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Lovers of martial arts, ninjas and women with abnormally large chest tumour monsters attached to them rejoice! Team Ninja has confirmed that Dead or Alive 5 will be released next year on the 360 and PS3.

Not since January 2006 has a new core instalment of the Dead or Alive fighting franchise been seen on home consoles.

At this year’s Tokyo Game Show however, Team Ninja let us know that next year we’ll see the Dead or Alive 5 on the 360 and PS3; marking some nearly seven years since the last title in the infamous fighting franchise made it’s bow on the home consoles.

Details are predictably sparse, and those who got to see were politely informed not film what they were watching or GTFO, but the teaser trailer build which appeared to be on display was pre-alpha and as such represented very early code.

In the teaser, Ninja Gaiden star Hayabusa was seen ready to engage in combat with fellow Shinobi Hayate on top of a highly lit urban district and that was pretty much it.

Team Ninja head Yosuke Hayashi said that the game wasn’t just a ‘fighting game’, it’s now ‘fighting entertainment’.

Fighting entertainment. What bollocks.

Anyhoo, take a look at the trailer below:

Adding another feather to the cap of what is already a strong line up of software for Sony’s next generation handheld, is the confirmation from Tecmo that Ninja Gaiden Sigma will arrive on the machine sometime next year.

Details are practically non-existent at this point as to whether the game is a port of an older Ninja Gaiden title or a conversion of the forthcoming Ninja Gaiden 3, but my money (and my hopes) are on the latter.

More as this one develops.

Looking progressively more and more pant-wettingly spectacular with every single bit of media that gets released for it, Capcom have unleashed the latest trailer for fighting franchise smashup Street Fighter X Tekken at this year’s Tokyo Game Show.

The Street Fighter X Tekken ‘Pandora’ trailer, introduces a whole bunch of new characters with Heihachi, Kuma, Michelle Chang and Lili making their debut for team Tekken, meanwhile, Rolento, Ibuki and Zangief make their bow representing team Street Fighter.

As well as new combatants, the trailer also showcases the new gameplay modes which include 2 on 2 Dual Battles, Scramble Mode a variation of WWE’s tornado tag where all four characters on the screen at the same time.

In addition to this, there is also a detailed online training mode called Briefing and last but not least Pandora, in which you can sacrifice your partner for a huge power boost to destroy your enemies.

You can see the trailer below:

Capcom today confirmed at Sony’s TGS Press conference that Ultimate Marvel vs Capcom 3 is to be a Vita launch title.

The updated version of the newest superhero crossover smashup will boast worldwide online play, the same smooth 60FPS visuals as the 360/PS3 versions and the implementation of touch-controls; with specifics on this yet to be revealed.

The announcement of UMvC3 for the handheld comes hot off the heels of a Capcom announcement at E3, which confirmed that a conversion of Street Fighter X Tekken was in the pipeline for the machine too.

Seems like the PS Vita is looking like the go-to platform for a decent handheld scrap.

The previously announced Metal Gear Solid and Zone of the Enders HD collections that were announced for the 360 and PS3 platforms, will release on the PS Vita in 2012 Konami has revealed.

The Zone of the Enders HD collection boasts the two PS2-era titles in HD-O-Vision(tm) whereas the Metal Gear Solid HD collection consists of Metal Gear Solid 2 Substance, Metal Ger Solid 3 Subsistence and PSP title, Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker; all of which are given a nice lick of HD paint to bring them bang up to date.

Both collections will launch in 2012 for the powerful new Sony handheld.

Is it me, or does the PS Vita look like a more and more solid platform everyday? It’s almost as if they’re going out of their way to embarrass Nintedo, which after the debacle that was the 3DS launch, wouldn’t be that hard to be honest.

In a megaton piece of news that falls quite firmly under the ‘holy fuck’ category, Square-Enix have today confirmed that Final Fantasy X will be updated in super-shiny HD for the PS3 and PS Vita platforms.

No date or media was given, but the update is supposedly taking place to honour the ten year anniversary of the game which released all those many years ago, back in 2001 for the PS2.

After being rumoured for the better part of nearly half a year now, EA and Crytek have finally confirmed that a conversion of the seminal 2007 PC shooter Crysis, will be arriving on the 360 and PS3 in October.

October 2011 that is.

Boasting sandbox environments that it’s sequel sorely lacks, it was always thought that this would cause a conversion of the original Crysis to struggle on consoles. Indeed, with Crysis 2 being more ‘console-friendly’ by following a more linear, Call of Duty style of level design, it was always assumed that if the original Crysis did materialise on consoles that it would be pared back significantly in this regard and generally be, well, more than a bit shit.

Assume no more however dear reader and allay your fears, since alongside the announcement comes a trailer which shows the game in action on the consoles and it doesn’t disappoint.

Not at all.

Have a gander:

The game will be available as an XBLA/PSN title and will retail for 1600MSP/£16(?) respectively.

Now this is some cool shit. One particularly enterprising chap has managed to somehow fuse the innards of a PS3 and 360 console within a single PC case.

Yes, that is every bit as awesome as it sounds.

Have a look how the bright scamp managed to achieve this unholy union:

http://timofiend.blogspot.com/

Cool shit indeed.

It’s gotta be sexist too?

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2011-09-08-dead-island-developer-techland-disturbed-by-feminist-whore-skill

Oh man. I hope the coder in question enjoys unemployment.

The box for the forthcoming Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Collector’s Edition is larger than the box that your console came in.

Utter madness:

http://images.eurogamer.net/assets/articles//a/1/3/9/7/4/2/7/ss_preview_cebox.jpg.jpg?slideshow=true