Bits and Pieces 1

There's going to be an arcade update to BlazBlue: Continuum Shift called BlazBlue: Continuum Shift II. It's a minor update featuring two new characters to the arcade version, Valkenhayn R. Hellsing and Makoto-Nanaya. Hellsing is going to be the next downloadable character for the console version, and Makoto already being available. Continuum Shift being the updated version of BlazBlue: Calamity Trigger, which is the one I have. I wasn't aware there was another out already. I'm slipping.

Two more characters were added to the Marvel vs. Capcom roster in Dormammu for the Marvel side, and Viewtiful Joe for the Capcom side. I don't quite get the Dormammu inclusion, but I suspect it'll be explained in the game. There are other flamey-headed characters from Marvel that are known to a larger audience, like Ghost Rider, than this guy, but I guess he'll work out just fine. So far the roster includes: Captain America, Deadpool, Dr. Doom, Dormammu, Hulk, Iron Man, Super-Skrull, Thor, and Wolverine from Marvel; and Amaterasu, Chris Redfield, Chun-Li, Dante, Felicia, Morrigan, Ryu, Trish, and Viewtiful Joe from Capcom.

Street Fighter X Tekken will probably be out sooner than the two years that Yoshinori Ono claimed it would be. Harada said that Street Fighter X Tekken will probably be out before the Apocalypse of the Mayan Calendar, and Tekken X Street Fighter will be out after. I should really post these videos and such, but I'm lazy, eating, and getting ready for more gaming right now, so there. We also got to see what Ryu might look like in Tekken X Street Fighter (which is centered around Tekken's visuals and gameplay methods) and it looked pretty nifty! A teaser image for the game shows not only Jin and Ryu, but also their darker aliases: Devil Jin and Satsui no Hadou ni Mezameta Ryu.

There might be some new characters for King of Fighters XIII, which is shaping up to be the KOF game that KOFXII should have been, complete with a boss character. Already in the line up are: Kyo, Iori, Ash Crimson, Terry and Andy Bogard, Joe Higashi, Ryo Sakazaki, Kim Kaphwan, Benimaru, Robert Garcia, Clark, Ralf, Athena, Duo Lon, Shen Woo, Leona Heidern, Raiden, Kensou, Chin, Elizabeth Blanctorch and Mature from the previous installment. Joining them are K', Takuma Sakazaki, Mai Shiranui, King, Yuri Sakazaki, Kula Diamond, Hwa Jai and Saiki, with Saiki being the endboss of the game. We also might get Chang, Malin, Momoko and Oswald as a more recent blog post over on SNK/Playmore's KOFXIII blog details the producer asking what those characters would look like with the KOFXIII design.

Yep. Lots of fighting games on the way.