While many play fighting games for the skill aspect, some do enjoy the story and Street Fighter 5 is set to have the most substantial story mode in the series' history. However, it won't be there on day one. Street Fighter V, which comes out towards the middle of next …
Read More »Monster Hunter X gets new trailer, Link crossover details
With Blizzcon 2015 having taken place this weekend, there's been a lot of Blizzard-centric gameplay trailers and teasers released about upcoming content, but that doesn't mean all other developers have dropped tools and taken a break. Indeed Capcom took the bold move this weekend of releasing trailers for one of its own upcoming …
Read More »Dragon’s Dogma: Dark Arisen won’t be frame rate locked on PC
Capcom has announced that three years after its initial release, Dragon's Dogma: Dark Arisen will finally be hitting the PC some time in January next year. Dragon's Dogma: Dark Arisen was actually a pretty positively received game, which launched on the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 back in April 2013. …
Read More »Dragon’s Dogma is heading to the PC
Capcom has announced that three years after its initial release, Dragon's Dogma: Dark Arisen will finally be hitting the PC some time in January next year. Dragon's Dogma: Dark Arisen was actually a pretty positively received game, which launched on the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 back in April 2013. …
Read More »The Street Fighter V beta has returned
A few weeks back, Capcom kicked off the street Fighter V beta. Unfortunately, it had some immediate issues that stopped many from actually being able to launch the game. As a result, the dev team took the beta build back behind closed doors, spent a few weeks fixing it up …
Read More »Resident Evil 2 is getting a remake
Earlier this year, Capcom launched Resident Evil HD, which quickly went on to become the company's fastest selling digital title ever. Following its positive reception, people were also asking Capcom to bring us a Resident Evil 2 HD release, which has now been approved. Developer, Yoshiaki Hirabyashi, who lead the …
Read More »Street Fighter V beta taken down straight after launching
Well things aren't off to a great start for Capcom with the Street Fighter V beta as it has suffered numerous issues since its launch last night. The game's servers were then taken offline around an hour after players starting getting in to the PS4 beta and we aren't really …
Read More »Street Fighter V ruled out for Xbox One
Street Fighter V was announced sometime last year as a PlayStation 4 console exclusive, although the game will be coming to the PC as well. While at the time it wasn't clear whether or not the PS4 would have timed exclusivity over the Xbox One, Capcom has now shed some …
Read More »Monster Hunter Stories looks very different
Despite the fact that it features giant dragons, talking cats and matter cloning pickaxes, the Monster Hunter series of games is relatively serious. It's unforgiving for newer players, has a deep and complicated system of augmenting your character and requires you to literally cut parts from your fallen enemies to …
Read More »Resident Evil HD is Capcom’s fastest selling digital title
The Resident Evil HD Remaster launched at the end of last month for the PC, Xbox One, PS4 and last generation consoles and it has since gone on to become Capcom's fastest selling digital title in just under three weeks. Capcom announced today that Resident Evil HD has become its …
Read More »Resident Evil 2 remade in Unreal Engine 3
Fans of the Resident Evil series have been asking for a remake of the second game for some time now but Capcom has repeatedly focussed on updating the original game. However, one series fan went ahead and remade the second game himself, using Unreal Engine 3. A walkthrough of the …
Read More »Street Fighter V is only 20% done so far but the graphics will be great
Street Fighter V may only be 20 per cent through its development cycle at present but that isn't stopping the producers behind the game from hyping up its Unreal Engine 4 powered graphical fidelity. The title was announced earlier this month as a PS4 and PC exclusive, a change of …
Read More »Resident Evil producer says VR makes ‘perfect sense’ for horror games
Resident Evil: Revelations 2 producer, Michiteru Okabe, has expressed his excitement surrounding virtual reality headsets and what they can do for horror titles. While virtual reality technology is still in development and has some way to go, game companies are already eager to make games for VR headsets and Oculus …
Read More »The Metal Gear 2014 collection is actually just a fashion line
Last week, Hideo Kojima teased a new ‘Metal Gear Collection' for release this year, most gamers were expecting an updated HD collection of past titles for the Xbox One, PS4 and PC. Unfortunately, what we actually got was wildly different, the Metal Gear Collection 2014 is actually just a fashion …
Read More »Resident Evil 5 and Dead Rising 2 will move over to Steamworks
Capcom will be bringing Resident Evil 5, Dead Rising 2 and Dead Rising 2: Off the Record, over to Steamworks early next year. The three games currently reside on Microsoft's widely unpopular Games for Windows Live service. The publisher said that the move has come around due to fan demand: …
Read More »Famitsu scans show off new Monster Hunter 4G monsters
Japanese gaming magazine Famitsu, has a load of new information and images about the upcoming Monster Hunter 4G, the “ultimate,” version of Monster Hunter 4, much in the same way that the Wii U Monster Hunter Tri Ultimate, was an improved version of the Wii's edition. While we don't have …
Read More »Monster Hunter 4’s crowdsourced weapon is ridiculous
The Monster Hunter series is like a light-hearted Dark Souls. It features huge enemies to face off against, in long, drawn out battles of attrition where you fight to see which goes down first, the monster's (invisible) health bar, or your number of health potions. Beyond pointing you at the …
Read More »Capcom has abandoned its takeover protection scheme
It is now possible to buy Capcom as the publisher's current investors have voted to abandon the company's takeover protection plan. The protection plan was first implemented back in 2008 and has been consistently renewed since then, until now. A rigorous approval process was put in place to stop any …
Read More »Dead Rising 3 on PC will be locked to 30 frames per second
If you were looking forward to playing Dead Rising 3 on PC at a nice smooth 60 frames per second then you are going to be disappointed as Capcom has “optimised” the game for 30 frames per second and warns that unlocking the frame rate could break the game. Dead …
Read More »Twitch, Capcom make year long Street Fighter league
Gaming streaming firm Twitch and developer/publisher Capcom have bro-fisted and high-fived their way through negotiations and struck up a deal that will see Street Fighter fans competing throughout the rest of the year and beyond, in a new competitive, professional league, known as the Capcom Pro Tour. Working in a …
Read More »Capcom may have known that Resident Evil composer wasn’t deaf
Last week it was revealed that Resident Evil's famous deaf composer, Mamoru Samuragoch, ‘Japan's Beethoven' isn't actually deaf and it turns out that Capcom may have known about this for some time. Over the last 18 years, Samuragoch has used a ghost writer, a music professor named Takashi Niigaki. The composer was completely …
Read More »Monster Hunter Frontier G could be coming to EU and US
Monster Hunter fans outside of the Asian markets have been screwed out of a lot of the series' best games. While the handheld entries always seem to make it to this part of the world, home console releases are few and far between and ultimately, the only two you can …
Read More »Monster Hunter 4 coming to the west, on 3DS
Monster Hunter fans in the west don't get much in the way of love from Capcom when it comes to the new releases in the series. We're not getting a look in with the Chinese Cryengine PC version, Monster Hunter Online, and it's taken untill now for the developer to …
Read More »Here’s that Western, PC, Monster Hunter Capcom won’t make
For whatever reason, Capcom has never shown much love to the West when it comes to Monster Hunter. Sure we had Tri for the Wii and then there was the re-skinned Ultimate on the Wii U, but unless you're rocking a handheld, that's about it. We were even teased by …
Read More »Mighty No. 9 will now come to next gen consoles and handhelds!
A little while back we reported on Mighty No. 9 hitting $2.2 million on its Kickstarter campaign and would now come to current generation consoles. Since then, Mighty No. 9 has shot up to $3.5 million and as a result, it will come to next generation consoles as well as …
Read More »Mighty No. 9 makes $2.2 million
Mighty No. 9, the spiritual successor to Megaman, just hit $2.2 million on Kickstarter. This means the game will officially head to current generation consoles including the Xbox 360, PS3, Wii U, PC, Mac and Linux. The game will play like a retro action platformer much like Megaman did, where you …
Read More »Please Capcom, release the CryEngine 3 Monster Hunter Online in Europe too
I know this is usually a spot for more serious news, but sometimes you have to stand up for something you believe in and say enough is enough. Capcom, stop releasing Monster Hunter games in non-Western markets. I know there's not so many fans over here, but my god would …
Read More »Capcom earnings predictions dip in wake of weak Resident Evil 6 sales
Capcom has reduced its earnings predictions for the year in the wake of sales of Resident Evil 6 not being as high as expected, as well as a delay in the release of upcoming 3DS title, Monster Hunter 4. Previously Capcom had forecast that it would be making 105 billion …
Read More »Capcom announces development on Lost Planet 3
Following its recent “Captivate” event in which it has since continued to share out details of its current and upcoming projects, Capcom has announced that it is well into development on the third installment of the Lost Planet third-person shooter franchise. Lost Planet 3 is positioned as a prequel to …
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