"June 6, 2008 - Welcome to the Weekly Update Corner, a segment that patches you through to demos/updates that you might have missed throughout the week. This segment (posted every Friday) is for the busy IGN reader who always clicks on the last page of a review to read the overall comments. If you're one of the aforementioned readers, you've probably already stopped reading this, so without further ado:

Patches/Updates - A wise man once said, "If it ain't broke, don't fix it." Well, don't l..."

"In bullish mood at a press event for Ninja Gaiden II at Soho, Itagaki has just watched journalists run through Hayate's latest adventure.

After getting our hands bloody by slicing and dicing through a horde of enemies - with Itagaki nodding his approval - we sit down with the developer and ask him about Ninja Gaiden II, Devil May Cry 4 and what comes next...

Ninja Gaiden had the remix of sorts with Sigma. Can you see the series continue without you? Is that something you'd like to see h..."

"This latest version of the game will feature "Legendary Dark Knight Mode," which will apparently let you control Batman (not really) along with enhanced visualization options.

Capcom announced today details for the PC version of Devil May Cry 4. There will be a demo of the game released before the full game becomes available in Summer 2008. Devil May Cry 4 is already a hit on consoles, having shipped over 2 million copies worldwide."

"It's easy to forget that back when Devil May Cry 4 was announced, fans of the series were quick to trumpet it as a potentially system-selling classic and an exclusive feather in Sony's PS3 cap. Times change however, and as we all know Dante and Nero also made their grandstanding way over to Microsoft's Xbox 360, in due course selling more than 2 million copies and becoming a certified hit on both consoles in the process."

"Flipping the script on their traditional Play & Win funnery, Xbox.com is hosting a a brand new achievement based Achieve & Win event for the release of the upcoming movie The Forbidden Kingdom. This new Achieve & Win take on Play & Win requires you to unlock one achievement, any achievement, in Devil May Cry 4 between April 11th and the 13th. Of course, you'll have to register your gamertag first. Then, thousand of Microsoft points will be awarded to the a few randomly selected individuals wh..."

"These issues are slowly being addressed, though, as many publishers are starting to churn out multi-platform releases with an eye for the PlayStation 3. LucasArts recently announced an initiative to make the PS3 their leading platform for development, joining a growing wave of developers seeking to improve multi-platform games heading to Sony's console. With any luck, this movement will result in better performance for all gamers, Xbox 360 and PS3 alike. For now though, just enjoy fragging te..."

"At Capcom, it is our continued goal to bring our properties to multiple platforms to provide the best entertainment experiences in the next-gen gaming arena.


We hope to continue meeting and exceeding the expectations of gamers with our dedication to developing solid titles for the best gaming platforms available while increasing the gaming user base around the world."

"4. Dante and Trish - Devil May Cry Series (PS2)
If the best girl a man can find is one that reminds him of his mother, then Dante has certainly hit the jackpot. Created by the demon lord Mundus during the first game to resemble the devil hunter's mother Eva, Trish wound up developing feelings for Dante, helping him to defeat Mundus and ending up as his partner. While the fact that her feelings stem from being made in his mother's image is kind of creepy if you stop and think about it, there'..."

"TVGB writes: "Capcom just sent over an email message letting us know that since its release on January 24, the Devil May Cry 4 Xbox 360 demo has been downloaded over one million times, averaging at over 25,000 downloads a day.""

"Capcom US has responded to CVG's report yesterday that PS3 Devil May Cry 4 forces gamers to sit through a mandatory 21 minute install time - with little improvement to load times there after."

Could a link between Playstation Home and Devil May Cry have been found? Well ps3fanboy certainly think so. Whilst playing the game for a while, they've managed to unlock various Achievements on the Playstation 3 version of the game, and after unlocking these achievements the messages that appear aren't one that's internally (in the game) but one that's similar to the "Network Connection Screen".

Could this eventually be turned into "Trophies" for PS Home when it's released? Or could it s...

"Following that the opening load time on PS3 was five seconds against eight on 360. And then three seconds versus four, and four versus five seconds in following load screens, PS3 - 360. As you can see there's not much in it."

Many have wandered what Devil May Cry 4 will be like on the XBOX360, and how well it will sell. Well regardless of how good it is, it certainly isn't doing well as it's PS3 counterpart - atleast in Japan anyway. Whilst the PS3 version has sold 140,000 copies in Japan, the XBOX360 version only managed sell a megre 30,000 copies, meaning a 5:1 sell rate for the PS3:XBOX360.

How closely these ratios will match to their US/UK numbers is yet to be seen, but with more XBOX360's than PS3's things...

"Xbox 360:

Devil May Cry 4

Turok

Culdcept Saga

The Spiderwick Chronicles

Karaoke Revolution: American Idol Encore

PS3:

Devil May Cry 4

Turok

Nintendo Wii:

The Spiderwick Chronicles

Karaoke Revolution: American Idol Encore

My Horse and Me

PS2:

Twisted Metal: Head On

Karaoke Revolution: American Idol Encore

Nobunaga's Ambition: Rise to Power

The Spiderwick Chronicles

PSP:

Downstream Panic!

Nintendo DS:

Assassin's Creed: Altair's Chronicles

The Spiderwich Chronicle...

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"The North American release of the Devil May Cry anime series may have been canceled by publisher ADV Films, according to a recent report from ICv2. The report, which indicates a broad number of domestic cancellations on ADV's part, including the Devil May Cry series, has since been pulled from the site, but is still available via Google Cache. Despite being announced in December for a February 5 release, absolutely no references to Devil May Cry currently exist on ADV Films' web site."

"This week’s new content update sees the likes of PixelJunk Monsters and Jet Moto arriving as full downloadable games in the US, while Capcom fans over the pond also finally get to enjoy a little one-on-one time with the action-friendly Devil May Cry 4 demo.

Over in Europeland, downloadable games Syphon Filter: Combat Ops and Judge Dredd(?) are available, while demos arriving alongside Devil May Cry 4 include SEGA Rally Revo and PixelJunk Monsters – hopefully the full game won’t be too far ..."

"In spite of what the typical gamer believes about our industry, most of our conversations at Capcom center around exceeding gamers high expectations and not simply about maximizing the dollars we can extract from you. Satisfied customers that feel respected and valued will reward the best companies over time. It happens in every other industry and in the end the shakeout in our industry will center around customer satisfaction and value.

When we announced the Devil May Cry 4 Collector’s Ed..."

"DETAILS
Devil May Cry 4 (PS3)

• HDD install is 4900MB.
• Save files are 3392KB.
• Some variety of PSN support.
• 5.1 LPCM audio.

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"PlayStation 3 isn't the only system getting some bundle love from Capcom. Microsoft Japan announced today the Xbox 360 Devil May Cry 4 Premium Pack, a hardware bundle that combines the 360 with the latest installment of Capcom's dramatic action hack-n-slasher.

The Japan-only bundle includes a Xbox 360 Standard Model, which is the Japanese version of America's Premium Pack, complete with a 20 gigabyte hard disk, wireless controller, media remote, HD AV cables and LAN cable. All hardware uni..."

"It seems like bundling games with consoles is a good idea these days (Look at the Wii and Wiisport in America, or Wiiplay and its extra controller). Well, Capcom wants to get a piece of it, and today, the boxart for the console bundle in Japan has been revealed. Now the white one looks sexy!"

"The first and the third Devil May Cry games were the best received in the series, and a lot of people particularly like the third one. What did you want to achieve with Devil May Cry 4?

One of the first things that we decided when we were just planning out the game was that we would definitely have a new main character in the game. We definitely wanted to have a new hero. We also wanted to have this kind of like, changing of the baton or passing the torch; that you would be able to switch ..."

"Obviously you're coming up on completion of the title. If you can talk about how the overall development process has been going for this, because it's the first next-generation Devil May Cry game.

Hiroyuki Kobayashi: First of all, we started the development in 2005. At that stage, they were still developing the PS3 technology, and we didn't have a lot of the PS3 resources. However, we had the MT Framework -- that's a Capcom internal next-generation engine -- so it probably was an easier st..."

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"Can you run down the Devil May Cry story for us?

Hiroyuki Kobayashi: The first three Devil May Cry came out on PS2. The hero of the game, Dante, he fights with demons, and it involves a mix of using swords and using gunplay to create kind of a new style of action game. They were games that were very well respected in the industry.

Being that this is the first Devil May Cry game on an Xbox system, what kind of power do the new consoles give you to put your vision down for the Devil May ..."

"Japanese developer and publisher Capcom has stepped forth today to inform fans that a free playable downloadable game demo will hit the PlayStation Store and Xbox Live in early 2008."

"Capcom® Entertainment, a leading worldwide developer and publisher of video games, today announced the contents of the Devil May Cry® 4 Collector’s Edition package, which includes volume 1 of ADV Films’ Devil May Cry: The Animated Series, a Steelbook™ case and a bonus DVD filled with extras. The $79.99 Devil May Cry 4 Collector’s Edition will be available February 5, 2008, for both the PLAYSTATION®3 computer entertainment system and the Xbox 360® video game and entertainment system from Micro..."

"Capcom have announced that Devil May Cry 4 will be released for the Xbox 360 and Playstation 3 in February 2008.

The highly anticipated Devil May Cry 4 immerses gamers in a gothic supernatural world, where a new protagonist clashes with series mainstay Dante. As new leading man Nero players will be able to unleash incredibly powerful and stylish attacks and non-stop combos using a combination of the Devil Bringer arm and the Exceed system, both of which are new gameplay mechanics for the s..."

"1. (1 / 1) Dragon Quest IX NDS Square Enix
2. (2 / 2) Final Fantasy XIII PS3 Square Enix
3. (3 / 3) Biohazard 5 PS3 Capcom
4. (4 / 4) Metal Gear Solid 4 PS3 Konami
5. (6 / 6) Monster Hunter 3 Wii Capcom
6. (5 / 5) Super Smash Bros. Brawl Wii Nintendo
7. (7 / 7) Dragon Quest VI NDS Square Enix
8. (8 /10) Dragon Quest IV NDS Square Enix
9. (12/ 9) Lost Odyssey Xbox 360 Microsoft
10. (11/14) Final Fantasy IV NDS Square Enix
11. (9 / 8) Shin Sangoku Musou 5 PS3 Koei
12. (14/20) Dragon..."

"Trish, Lady, The meeting in Dante's office, and Dante with new Beowulf-like weapon!
Hot off the presses, pre TGS Famitsu scans. Sorry for the low quality, that's all there is right now."

"Capcom has put out a fresh batch of piping hot box art for us to judge, including highly anticipated games such as Devil May Cry 4, Zack & Wiki: Quest for Barbaros' Treasure and Harvey Birdman: Attorney At Law. Obviously, you can see Nero sporting his fancypants glowstick hand above, but the rest of box art fun continues after the break."

"Capcom has announced that next week's Leipzig Games Convention will mark the global debut of Devil May Cry for the Microsoft Xbox 360. The event will also be used to showcase the PlayStation 3 version.

Visitors to the event in Germany will be able to play as Nero, the new character in what is the franchise's second sequel (Devil May Cry 3 being a prequel of course). Gamers’ favourite Dante has been shifted aside to make room for the new silver-haired protagonist and his "Devil Bringer" pow..."

"Capcom’s Hiroyuki Kobayashi took questions in a recent interview talking about the PS3 development and the decision to go multi-platform with Devil May Cry 4.

He denied in every facet of the situation that the reason to go multi-platform with Devil May Cry 4 and other games was because the development process of the PS3 was too difficult.

He stated that the PS3 is not hard to develop for at all and stated that the reason to go multi-platform made more sense. It was with an operational g..."

"Day one of Comic-Con is never actually a full day. Each year, show organizers in San Diego open the doors for three hours the night before everything officially starts. That means you can find empty and partially-built booths mixed amongst fans and fully-functioning booths. We spent the time tracking down this year's game-related stuff on display.

Given the timing of this year's show (with E3 just a few weeks earlier), many publishers at Comic-Con decided to show the same versions of the g..."

"Keiji Inafune: Until now it’s been hard for us to develop multi-platform games, but recently we have developed this development engine that allows us to develop a game in the engine and then put it on to PS3 and 360.

Developing Dead Rising and Lost Planet helped flush out everything in the development tool system – which is now pretty much complete, aside from the usual upgrades – so we decided to use that engine, make it for the 360 and the PS3 with Devil May Cry 4.

So, now we can get ..."

"Devil May Cry 4 has been unveiled a bit more via the presentation of 3 new characters: Agnus, Credo and Gloria."

"US, July 12, 2007 - Capcom's Gamer's Day build of Devil May Cry 4 could be the most overused disc in the history of videogame tradeshows. Yes friends, the same version of DMC4 that was on display at the Publisher's media event in April and itsAustralian press tour in June was also on hand at Capcom's Santa Monica-based Shutters hotel room."

"We all know how popular the Devil May Cry series is, but no installment had to face the competition the fourth DMC will face this fall. Still, that hasn't stopped Capcom from thinking optimistically...very optimistically.

During Capcom's 2007 Fiscal Year results meeting, Director and Managing Corporate Officer, Kazuhiko Abe, predicted that Devil May Cry 4 will sell 1.8 million copies worldwide. Now, that's a big number. How big? Well, they expect the recently released Resident Evil 4 for t..."

"1. Dante is not just an unlockable character.
2. Dante won’t be the only returning Devil May Cry character.
3. Nero won’t be getting new weapons
4. The Devil Trigger could return
5.DMC4 will be universally the same difficulty
6. Devil May Cry 4 will be identical on PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360
7. Sixaxis Am Cry
“There are currently no plans to support the Sixaxis controller” Kobayashi states.
8. No online multiplayer
9. No New Devil May Cry Demo At E3"

"Devil May Cry 4 producer Hiroyuki Kobayashi has at last spoken out following Capcom's decision to make its big PS3 exclusive multiplatform. Fittingly, Famitsu's all Xbox 360 publication, Famitsu Xbox 360, was the recipient of Kobayashi's most recent comments on the game.

Kobayashi was first asked to comment on how DMC4 became a multiplatform title. "Devil May Cry is an extremely strong name overseas," explained the producer, "so there was of course the business decision that we couldn't ex..."

"Hiroyuki Kobayashi, the producer of the title, was on hand to fill in more details about the upcoming game, which sounds like it will be much larger than any of the previous titles in the series. He started by introducing Nero once again, a young man from the town of Fortuna who belongs to a group of devil hunters known as the Order of the Sword. Nero is a unique member of the organization thanks to his weaponry and abilities. Instead of packing twin pistols like Dante, Nero's sidearm is a do..."

Gametrailers have a new set of videos available for the upcoming PS3 and Xbox 360 title, Devil May Cry 4. In this video we can see the character Nero approach a frozen ruined castle, as he approaches he is attacked by some Ice creatures and in game footage of him fighting the beasts is shown, looks very promising and seems to follow a similar play style of the 3rd game in the series. There are several other impressive looking videos so check out the source for those.