Nintendo Wii, Playstation 3, Xbox 360
Wii Can’t Handle The Evil!
The hype on Resident Evil 5 keeps increasing since there is still more information that everyone, save for the developers, do not know. However, in a recent interview Masachika Kawata, Resident Evil 5’s producer, informed fans that the game would not be coming to the Wii, at least not for a long while. The stated reason for this was that the Wii can’t handle the game’s title screen, let alone the game itself. This seems a little harsh, considering the Wii is not as underpowered as many would think.
The Street Fighter scene is ramping up this winter with plenty of anticipation surrounding its upcoming titles. Much overdue, 2008 and 2009 may mark a revival for not just the Street Fighter franchise, but for the entire 2D fighting game genre. Capcom has been dishing out announcement after announcement for their two front runners, Street Fighter IV and Super Street Fighter II Turbo HD Remix. If you’ve been out of the loop for the past couple of weeks, here’s some of the top tidbits you may have missed!
Games aren’t cheap to make nowadays. Ask anyone on the street and they’ll tell you that these fancy graphics don’t pay for themselves. They take boatloads of money. Companies need a whole harbor of cash to make a decent game. So what if it flops? All that money vanishes and the company hides in the shadows as the CEO threatens to can every last person on staff, LucasArts style. We’ve already seen Capcom take steps to ensure their own security, by announcing that they are 
Resident Evil fans have had their eye on the fifth installment of the series since its debut announcement over three years ago. More recent information from earlier this month has fans both fired up and puzzled: the lack of the traditional typewriter save system is out, an optional new control scheme named “D-Type” has been added and, finally, the addition of a new character, Excella Gionne and long time Resident Evil badass Albert Wesker. Let’s take a reassuring look at some of these changes.
When we last left Mega Man, he had just defeated Dr.Wily for the eighth time in his long-decorated career as a boy robot. He could slide, charge his Mega Buster until he was all flashy, and attach himself to his robot dog to grant him the gift of flight. What has changed since all of that happened? For starters, Capcom took a class in minimalism and learned that less is more.
With titles like Arcana Hearts and Battle Phantasia finding publication in North America, there’s a growing hope for fans that more doujin soft (independently made video games) and other Japanese fighting games might make their way stateside. Unlike in the States, fighters are still big business in Japan. Crack your knuckles, ’cause here’s a taste of the best of what you’ve been missing!
It happens all of the time. A company gets a huge hit for a video game and they can’t wait to make the same kind of money again as soon as possible. So they release a “new” game that hardly changes anything and isn’t really worth the plastic it’s covered in. Let’s just review a few of these and how their name is now tarnished thanks to all-too-ambitious developers sucking the well of a great game dry by coming out with too many sequels (make that suk-quels).
Ever since the announcement that the 5th installment of Capcom’s hit franchise Resident Evil would be set in Africa, I knew there would be trouble. With the trailer filled with images of black Africans carrying rakes, causing violence, and being shot: it played out pretty much exactly as I expected…