Category Archives: Fighter

Super Smash Bros. creator Masahiro Sakurai is going to do something different with the next entry in the series.

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Sony has announced via the EU PS Blog that Skullgirls will finally arrive in European territories on May 2 via the usual PSN update. With that out of the way, Autumn Games has also announced Reverge Labs’ original soundtrack for the game, featuring music from Michiru Yamane, Reverge Labs’ Vincent Diamante, and composers Blaine McGurty and Brenton Kossak, is now available on iTunes and CDBaby for $9.99. It will be made available through other digital music stores “in the coming days.” More information on the soundtrack can be found via the game’s website.

GTTV has released a promo for its Thursday episode, which will presumably unveil Sony’s much rumored PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale from Superbot. The promo notes it’s a PS3-exclusive from a new developer, something host Geoff Keighley teased on Twitter over the weekend.

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All of the classic character skins in the world belonging to Mortal Kombat are in the video. At least, we think so. Get the video below the break. The game’s out next week for PlayStation Vita.

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Major League Gaming has announced Mortal Kombat and Soul Calibur V players will be competing live on April 28 in the Fighting Game Arena, during which 16 players will vie for a position in the top eight and $3,400 in prizes. The competition will be broadcast live online from 2.00-9.45pm EDT through the MLG website. Following the Arena, the season will culminate with the Spring Championship June 8-10 at the Anaheim Convention Center. Here, top gamers will compete playing Mortal Kombat, Soul Calibur V, and King of Fighters XIII on PS3. Format details, prizing, rules and competition formats for each game will be announced in the coming weeks.

Stace Harman ventures into the bright lights of Las Vegas to speak to series creator Katsuhiro Harada about expanding the audience of Tekken Tag Tournament 2.

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A title update due in this week’s console network updates adds in some fancy new tools to Street Fighter x Tekken.

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Fuudo may be best known for his Street Fighter IV EVO championship, but the eSports champion honed his skills on Virtua Fighter, and has lent his face to Sega for this trailer.

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PC massive, the wait is nearly over. Capcom Unity advises that Gamefly, Gamersgate, Origin and Steam pre-orders have opened ahead of Street Fighter x Tekken’s May 11 US and May 14 European PC release. Capcom took a moment to assure users that DLC will not ship on disc, but will be issued as free patches and unlocked by purchased keys. Hit the link above for the minimum specs and information on peripheral support. The fighter is also available on PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360.

GameTrailers has gone live with a trailer which features some of the klassic costumes which’ll be available for the PlayStation Vita version of Mortal Kombat.

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More evidence of a Smash Bros-like title in the works at Sony called PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale surfaced thanks to a domain registration dug up by PlayStation Lifestyle.

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Sega, Capcom, and Namco Bandai have released the first trailer for Project X Zone, the joint 3DS strategy RPG from the firms. The video below shows Dante, Kurt from Valkyria Chronicles 3, and Kite from .hack, and others, doing what they do best. The character roster can be found here, and screenshots are posted here, in case you missed them. The game’s out later this year. Thanks, Siliconera.

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Capcom has announced Marvel vs Capcom 2 will be released through the App Store for iPhone and iPod touch in North America and Europe on April 25. It contains a 56-character roster and contains a Variable System allowing players to tag in other team members at any time. Time to pull of a Team Hyper Combo, then. Screenshots are below.

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Once again we enter the foetid realm of trailerception – check out this teaser for the live action Mileena trailer for Mortal Kombat Vita.

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Street Fighter X Tekken producer Tomoaki Ayano has said he is “pretty disappointed” some player have found a way to play the locked, downloadable content for the game before its released.

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Capcom’s put a call to arms out for the Street Fighter community, calling for fan submissions on fan-made art and music for the series’s 25th anniversary this year. More details on Unity.

The console version of Persona 4 Arena will release in Japan on August 2, this week’s Famitsu has said.

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This new Tekken Tag Tournament 2 trailer reminds us why tag-team fighters are so much fun.

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Katsuhiro Harada has said Tekken Tag Tournament 2 will not feature paid, character DLC on the retail disc.

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Challenge your mates to a Siegfried versus Ivy match via the iOS release of a Dreamcast classic.

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