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News Ruh-Roh: Ninja Theory Confirms That Devil May Cry Reboot Will Run On The Unreal Engine
We're putting on our flame shields just in case
Why? Because Ninja Theory's just confirmed that their divisive Devil May Cry reboot, DmC, will run on the Unreal Engine. You know, the licensed engine that's resulted in a number of unstable and graphically flakey releases this generation. Why is it such a big deal for fans? Because Devil May Cry as a...
News By The Way: Albert Wesker's In The New Marvel Vs. Capcom Game
Characters really don't get much more amazing than Resident Evil's antagonist Albert Wesker
He's one of our favourites. So we're stoked to see him show up as part of Marvel Vs. Capcom 3's roster. Wesker will join Spider-Man and numerous others in the final game. We can't wait.
News Capcom Denies That They're Alienating PlayStation 3 Owners With Dead Rising 2
The first thing we thought when Capcom announced a second piece of XBOX 360 exclusive Dead Rising 2 content during TGS last week was, "Why?" Not why are they releasing the exclusive content, but why are they bothering to put the full game on the PlayStation 3 in the first place? They may aswell have kept the franchise an exclusive, as they don't seem fully committed to the PS3 at all
Sony fans are understandably felling pretty alienated now. But Capcom denies any wrong-doing. Co-producer Shinsaku...
News Inafune: Japanese Developers Are Making "Awful Games"
Dayumm, Capcom's gaffer Keiji Inafune does not hold back when it comes to the Japanese games industry
In fact, he thinks his fellow countrymen are making "awful games". "I look around Tokyo Games Show, and everyone's making awful games; Japan is at least five years behind [the West]," the Mega Man and Dead Rising creator told...
News TGS 10: How About A New Piece Of PSP Hardware To Tie In With Monster Hunter?
Sony's announced a slightly altered PSP-3000 that will launch alongside Monster Hunter Portable 3rd in Japan
The updated piece of hardware includes a new analogue nub, additional battery life and some new grip handles on the back. It's also styled in black and gold. The hardware will hit Japan on December 1st.
News Resident Evil 5 Move Trailer Lurks Behind this Creaky Door
Classic mansion and helicopters in Move-o-vision
The Move-enabled update for zombie slayers is now available, and to celebrate Capcom has put together a launch trailer for Resident Evil 5: Gold Edition, showing the new controls in all their waggle-tastic glory. Don't forget this update will only work with Resident Evil 5: Gold Edition, not the...
News TGS 10: To Be Fair, The DmC Trailer Is Pretty Awesome
For as much backlash is being thrown at Ninja Theory and Capcom right now, the reality of the new Devil May Cry trailer is that it's actually quite good
Sure, the Dante character model looks a bit awkward. But this appears to be an origins story; hence the rebellious, younger looking character. We reckon it's too early to be writing DmC off. Remain...
News TGS 10: Capcom To Announce One More Title Tomorrow
According to a post on the Capcom Europe Blog , the publisher have one final TGS announcement to make tomorrow
With both Sony and Microsoft holding press events, it's likely the game will show up at either briefing. What it will be? We're not sure. Ahead of TGS we were anticipating a new Resident Evil announcement, but unless there's some kind of...
News TGS 10: Let's Take A Look At This New Devil May Cry Game, Then
Dante's got dark hair
That's probably the biggest thing you can take out from the screenshots released for the new Devil May Cry title, which is in development at the British studio Ninja Theory. According to Capcom, three top-level Japanese staff will be flying over to the UK to work with Ninja Theory on DMC. Capcom's honcho Keiji Inafune was coy...
News TGS 10: Capcom Reveal Eastern God Of War-Esque Title, Asura's Wrath
Who likes God Of War? Everyone
The entire character action genre has been lifting ideas from Sony's slasher for years, and Asura's Wrath looks to be the latest title to lift ideas from Sony Santa Monica's finest. The title, in development at Cyber Connect 2, appears to apply an Eastern religion flavour to the God Of War concept. Details are still...
News TGS 10: Oh Hey, Capcom Just Bought Blue Castle Games
Wow
Capcom must have enjoyed working with Dead Rising 2 developer, Canadian studio Blue Castle Games. The publisher's just announced that they've bought the studio out right. The team will be renamed Capcom Games Studio Vancouver. We wonder if that's the name that will pop-up at the start of Dead Rising 2. Still, this cements Capcom's ambitions to...
News Resident Evil 5: Gold Edition Move Patch Now Live
And for free too
The onslaught of Move-enabling patches is building up to a deafening roar, with two available in the past two days: first Hustle Kings and now Resident Evil 5: Gold Edition. The free patch adds support for Move – released today across mainland Europe, don't forget – but no extra content, although being the Gold Edition it's...
News SURPRISE: Ninja Theory Are Announcing A New Game At TGS This Week
Oh hey, guess what? British developers Ninja Theory are going to announce a new game at the Tokyo Game Show this week
We wonder if it could have anything to do with those four announcements Capcom have got planned. Gee, we really wonder. Could it perhaps be that rumoured Devil May Cry title? Ahaha. Ninja Theory are a superb team — Heavenly Sword...
News Resident Evil: Damnation 3D CGI Movie Announced
While Milla Jovovich tops the US box-office with the live-action version of Resident Evil; Sony and Capcom's announced that they'll be teaming up to produce a new CG Resident Evil movie -- Resident Evil: Damnation
The animated movie's still some way off - it'll launch in 2012 in Japan - but will feature full stereoscopic 3D support. The last CG...
News Are Capcom Prepping Resident Evil 6 For TGS? We Can Only Hope...
Someone, somewhere is working on Resident Evil 6
This is a fact — it's Capcom's flagship franchise; there's no way it's not being worked on. Especially seeing as Capcom's God Keiji Inafune confirmed the game's not far off. The question is, will we see it at TGS? It's looking more and more likely. Capcom Europe's teased "four new game...
News Capcom Tease Incoming Resident Evil 6 Details
Capcom's Keiji Inafune has revealed that Resident Evil 6 might not be as far off as you think
In fact, speaking at a Spanish event for Dead Rising 2, the producer revealed that news is incoming shortly. No other details were given, and no one really knows what the game will entail. Resident Evil 5's producer, Jun Takeuchi, will not be involved...
GamesCom 2010 This Is What Viewtiful Joe Looks Like In Marvel vs. Capcom 3
Viewtiful Joe was announced as part of the Marvel vs
Capcom 3</a> roster during GamesCom this week. As part of the announcement, Capcom's released this trailer showing gameplay footage of the pint-sized fighter. Looks like he can handle himself against the big-boys doesn't it? This game keeps looking prettier and prettier. Problem is, we just...
GamesCom 2010 A Super Early Look At Ryu Rendered In The Tekken Engine
Capcom's Yoshinori Ono and Namco's Katsuhiro Harada are at GamesCom to talk about their upcoming colloboration, Street Fighter X Tekken
While the focus of the presentation was to show European fans the same demo that was at Comic-Con, Harada also revealed some prototypes for the other cross-over game in development, Tekken X Street Fighter. Harada...
GamesCom 2010 Resident Evil 5: Gold Edition's Move Patch Hits September 19th
Capcom's clarified today that the PlayStation Move patch for Resident Evil 5: Gold Edition (and only the Gold Edition) will be released on September 19th (which incidentally is day and date with the Move's launch in America)
For regions that didn't get Resident Evil 5: Gold Edition, Capcom's releasing Resident Evil 5: Move Edition. Either way, rest...
GamesCom 2010 Viewtiful Joe Joins The Marvel vs. Capcom 3 Roster
Capcom's confirmed two new characters set to join the Marvel vs
Capcom 3</a> roster at GamesCom today. Both Viewtiful Joe from the 2003 GameCube classic and Marvel antagonist Dormammu (anyone?) are the latest entries into the roster. We're stoked about Viewtiful Joe, but honestly, we don't know who the other guy is. Kotaku's got a bunch of...
News Eat This, Kazuya Mishima!
Siliconera's got hold of some brand-new shots of Street Fighter X Tekken
The shots, released by Capcom, show Ryu and Chun-Li kicking lumps out of Tekken's Nina and Kazuya. Still seems weird. Looks proper awesome, though.
News European Dead Rising 2 Release Date Moves Forward
Like a zombie out of 28 Days Later, Dead Rising 2's release date likes to move around a lot
Capcom's just told us that the game's European release date has been moved forward to September 24th. The US release date will remain unchanged, it's due on the 28th September there. No more last minute changes please Capcom.
GamesCom 2010 Street Fighter X Tekken Brings Its Deadly Line Of Cross-Over Fighting To Europe
Tekken producer, Katsuhiro Harada, has dropped a bomb regarding Street Fighter X Tekken -- namely that the game will get debuted at GamesCom
After the official announcement at Comic-Con, Capcom's Yoshinori Ono informed us that it would be the last we'd hear about the game until mid-next year. But apparently, he was lying through his teeth. Sort of...
News Slow Sales Hurt Capcom For Another Quarter
Capcom's been hit by another hard quarter in which major releases did not perform to expectations
In their latest quarterly financial report - dating April through June - Capcom blamed the slow growth of Lost Planet 2 which put their net sales down 2.4% year over year. Net income dropped an astounding 90% from last year to around 213 million yen...
News Capcom: The PlayStation Portable Can't Handle Super Street Fighter IV
Capcom's Yoshinori Ono's delivered a scathing explanation as to why the PSP won't be receiving a port of Super Street Fighter IV -- apparently the system can't handle it
Speaking to Famitsu , Ono detailed the decision to bring Super Street Fighter IV to the 3DS rather than Sony's handheld. He explained that the PSP couldn't do justice to the game,...
Report Capcom Upping The Output Of Major IPs
With about a billion new Street Fighter titles in the works, a report from Nikkei suggesting that Capcom are to increase their major IP output comes as no surprise
The report notes that Capcom are to reduce the development cycle on their major IPs, allowing them to release more entries in popular series' such as Resident Evil and Monster Hunter. In...
News Resident Evil 5: Gold Edition Gets PlayStation Move Support; Standard Resident Evil 5 Does Not
Everybody knows that Resident Evil (or at least iterations post 4) is better when played with a motion control
Something about the style of the gameplay really with precision of a pointing device. The Wii proved that it had the best way to play Resident Evil 4, and subsequently, when Resident Evil 5 released, it felt old and clunky on the DualShock...
News Super Street Fighter IV Characters Get A New Set Of Outfits This Fall
With all the excitement of Capcom's Comic-Con panel being attached to cross-overs, we almost forgot to mention the announcement of new DLC outfits for Super Street Fighter IV
The clothing pack is due this Fall and will feature a new alternative outfit for each character. Kotaku managed to snap a teaser of the new outfits which we've posted above...
News Comic-Con 2010: Screenshots Like This Get Our Pulses Racing
As an onlooking Servbot watches Tekken's Kazuya kick the crap out of Street Fighter's Ryu, we can't help but feel that the upcoming Street Fighter X Tekken cross-over heading to the PlayStation 3 is probably the best announcement since sliced bread
Sadly, the producer of Capcom's game, Yoshinori Ono, reckons the project is still some time off -...
News Comic-Con 2010: The Street Fighter X Tekken Trailer That Will Have Your Fanboy Juices Running
Street Fighter X Tekken
It's a God-honest video game. T'was announced yesterday. For realsies. And here's the game's debut trailer. It shows Street Fighter's Ryu facing up to Tekken's Jin Kazama. It's all inky and blotchy. It looks amazing. Can we wait to play this? No we cannot.
Street Fighter producer Yoshinori Ono has put an end to rumours regarding a possible Namco and Capcom cross-over; by announcing Street Fighter X Tekken (pronounced Street Fighter Cross Tekken)
The game's in development for the PlayStation 3. Joined on-stage by Tekken producer Katsuhiro Harada, the duo proved the game's existence by playing a round...
News Comic-Con 2010: Street Fighter III: 3rd Strike Online Edition Announced
Capcom's Yoshinori Ono has just confirmed that Street Fighter III: 3rd Strike Online Edition is in development
Ono wanted to reassure fans at the "Street Fighter IV and Beyond" panel that the company "haven't forgotten about Street Fighter III." Apparently, work's only just started on the game so it won't be out for a while. But...
News Inafune: Play As "The Mega Man Of Your Dreams" In Universe
We're still none the wiser for knowing exactly what Mega Man Universe is - the unusual project teased by way of stop-motion earlier in the week
Still, we're almost certain it's something. Capcom's Keiji Inafune talked about it like it was a real project during a Comic-Con panel today, but details remained scant. "We wanted to preserve as much...
News Comic-Con 2010: More Characters Join The Marvel vs. Capcom 3 Roster: Thor & Amaterasu
On the back of yesterday's Marvel vs
Capcom 3</a> announcement, Marvel's outed two new characters in the biggest bust-up since Katie and Peter. Okami's Amaterasu is set to join the fight, while Marvel's Thor is another lock. The latter's a perfect fit given Marvel's hype-machine for upcoming Thor movie. The duo join a heap of other characters...
Capcom's unleashed a wave of new Marvel vs
Capcom 3</a> content in time for Comic-Con. Fresh faces have been added to the already beefy roster, with Devil May Cry's Trish, Chun-Li, Doctor Doom and Super Skrull all added to the line-up. We've added a bunch of new trailers after the jump, and VG247 has a pile of new screenshots too. Check it all...
As Alf Stewart would say: stone the flamin' crows
GameInformer's dropped a rumour of megaton intensity, claiming that Capcom and Namco are joining forces for two new games. No, that's not a misprint in our headline. Apparently both Capcom vs. Namco and Namco vs. Capcom are set to be announced this weekend. Whether they'll both come on the same disc...
News Mega Man Universe Announced For The PlayStation Network
Capcom's confirmed that the oft-touted Mega Man Universe is a real product and is set to make an appearance as part of their Comic-Con line-up
The company has teased the potential cross-over title with a pretty rad stop-motion trailer. Catch that above. We are thrilled to finally be able to announce Mega Man Universe, said Capcoms Kenji...
News Awww Shucks, We're Gonna Have To Buy The Dead Rising 2 Collector's Edition Now Aren't We?
Aswell as revealing Dead Rising 2's pack-shot, Capcom's also announced that the PlayStation 3 zombie-slasher is to get an amazing collector's edition in Europe
The Outbreak Pack includes a 12" zombie figurine with various accessories including - yes, you did see it correctly - a Servbot head. You'll also get a token for some extra downloadable...
News Surprise: Sony Confirm They'll Be Showing Stuff At TGS
E3's only just finished, GamesCom's on the horizon and then
.. Well, then there's TGS. A partial list of Tokyo Game Show exhibitors has been released, including plenty of familiar faces. SEGA, Square Enix, Capcom, Konami; they'll all be there. As will Sony. Over 138 companies are currently confirmed for the show, with that number certain to rise as...
News Dead Rising 2 Pushed Back A Month In The US, Europe
Expecting Dead Rising 2 in early September? Don't
Capcom's just confirmed that the game's been pushed back a month in both the US and Europe. It's now hitting October 1st in Euro-land, and September 28th in the US of A. No reason has been given for the delay, but if it means an extra layer of polish, it's probably for the best.
News Dead Rising 2 Gets A Surprise Playboy Makeover
There's probably something deeply inappropriate about sexy ladies and rotting corpses, but that's exactly what you can expect from Capcom's Dead Rising 2
Capcom's just announced a deal with Playboy that'll see popular magazine covers show up in and around Dead Rising 2's Las Vegas-esque setting, Fortune City. Interestingly, collecting and reading...
Feature E3 2010: Push Square's Five Most Anticipated PlayStation Games Of E3 2010
With E3 mere days away now, the industry's anticipation is nearing fever-pitch
With pretty high stakes all around for the platform holders, it can be easy to over-look the actual core of the event in anticipation of megaton announcements and new hardware — that's the games. As we continue our E3 build-up, we list our five most anticipated...
News Good Grief Marvel Vs. Capcom 3 Looks Pretty!
Stop what you're doing
Just stop ok. Now hover your mouse cursor right about here, and click. Thank goodness. Sit back and enjoy the amazingly amazingness of these Marvel Vs. Capcom 3 screens. Did we mention they were amazing? They're amazing. Get hype, indeed!
News Super Street Fighter IV Gets Patched, Free DLC
Capcom's announced that they will patch Super Street Fighter IV's balance on June 15th - the same day as which the game's free DLC pack launches offering tournament features for competitive players
The patch notes are too technical for us to understand, but if that's totally your bag jump through here for the full details.
E3 2010 Capcom Ready Sequel "Bombshell" At Next Month's Show
Capcom's preparing a sequel for one of their established franchises at E3
That's according to new rumours emerging out of Garnett Lee's Weekend Confirmed podcast. Discussing Capcom's decision to cease developing new IP outside of Japan, the ShackNews editor declared: "Boy, their E3 bombshell puts that to test. I'm not going to spill it because...
News Capcom Give Up On Western Development For New IP
Capcom's head honcho Haruhiro Tsujimota has told the FinancialTimes that they are to stop commissioning new IP from Western developers after the likes of Bionic Commando and Dark Void flopped
Capcom's Japanese teams will now focus on new creations, while Western developers will be left handling ports and sequels. As a group, the new titles where...
News Lost Planet 2 Gets Visited By The Helghast
How unusual - this is the second post in just as many days that we've discussed a cameo appearance from Killzone's Helghast
Taking a break from from fighting their own war and playing tennis, the Helghan warriors are set to embark upon Capcom's Lost Planet 2. It's probably a more fitting hang-out for the orange-eyed soldiers, as many of Lost Planet...
News Amazing Mix Tape Samples The Hits Of Street Fighter, Will Make Your Evening
You're not going to want to miss British producer Akira The Don's homage to the hits of Street Fighter
The hour-long mix-tape dropped on his website this week samples a truckload of music from Capcom's games, aswell as Street Fighter linked sounds from Redman, Ras Kass and Double. The tape took three weeks to mix and master. Catch it after the jump...
News Capcom Take You Through Dead Rising 2's Multiplayer
A video uploaded by the Playstation Blog should give you a first taste of Dead Rising 2's multiplayer
The walkthrough with Capcoms Mike Schmitt and Wes Phillips is a little drawn out, but still relatively exciting if you're interested in batting zombies over the head with clubs and various other objects. We're reasonably excited. The game's...
News More Super Street Fighter IV Costumes Hit The Playstation Store
Let's be honest - Super Street Fighter IV's costumes are practically day-light robbery
As were the costumes released alongside the original Street Fighter IV. But whatever - Capcom's got us because they know we're going to pay. Especially for these new Super Shoryuken costumes, retailing at $3.99. The pack includes new threads for Akuma, Ryu, Ken,...
