Super Street Fighter IV over the last couple of days, and all signs point to it being a worthy followup to last year's return to form for the series. Those who were concerned about this edition being a mere cash-in shouldn't have much to worry about, as it features plenty of new fighters, modes, and moves...basically everything you'd want in a new edition of Street Fighter.


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(POS) tracking system, which measures title-level performance via rental transactions from more than 65,000 DVD, Blu-ray Disc and Video Game properties in the brick-and-mortar, online, and kiosk channels across North America.

Xbox 360 platform titles also racked up the most advertising circular spots on the Top 20 most-advertised video games titles of 2009. Compiled by Rentrak's Video Game Ad Monitor service, the interactive database of advertising circulars from major retailers provides users with the most granular automated brand space tracking available. The service helps to better analyze methods of marketing video games in order to more effectively promote future titles.

Top 20 Renting Video Games of 2009

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Rank Platform    Title          Date        Name                        Rating

1  X360               Fallout 3      10/28/2008  Bethesda                M
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The release date for Super Street Fighter 4 will be April 27, 2010 in North America and will follow on the 28th in Japan and the 30th in Europe. Here's the official press release from Capcom announcing the release date.
The follow-up to the critically acclaimed Street Fighter IV will further redefine the 2-D fighting genre with a host of new features including new characters, new ultra combos, new online modes, the return of the famed bonus stages and retuned online and offline gameplay.
Super Street Fighter IV’s new characters include Street Fighter’s first Tae Kwon Do-styled fighter - the deadly female fighter Juri - classic Street Fighters such as Cody, Guy, T. Hawk, Dee Jay, Adon and more to complement the full roster of returning fighters from Street Fighter IV. Featuring all new user-selectable Ultra Combos and advancements to the online gameplay and matchmaking, Super Street Fighter IV is the ultimate vision of Street Fighter.

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A localized version of Samurai Shodown: Edge of Destiny is coming to Europe this spring under the name Samurai Shodown Sen.K2, the studio behind Valhalla Knights, did the development work on this 3D Samurai Shodown game. Twenty plus characters are in the roster and that number includes favorites such as Haohmaru and Hanzo Hattori.

The real news here is Rising Star Games, not Ignition Entertainment, will publish Samurai Shodown Sen game in PAL regions. Way before Ignition took over SNK distribution in North America, they were in charge of Europe. Looks like that deal is dead since Atlus USA snapped up Metal Slug XX and Rising Star Games grabbed Samurai Shodown: Edge of Destiny. As of now, the game still hasn’t been announced for North America.

When Tatsunoko vs Capcom: Cross Generation of Heroes shipped in Japan, it came with a mini game for every single character packed in. That sounds nice, but the reality is that all but two or three of these mini games were throw-away waggle fests that you never wanted to play again after getting your Shop points for unlocking colors and characters. The one standout mini game of the bunch belonged to sexy Lost Planet mecha "PTX-40A". It played like a top down shoot-em-up with full rotation of your PTX, fighting hoards of bugs from the Lost Planet series. So, its pretty exciting to hear that the international release of TvC will be coming packed with an updated version of this mini game, dubbed "Ultimate All-Shooters". This time, it looks like it a whole standalone Wii-ware game, packed in for free with your TvC. On behalf of all Gunbird 2 and Cannon Spike fans, Capcom, we thank you!
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Today a few scansfrom the latest Famitsu Magazine have surfaced unveiling news that Dead or Alive: Paradise from Tecmo will be making its way to Sony's PSP console.

However, it's just a port of the game of the same name released for Japanese cell phones in late 2006, one which lets you play mini games with the girls, as you continue to purchase even skimpier outfits for them.

DOA Paradise is scheduled for a Spring 2010 release in Japan and is a single-player only experience.

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One of the biggest Tekken 6 tournaments of 2010 is just around the corner: The fourth installment of the Norcal STRONGSTYLE series is set to take place in Sunnyvale, California on January 30th and 31st. Come out to see the nations best compete against each other and two of Korea’s best: RAIN and TONGBAL LOVE.

Register online now at NORCALSTRONGSTYLE.com for regional seeding!