Monthly Archives: October 2011

Capcom’s unveiled free post-launch DLC for Ultimate Marvel vs Capcom 3, a card-based mode called Heroes vs Herald. A team of heroes will fight against Galactus and his group, where a new card system will use new combo chains, projectile invincibility and more. There’s a video of it in action from NYCC below the break, via Joystiq.

UMvC3 is out next month for PS3 and 360.

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Uncharted 3 director Justin Richmond has said developer Naughty Dog would need to separate the game’s offline portion if it didn’t come with an online pass.

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Capcom’s confirmed that it’ll launch the Ver. 2012 update for Super Street Fighter IV: Arcade Edition in Japan from December 3 in arcades. It’ll then go live on PS3 and 360 versions of the game on December 13. The update will help balance out the fighter.

Thanks, Andriasang.

Level 5 aired a brand new trailer for Time Travelers over the weekend at the company’s Vision event in Japan, showing the first real glimpse at the game since it was first introduced at the same event last year. It’s out on Vita, 3DS and PSP next year in Japan, with no western localisation plans as yet announced.

Get the video below the break.

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Forza Motorsport 4′s headed to the top of the UK charts, pulling FIFA 12 from the summit after two weeks.

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BioWare announced over the weekend at New York ComicCon that its brought forward the European release date of Star Wars: The Old Republic within the US launch period.

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343 Industries has announced the list of Kinect features that will support Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary Edition.

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Harmonix has announced details of the Coldplay pack that’s coming to Rock Band this week. Going for $1.99/160 MS Points/200 Wii Points per song or $9.99/800 MS Points/1000 Wii Points, included in the pack is Yellow from Parachutes, The Scientist and Clocks from A Rush of Blood to the Head, Fix You from X&Y, the title track from its last album Viva La Vida and Every Teardrop is a Waterfall from new album Mylo Xylo. Yellow and Clocks are upgradeable to Pro Guitar/Bass for an extra 99 cents.

Thanks, D’Toid.

Alex Donaldson continues the story of Super Versus Battle 2011, battling on amid the smoke of the London Riots.

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For reasons unknown, perhaps simply because he likes it, Metal Gear creator Hideo Kojima shared this beautiful image of Metal Gear Solid 2′s Raiden.

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EB Games Australia has confirmed rumours of a broken Batman: Arkham City street date via its official Twitter account.

GAME Australia is yet to officially allow sales; a representative confirmed store managers are expecting approval to begin selling the game within the hour.

Since the US gets hold of Arkham City on October 18, with Europe forced to wait until October 21, that makes Australia first to go to retail with Rocksteady’s latest.

The game was slated to release locally tomorrow on PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360; a PC version has been delayed.

The latest Rayman Origins trailer purports to demonstrate how your team of misfits will take down enemies, but let’s be honest here – it’s how you’ll constantly foil each other in co-op.

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From Software has announced a new patch for Dark Souls, to address a handful of issues including some glaring multiplayer problems.

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Nintendo Japan has released two new trailers for The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword, and inevitably, the Internet has subtitled them before they reach us through official means. Some small spoilers ahead.

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Critically acclaimed indie survival RPG Project Zomboid has suffered a major blow with the loss of months of work.

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Among a host of other improvements, Batman: Arkham City’s director is most pleased with Rocksteady’s efforts to replicate Batman’s rooftop traversal of Gotham City,

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In between shots of its rock-star developers speaking fluent, incomprehensible Japanese, take a look at the first footage of the collection of games games which make up Guild 01.

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Now that Ni No Kuni is definitely coming to English-speaking territories, we are allowed to post and drool over Japanese trailers.

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Batman: Arkham City’s launch video is chock full of villains.

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Narrowly beating out Sega’s 3D screenshots for strangest asset dump of the year so far, Warner Bros. has sent a pair of 360 degree screenshots of Lord of the Rings: War in the North.

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