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Namco Bandai is bringing the fight to the San Diego Comic-Con. The company will be holding a fighting game panel at the convention showcasing some of their upcoming titles.
"Microsoft updated their Xbox LIVE Games on Demand service this morning by adding two new games from distinctly different genres. One is a 3D fighting game featuring weapons and guest characters from the Star Wars films. The other is the the latest in the long-line of World War II shooters to grace game consoles."
"As we reported yesterday, Sony is adding new games to the "Greatest Hits" collection. However, Sony has now confirmed that there are ten games getting added and not just the five that were showin in the Wal-Mart flyer. Expect to start seeing the fancy new red boxes and $29.99 prices at retailers in the next couple of weeks."
This week only, Amazon.com is again offering "Buy 2 Xbox 360 Games, Get 1 Free" promotion. There's more than 35 Xbox 360 games eligible for this promotion including Fallout 3, Soul Caliber IV, Fable II Platinum Hits, Halo 3, Street Fighter IV, Ninja Gaiden II, Grand Theft Auto IV, Oblivion IV and many others.
Walmart.com put on sale Soul Calibur IV for Xbox 360 for $15.82. That's 50% lower than regular retail price ($30). Shipping for the game is free as well.
"Here are the top ten best-selling titles for Namco Bandai during the 2008-2009 fiscal year. The biggest omission from the list is Tales of Vesperia for the Xbox 360.
1. Soul Calibur IV
System(s): Playstation 3 and Xbox 360
Region(s): Asia, Europe, Japan and United States
Total Sales: 2,320,000 units
2. Active Life Outdoor Challenge
System(s): Nintendo Wii
Region(s): Europe, Japan and United States
Total Sales: 1,030,000 units
3. We Ski
System(s): Nintendo Wii
Region(s): Europ..."
Fans of hand-held consoles will be pleased to hear this news. Tekken 6 and Soul Calibur are coming to the Playstation Portable.
Both games will have multiplayer support and heavy character customization. The Soul Calibur game is very similar to SCIV, but won't be a direct port.
"Today, 31st December 2008, is the seventh day of Christmas; which means Electronic Theatre now presents to you the seventh instalment of The Twelve Games of Christmas! A new feature series aiming to highlight some of the greatest achievers of 2008, The Twelve Games of Christmas takes one month worth of disc-based releases each day, from the corresponding month of the year, and delivers the best titles for you to snap-up in those January sales!"
A nice quick and to the point write up from Primotech that includes all the winners from the show on top of some random news blips (such as Pearl Jam's full album Ten coming to Rock Band, Brutal Legend confirmed for 2009, GTAIV DLC trailer, Gears 2 maps coming, Fight Night Round 4 coming 2009). See quote for full list of winners, go to source to see some more news from the event.
""Even after hearing the quote from director Katsutoshi Sasaki on the matter of Vader/Yoda:
"we don't have any plans for that"
I still said, "no, they will rip you off", and so it has happened. Being right all the time isnt always a great thing.""
"High Voltage Software have today officially announced that their Wii-exclusive First-Person Shooter, The Conduit, has been scored by famed composer Diego Stocco.
Diego Stocco's music sound design credits include movies such as Transformers, Resident Evil: Extinction, Crank, Jumper, Lady in the Water, and videogame soundtracks for Justice League Heroes and Soul Calibur IV. His commercial credits include Nokia, Samsung, Panasonic, BMW and General Motors.
Working with Diego was such an en..."
The developers of Soul Calibur IV are proud because the game hit the multi-platinum milestone in global sales in less than two weeks. Since the launching of this game on July 29, Namco Bandai said that SC IV has shipped more than 2 million units for the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 around the globe.
Soul Calibur 4 is being acclaimed a critical success at the moment, its reviews giving it 9's and 10's all over the globe. But Namco are about to make the same mistake they made with Ace Combat 6 and Beautiful Katamari, quite frankly, crappy Downloadable content.
Just around a week from its release and already 3 items are up in the marketplace and PSN Store, some lousy extra gear and some downloadable music from the original game. Not only does such a quick release indicate these could hav...
The first-day sales for the most recently-released games in Japan are in, and you may be surprised with the results...
The PSP Action-RPG Phantasy Star Portable and the DS's Rhythm Heaven Gold had the highest first-day sales, selling well over 150k copies respectively.
Soul Calibur IV sold 56k on the PS3 and 35k on the 360.
Surprisingly, Fatal Frame IV sold 21k with a 60% sell-through on just the first day. Retailers were cautious as to whether the survival-horror would do well with ...
Good news for anyone looking out for Soul Calibur IV and Fatal Frame IV. They are both currently the most pre-ordered console games on Amazon.co.jp this week.
It comes as no surprise that Soul Calibur IV would sell well, as the series has a solid fanbase and also recieved quite a lot of hype and press.
But it's a surprising feat for Fatal Frame IV to reach so many sales, considering the low publicity the game recieved and the sudden shift to a different console. It seemed doomed to fai...
In this multinational version of Games Releasing This Week, we'll take a look at the games coming out in the three major regions this week, featuring the US, Europe, and Japan. So, how does the last week of July fare for these areas?
US Notable Games This Week:
What appears to be the seventh new character to be added to the ranks of fighters in the new, soon to come Soul Calibur IV game, has made an appearance (presumably, she'll appear on both the PS3 and 360 console versions). She doesn't show as much skin as some of the other characters, but that is just fine.
Personally, I don't find her as cool, or visually appealing as Ashlotte, or many of the other female characters, but she is attractive enough.
The guest artist Hirokazu Hisayuki, has...
"However thanks to a podcast made by 1UP the rumor was quickly smashed , stating that Kratos will be absent from Namcos upcoming game. But, there still is the strong possible that he could be included in future planned downloadable content."
Ubisoft has revealed some exclusive pre-order deal plans for Soul Calibur IV, to be released late next month/early August (depending where you live).
If you order from Play.com, an exclusive face plate comes with all Xbox 360 versions of the game; MSRP is £39.99 including free delivery. If you go with GAME, you get an an exclusive bonus DVD and art booklet in a steel book for the same price. The latter deal applies to both console versions.
"- game feature dizzy : getting hit into walls makes you dizzy.
- game feature guard impact : opponent will fall during guard impact.
- game feature instant impact : when opponent attacks during guard impact.
- armor bar : keep blocking, bar becomes red, and eventually blue.
- soul impact : attack until opponent's health meter is red, then make opponent block -or- you can initiate with a guard impact.
- soul impact : when opponent is soul impacted, enter the heavy finish command to ex..."
The annual E3 Media & Business Summit, known as E3 is coming up soon between 15-17 July. There will be new games and announcements, but that's not all! Major game producers will be spreading big news, so be sure to take a look.
Gamespot have listed the games they're most anticipating and what will be seen at E3. The list includes the following: "Lego Batman", "Resident Evil 5", "Resistance 2", "Saints Row 2", "Soulcalibur IV", "Spore" (yes Spore!)... see the source for more.
If Soul Calibur IV fans were hoping the Star Wars characters would remain a small part of the game, then you should probably turn away now.
Here is the Japanese box-art for Soul Calibur IV and, yep, there's Darth Vader and Yoda smack-bang in the middle.
Discuss in the forum
Yep, it ain't just Yoda and Darth Vader anymore in the upcoming Soul Calibur title. Namco Bandai dropped another bomb today, revealing the "Secret Apprentice," the main character in the (also) upcoming Star Wars: The Force Unleashed will be featured, this one being in both versions. Talk about pimpage.
PlayStation Universe analyzed the newest trailer from Soul Calibur IV and found some interesting stuff. They found a new character during the middle of the trailer, and there is a screenshot of him below. Rumors are that his name is either Mars, or Soul Edge reborn. They also found destructible armor and clothing in clips, where their armor or clothing rips or becomes destroyed, especially with the female characters.
Many fans would have noticed that most of the female characters in Soul Calibur IV have had a 'chest upgrade', and now it has been revealed that character's armor will also destructible. Yes, if you hit an opponent hard enough, expect their clothing to go flying!
Does anyone get the impression that Soul Calibur IV trying to compete with the Dead or Alive series?
[Discuss in the Soul Calibur IV forum]
Japanese magazine "Ultra Jump" has revealed a new character for Soul Calibur 4.
She was designed by guest artist Oogure Ito (Oh!Great), famous for his Tenjou Tenge and Air Gear mangas.
This 19 year old girl's name is Ashlotte Meideru and she wields a great axe. The scan reveals her to be a mechanical "execution doll", made by the wicked Protestantism group, to destroy Astaroth for his betrayal.
Little else is known about her character at the moment.
She's certainly an interesting a...
"Yes. Shocking. For your submission, the above picture, showing Soul Calibur's Ivy as she's depicted on the game's official website. On the left, how she appears on the Japanese site. On the right? How she appears on the American site. This will not go down well with die-hard fans, Namco Bandai. They're not in this for the swordplay."
"Outside of online play, one of the biggest tangents of discussion around Soul Calibur IV has been Darth Vader and Yoda as playable guest characters. Such inclusions are not new to the Soul Calibur franchise Soul Calibur II had Link, Heihachi and Spawn but Yoda has proven controversial, due to his extreme height advantage. The smaller they are, the harder they are to hit?
Sasaki isnt worried. The influences that Yoda will have in terms of gameplay because of his height, [is that..."
"Following yesterday's announcement that the original Soul Calibur will be making an appearance on Xbox Live Arcade, Ubisoft has announced that Soulcalibur IV will be making its way down under on July 31 on the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360.
Soulcalibur IV is the series' first foray into the next-generation domain and features an expanded roster of fighters. Those who get the game on the PlayStation 3 will have access to Star Wars supervillain Darth Vader, whereas the Xbox 360 version feature..."
"Soul Calibur IV is in development for PS3 and 360. It will feature a fancy Critical Finisher system where you can instantly kill an opponent if you manage to empty their Soul Gauge two times in a row; this fills up when attacking but decreases when defending."
1Up drops the latest Soul Calibur IV bomb by confirming that two of the most iconic Star Wars characters will be playable in Namco Bandai's forthcoming PlayStation 3 (and Xbox 360!) weapons-based brawler. Apparently Namco Bandai has made nice with LucasArts to give Darth Vader and Yoda the SCIV makeover, ready to layeth the smackdown in the age of exploration. The lightsaber-wielding, Force-totin' badasses might seem out of place in the world of Soul Calibur, but hopefully they won't be mak...
"What's changed this time round is that the next-gen platforms have network infrastructure already in place," commented Soul Calibur IV's director Katsutoshi Sasaki while chatting with EGM magazine."We've heard from fans that they really want the game to be online, so we figured that, with the current environment, we really couldn't make SC4 without online play.""
![Box shot of Soul Calibur IV [North America]](http://i.neoseeker.com/boxshots/R2FtZXMvWGJveF8zNjAvQWN0aW9uL0ZpZ2h0aW5n/soul_calibur_iv_frontcover_small_xBaoI8hresdwEka.jpg)