Sony unveiled a partial list of playable games to be shown at the Tokyo Game Show later this month including at least five unannounced games.
Houston, we've got playable games. The Sony booth is also said to feature gameplay videos of more than 50 different PS3 games in addition to a testing area for the console's latest firmware update.
The incomplete list of playable games are as follows:
Capcom, developer and publisher of the Resident Evil franchise, today saw its shares hit a five-year high, closing at 2,855 yen (approx $25) on the Tokyo Stock Exchange.
Bloomberg reports that this was the highest close for the company since September 26, 2002, and that the climb was due to "expectation sales," meaning the assumption that upcoming Capcom Wii games will boost earnings. Capcom expects annual sales to rise 11 percent after doubling the number of its Wii titles to six.
The Osaka-based company's stock has risen 14 percent in the last two days alone, totalling a 33 percent gain in the last year, compared to an 8.8 percent decline in the benchmark Topix index.
Capcom was founded in 1979 and has published franchises including the Resident Evil (Biohazard in Japan), Devil May Cry, and Phoenix Wright series, along with critically acclaimed titles, including Okami, from its now defunct Clover Studio.
Several weeks back, Capcom Digital kicked off a community voting process in which gamers could suggest potential unlockable Achievements for the Xbox Live Arcade version of Super Street Fighter II Turbo HD Remix. After sifting through the mountain of submissions, Capcom today launched the official vote, presenting seven potential Achievement options to choose from, which are:
Beat Akuma (Arcade Mode)
Win with every character in an Online Ranked Match
5 Perfect Rounds in Ranked Online Matches
5 Perfect Rounds in Story Mode (Any difficulty level)
Defeat an opponent in under 15 seconds, Arcade Mode
Perform a 7-hit combo or higher (any mode, including training
Defeat Sagat with Ryu's Fierce Dragon Punch (any mode)
Voting will take place at the Capcom-unity forum (registration required to vote) until October 1st, when the winning Achie... More »
Will the trade shows please end?! Tokyo Game Show picks up where Games Convention left off (which picked up where E3 left off etc) next week, with Japanese publishers said to be unleashing their big guns on the Makuhari Messe crowd.
Capcom in particular has been tipped for deployment of "three huge announcements," according to Australian site Game Player, which says it became savvy to the info at the recent Activate Asia 2007 conference in Cairns.
The site is apparently sworn to secrecy, but says the info has it "busting at the seams with excitement." Could this finally be the Dead Rising 2 news we've been waiting on, seemingly forever?
We've fired off a phone call to Capcom's UK op and unfortunately, it looks like they're all on holiday. We've left a message with their PR overlord and hopefully they'll get back to us before Wednesday.
List of PLAYSTATION®3 titles compatible with DUALSHOCK®3 in North America and Europe, as of September 20th, 2007:
The Darkness 2K Games
Enemy Territory: Quake Wars Activision
Soldier of Fortune Activision
BIOHAZARD® 5 CAPCOM
Devil May Cry® 4 CAPCOM
N-Cube Creat Studios
Warbit Creat Studios
Dark Sector D3 PUBLISHER
Turok Disney Interactive
Highlander Eidos
Kane & Lynch: Dead Men Eidos
Burnout Paradise ELECTRONIC ARTS
FIFA franchise (title name TBD) ELECTRONIC ARTS
Legendary: The Box Gamecock
To End All Wars Ghostlight
RAGE id Software
WarDevil - Unleash the Beast Within Ignition Entertainment
Dynasty Warriors 6 KOEI
Fatal Inertia KOEI
METAL GEAR SOLID 4 GUNS OF THE PATRIOTS Konami
Blacksite: Area 51 Midway
TNA Wrestling Midway
Unreal Tournament 3 Midway
Wheelman Midway
Cops (codename, title name TBD) Pyro
Planet One (coden... More »
NJ has updated his Capcom Play System 2 emulator for PSP today, which no longer requires caching any of the ROMS.. they just load directly now. Nice job!
NJ has updated both his CPS1PSP (Capcom Play System 1) and NCDZPSP (Neo-Geo CD) emulators for PSP today! Both revisions now utilize the 64MB RAM found in the PSP Slim.
High development costs on PS3 blamed for series’ defection to Nintendo console. As reported by MCV earlier today, one of a number of announcements at Nintendo’s recent press conference was that Monster Hunter 3 will be a Wii-only title – and now Capcom has explained the reasons for its change of heart.
Having previously been a PlayStation-only series, Monster Hunter 3 had previously been announced for development on PS3.
The PS2 and PSP versions of the series had to date sold over 4.5 million copies.
However, Gamesindustry reports that Capcom’s managing corporate officer Katsuhiko Ichii told Thompson Financial that: "Due to high development cost of titles for PS3, we have decided to switch the platform to which we release our Monster Hunter 3 title."
At the official Capcom boards, their Sr. Director of Strategic Planning & Research Christian Svensson replied to a comment made by a user who was less than happy about Capcom's decision of bringing Monster Hunter 3 over to the Wii. To quote:
"Capcom is losing fans. They obviously don’t care for their PS3-owner fans.
Svensson: Let’s see how they [PS3 owners] feel at the end of next week about us."
Looks like some big announcements are coming as early as next week for PS3 owners! :)
As revealed earlier on in the week, Capcom stated that over the next few days something wll be announced which will put a smile on PS3 owners face. Since then Capcom Unity, an Official Capcom blog venue has posted up a countdown which has over 2 days left to with the caption 'Prepare Yourself' visible.
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