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It looks like Capcom has managed to pack just about everythingeverinto their upcoming title,Nazo Waku Yataka. There’s a DJ scratching mini-game (seen at 1:19), a voice command-based kendo battle (seen at 1:51), little kids swearing in Japanese (seen at 2:09), an American-stereotype with a flame beard swearing in English (seen at 2:23), a cat man (seen at 2:46), creepy crotch shots (seen at 2:54), and shout-out to the classic survival horror seriesClock Tower(seen at 3:09)....

Can you feel the heat? That’s from Capcom’s mobile gaming explosion! At CAPTIVATE, Capcom was promoting a few of their mobile titles, includingDead Rising;Resident Evil: Genesis;Devil May Cry;Mega Man III;Who Wants to Be A Millionaire 2009; andStreet Fighter II. Yes,Street Fighter IIon a mobile phone. I picked it up and tried it out, and while it was as difficult to play as it sounds in theory, I was able to toss a few fireballs before losing miserably....

Burried inthis official press releasefor Nintendo’s E3-killing press conference is a little nugget of sprite-based gold that got me so happy, I actually gave my computer monitor the thumbs-up.Cave Story, the totally free 2D action/platformer, is making the jump to retail release on WiiWare sometime before 2009. At least, that’s what I’m inferring NoA means by “Holiday 2008”. Not only that, but the port will receive some new stuff, the details of which remain unknown....

Back in February,Cave Storycreator Daisuke ‘Pixel’ Amaya, revealed that he was hard at work on a new game tentatively titledRockfish, for iOS. It features the same visual style of its predecessors and follows the adventures of the (tentatively) titular Rockfish. It has since come to our attention that Amaya is keeping adiary of sortsas development for the title progresses. Pixel is taking care to listen to fans’ suggestions fromCave Story. For instance, he’s implemented the ability to create up to three save files, as opposed toStory‘s one file restriction....

Microsoft’s presentation at CES lacked flash and spirit. But that doesn’t mean it didn’t have some merit. One of the first things revealed by Robbie Bach is quite important for those entrenched in the Xbox 360’s New Xbox Experience. Xbox Live Primetime and its initial game show “1 vs. 100” will debut this spring. Tragically, it appears as though Bob Saget won’t be making a virtual appearance in “1 vs. 100....

With all of the excitement surroundingShadow Complex, I think most of us had forgotten Chair Entertainment was working on an adaptation ofEnder’s Gamefor digital distribution outlets. Little other than an emphasis on the fiction’s Battle Room was known about the project, and there’s a reason for that. While Chair “had an amazing design” forEnder’s Game, studio co-founder Donald Mustard told Joystiq, “one of Epic’s primary objectives is to create original and unique franchises....

As of yesterday, Xbox 360 owners can further explore the world of Double Fine’sCostume Questwith the game’s “Grubbins on Ice” downloadable content. PlayStation 3 trick or treaters will have to wait a bit longer for this downloadable delight — the content will hit PlayStation Network on December 21. This was confirmed by THQ after Destructoid’s Colette Bennett told me she couldn’t use the Xbox Live code for the content that the publisher provided for review....

Crush 3D(based off theunder-appreciated PSP title) isn’t the first 3DS game to beeither delayed,sentenced to a slow death, orevaporatedin the wake of the console’s inability to meetNintendo’s initial sales estimates. However, it is the first game who’s developers are willing to come right out and say that they’re waiting for more people to buy the console before they launch their game. At least, that’s whatour buddies at GoNintendohave derived from this quote fromCrushdeveloper Paul Mottram -“…now we’re finding that everyone is not knowing what platform is going to succeed – we did our first 3DS title – we got Crush onto that, but we had to delay the release of that because of the success of the platform....

Dance: It’s Your Stageis to make its début on September 30 for PlayStation 3, Wii and PC. Now, I would talk about how anyone buying this game is probably just doing it to trim some fat, but thatcard has already been playedso let’s actually take a look at what this game is offering dance fans. Dance: It’s Your Stagewill offer support for the PlayStation Move, Wii Balance Board, Xbox 360 controller and even a dance mat (those last two are for the PC version)....

If you want to buy the PS3 version of Sony Online Entertainment’s latest MMO,DC Universe Online, you no longer have to go out to the store to get a copy. The title has now been added to the PlayStation Store where it’s available for $59.99. When I got my copy ofDC Universe Onlinewithin a few days of release, there were already 1.3 gigs of content that needed to be downloaded from the servers....

For helping make point-and-click adventure games popular again and for single-handedly proving that episodic gaming could be a successful and creatively fresh way of releasing videogames, I will always love Telltale Games. The company could call me up and ask me to somehow impregnate them, and I would happily agree. Sure, the process would be confusing and messy, but little Chadtale Sammax Threepwood would be one cute,Loom-lovingkid, I’ll tell you that right now....

As regular readers will know, we like to ask the developers we chat with about videogame stories, especially as many of us are RPG fans and like to see games tackle interesting narrative. Naturally, withVeneticahaving quite an interesting premise, I asked creative directer Jan Klose how important story is, not only to his game, but videogames in general. “Gameplay and plot go hand in hand,” said Klose ofVenetica. “here is one linear main story but there are also dozens of side quests plus a very open level architecture that lets you explore lots of secrets along your way....

I’m going to go ahead and warn you guys: this video is from last year’s E3, and is, more or less, the only footage ofQuantic Dream‘sHeavy Rain. Actually, let me clarify that its not even game footage, but an elaborate and sexy tech demo. I’m working off of the assumption thatHeavy Rainhas been under most of your collective radars as it has been mine. There’s also a teaser poster availble (a huge replica of which is hanging in Quantic’s offices in northwestern Paris), but it doesn’t reveal much, either....