Virtua Fighter 5 Final Showdown announced for XBLA & PSN
Virtua Fighter 5 is being revamped in the standalone Virtua Fighter 5 Final Showdown, headed to XBLA and PSN in summer 2012. It'll bring new fighting mechanics and balance, along with new characters.
READ MORE >Sonic CD coming to Xbox Live Arcade
Sonic CD is coming to Xbox 360, and will be playable at PAX Prime this week.
READ MORE >"(mostly because the intro is hilariously weird and it wasn't accesible in a normal CD player - ..."
see all 24 commentsNew video game releases of 8/22-8/28
New Deus Ex! New Deus Ex is out next week! The new one! Deus Ex! Deus Ex! Oh, and Street Fighter III: Third Strike Online Edition and Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Survivor Overlocked.
READ MORE >"How'd you manage to unlock it? Steam tells me the game isn't available yet and won't let me ..."
see all 40 commentsThe video game release list of 8/15-8/21
The summer video game drought ends next week with the arrival of No More Heroes: Heroes' Paradise, Toy Soldiers: Cold War, PC editions of From Dust and Bastion, and... Jerry Rice and Nitus' Dog Football.
READ MORE >The video game release list of 8/8-8/14
It's a slow, slow week coming up, with Fruit Ninja Kinect being the most exciting new release. It's always darkest before dawn, though, and a glorious video games sunrise is coming soon.
READ MORE >"You missed one: Warhammer 40,000: Kill Team will be released on Aug 10."
see all 5 commentsTorchlight 2 would need redesign for XBLA
Runic's plans for an Xbox Live Arcade edition of action-RPG sequel Torchlight II are looking a little less certain, as the dev's revealed it would need to be "fairly comprehensively redesigned" to fit within the memory limit.
READ MORE >"It's the 360's 512mb memory that's the issue. Nothing to do with XBLA. Eurogamer failed ..."
see all 29 commentsVessel sloshing out this holiday season
Fancy playing god? Strange Loop's puzzle-platformer Vessel is headed to PC, XBLA and PSN this holiday season, letting players turn simple fluids into physically-simulated fluid creatures.
READ MORE >Microsoft planning monthly Kinect XBLA releases
Microsoft hopes to be releasing one Kinect-supporting Xbox Live Arcade roughly every month, it's revealed ahead of the launch of the first Kinect XBLA game next week, Fruit Ninja Kinect.
READ MORE >"Yeah, same here. If Fruit Ninja were something else, I probably would have picked up From Dust, ..."
see all 8 commentsGrasshopper's Sine Mora landing in winter
No More Heroes dev Grasshopper's Sine Mora is slated to launch this winter, its first trailer reveals. There's no gameplay, but the game co-developed with Digital Reality certainly is pretty.
READ MORE >"ah man, I had an idea for something exactly like this years ago. I am glad someone is still ..."
see all 2 commentsWorms Ultimate Mayhem revamp announced
The Worms' series two 3D entries, Worms 3D and Worms 4, are being revamped for a downloadable double-pack re-release via Steam, Xbox Live Arcade and PlayStation Network.
READ MORE >"They should have included Forts. That game had a lot of features unique to it."
see all 4 commentsUnstoppable Gorg announced by Futuremark
The Gorg are invading from Planet X in Futuremark's tower defense, which has a B movie flavor and the novel twist of allowing players to move their defenses.
READ MORE >Voltron: Defender of the Universe announced for XBLA, PSN
Vintage robot anime Voltron: Defender of the Universe is to become a downloadable game with online co-op support for up to five players, headed to XBLA and PSN and October.
READ MORE >"Those are some pretty lame and completely uninspired graphics."
see all 16 commentsBurnout Crash due August; began life on Wii
In a double-whammy of Burnout Crash news, it's been revealed that the top-down downloadable spin-off will be released this August, and the idea behind the game originally took form as a scrapped Wii prototype.
READ MORE >"i think they should have put crash in paradise and still release this game"
see all 2 commentsShack PSA: Xbox Live zombie content sale
This week's Xbox Live deal for ghoulish Gold subscribers brings supernatural savings on Dead Rising 2: Case West, Red Dead Redemption's DLC bundle, Left 4 Dead 2's cross-over DLC, Stubbs the Zombie, and Twin Blades.
READ MORE >"I'll wait till either the Collection drops below $10, or they do just the SP for 50%."
see all 5 commentsThe video game release list of 7-11 to 7-17
Unafraid of the new Harry Potter game, Ms. 'Splosion Man launches next week, along with a plucky, rag-tag group of other new releases who oppose the dark lord Potter.
READ MORE >"Those screenshots of NCAA Football 12 look outstanding. It probably has one of those screenshot ..."
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"Yeah, I don't know what's up with that effect... I don't like it and I hope it's not in the game."
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