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Milestone Interactive, in a press release today, has revealed that along with the standard edition of Street Fighter IV, they will also be bringing the Collector’s Edition for the Indian fans of Street Fighter IV. Priced at a hefty Rs. 4999, the discerning gamer can expect to add quite a few number of goodies in his Street Fighter collection. The standard as well as the collector’s edition are expected to hit the Indian shelves on 20th Feb. Hit the jump to read the full press release.
Before the screen-filling Supers, before the dozen-hit air combos, before the EX Specials and parry system – Street Fighter II, the successful and iconic fighting game franchise that practically kick started the genre of the very same, was all about just that: fighting. With a few Hadoukens and Spinning Bird kicks thrown in for good measure, of course. Which is why it comes as no surprise that series pioneer Capcom decided to pluck their latest revision of said franchise and give it a much-loved paint job for both old and new fans to digitally download to their new-fangled video game consoles. Super Street Fighter II Turbo HD Remix is certainly that, but so much more than a simple “paint job”.
Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, in association with Indian distributor juggernaut Milestone Interactive, The Angry Pixel is confused, tired, but proud to present the Street Fighter IV Launch Center. Forged by the artistic genius of Bobby Sandhu with the power of his cosmic-charged hammer of artistic craftiness, the SFIV Launch Center marks the start of yet another new initiative the TAP crew has been fiddling around with for some time now. For the next month or so, we’ll be talking about the game’s latest happenings, special feature articles geared towards both newbies and oldbies of the series, an exclusive interview with the producer Yoshinori Ono (It’s even in English!) and a sweet contest giveaway that can net you some serious Street Fighter swag. All this, plus our in-depth review on Street Fighter IV for the Xbox 360 and Playstation 3 platforms.
So head over to the Launch Center and start smothering yourselves in anticipation. It’s a long wait, but we’ll be there to keep you company.
This one came straight out of the blue. The ANGRY Pixel’s community manager, Jay Patel, while trawling through his usual hangouts at nV News Forums, came upon this thread claiming that PC version of Dark Sector has been released in Russia! Frantic Google searches did not turn up anything on any of the major gaming websites. Quick scan through the thread seems to confirm the fact that the game indeed is out in Russia while rest of the world has no clue about it. Have a look at the thread for screenshots of the installation process as well as the YouTube video that shows off the PC gameplay. Major bummer though that the game chose to go with StarForce protection system.
In today’s Hindustan Times’ City section, while Amitabh Bachchan bashes Slumdog Millionaire, another story, craftily titled “Ghajini Shocker” grabs your attention. You’d think it was about the Ghajini video game and how the Army was called in to nuke every last copy of this game, but no – sadly, no dice here. The article talks about how violence in the film has traumatically affected people – kids and their parents included. The article goes on to say that several parents were shocked and upset that Aamir Khan “disappointed” them, after his nice, kids-friendly role in Taare Zameen Par, set such high standards!
Well, we’re not a gossip rag or Bollywood blog, but the parallels to gaming are drawn yet again. Parents need to respect and understand the concept of ratings on film, music and games and restrict what comes to their kids. The same stands true for retailers and stronger enforcement is needed to make this happen. Blaming video games for violence isn’t the issue here – publishers appropriately rate a product for the age group it is intended for and this needs to be understood and implemented by parents, lawyers and retailers.
It absolutely annoys me to read how everyone takes the moral high-ground as soon as something like this happens or a whiney kid gets upset when they see a movie or play a video game, their parents knew wasn’t meant for them. How to deal with this menace of violent video games you ask? Here’s a TAP-TIP: RTFR. Yes, that’s “Read The Fucking Rating”. Can’t possibly get easier than that now, can it? So the next time your child knows that kids at school are not intended to be meat-shields.
Lost your Biohazard aka Resident Evil 5 demo leached off that fake Japanese GT once Microsoft caught on? Well, fret not because soon you will be getting your very own shiny new demo for Resident Evil 5 without any worries about Microsoft corrupting it any time soon.
In a news release, Capcom says that a two-level demo will be releasing exclusively on the Xbox 360 on January 26th along with a new trailer on Jan 16th. Check out the press release after the jump.
While Microsoft has managed to wow one and all with the all new NXE update, one of its features is still wallowing in the good old days of LIVE on the original Xbox: the 100 friend limit. While everything on Xbox LIVE has jumped on the current-gen bandwagon, we are still stuck with a friend list limit that has us constantly juggling around friend requests.
Thankfully, Xbox director, Aaron Greenberg has confirmed to Joystiq that they are definitely looking into it and hopefully, we will soon see an increase in the friend list limit. While refusing to commit any dates, he goes on to explain that how the friend list limit was designed for the older Xbox games but now, by being integrated with Xbox LIVE, it will be easier to implement changes.
For now, we will have to be content with micro-managing our friend list.
While leafing through the current issue of Business Today (January 25, 2009 edition), we came across a small piece on the reach of gaming in India, as compared to that of Bollywood music and movies. According to the article, a survey by Nielsen Company across 52 countries, one of which happened to be India, revealed some interesting facts. The survey states that while the West is a heavy user of gaming consoles, “television sets” still rule in India. Strangely though, the article goes on to state, “Fancy video-handsets, and, therefore, gamers are far fewer in number (in India)”. All we can make out from the preceding sentence is that the writer is referring to high-end mobile phones when she talks about “fancy video-handsets” but how does low penetration of high-end cell phones translates into lesser number of gamers is something that boggles the mind.
A tad late to the party but as they say, better late than never! With so many Game of the Year’s sprouting all over the Interwebz, it can get pretty daunting to keep track of the good stuff. Fret not for we, at the ANGRY pixel, take the pains of sifting through the banal and mediocre so that you can enjoy content that if offbeat and entertaining. Quite unsurprising then, that BossFight, one of the few Indian gaming blogs that we enjoy reading, has come up with their own GOTY 2008.
Besides the obvious categories, you will stumble across gems such as “Best Indian Game That Was Never Made” which could have featured our South Superstar Rajnikanth! Thankfully, they decided not to elaborate upon “Mortal Kombat vs. Tamil Movie Universe”. And while you are there, take a look at the “Most Tedious Installation Award”. If variety is not the spice of your life, you can very well entertain yourself with GOTY for the DS, PSP, Xbox 360…you know, the usual.
Show your appreciation by leaving a comment. After all, these guys are the one to be credited with coming up with the first ever Indian GOTY in mainstream press. Two thumbs up from the TAP team!
Ghajini. A name that’s been in the media spotlight for quite some time now, whether it’s fans swooning over Aamir’s new butch look in the movie or whether its Destructoid that splashed it on the front page much to the chagrin of Indian gamers who were hoping that this one dies a quiet death without being noticed. Based on a Hindi movie, which in turn is based on a Tamil film of the same name, which in turn is “inspired” by Christopher Nolan’s masterpiece “Memento”, Ghajini – The Game is purportedly India’s first 3D game, and joy to the world, it’s based on a Bollywood big-ticket movie! Please, don’t even get me started on the flick, which I consider a blight on Aamir’s acting abilities; a movie on which I wasted two precious hours of my life. I sure wish someone clobbered me over the head with an iron rod so that I would forget everything that happened after I decided to watch the bloody film! But then, this article isn’t about the movie.