Capcom Hires Haunts & Combofiend

Capcom announced the hiring of Neidel “Haunts” Crisan and Peter “Combofiend” Rosas for yet to be revealed positions. The announcement took place at the Street Fighter 25th Anniversary tournament this weekend. It's been rumored since August that Combofiend has joined Capcom ever since he left compLexity.

Street Fighter X Tekken Ver. 2013 Trailer

A trailer for the 2013 update for SFxT was shown during the Street Fighter 25th Anniversary tournament that took place this weekend. The patch will go live on January 29, 2013. Further details on the patch can be found on the Capcom Unity blog.

Two New Game Play Videos for Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure HD

Jotaro vs. Dio

Polnareff vs. Iced

Street Fighter x Tekken Vita Gamescom Trailers

Super Street Fighter IV: PC Patch 1.07 Approved

Capcom has announced that the PC patch that was supposed to go live a few weeks ago has finally gotten approval and will be available next week. 1.07 will fix a number of bugs including;

• In the Car Crusher stage, a bug that made it impossible to advance has been fixed.
• Against specific characters, a bug that caused Juri to pass through her opponents when they were hit at point blank range with close standing medium punch has been fixed.
• Against specific characters, a bug that caused Dee Jay to pass through his opponents when executing close standing heavy kick super canceled into heavy Sobat Carnival has been fixed.
• Against Sagat, a bug that caused Cody's EX Bad Stone to miss when Focus Attack Lv. 3 -> Dash -> EX Bad Stone was performed has been fixed.
• In SSFIV AE, a bug where Dudley's Step Straight caused an opponent's hit animation to not operate as expected has been fixed.

Dimps to Revive The Rumble Fish Series

Siliconera has reported that Dimps, the developer for Street Fighter IV, has obtained the rights to The Rumble Fish series which they developed for Sammy Studios years ago. Their first order of business is to bring The Rumble Fish 2 back to arcades with new features including NESiCAxLive support, re-balancing, and a new double impact cancel system.

New Street Fighter X Tekken DLC Added

There are 40 new gems available, 20 for each side, and a new color palette pack. The gems for Street Fighter include a mix of anti-Pandora and vitality recoveries. While the Tekken gems help characters to Harmonize their skills. The gem packs, 10 per pack, go for $0.99 each or you can download a trial pack for free. The new color palette, the 6th of the series, adds 4 new colors for character customization and is available for free.

MVC3 Producer, Ryota Niitsuma, Working on JoJo's Bizarre Adventure HD

The producer and director of Marvel Vs. Capcom 3, Ryota Niitsuma, revealed yesterday via twitter that he is producing the HD version of JoJo's Bizarre Adventure. The updated JoJo's will feature online play with eight player lobbies and a matching system with skill points that are similar to Super Street Fighter IV. The matching system will let you choose opponents based on factors like location, skill and connection speed. Also, you can earn battle points for characters and player points for individual player strengths which will contribute to leaderboard position. The multiplayer lobby system will also be included where eight players can play at a time and the winners will be able to stay within the lobby, while the losers will be placed into spectator mode. Users will also be able save fight replays and share them with other players.

The game will be released on the Playstation 3 on August 21st and the X-Box 360 on August 22nd for $19.99.

BlazBlue: Chrono Phantasma Announced

This past weekend, Arc System Works announced a new BlazBlue game is in the works. The game is a sequel to Continuum Shift instead of just another variant. A number of changes have been introduced including an Overdrive system which sounds similar to the X-Factor from Marvel Vs Capcom 3, character's stances have been completely re-drawn, Gold Bursts have been removed in favor of Overdrives, but Green Bursts remain, & a Crush Trigger has been added to break an opponent's guard stance. Along with these new changes, three new characters have been introduced. They are Amane, Bullet and Azrael.

BlazBlue: CP will be released this winter in Japanese arcades with a console release coming some time in 2013. Information on move sets and other tweaks can be found at Dustloop & Shoryuken.