Andriasang brings word that the special edition, revealed yesterday, contains a copy of protagonist Leon's leather jacket, and four "tablet case covers" - in Resident Evil 6, the series' signature herb items are replaced with pills. More >
4Grasshopper Manufacture has announced Killer Is Dead, a new game directed by Goichi "Suda51" Suda which, the studio promises will retain the essence of Suda's previous assassin games, Killer 7 and No More Heroes. More >
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Silent Hill composer and Sine Mora sound director says Japanese developers need to better understand foreign cultures to succeed.
The Guilty Gear series is to return to Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 and arcade, developer Arc System Works has revealed. Andriasang brings word from this week's AOU Amusement Expo in Japan that Arc is, unusually, to port a console game to the arcade, in this case Guilty Gear XX Accent Core Plus, released for PlayStation 2 in 2008. More >
The Japanese release of Duke Nukem Forever has been delayed by three weeks to March 29. More >
2From Software's Armored Core V is the new Japanese all-formats number one after selling almost 188,000 copies in its first week on shelves. Resident Evil Revelations is another new entry, Capcom's 3DS game selling 146,000 and making its debut in second spot. Just behind is Namco Bandai's DS remake Tales Of Innocence R, which with 54,800 units sold becomes the first Vita game to trouble the upper echelons of the chart in some time. More >
Metal Gear Solid: Rising, the hack-and-slash game announced in 2009, has a new producer. Andriasang reports that Shigenobu Matsuyama has been replaced as producer by Yuji Korekado, formerly lead programmer at Kojima Productions. More >
South Korean gamers under the age of 16 will no longer be able to play online on PlayStation 3 or Xbox 360 after the government extended its Shutdown Law to cover console services PlayStation Network and Xbox Live. According to Kotaku, the Shutdown Law, which originally covered PC games and forbids under-16s from playing online between midnight and 6am, will also apply to consoles from November 18. More >
4Microsoft has confirmed that it is working on "really exciting" cloud features for Xbox 360. Speaking at GDC China over the weekend, reported by Gamasutra, Microsoft's "cloud evangelist" Brian Prince, said: "You will be seeing things in the Xbox platform that are cloud-specific. I'm already doing it, it's really exciting, but I can't tell you about it or else I'll get fired." More >
2Sales of Deus Ex: Human Revolution helped Square Enix more than double its profits in the six months ending September 30. In total, 2.18 million units of the Eidos Montreal-developed title were sold, accounting for more than a quarter of the publisher's total software sales of 8.4 million. More >
2Worldwide shipments of Dark Souls have passed 1.5 million, according to From Software and Namco Bandai. Andriasang reports that the largest proportion of that figure - 620,000 - went to retailers in North America More >
This week's top ten sees six new entries, as Forza 4 debuts at five.
According to Japanese blog Esuteru, From Software is taking on those who have somehow acquired an early copy of the upcoming Dark Souls in typically cruel fashion. More >
4EA's shooter the sole foreign recipient of CESA award. More >
This latest look at Platinum Games' online brawler comes from the Tokyo Game Show. While we're still concerned that latency may mean it turns out to be a button-masher rather than the multiplayer Bayonetta of our dreams, it's shaping up nicely, and the wide range of styles on show from the game's broad cast suggest there's significant depth beneath that veneer of basic brutality.
Square Enix has confirmed that its direct sequel to 2009's Final Fantasy XIII will be released in Japan on December 15, in North America on January 31, 2012, and in Europe on February 3. Japan also gets a limited edition hardware bundle, pictured below.
Team Ninja is on record as saying that Ninja Gaiden 3 - the first game in the series to be developed away from the watchful eye of the departed Tomonobu Itagaki - will be less bloody, and will focus on the effects on protagonist Ryu Hayabusa of having killed so many people. That goes some way to explaining the below trailer, though we're wondering what heinous crimes we've unwittingly committed to deserve the British accent in the opening moments.
The smart money was always on another Dead Or Alive title when news broke last week that Tecmo Koei was to announce a new game at the Tokyo Game Show, and so it proved: Dead Or Alive 5 is in development for Xbox 360 and PS3. Attendees of the publisher's TGS event today were shown a teaser trailer of a pre-alpha build showing Ninja Gaiden's Ryu Hayabusa battling Hayate. Team Ninja head Yosuke Hayashi hinted at a departure for the series, describing it as "fighting entertainment" instead of "just a fighting game."
Goichi Suda's studio announced its first Kinect project at last year's Tokyo Game Show, giving it the working title Codename D. At Grasshopper's TGS conference today, it was revealed that the game's final name is Diabolical Pitch, which tasks players with seeing off a zombie infestation by throwing baseballs. It's set for release on Xbox Live Arcade before the year is out.
One thing Street Fighter X Tekken was missing was a comeback mechanic, an equivalent of Street Fighter IV's Ultra combo and Marvel Vs Capcom 3's X-Factor, which gives inexperienced players a leg up while adding a further layer of complexity for the hardcore. This new trailer reveals Pandora mode, in which one fighter is sacrificed to give the other a power boost, though in a game in which success appears to be hugely dependent on tag combos it may be as much of a hindrance as a help. Also confirmed are four-player online battles, an online training mode, and new characters Zangief, Rolento, Heihachi and Lili. Meanwhile, Andriasang reports that as well as Infamous protagonist Cole McGrath, the PS3 and Vita releases of the game will also include Sony mascots Toro and Kuro.