‘Tekken 3D Prime Edition’ European Release Date Confirmed

Joining Dead Or Alive, Street Fighter and Blaz Blue, Tekken 3D Prime Edition will soon be adding to the already impressive selection of figthing games for the 3DS.

Arriving early next year on the 17th February 2012, Namco Bandai and Nintendo will join forces to bring this popular fighter to our shores.

The press release is below, followed by a trailer -

21st December, 2011 – Good news for European fans of action-packed fighting games, Nintendo and NAMCO BANDAI Games Europe S.A.S. have today confirmed that they have entered into a new distribution agreement for the forthcoming game TEKKEN™ 3D PRIME EDITION, scheduled for release exclusively on Nintendo 3DS across Europe on 17 February 2012. Under the terms of the agreement Nintendo will be responsible for the sales, marketing and distribution of the game throughout European territories and Australia, with NAMCO BANDAI Games Europe S.A.S. remaining as the publisher.

TEKKEN 3D PRIME EDITION for Nintendo 3DS will see the famous King of Iron Fist Tournament fought in 3D for the first time, with the unique functionality of the Nintendo 3DS delivering a more realistic and dynamic TEKKEN™ experience.  Players will choose from a selection of more than 40 characters and do battle on totally new stages alongside others redesigned especially for Nintendo 3DS. TEKKEN 3D PRIME EDITION will make the most of the Wi-Fi functionality of the Nintendo 3DS, and deliver fast-paced dynamic battles with impressive graphics running at a high frame rate.

For the first time on Nintendo 3DS, a full-length CG movie will be available on the game cartridge. TEKKEN Blood Vengeance is produced by Digital Frontier (Resident Evil: Degeneration, Death Note, Appleseed) and directed by Youichi Mouri (opening movies for TEKKEN 5 and TEKKEN 6: Bloodline Rebellion). Taking the history and legacy of the TEKKEN universe into a full-length CG movie, TEKKEN Blood Vengeance will be included on the TEKKEN 3D PRIME EDITION cartridge, in full 3D.

TEKKEN™ 3D PRIME EDITION, will be available across Europe on 17 February 2012 exclusively on Nintendo 3DS. For more information about this and other features, visit www.nintendo.co.uk and www.namcobandaigames.eu

Capcom Announces UK Fight Clubs

Capcom have announced that in the next 12 months Capcom will visit cities all around the UK giving gamers nationwide the chance to play the very best fighting games that Capcom has to offer, as well as games that aren’t even out yet. In other words, games FROM THE FUTURE. Leading the attempt to break the rules of physics will be Street Fighter X Tekken’s UK debut, and also possibly some other secret things that can’t possibly be confirmed yet. There’ll be DJs playing whatever passes for music these days, food and alcoholic drink. What’s more, all of this will be completely free. Free!

Here are some bullet points to help you report this in an easy and lazy manner:

• Free games
• Free food
• Free drink
• Free Willy

*No actual Free Willy

The tour kicks off in London on Saturday August 20th at the KO gym in east London, with legendary Street Fighter producer Yoshinori Ono on hand to sign your Street Fighter paraphernalia and lay down the law in matches of Street Fighter X Tekken. Doors open at 7.30pm and the first 50 people in the queue will get an extra special gift.

It’s not all about London as the tour then continues through the cities of Bristol, Edinburgh, Norwich, Brighton and Liverpool.

Capcom shows off some new titles

Courtesy of Capcom’s annual “Captivate” event we’ve got a slew of footage from a bunch of new games on the horizon. Some of them we already knew about, but others totally took us by surprise!  None more so than………..

Dead Rising 2: Off the Record

I’ve got nothing against Dead Rising 2’s Chuck Green, but there’s no way he was ever going to fill the giant boots left behind by macho photo journalist Frank West. So Capcom, realising their mistake, have decided to create a remake of Dead Rising 2 but with good old Mr West as the protagonist once again, thus officially making possibly the strangest/most awesome remake in gaming history.

It promises to be a lot more than just a quick pallet swap, Frank will supposedly follow a radically different story path to Chuck and will once again be able to use his photography skills to gather PP much like he did in the original Dead Rising. Plus, he’s covered wars ya’ know?

I assume this is going to be a stand alone expansion in the style of Red Dead Redemption: Undead Nightmare rather than a giant DLC add on to Dead Rising 2, but don’t quote me on that until we have some official word from Capcom.

Asura’s Wrath

From CyberConnect2 (the makers of .hack and a shit-ton of Naruto games) comes……..uh… apparently some sort of cross between God of War and anime? It’s been quite a while since we’ve actually seen anything significant from this title so I’m glad to see its going strong, because whatever it is, it looks awesome and I want it.

Super Street Fighter IV: Arcade Edition

Capcom are treating this as some sort of surprise announcement, but must of us heard about this a good while back. Basically it’s a DLC patch that turns any copy of Super Street Fighter 4 into the updated arcade version that’s been knocking around in Japan for a good while. Changes include four extra characters and a bunch of gameplay tweaks that only die hard fans are likely to notice or understand.

Street Fighter X Tekken

Not sure what else to say about this one other than YO TEKKEN IS GOING TO GO FIGHT STREET FIGHTER IN THE STREET FIGHTER UNIVERSE! Not to be confused with Tekken x Street Fighter, which for some crazy reason is separate game where Street Fighter goes to go fight Tekken in the Tekken universe. If you’re having a tough time imagining what this particular crazy mash-up looks like, I direct you over to my good colleague Gabriel’s article.

Dragon’s Dogma

Newly announced today, Dragon’s Dogma is supposedly the beginning of an all new PS3 exclusive franchise. Judging by the brief press release and this video, it looks to be equal parts Monster Hunter and Demon’s Souls. I really hope Capcom don’t think that this in any way redeems them for transferring development of Monster Hunter Tri from the PS3 onto the Wii…….

Resident Evil: The mercenaries 3D

I’m not sure where I stand on Capcom trying to flog an old minigame as a fully fledged title, but what I am sure of is that my lovely rather expensive 3DS currently has near to naff all worth playing on it right about now. In the words of Philip J. Fry, shut up and take my money!

For the full details on all these titles head over to Capcom’s official blog.

Check out these awesome Street Fighter X Tekken trailers and pictures

When Capcom and Namco announced that they would be working together to create a pair of games that featured both Street Fighter and Tekken characters, the fighting game world was stunned. Thoughts raced as to how the games would shape up. Well now we can get a better idea of Capcom’s version as they have finally released trailers and screenshots of Street Fighter X Tekken.

No surprise in that the gameplay is similar to Street Fighter IV (since that was Capcom’s intention anyway) but it’s still fantastic to finally get a glimpse of gameplay. Watch as Ryu, Ken, Chun-li, Kazuya, Nina, King and others show you their moves and also get a preview of the cinematic trailer.

And talking about that cinematic trailer, here it is. Aside from Ryu and Ken fighting Nina and Ryu, it also seems to show Ryu struggling with the Satsui no Hado.

I have to say, how can you not be excited (unless you hate fighting games). Forget Capcom vs SNK, who would have ever thought the day you’d be seeing Street Fighter and Namco characters mixing it up?  Tekken characters with Hyper combos. A roster that will make dream team and “what if” fans have their minds go into orgasmic overload? It’s looking to be a awesome. And we thought Capcom woke up the fighting genre with Street Fighter IV… Turns out that was just a taste of things to come.

Check out the screenshots and poster art below as well.

Street Fighter X Tekken Announced!

The day has finally come for fans of the Street Fighter & Tekken franchise. Today at Comic-Con Capcom announced that Street Fighter and Tekken will be battling it out against each other in their upcoming title Street Fighter X Tekken.

Utilizing the same technology that powered Street Fighter™ IV & Super Street Fighter™ IV, Tekken™ characters such as Kazuya Mishima and Nina Williams will make the transition into the Street Fighter™ universe having been re-imagined using the much-loved art style of these seminal titles; while retaining their unique characteristics and signature moves as they go head-to-head with classic brawlers from the Street Fighter franchise in what promises to be the ultimate match up.

As in Street Fighter IV, 2D gameplay will feature fully realized 3D character models battling for domination in both new and familiar highly detailed environments that are brought to life with engaging animations. In addition to modes such as Versus and Training that will feature new enhancements to make the fighting experience more in-depth and enjoyable, Street Fighter X Tekken will include Tag Team combat where players select two fighters to deliver knockout assist attacks and special combos.

We have some screen shots below! enjoy

The game is being developed by both Capcom and Namco Bandai and will be releasing on both the X360 and PS3.

Naruto has a guest in the new ninja storm

Naruto ultimate ninja storm is going to have a sequel soon, titled “Naruto Shippuden Ultimate ninja Storm 2”. Many people already know this, but many have yet get much info other than that.
Well lets start with the guest star, Lars from Tekken 6 is going to be appearing as an unlockable guest character to fight in the new ninja storm. Masashi Kishimoto, the creator of Naruto has designed “lars” to fit into the animated world of Naruto Shippuden, to help the transition from the 3d world of Tekken, to the cell-shaded 3d animated world of Naruto. 

Along with this new guest there will also be more than 40 other playable characters with a new assist system, where you can link together the moves of certain characters and their assist partners to form a huge, 2 man(or girl) combo or super move.
With all of this partnering and big moves, is also bringing and online feature to battle friends which is new to the Naruto gaming world.

Now with all of this new additions you might ask, well is the story going to be true and awesome? well, good news, the story will be divided into three different character arcs (Naruto, Jiraya, and Sasuke) to explain every detail of the story in each angle to get the best delivery of the story we all read and/or watched.
Naruto Shippuden ultimate ninja storm 2 ill release for PAL territories in the coming autumn, so not that far off till we can all battle each other.