Dark Void is basically Crimson Skies with on-foot combat. That may be overgeneralizing things, but Ed Fries co-founder at Airtight Games and former Microsoft Game Studios guy essentially pitched the game as such at Capcom's Captivate 08 event as the type of game that the team wanted to make. With a mechanic the studio is referring to as "vertical cover combat," Dark Void looks to distinguish itself from the 3D action game crowd by way of Crimson Skies know-how and a sci-fi mythology that pits man against alien invader, selectively borrowing from classic science fiction properties in intelligent places.

The story of Dark Void, if you aren't up to speed, is that our hero Will becomes trapped in the Void during a routine cargo flight that ventures a bit too closely to the Bermuda Triangle. Will and his compatriots, known as the Survivors, will battle a "mysterious alien race" known as the Watchers in order to save the Earth from (what else?) total destruction. Or something.

Darkrai At Toys R US This Weekend

OMG, fellow Pokémon junkies, it is soDarkrai time.

Pokémon USA will be offering the spooky little nightmare-guy at Toys R Us stores nationwide from noon to 4 PM on May 31st and June 1st. That's this weekend, so grab your DS and your Diamond or Pearl game and get ready to line up.

...I sound dangerously excited about this, I know. Hey, I ain't ashamed. Full details after the jump.

Handy Capcom Gamers Day Wrap Up

There was enough Capcom news to fill a megaton sized shipping crate, including the announcement of Street Fighter IV, Bionic Commando and a Wii port of Okami. GameTrailers has a handy wrap up on everything that went down during the company's London Gamers Day, including an update on when we can expect more on Resident Evil 5.

Dark Void Debut

Capcom's Dark Void may have gotten a little lost in the noise of this week's announcements of Lost Planet for PlayStation 3(!), Okami for Wii(!!) and Street Fighter IV(!!!). Based on this, the debut trailer for Dark Void, that may or may not have been such a bad thing. The game's visuals and gameplay make for an odd mix, lying somewhere between deadly serious and cartoonish. It's Airtight Games first project as a developer, but not the first for many of its employees. Some of the key team members came from FASA and Midway.

Street Fighter IV Confirmed

What could be better than Capcom bringing back Bionic Commando? How about Street Fighter IV? Games Radar is reporting from the Capcom Gamer's Day in London that the 4th game in the series has been officially confirmed. A stylized trailer of Ken and Ryu fighting was shown, but no actual gameplay footage, and while development has started the game is still more than a year away for whatever platform it ends up coming out on, Still, we can all rest easy that it is indeed on the way.

Along with this amazing news, Capcom also announced Lost Planet for the PS3, a new Ace Attorney game for the Nintendo DS featuring and new main character, and an all-new sci-fi action adventure game called Dark Void. It takes a special kind of company to wait 20 years from the release of the original game to finally get to number four in the series. I can't wait for the year 2012, when we'll be playing Super Street FIghter IV Hyper Mega Hologram Remix. Yum.

Street Fighter 4 announced! [Games Radar - Thanks Paul!]