One of the unsung heros of the Mortal Kombat franchise is the voice of god. Well, that’s what I always thought of him. Hernan Sanchez is the man with the legendary voice of the series who said such phrases as “Finish Him” and “Flawless Victory.” Thanks to Midway and Maxim, we now have a soundboard that features Sanchez’s famous voice but saying things you probably thought you would never hear from him.
Up top is the soundboard, enjoy it for what it is.
Daniel Palacios is a terrific piano player. Not because I follow his musical work, heck I’m not even sure if he can play anything else besides what he shows us in the video up top.
I only like him because he plays Street Fighter II in front of people who are dressed up fancy cloths. And he goes on for about ten whole minutes.
I wonder if the older people who are sitting in the audience know the songs are based off a fighting video game? I doubt it — which I find hilarious. I’m going to prejudge them and bet they think games are ruining today’s youth.
Source: gonintendo
If you’re not sure which version of the downloadable game Super Street Fighter II HD to buy, Capcom might have helped your decision. According to the PlayStation blog, Capcom plans on releasing the ‘remake’ 24 hours earlier than the Xbox 360 version.
That’s right, the minions over at Sony convinced the publisher to allow PS3 owners to download the game on November 25. While Xbox 360 customers will have to wait until November 26. Although honestly, I would have bought it on the PS3 anyways, but not because I think the game will run better — but the controller for the PS3 is 250 times better when it comes to fighting games. And that’s a fact…well kinda a fact. 
Face it, Mortal Kombat is only around because of a few reasons. First the blood and second, ‘the Fatality‘. If those two things didn’t exist in the series, we would have forgotten about Liu Kang and Sub-Zero along time ago. There I said it — even though I’m a sucker for the franchise, I understand why it belongs in video game lore and it’s not because of the gameplay.
So naturally when Mortal Kombat vs DC Universe was announced awhile back, we all wondered — how will the Fatalities be? Over time we received our answer and for the most part — like many of you, I personalty wasn’t a fan.
While not every single one is the worst thing since moldy sliced bread, just a lot of them…suck. And what’s even more terrible is that we’ve seen some of them before in the previous installments of MK. And don’t get me started with the cop-out ‘Heroic Brutalities.’
Anyway, if you decided you didn’t want to waste your money on the game (not that its bad), but your still interested in the death/beating sequences — check out the video above. It shows every one in its entirety…try to enjoy.
Capcom announced today along with Microsoft that they are working together to create ‘branded experience‘ for the ‘New Xbox Experience‘ tomorrow when the NXE launches. All this means to us — a Capcom skin (yay?).
But if you check out the picture up top which shows Capcom’s ‘branded thing’, you’ll notice in the box on the far left promotes the new Super Street Fighter II HD and how it’s way to Xbox Live Arcade on November 26 (PSN as well — we think).
While I could careless about the ‘branded experience,’ the info featuring Street FIghter HD coming next week is awesome news. To be honest — I could even be more excited about SFHD than Street Fighter IV. Sad, I know!
It’s about freaking time. Capcom has finally confirmed when the home version of Street Fighter IV will be in stores. The Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 game will appear in North America on February 17, 2009. For all you crazy Europeans, your version for both systems will be on sale only a few days later — on February 20.
The game was also announced for the PC, however Capcom and friends have yet to specify which day that will be. We’ll keep you posted.
Here we go, another video featuring fatalities in Mortal Kombat vs DC Universe. This time we get to see Liu Kang, Batman and Baraka. To start this off, I find this video the best collection released thus far. However, that isn’t saying much.
First up is Liu Kang, as much as I laughed when I saw it — I figured out its pretty much the exact same fatality as his finishing move in Mortal Kombat 3. And honestly, it doesn’t make much sense either. Somehow an original Mortal Kombat machine falls out of the sky and kills his opponent.
The next fighter featured is Batman. I find the concept neat, but the execution is meh. Batman throws a ‘Dark Knight‘ device at his enemy and bats swarm his opponent. As they were attacking him, I was hoping to see the figure become a skeleton, but then I remembered — Batman doesn’t kill anyone in the game…lame.
Last and hopefully least was Baraka. I really don’t have anything to say about this — did Midway just forget how to be creative?
If you’re not excited about the PSN and XBLA game Super Street Fighter II HD, than my guess is that you have no soul. Not just because the fighting system in the old game is almost perfect, or the updated graphics simply look gorgeous — but because the trailer above features a song that changed the course of history.
Yes, that’s right; I’m talking about Bill Conti’s, “You’re the Best.” Let’s all pray Capcom somehow includes the song in the actual game. But it’s doubtful…
But as the lyrics in the song says “Never doubt that you’re the one, and you can have your dreams!” Ya, I can dream!
Super Street Fighter II HD will be available online for download on November 30, 2008.
While speaking with 1up, Rare’s studio manager Mark Betteridge talked about the past, present and future of the gaming company. One thing that was discussed was how we could possibly see one of the greatest fighters in the 90s, Killer Instinct to be re-release on Xbox Live Arcade.
“Sure! It’s something that we’ve been looking at. It’s all about building a platform where we can do that stuff without impacting the newer things here. It would be great if we could get Killer Instinct coin-op on there. We get e-mails all the time saying, “Can we just get that? You’re not doing anything at lunch! Get it done.” [Laughs] We’re constantly looking at avenues of bringing products to a new audience or a wider audience. Banjo has gotten a lot of good response on XBLA. We’re excited about that. We were testing it with some people and [asking], “What do you think about it?” Some were like “Great!” Other people were like “Never heard of it; I was only two.” It’s 10 years old, and they’re 12. [Laughs] I don’t have anything to announce specifically, but as a studio we’d like to see some more of our products on there.”
Judging by his response — I would say the chances are now high that we will get a version of Killer Instinct on Xbox in the near future. Let’s face it, Killer Instinct still has the name recognition to sell many downloads and on top of that, how hard would it be to port over to the Xbox 360? It just seems like it’s a win-win situation for everyone.
Betteridge also mentioned that if they were to one day port Killer Instinct over to XBLA, it would be the arcade version and thank god. Hopefully Rare and Microsoft can get the ball moving because I want me some K.I.! Although, how annoying would it be to do a combo with the Xbox 360 D-Pad?
Sega has finally revealed the heavily rumored Genesis pack that will feature 40 games that were previously released on the old system. The retro game collection will not only include the original games like Sonic, Ecco and Shinobi, but will display them in 720p for anyone that owns an HDTV. Which is fantastic, because anyone who has played an old game on a ‘newer’ TV would know they look like crap.
Sega also announced the game will feature Xbox Achievements and PS3 Trophies — so it’s a must for any hardcore old-skool Sega lovers like myself. However, at this point, a price has yet to confirmed by the company — we just hope it’s not over $40 because if it is, it might not be worth it. We’re actually thinking it should be no more than $30, but we’ll see soon enough.
After the jump, check out the full list of games included with the collection. (more…)
Capcom’s Christian Svensson who is a regular user on the company’s forum and every now & then he tells the visitors on the boards about information regarding Capcom games. This time he released some tidbits about Super Street Fighter II HD that is coming out for both PSN and Xbox Live Arcade. Apparently, the game is finished and Capcom is just waiting for an approval from Sony and Microsoft to throw the games up for the public to download.
Right now, Svensson believes the game should be available on both networks by the end of the month. Meaning, within the next three weeks — we’ll be playing the some old school SFII but looking considerably better in the graphical department.
Here we go again. Midway as released three more characters from Mortal Kombat vs DC Universe featuring their fatalities. Sonya, Catwoman and Sub Zero show their skills on how they kill someone. Unfortunately, how they kill their opponent is lame.
However, out of all the ones that have been shown recently, Sub-Zero so far has the best finishing move out of all of them. He grabs his enemy, holds him up in the air until he freezes and slams him on the ground. Even without the bloody mess that would have been ensued if the title was rated ‘M’ — it’s still pretty cool.
Sadly, the same can’t be said about Catwoman nor Sonya’s fatality. And its painful to watch…
The teaser for the remake of the 90s horror game Splatterhouse, has been released online. The game is being develop by BottleRocket Entertainment (Rise of the Kasai) who are former members of SCEA San Diego who made the cult game Mark of Kri. That alone should get people excited because the combination of both the developer and the game could be a perfect match.
While the teaser is short and barley shows any gameplay — they are defiantly sticking to the original plot. Rick Taylor’s (main character) girlfriend Jennifer is kidnapped inside a demonic mansion. And he must find her while wearing a possessed mask….yeah it’s awesome stuff!
Midway has released a video showing off three finishers from three different fighters in Mortal Kombat vs DC Universe. Before I talk about them, the first time I saw the Joker’s ‘Fatality,’ I was kind of excited what I could expect from the game. I thought the Jokers finisher had a lot of personality and maybe even one of the better moves in the Mortal Kombat series. Because of the originality of the death, I thought maybe Ed Boon would focus more on personally and humor because of the lack of blood included in the fighter.
Boy was I wrong, in the video above — you’ll be able to view the Green Lantern, Raiden and the Flash controlling the fate who they’re pitted against. On a side note — when a DC Hero finishes of his opponent off, it’s not called a ‘Fatality‘ but described as a ‘Heroic Brutality.’ (more…)
While speaking with G4, Capcom producer Yoshi Ono confirmed his upcoming fighter, Street Fighter IV is headed to the consoles “this winter.”
“We don’t want to start rumors that it’s this year, but definitely this winter…
At some point you’ll be sitting in you winter coat looking at snow out the window and right then we’ll kind of heat you up a little with some hot street fighter action.”
Just remember, when he says winter — it doesn’t necessarily mean before 2009. In fact winter doesn’t officially start until December 21, 2008 and ends on March 20, 2009.
Considering I’m in California and when I look out the window It’ll be sunny out. Street Fighter won’t really warm me up. However, what it will do to me, is make me forget how beautiful it is outside because I’ll be kicking Chun-Li’s ass!
