After rapid releases of new fighting game iterations, the genre died down quite a bit in the 2000s. Capcom, having released umpteen Street Fighter games in the 90s, had to wait until the market was more receptive with the release of Street Fighter 4, nearly a decade later.

Apparently, the company hasn't learned its lesson. After releasing Super Street Fighter 2 Turbo HD Remix, Street Fighter 3: 3rd Strike Online Edition, Marvel vs. Capcom Origins, Darkstalkers Resurrection, etc., it appears that interest in HD revivals of fighting classics is waning.

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Upon hearing that Marvel vs Capcom 2 is coming to iPhone and iPod Touch, you probably have a few reasonable questions. Questions like: "really?" and "why?" and "can we take it for a ride?" The answers are yes, we don't know, and stop stealing our bad jokes. We need those.

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Shacknews receives a slew of new screenshots and trailers for upcoming games everyday. The most anticipated titles receive their own post, because we know you're eager to see that content. For the rest, we have the Daily Filter, a place to feature all of the media we add to our enormous database on a daily basis.

Today's Filter features new media for MLB 11: The Show, Fallout: New Vegas, Killzone 3, Heavy Fire: Black Arms, Marvel vs. Capcom 3: Fate of Two Worlds, Fez, Dirt 3, Hunted: The Demon's Forge, NASCAR The Game 2011, Resistance 3, Back to the Future: The Game, Mario Sports Mix, and Thor: God of Thunder. Read more »

Shacknews receives a slew of new screenshots and trailers for upcoming games everyday. The most anticipated titles receive their own post, because we know you're eager to see that content. For the rest, we have the Daily Filter, a place to feature all of the media we add to our enormous database on a daily basis.

This week's run of Filter is going to look extremely bare since the holiday season is upon us. Today, the only update we have are new screens for NASCAR The Game 2011. Read more »

Following a report from last week that the NASCAR license had gone over to Activision, the publisher has confirmed that Eutechnyx will be developing NASCAR The Game 2011.

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The Evolution 2010 Championship Fighting Game Series is finished, but the results will live on forever, archived by fine institutions like Shacknews.

The tournament organizers will be uploading HD videos to YouTube over the coming days if you missed the streams over the weekend. A television special will be airing on July 20 on G4 with a look at the finals, the history of Evo and Capcom fighting games, along with a new preview of Marvel vs. Capcom 3. Read more »

Evolution 2010, the largest fighting game tournament in the US, has begun with the first matches streamed from Tatsunoko vs. Capcom. The stream, which is produced by Level|Up, is being broadcast via Stickam on the official Evo site or on G4tv.com.

The schedule of events for the entire weekend is as follows (all times are Pacific Standard Time GMT -7). Read more »

Capcom, Evo, and G4 have just announced that G4tv.com will stream 45 hours of live coverage via Stickam from the Evolution 2010 Championship Series of fighting game tournaments, which takes place next weekend from July 9 to 11 in Las Vegas, NV.

Now, selfishly, I must announce that this is incredibly awesome as I initially pitched the idea of G4 coverage to Capcom and Seth Killian back in January while checking out an early build of Super Street Fighter IV when I was still with G4. I attended Evo 2009 and even competed and saw first hand how exciting the series is. Of course, I must give it up to G4, Capcom, Evo, and Stickam for getting the deal done and for bringing full stream coverage and television coverage to the fighting community. Read more »

Alongside the still-underway Xbox Live Arcade Inventory Blowout Sale, Microsoft has temporarily halved the price of Bizarre's neon-tastic downloadable shooter Geometry Wars: Retro Evolved 2 for those with an Xbox Live Gold membership.

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This week's PlayStation Store update brings us Capcom's downloadable fighter Marvel vs. Capcom 2.

Beyond that, it's LittleBigPlanet historical costumes, and the usual music game DLC. Read more »

Capcom continues the run-up to tomorrow's Xbox 360 launch of Marvel vs. Capcom 2 with two new trailers offering tips on how to play pugilists Strider and Spider-Man.

It's a battle of the Men in a new round of Marvel vs. Capcom 2 trailers, with Marvel's Invincible Iron Man squaring off against Capcom's miniature Mega Man.

Following up on the recent revelation that its re-release of Marvel vs. Capcom 2 will hit Xbox 360 on July 29, Capcom today announced that PlayStation 3 edition of the downloadable fighter won't arrive until August 13--two weeks and one day later.

No reason was provided for the later release, though we're checking in for details. Read more »

Marvel vs. Capcom 2's series of showdowns continues with a duel between Resident Evil's Jill Valentine and Storm of the X-Men across screenshots and three new trailers.

The downloadable enhanced fighter re-release hits Xbox 360 on Wednesday, July 29 for 1200 Microsoft Points ($15), with the PlayStation 3 release date to be "announced soon." Read more »

The wait is almost over, as Capcom has announced that the downloadable re-release of cult classic crossover fighter Marvel vs. Capcom 2 hits Xbox 360 on Wednesday, July 29.

No date was provided for the PlayStation 3 edition, of which a demo is already available, with Capcom's Twitter noting that the date will be "announced soon". Later, it added that the "PSN version of Marvel VS Capcom 2 is not coming at same time as XBLA." Read more »