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Weekly News Roundup: 05/25/2008
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Spinning bird kicks are no
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Famitsu has revealed Capcom's newest
cross-franchise fighting game:
Capcom Vs. Tatsunoko: Cross Generation of Heroes.
Who is Tatsunoko you ask? They are responsible for such loved anime as Macross,
Gatchaman, Speed Racer, and Samurai Pizza Cats. It's ridiculous, but
just like Marvel Vs. Capcom, is so cool. Click
the link for a bunch of screenshots.
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There was solid Metal Gear news all week. The Metal Gear Solid series has always been very cinematic in
its story-telling. CVG reports that MGS4 will push it even further with
cut-scenes that are nearly 90-minutes long. Fortunately, you'll be able to
pause the in-game full-length movies. Kotaku has a gallery of new
MGS4 screenshots that may look familiar, yet are improved. Metal Gear Solid 4
may
not be the last Metal Gear game, just the last that stars Solid Snake.
Hideo
Kojima is thinking about MGS5. So much for part 4 being the
last MGS game he would do, which he also said about parts 1, 2, and 3.
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Xbox Live Arcade titles that have been
underperforming, have been out at least six months, and have a meta-critic
score of 65% or less will be eventually
de-listed. There will be an announcement three months before a title will
be gone forever.
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GameStop is taking pre-orders for something called
Gears of War with Maps, which could mean that Gears of War might be getting a re-releases that
includes the downloadable content.
Movies / TV
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Capcom wants to do with games as Marvel has with comics in the movie biz.
Devil May Cry is on tap next and
Capcom is currently working out contracts for more movies. However, their
future movie endeavors rely heavily on the success of Street Fighter: The
Legend of Chun Li. If it does well expect to see a ton of Capcom
properties on the big screen.
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Scans of
the Dragon Ball movie cast have popped up at the Dragon Ball
movie site. These scans are the first pictures anyone has seen of Justin
Chatwin as Goku, Chow Yun Fat as Master Roshi, Emmy Rossum as Bulma, Joon Park
as Yamcha, and Jamie Chung as Chi Chi. This movie is going to blow, but Chow
Yun Fat as Master Roshi might be entertaining.
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Writer Robert Orci was interviewed by IGN and almost
kind-of confirmed that
Soundwave may be in Transformers 2. His exact words are
"...hopefully we'll have the ability to do it." So don't get too excited just
yet.
- Shawn - 05/25/08
Weekly News Roundup: 05/11/2008
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Japan has all the cool
crossovers of robots, RPG, and fighting game characters, but next time they
should make a crazy one where the fighting game characters have to fight
Gundams and other giant robots. |
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Famitsu revealed the RPG
Cross Edge for the PlayStation 3, which is a collaboration between
Capcom, Namco Bandai, Nippon Ichi, Gust, and Idea Factory. The game has
characters from Dark Stalkers, Disgaea, Ars Tonelico and others.
Although it'll never make it over to the US, we can still hope everyone can
work out those pesky licensing issues so that it will.
Movies
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JoBlo.com has an
interview with Justin Marks, the scribe for Street Fighter: The
Legend of Chun Li. The interview tells us why the first movie focuses
on Chun Li and will reveal a little of Bison's secret origin, which will
apparently be "canon." The movie will have a few "shout outs" to the Street
Fighter II animated movie, one of them being the Chun Li Vs. Vega fight.
Marks also explains why Gen is younger by hinting at a Gen Vs. Balrog fight.
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It seems that the movie rights for
Uncharted: Drake's Fortune have been optioned. The game is already like a
movie, so the translation shouldn't be that hard, should it?
- Shawn - 05/11/08
Weekly News Roundup: 05/04/2008
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How is Bison alive after
Akuma killed him in Super Street Fighter II Turbo? The Capcom blog
says that will be revealed when you beat the game. |
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Capcom released a load of Street
Fighter IV screenshots showing the return of the big four bosses.
Balrog, Vega, Sagat, and M. Bison look tougher than ever and will take
great joy in beating your face down once again.
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A new
Metal Gear Solid 4 RE-trailer shows the snow covered opening
stage of Shadow Moses from the first Metal Gear Solid redone in full
PS3 quality visuals. So it looks like MGS4 will have playable flashbacks, if
not more, from the preceding games in the series.
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Guitar Hero III is getting a
Muse three-pack including
"Supermassive Black Hole," "Stockholm Syndrome," and "Exo-Politics". Cool, now
where the hell are the Muse songs for Rock Band?
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The
Wii version of Okami is missing the credits of those that created the
original version. Apparently Capcom could not use the credits because it
included the now-defunct Clover logo and Capcom did not have the original
source to edit the logo out. Still, those staffers that worked so hard on of
the most beautiful games around deserve their respect.
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Fatal Inertia was originally supposed to be a PS3
launch title, but was then moved to the Xbox 360. Now the game will
finally hit the PS3 as the $30 downloadable
Fatal Inertia EX.
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Many feel that premium downloadable
content has gotten out of hand for same games. 1up shows us that
Ace Combat 6 is the worst offender, for now at least. If you buy all the
extra planes and missions for AC6, you're looking at 9,750 points AKA $121.83,
which does not include the price of the game.
Movies
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Iron Man just came out this weekend, but you can
expect
Iron Man 2 in 2010. And be sure to stay after the credits.
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After questionably going HD-DVD exclusive and canceling
planned Blu-ray releases last year, Paramount has finally announced their
return to Blu-ray.
- Shawn - 05/04/08
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