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Capcom Deputy Head of Consumer Games Development Yoshinori Ono gave a tiny speech before the Ultra Street Fighter IV finals at the EVO 2014 championships today. Ono jokingly apologized for Street Fighter still being at Ultra while the Tekken series is currently at number 7. He went on to say that Capcom are planning the advancement of the Street Fighter series, and asked the crowd for their patience

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Activisions ownership of the Crash Bandicoot franchise is cause of no small measure of chagrin for many PlayStation fans, as the publisher has proven reluctant to actually do something relevant with one of the beloved franchises that carried Sonys platforms to their current popularity. Yet, the house of Call of Duty can't sit on Crash forever without using it.

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CCC Says: "While news of the Xbox Ones demise has been greatly exaggeratedis its future truly safe? We are about to roll the clock over exactly one year since the launch of the next-gen consoles. Needless to say, Sony and Microsoft have certainly had their ups and downs. Actually, thats exactly how its been. The PlayStation 4 has consistently ridden out the up side of the equation, while One has occupied the down. None of us anticipated this time last year that Sony would have such a strangle hold on the console market so soon. Yet, the PS4 continues to outsell its Xbox One counterpart over 2:1. To date, the PS4 has shipped closer to six million units (while the Xbox clocks in at around three million). This led to speculation earlier in the year that Microsoft may finally consider pulling the plug on its video game experiment for good."

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Winner of Make Something Unreal Live 2013 and Game of the Year of Swedish Game Awards 2013

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OnlySP: West Games Areal Kickstarter has been in the spotlight lately due to some people questioning the authenticity of the project. Areal, which is claiming to be a spiritual successor to the beloved STALKER franchise, made by West Games, who claim to be former STALKER developers, has come under fire regarding art, assets, team resumes, the low funding goal, and the right to claim spiritual succession of STALKER. Despite all these floating issues, some of which are settled, some of which are still being resolved, Areal appears to be a fascinating project. We decided to chat with West Games about survival, Metamorphite, and the inevitable comparisons to STALKER.

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We don't fully understand Independence Day over here in the UK. Something about aliens and wasted tea I believe. Please enjoy it nonetheless, our dear American readers. In any case, it seems like the perfect day for playing a spot of the newly-released Monster Hunter Freedom Unite for iOS. An updated port of the PSP classic, this version has an online multiplayer upgrade to play with pals. Livi...

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Is Orcs Must Die Unchained a multiplayer online battle arena? Ian Fischer, design director at Robot Entertainment, has grudgingly accepted that the term might be inescapable. "When we first started working on the game," he said, "if you could take a time machine back two years, 'MOBA' never would have come out of our mouths. If we were explaining it, we would say, 'It's like playing two games of Orcs Must Die simultaneously' or 'It's like Orcs Must Die but now you get to do the offensive side too.' The game that we compared it to the most at that point was TF2. 'Think about TF2 but more strategic,' that's how we'd describe the game."

But at a certain point, it became clear that players saw the game differently. "When we were getting ready to go to PAX and show the game for the first time," Fischer said, "we got two dozen people from the college down the street from our dev studio, and we didn't tell them anything. We just had them sit down and play it. They helped us immeasurably to refine our demo for PAX, but also, to a person, all two dozen of them said, 'Your game is a MOBA.' We got to a point where we were saying, 'We have to come out and tell everybody we're not a MOBA. We have to position ourselves as not being a MOBA at all,' but everybody said 'MOBA,' so at that point, it was like, why fight it? I'm not gonna spend the next year trying to convince you that it's not a MOBA. You think it's a MOBA, it's a MOBA."

Now, I'm not a big MOBA player, so I'm not in the best position to determine whether the various elements that compose Orcs Must Die Unchained make the game a MOBA or not, and in the end, I'm not sure it matters. When I got to play Unchained last week in advance of the game's beta, my feeling was that it was a more accessible game than something like . We think that with the traps, the offense, defense, the minions, the different kind of combinations of stuff in there, whether it's a MOBA or not, we're still giving you a pretty unique experience. We're still doing something that players haven't seen before."