Fighting games have experienced a resurgence in popularity in recent years, but it appears that the revitalized market may have finally reached its carry capacity. Capcom announced today that Street Fighter X Tekken’s sales have fallen well below expectations, and Capcom is blaming the crossover fighter’s poor performance on an over-saturation of the fighting genre.
Fans of the original 8-bit Kid Icarus had to wait almost 25 years in order to get a fully fledged sequel to the side-scrolling classic, and despite glowing reviews and strong sales, it seems like fans of the new 3DS Kid Icarus might have to wait just as long to see another adventure starring Pitt and Palutena.
Every handheld system since the original Gameboy has been released in just about every color imaginable, and in due time, Sony will undoubtedly have a variety of colors and special themed shells for the Vita. For now though, potential buyers are limited to the standard piano black, but today Sony announced that they’re going to roll out 2 new varieties of Vita hardware for the Japanese market.
Vita owners suffering through the system’s post launch drought, rejoice: XSeed announced this weekend that they’ll be bringing over two previously Japan-only Vita titles to America sometime later this year.
With companies pushing digital games over physical copies of games they actively control when can and can not play games which they were previously unable to do with physical copies of games. However,Electronic Arts is making an unclear move now by shutting down their Rock Band game for iOS but that is not stopping them from continuing to sell it until the last day on the App Store.
Nintendo held another one of their regular “Nintendo Direct” streaming press conferences tonight, and while most of the hour long video was comprised of trailers for games we’ve already heard about, Nintendo did have a few surprise announcements to make.
The first trailer for the latest Pokemon title has been released and its chalk full of gameplay footage. It shows off the new animations for trainers as well as the legendary Pokemon that will make an appearance. Each of which you can see on the games cover, but you can see them action in the video as well.
Obviously if you aren’t already at this year’s PAX East in Boston then you most likely aren’t going, if you live in the area however there are still tickets available for Sunday. But if you don’t fear not, this year’s event, at least some of it, is being streamed live through Twitch TV. So instead of reading second hand accounts on blogs or 140 character Twitter feeds, you can sit back and enjoy some of PAX East’s content directly, from the comfort of your own home. Today alone there are over 70 different events planned covering everything from competitive gaming to table top games. So far almost 3,000 people are already watching, which is impressive considering only 800 were when I started this paragraph.
Have you ever been playing the excellent Total War: Shogun 2 and thought to yourself “Well, this is good, but it’d be better with Pokemon.” Well, if that highly improbably thought has ever crossed your mind, you’re in luck — Nintendo announced today that their previously Japan-only monster battling/feudal warlord sim will invade US shores on June 18th.
Sure, Sega may be in a dire financial situation right now, but it doesn’t seem like they’re letting their cash flow problems get in the way of the business of making games (at least in Japan, anyway.) Sega recently filed several new trademarks in their home country, and one of them seems to hint that there’s a new Valkyria Chronicles game in the works.
Earlier today Amazon removed the upcoming 2D action-RPG/brawler hybrid Dragon’s Crown from their website and unceremoniously cancelled all preorders for the game, leading many to believe that the game had been cancelled. Thankfully, that doesn’t appear to be the case.
Feel like buying a game this week? Well, why buy one game when you can get three! Both Amazon and Target are running a sale this week that should make frugal gamers (read: broke-ass bastards) very happy.
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