Sega wants in on the Street Fighter IV-led fighting game resurgence. Their entrant? A new version of 2006′s Virtua Fighter 5, Virtua Fighter 5: Final Showdown, scheduled for a downloadable release on the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 next year. More »
It’s still March 31 by the official Kotaku calendar, but it’s April Fools’ Day in Japan, something you should take into consideration while watching Sega’s new trailer for Virtua Fighter 5 Final Showdown, its latest fighting game update. More »
Update your Virtua Fighter 5R petitions, fighting game fans, because Sega has one more version of its Virtua Fighter franchise prepped for Japanese arcades. Meet Virtua Fighter 5 Final Showdown. More »
Now that the New Xbox Experience has been globally launched, it’s time to brace for the impact. Outside of a few error reports, things appear to have gone smoothly. One of the minor bumps that we know of, thanks to OXM, is that some Xbox 360 themes don’t quite jibe with the NXE’s new layout. Microsoft touted that old themes would look “beautiful” with the new look and feel, but perhaps the better descriptor is “beautiful but largely obscured.”
Xbox Japan has announced three more titles joining its budget “Platinum Collection” line: Armored Core for Answer, Kingdom Under Fire: Circle of Doom and Virtua Fighter 5: Live Arena. Each game is priced at ¥2,940 ($50) and will be out next January.
In case your copy of Virtua Fighter 5 for the Xbox 360 is just sitting on a shelf gathering dust, now would be a good time to snag that sucker and slip it into you ‘box for a little update action, courtesy of Sega. The newly available patch addresses one very major issue – being able to select costume-specific pants in alternate outfits. Aside from that, it’s really all gravy. You get gamer pics displayed during online battles, easier ranking navigation, one additional item per character, the ability to rematch people not on your friends list in online matches, and the ability to save online battles so you can replay them and try to find out exactly when you started sucking. Was it a slow, steady sucking or a massive burst of suck towards the end? Now you’ll know. Hit the jump for the patch press release, subtitled “Subtle Changes Improves the Perfect Fighting Game”. Even more perfect than before!
In the middle of the night while unsuspecting Americans were sleeping the sleep of the sleepy, Sega slipped quietly onto Xbox Live Marketplace and tucked the Virtua Fighter 5 demo under our pillows, pausing to reflect on how much we’ve grow and caressing our cheek only to disappear into the darkness at the first sign of our stirring. The demo features four playable characters – Akira, Sarah, El Blaze and Eileen – and three stages, which players able to battle in Versus mode and Arcade mode. Sadly the demo doesn’t feature online battles, but with only a few short weeks to release we’ll get our hands on some of that action soon enough. More »
