Just kidding about the title. Capcom did go to ridonkulous places with their Street Fighter franchise titles. This good-natured jab is inspired by the most ludicrous title and Capcom’s first SF 3D foray on the PS2. Super Street Fighter IV begs to be made fun of for the amount of rehashes they did for the original SF2. That said, I’ll probably eat up every bit as I have over the past what, 20 years?

SSF4 boasts 8 new characters and a discounted price. T. Hawk, Deejay and newcomer Juri is confirmed. Juri looks pretty sweet and is leaps and bounds better than C. Viper in terms of character design. The inclusion of C. Viper, Rufus and Rose were missed opportunities for more worthy contenders. At least they weren’t rock-throwing jailbird Cody…

I vote for Guy, Haggar and Rolento with a little bit of Poison on the side.

As a final thought, I leave you with Haggar piledriving a shark.

If any of you guys are from the PS2 era, I hope you were able to catch either ICO or Shadow of the Colossus. People keep complaining that there are no original ideas from developers these days. You can bet that Team ICO will defy that. I’d never had the pleasure of checking out Shadow, but ICO was a unique and mesmerizing experience with heart and emotion. This simple demo of The Last Guardian from TGS: 2009 speaks volumes of that quality that we can continue to expect.

For TGS 09 Capcom has released what I can only think of as a ‘crap ton’ of assets on all of us. There’s a fact sheet, screenshots, and trailers galore. After reading about it, and looking at all of it I’m a bit confused by what Dead Rising 2 is actually about. Judging from the fact sheet it looks like the game will be told differently depending on whether or not you’re playing single player or multiplayer.

The main story follows Chuck Greene who is trying to protect his daughter from the zombie onslaught. On the flip side with multiplayer it looks like you’ll be competing in a reality/game show called Terror is Reality. It reminds me a bit of the movie Running Man, only the contestants look outfitted in Motorcross gear. Enjoy all the wonderful goodies below.
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Back when P33pub reported that the Japanese PSP was offering digital manga downloads, we figured it was only a matter of time for the Western market to start getting some Marvel and DC digital downloads. It’s a perfect time to start checking out what’s going on in the current comic book world.

Over the past 10 or so years, it’s become quite staple for the 2 major publishing houses to have “summer events” to compete with each other, much like summer blockbuster movies. For instance, Marvel began a long journey starting from the break-up of the Avengers in “Avengers Disassembled”, to the near mutant extinction in “House of M”. Kotaku checked out the superhero “Civil War”. After that event, the Hulk rampages the planet in “World War Hulk” and the Skrulls invade Earth in “Secret Invasion”. This year, a group of super villains led by Norman Osborn (The Green Goblin) masquerade as the Avengers in “Dark Reign”.

So if you’re still not the type to walk in your local comic shop, but have an interest in the characters’ goings on, the PSP downloads may very well be the perfect thing for you.