Category: Arcade
E3 Round-up
With the 2009 Electronic Entertainment Expo is now in the past, lets have a look at the highs and the lows of the event…
Nintendo made so many waves with the Wiimote 3 years ago, it’s surprising it’s taken Microsoft & Sony so long to get comparable technology out there, but this years E3 will be fondly remembered for both Microsoft’s Project Natal and Sony’s PS3-nis PlayStation Motion Controller.
Now too the games! For the first time since I can remember, there seem to be almost as many original IPs than sequels. Games such as Realtime World’s APB, the … Read More…
“Are you man enough to fight with me?” – SF4 Japanese Intro released
Everyone remembers the Street Fighter 2 intro…
Basically, it was two average joes have a boxing match in the middle of the street before the view pans up a massive skyscraper, revealing the Street Fighter logo. It was a ordinary and benign introduction to the absurdity that existed under the hood, what with the rubber armed yoga specialists, high-leaping sumo wrestlers and hadoukens.
Things have definitely progressed in the 17 years since then and Capcom have now released the full console introduction cinematic for everyones perusal. Featuring 3:15 of footage gleamed from the various ink versus trailers released over the … Read More…
Street Fighter IV set for UK tour.
It’s usually rock stars that set off on long exhausting tours but now the world’s favourite fighting game is set to travel the UK. Capcom will be wheeling a Street Fighter IV arcade cabinet around the country from the 29th of January.
At each stop along the way fans will be given a chance to win exclusive Street Fighter IV goodies as well as getting to try the game out.
The tour begins in the Princes Street branch of Gamestation in Edinburgh from the 29th of January to the 1st of February. The cabinet then heads off to Gamestation in … Read More…