Ace Attorney 5 coming to the West as “Phoenix Wright: Dual Destinies”

Ace Attorney 5 coming to the West as “Phoenix Wright: Dual Destinies”

Posted By: Michael Lacerna In: Gaming News, Handheld, Nintendo DS/3DS On: 13 May

Capcom has finally released the first English trailer for the highly anticipated Ace Attorney 5, which has been renamed “Phoenix Wright: Dual Destinies” for Western territories.

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Upcoming Okami Announcement Won’t Be For A Sequel

Posted By: Vincent Parisi In: Gaming News On: 10 May

I think I’m going to go climb a large rock and whimper at the moon. Turns out, when everybody got all hot and bothered about an upcoming Okami announcement posted via Twitter, we were getting all uppity over nothing. According the the same official Okami Twitter page, the announcement won’t have anything to do with [...]

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Retro Round Up: Final Fantasy, DuckTales, and the no win situation of retro re-releases

Posted By: Michael Lacerna In: Blog On: 09 May

Retro Round Up is a regular feature that takes a look at what’s new in the world of old games. This week I’ll discuss the reception that Final Fantasy X HD and DuckTales HD have received since they were announced, and ask the question: what do people expect from a retro re-release?

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Capcom Hints at a Big Okami Announcement For Next Week

Posted By: Vincent Parisi In: Gaming News On: 24 Apr

Ever since the cult-classic Okami debuted on the PS2, fans gave clamored for more adventures featuring the white wolf Amaterasu. So far, they’ve had to settle for the pseudo-sequel Nintendo DS exclusive Okamiden, and multiple ports of the original which have made their way onto the Wii and PS3. But now, according the the official [...]

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Capcom blames Resident Evil and DmC for financial shortfall, may cancel upcoming games

Posted By: Michael Lacerna In: Console News, Gaming News, PC, Playstation 3, Wii U, Xbox 360 On: 18 Apr

Capcom has been one of the few Japanese publishers to stay profitable throughout most of this generation, but the Osaka based company announced today that they will fail to meet their sales goals for the 2012 fiscal year.

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Monster Hunter finally goes HD!… but as a Chinese F2P MMO

Posted By: Michael Lacerna In: Console News, Gaming News, PC On:

Capcom’s Monster Hunter series is finally getting it’s first truly HD installment, but it’s probably not the next-gen Monster Hunter experience that fans were hoping for.

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Ace Attorney 5 gets a Japanese release date, free DLC detailed

Posted By: Michael Lacerna In: Gaming News, Handheld, Nintendo DS/3DS On: 17 Apr

After a long hiatus, Phoenix Wright is finally making his grand return to the courtroom.

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Capcom disappointed by Darkstalkers Resurrection sales

Posted By: Michael Lacerna In: Console News, Playstation 3, Xbox 360 On: 11 Apr

Capcom’s fan favorite Darkstalkers series made its big comeback last month with the Darkstalkers Resurrection compilation on PSN and XBLA, but sadly, it turns out this resurrection may be short-lived: in a post on the official Capcom Unity boards today, Capcom USA VP Christian Svensson revealed that Resurrection’s sales so far have been “disappointing.”

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Capcom was going to publish “Maverick Hunter,” a gritty Mega Man FPS made by former Metroid Prime devs

Posted By: Michael Lacerna In: Console News, Gaming News, Playstation 3, Xbox 360 On: 09 Apr

It usually sucks to hear that a game in development has been cancelled: I’m still reeling over Starcraft Ghost’s cancellation, and that happened over 7 years ago. Mega Man fans know that pain all too well, as Capcom pretty much cancelled all future Mega Man projects after series creator Keiji Inafune quit Capcom a few [...]

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Legacy Creators Return with Capcom-Authorized Street Fighter: Assassin’s Fist KickStarter Campaign

Posted By: Vincent Parisi In: Gaming News On: 08 Apr

Street Fighter fans, lend me your ears! Joey Ansah and Tom Cruis… er, Christian Howard are back with a brand-new Street Fighter project, and they need your help. At this year’s San Diego Comic Con Ansah, writer and director of popular fan-film Street Fighter: Legacy, revealed the existence of a completed script for a feature-length [...]

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Project X Zone Gets Official US Release Date

Posted By: Vincent Parisi In: Gaming News On: 05 Apr

American Namco, Sega, and Capcom fans, your prayers have been answered! Project X Zone, the most blatant fanservice ever orchestrated, is finally arriving on US shores for the Nintendo 3DS. Namco revealed the game’s so-close-yet-so-far release date of June 25 on it’s official website, and representatives have since confirmed the date to IGN to ensure the [...]

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Capcom reveals new multiplayer RPG franchise Gaist Crusher

Posted By: Michael Lacerna In: Gaming News, Handheld, Nintendo DS/3DS On: 02 Apr

Most hardcore Japanese gamers are already afflicted with a cocaine-like addiction to Capcom’s Monster Hunter series, but Capcom isn’t satisfied just yet; today they announced that they plan to go after the nation’s children with a brand new (and hopefully just as addictive) multiplayer RPG entitled Gaist Crusher. Capcom says Gaist Crusher is a “custom [...]

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