Street Fighter/Tekken Crossovers Now Official... Oh Boy!!!

Capcom just finished up a Street Fighter panel at this weekend's Comic-Con in San Diego where they dropped a true bombshell. This has been teased since Evo 2010 a couple weeks back seeing Ono-san and Harada-san together thinking of the possibility, but its now real. Yes folks, Street Fighter and Tekken are crossing over in two fighting games! There will be one made by Capcom (likely the one shown above) more Street Fighter-like and one by Namco in the vein of Tekken. The footage sees Ryu and Kazuya fighting each other showing off their signature moves, but it turns out it is a tag-like versus game as Chun-Li comes in and Nina Williams later on. It is still early stuff and a long ways off, but this announcement is already crazy and who knows how Namco/Capcom can pull this off correctly as it can be freakin amazing or a total flop. Besides the Tekken/SF announcements, Capcom also decided the return of Street Fighter III: 3rd Strike in downloadable form and online, but also ways off from release (sometime later in 2011 likely). I'm also excited to see 3rd Strike again as it is still a beloved game in the franchise by many, but we'll see if any significant changes will be made like balance and such. In the meantime, the dream crossover is now happening and boy I can't wait!

For now, 3rd Strike Theme time!!!

More MvC3 Footage feat. Amaterasu & Thor...

Turns out the leak regarding Amaterasu and Thor in Marvel vs. Capcom 3: Fate of Two Worlds is now official by Capcom since they decided to roll out new videos of the characters in action!!! Check out the new footage below!!! (Not sure if I'll use Amaterasu, but you'll never know... rather would play as Thor). Also featured is the return of Final Justice by Captain America (His Level 3 Super)!

Why Tron Legacy will be Amazing...

Tron Legacy had a big showing at Comic-Con yesterday with the cast on the panel doing their thing along with new footage besides the new trailer above. December 17 will be a glorious time, but November 23 will be even better when Daft Punk's hyped up soundtrack will come out as it will amaze as well. It is the most anticipated movie to watch for the rest of the year and hopefully it will live up to that title as I'm expecting it to be in my top three movies of 2010.

UPDATE - Oh, there is a preview of some of Daft Punk's soundtrack here and it is already shaping up to be something special.

Next Week, Everything Changes...

Starcraft II: Wings of Liberty finally launches on PC next week and the long wait is almost over after the endless beta sessions. The launch trailer is above and obviously, it does not represent what the game is a RTS, but in Blizzard tradition, it delivers once again as another amazing cinematic trailer for the world to see. If only I had a computer that can run it decently, then I could get into it like most people that are capable PCs or Macs would. Everything in the gaming landscape will change next week with Starcraft II's launch and could be as big as any other Blizzard launch in recent times especially with World of Warcraft still going strong as Catcalysm approaches release. How many of my friends' lives that eagerly await this game will change next week? I will say the majority of them.

Music Video of the Day for 7/21/10

Nicki Minaj - "Your Love"

The MvC3 Roster Gets Six More...

With this weekend's San Diego Comic-Con becoming crazier and crazier trying to fit as much comics, movies, television, and games, as possible, the reveals can reach megaton-quality at this rate. Gaming has come a long way at Comic-Con since I first went there in 2005 until my last trip in 2008 when I played vanilla Street Fighter IV for the first time. Its crazy gaming has become a staple of Comic-Con now perhaps having more space in the convention than ever before that I seen. Anyway, one of the gaming showstoppers at the convention is of course Marvel vs. Capcom 3: Fate of Two Worlds. We last saw this game at Evo 2010 when Capcom revealed level three supers for the first time, but we knew they were saving up for another big reveal at Comic-Con and that's what they did. Four new characters get added into the roster in the trailer above as Dr. Doom, Super Skrull, Chun-Li, and Trish get the MvC3 treatment. Doom has some of his MvC2 tricks back, but who knows how valuable his rocks assist will be this around than last time, but at least his Photon Arrow super is still intact. Chun-Li also boasts similar tricks from the last versus game she was in, but it makes me wonder if her super air kick will make it as a level 3 (makes sense to me). Super Skrull and Trish make their fighting game debuts and so far they look pretty good. Trish from Devil May Cry pretty much will play like Dante, but different enough she has her own bag of tricks. Marvel 3 is still a long way off, but these reveals are making the wait even more worthy.

UPDATE - Marvel.com decided to provide some MvC3 leakage tonight with reveals of Amaterasu and Thor as if the previous four weren't enough. We all know Thor from Marvel and good thing he's in with a movie out next year (first trailer this weekend at Comic-Con likely), but Amaterasu from Okami may seem like an odd choice considering you're playing as a wolf. At least Capcom is still going crazy adding non-fighting game characters into the game, which is also a good thing. No video has surfaced of the two in action yet since I don't think they're in the Comic-Con build, but its looks like they will playable the next time the game gets shown (TGS likely).

Didn't Realize The Scott Pilgrim Game Will Be That Good...

Apparently The Scott Pilgrim vs. The World game is out next month first on the Playstation Network (August 10) and Xbox Live Arcade later (August 25) and it came off my radar, but after seeing this trailer above, maybe I should pay attention to this after all and give it a shot when it comes out. I do love beat-em-ups, so Ubisoft pretty much nails that and the 8-bitish feel of the music and presentation is the most surprising for me. Then again, since the movie is almost like a video game in itself with the crazy effects, this makes sense and no wonder it got all those awards at E3 last month. It is fifteen dollars with four player co-op offline like any other arcade beat-em-ups of the glory days, but the lack of online play does worry a lot of people especially me which would prevent the game from being way better. I can understand why there is no online considering the rush to release the game in time of the movie and it is probably better to have no online than crappy online. In the meantime, enjoy the crazy trailer above as Scott Pilgrim vs. The World: The Game comes out next month downloadable on the Playstation 3 and Xbox 360.