How Street Fighter X Tekken Controls And Why It’s Not Street Fighter Vs. Tekken

“Why isn’t your game called Street Fighter Vs. Tekken?” I asked Street Fighter X Tekken producer Yoshinori Ono last week in Miami. That “X” is pronounced “cross.” “We were trying to make it a much more adversarial kind of title,” he replied through a translator. “What we saw with the old Vs. games, like ‘X-Men…

The PlayStation Portion Of E3 Starts… Here?

We’ve been asked by the people behind PlayStation to save the date. June 6, 5pm Pacific. Los Angeles. That’s when their big E3 press conference will happen. That’s when we’ll probably find out about the biggest and best gaming plans for the PS3 and NGP, at least for the next year. Nintendo, Sony and Microsoft…

Our First Peek At Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning Gameplay Looks Vaguely Familiar

Curt Schilling’s 38 Studios pulled together some of the biggest names in fantasy to create Kingdom of Amalur: Reckoning, so it should come as no surprise that the game in motion looks like several excellent fantasy role-playing games rolled into one. So this is what happens when comic book artist and toy designer Todd McFarlane,…

Super Street Fighter IV: Arcade Edition Is More Than A Four-Character Expansion

Many of the facts about the upcoming home version of Super Street Fighter IV: Arcade Edition leaked already. It adds four characters: Evil Ryu, Oni, Yun and Yang. It improved the game’s spectator mode, adding an Elite Channel that lets people watch games contested by players with 3000pp or more. It lets you follow up…

These Portal 2 Boots Were Made For Not Dying Painfully

The fourth and final Aperture Laboratories investment opportunity video is here, harping on the benefits of not having Chell’s shins forced into her nasal cavity when falling from great heights. You don’t want your shins inside of your nasal cavities. You do not even want The Shins inside your nasal cavity, which is probably why…

Running While Gunning Featured In Two Upcoming Resident Evil Games

In a break with controversial tradition, you won’t have to stop to shoot in either of the next two Resident Evil games. You can run-and-gun in Resident Evil: Operation Raccoon City; you can run-and-gun in Resident Evil: The Mercenaries 3D. Raccoon City is a team-based shooter, meant to be played either as black ops squad…

Magicka: Vietnam Runs Through The Jungle

It’s April 12, and Arrowhead Games is ready to drop players of their action role-playing game Magicka into the most treacherous fantasy land of them all: Vietnam. Check out the launch trailer and grab the expansion on Steam for $4.99

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Dragon’s Dogma Is The Devil May Cry Team’s Next Big Gamble

The first time I saw Dragon’s Dogma, I thought that the creators of the recent Devil May Cry sequels were making a mash-up of God of War and The Elder Scrolls. And I thought that that was a bad idea, a bad use of the labor of the largest development team to ever create a…

Why a 40-year-old Datsun is the second most popular car in Forza 3

It’s really no surprise that on this list of the 99 most-raced vehicles in Forza 3, the pole position goes to the Bugatti Veyron and its 1,001 virtual horsepower. Right behind it? The Datsun 510, a 40-year-old compact Japanese car. Why? For the same reasons they’re popular among classic racers — light weight and easy…

Asura’s Wrath Is Insane, See?

Asura’s Wrath may be the wildest game on the horizon. It’s an action game from Capcom and the people who made .hack, but more importantly, it’s about a man named Asura who has to fight the giant finger of a god, among other things. I saw this game last week at a Capcom showcase in…

See The Battles Of Street Fighter X Tekken, Plus A Dino Crisis Wink

Street Fighter X Tekken is a tag game, some of the heroes of Street Fighter against the heroes of Tekken. Fighting in such places as a Dino Crisis stage or in front of a ruined Capcom office. Enjoy a look at some of the game’s fights and look for more information about the game later…

Resident Evil: Operation Raccoon City Is A Firefight In Dangerous Darkness

The next big Resident Evil for consoles, Operation Raccoon City, will take players back to 1998, the timeline of Resident Evils 2 and 3, except you’ll be the bad guys, taking aim at hero Leon Kennedy as a member of a squad of Umbrealla Corporation goons. Check out some new sights from the multiplayer squad-based…

Frank West Regains The Lead Role In Dead Rising 2: Off The Record, A Surprising Remake

Chuck Greene wasn’t the hero of Dead Rising 2. Chuck Greene wasn’t the man who faced down the slow flood of zombies stumbling through the casinos of Fortune City. Chuck didn’t whack a few hundred zombies with baseball bats and halt the groans of many more with sharp objects. Chuck Greene didn’t do these things.…

The Making of Gears of War 3 Multiplayer

I’ll stay out of the way of this one, since I know you really just want to watch it. I will indulge myself to say, however, that I like the slight cooling of the color palette while still allowing more varied hues than previous titles. It’s still “gritty” but looks much cleaner.

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Blue Lagoon Censored By Earthquake Bulletins

COVERD LAGOON | JAPAN: As an earthquake rocked Japan on Monday, television broadcasts were interrupted, including this broadcast of au naturel flick, The Blue Lagoon. (Photo by 2ch) Is Japan Ready To Stop Ignoring Dr Pepper? For years, Dr Pepper was never popular in Japan. If Japanese people wanted to drink cola, they’d have a…

Nintendo’s Next Three Months Of Gaming Look Like This

It’s April. Spring! And Nintendo has a list of what games are hitting its platforms (the Wii, the DS and the 3DS) for the next three months of April, May and June. Let’s have a look, platform by platform. Do be aware that release dates can change. Wii The Conduit 2 – April 12 Rio…

Mystery Case Files Coming To The Wii, Begs To Be Solved

The Mystery Case Files from Big Fish Games are coming to the Nintendo Wii in the form of Mystery Case Files: Dust to Dust on June 27, says Nintendo.

Would You Like More Wii Play?

On June 13, Wii Play: Motion goes on sale, states Nintendo. The game is packaged with 12 new Wii Play games as well as a black Wii Remote Plus.