy Reigns, publisher Sega has confirmed. Sega Japan confirmed her inclusion in Anarchy Reigns as a pre-order incentive earlier this week, but we've just had confirmation through that she will also star in the western versions of the game, which will be released in Europe on July 6 More >
A pretty and bracingly unforgiving arena brawler.
Capcom's most newcomer-friendly fighter yet, despite a combat system of bewildering depth.
2Street Fighter X Tekken producer Yoshinori Ono has moved to justify Capcom's decision to store 12 DLC characters on the game's disc. Yesterday it emerged that the disc contains 12 characters in a largely complete state, prompting accusations that Capcom was deliberately holding back content from the retail release. The dozen new fighters were recently confirmed for the Vita release of the game, which is due in autumn. More >
5The Guilty Gear series is to return to Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 and arcade, developer Arc System Works has revealed. Andriasang brings word from this week's AOU Amusement Expo in Japan that Arc is, unusually, to port a console game to the arcade, in this case Guilty Gear XX Accent Core Plus, released for PlayStation 2 in 2008. More >
Prince Of Persia creator Jordan Mechner is remaking his breakout hit, 1984 Apple II game Karateka, for Xbox Live Arcade and SEN. Speaking to VentureBeat, Mechner confirmed that the remake will be his first day-to-day development job since Prince Of Persia: The Sands Of Time. He has spent the interim writing for graphic novels, and wrote and directed 2003 documentary Chavez Ravine: A Los Angeles Story. More >
Clover Studios' PS2 brawler God Hand will today be released for PS3 on the PlayStation Store. The launch on the Capcom-Unity blog. Also available are Maximo and Maximo Vs Army Of Zin. All are priced at £7.99 / €9.99. More >
Street Fighter X Tekken will be released for PC on May 11, publisher Capcom has confirmed. It means PC players will get their hands on Capcom's Namco crossover more than two months after console players. The game will be released for PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 on March 9. More >
Namco's series sharpens up its act for today's fighting game audience.
The year of the shooter.
Is Capcom's speedy tag fighting game revision too early out of the gates?
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Randy Smith considers the design principles which make Capcom's open-world zombie brawler so engaging.
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UPDATE: Sony confirms promotion is US-only but "the majority of the content" will be released in Europe. A selection of "rare classic games" will be made available on the US PlayStation Store this week, according to Industry Gamers. The move is part of Only On PlayStation Network, Sony's bid to draw attention to the range of exclusive games available from its PlayStation 3 download store. On October 4, PS2 classics including Capcom's high-camp brawler God Hand and hack-and-slash title Maximo: Ghosts To Glory, Konami's strategy game Ring Of Red, and Vanillaware titles Odin Sphere and GrimGrimoire will be released. More >
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