Street Fighter vs. The World

SDCC brought fighting game fans one of the biggest surprise announcements since (zOMG) Street Fighter IV.  Not only is Capcom working with Namco to produce a Street Fighter x Tekken cross-over fighter, Namco is producing their own versus game, Tekken x Street Fighter,  presumably using the Tekken 6 engine. Both games are expected to have tag-team fighting and team-up super moves, and both are loosely scheduled for a 2012 release.

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Lost Xbox 360 Marketing Video

Ron and I went to GameStop the other day and picked up an old used copy of an Xbox LIVE Arcade compilation disc. We were delightfully surprised when we watched this amazing marketing video. It was too good to not share with the world. Watch this video right now.

Pokémon Black/White: SILLY HATS EDITION!

There isn’t much to discuss here, other than the fact that a new video was released for Pokémon Black/White, showing new gameplay footage and new features added to the upcoming games being released sometime next year for the Nintendo DS (and all variations of aforementioned handheld console).  Check out the video after the jump!

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MegaMa – I mean, Explodemon! Coming to the PS3 Later this Year

So there was this game announced back in March of 2009 by Curve Studios (a UK-based game developer) that promised to be an original IP, influenced by old Japanese platform action-based games that were released on the SNES.  Cut to present day (a good year and a half later) and you’ll find that Explodemon! has been confirmed for release for Q4 2010 for the PlayStation Network.

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Microsoft Finally Confirms Kinect Price at $150

Nothing ground breaking here, it is mostly just Microsoft confirming what all the rumors have been saying over the past several weeks. First up, Xbox Kinect will retail for $150 and will come with Kinect Adventures. They also announced a new SKU for the Xbox 360 that will cost $200. This new unit is just like the slimmed down version that is already in stores with the exception of internal storage. Instead of having the large 250GB hard drive it will have 4GB of internal storage.

On top of those two announcement, Mircosoft also detailed their new Holiday Bundle for this year. Instead of bundling a couple of 2 year old games that nobody wants they decided to bundle the Kinect. For $300, you can get the new Xbox 360 4GB with Xbox Kinect. It isn’t a huge discount but you can take that $50 you will be saving and buy Dance Central with it. Oh, I guess I forgot to mention. All the Kinect games will be priced at $50 instead of $60. Continue reading…

Civilization V Special Edition – Not Worth the Money

I have been a huge fan of the Civilization series for quite a while now. Getting the chance to see all the cool new shit in Civilization V at E3 had me giddy. The newly announced retail Special Edition is mouth watering but the price is just way to high for me to bite. I don’t think having an art book, making-of DVD, soundtrack, and 5 figurines really is worth the extra $50 which double the original price for a total of $100.

I will be getting the Deluxe Edition from Steam for $60 which includes the game, the soundtrack, making-of video, bonus Babylon Civilization as well as a free map pack when you pre-order (which I will be doing). To add to that, the game is fully integrated with Steamworks which will give you cloud support, achievements, and all the other great stuff that anybody that plays games on Steam has become dependent upon.

So here is my problem with the Special Edition. I love the convenience of having the game on Steam; I am not one of those people that needs a physical copy of the game and actually prefer to not have a disc. The Deluxe Edition on Steam gives me everything the Special Edition has except for the figurines and the art book. I would love to have those two item but there is no way I can justify spending the extra $40 for those two items and then add the inconvenience of having the game on a disc on top of it.