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Do you love Street Fighter enough to pay $150 for a fancy box packed with SF goodies including four games, an 11-disc soundtrack, an 8" light-up Ryu statue, and a replica of the fighting man's black belt? If so, why, what a happy coincidence, as Capcom today announced such a set to celebrate 25 years of the beloved franchise.
Sony announced the winners of its 2012 "Gamer's Choice" awards (promotion) today. These will be the 10 games that you can claim steep discounts on for the next week, starting tonight when the PlayStation Store updates. Each one will be discounted 30%, or 50% if you're a PlayStation Plus subscriber.
It's that time of year again: the PlayStation Network "Gamers' Choice Awards" are opening tomorrow, letting your votes determine which games will get deep discounts. The nominees were announced today, across the 4 categories from last year and six new categories.
A slate of Street Fighter III: Third Strike Online Edition downloadable content has been announced by Capcom. The downloadable revamped fighter will receive costume packs, music packs, and commentated replays from a Capcom tournament with top SF3 players.
In a rare bit of literal irony, Street Fighter III: Third Strike Online Edition will let you play offline on the PlayStation 3, eschewing Sony's network DRM. The news was revealed at an Evo 2011 panel, but only recently reached the public at large as Capcom senior VP Christen Svensson answered lingering fan questions online.
"As Derek and I covered in the 3rd Strike panel at Evo, the game does not make use of Sony's network DRM," said Svensson. "It is playable offline. We deemed that very important for future tournament use."
With Sony executing its own downloadable games promotion, Shacknews was wondering whether or not the PSN Play event would carry the timed-exclusivity requirement as Microsoft's XBLA events.
Beyond the SOE-developed--and therefore PlayStation 3 exclusive--title Payday: The Heist, only one game in the Play promotion has been confirmed to not have a simultaneous XBLA launch.
Just as we're in the midst of Microsoft's Summer of Arcade, Sony is answering with its own multi-game promotion starting later this month. PSN Play will feature a new PlayStation Network release every week for four weeks, and offers a free game as a bonus for collecting all of them.
PlayStation Plus members will get 20% off each of the games, making collecting them all a little easier to swallow for thrifty consumers. Plus, the promotion offers free backgrounds as pre-order incentives, as well as various bonuses for buying during the Play period.
What's that? You've already had your fill of Capcom news for the week? Tough! While the publisher was busy canceling some titles and announcing others, the company also revealed release information for the online-enabled version of Street Fighter 3: Third Strike.
Street Fighter 3: Third Strike Online will arrive on August 23 on the PlayStation Network and the following day on the Xbox Live Arcade.
Back in July 2010, Capcom producer Yoshinori Ono quietly revealed plans for a revamp of Street Fighter III: Third Strike, noting that it was "not going to come out in the immediate future." At E3 this week, Capcom finally gave the game its grand formal announcement.
Street Fighter III: Third Strike Online Edition is slated to arrive some time this year on Xbox Live Arcade and PlayStation Network, priced at $14.99 (1,200 Microsoft Points). Read more »
Street Fighter III: 3rd Strike is to return in a downloadable 'Online Edition,' Capcom producer Yoshinori Ono announced this weekend during a panel at Comic-Con 2010.
Almost nothing is known of the title at this point. Ono explained that Capcom is "going to take [its] time to bring this out," saying that it is "not going to come out in the immediate future, but just let everyone know that Street Fighter 3 is coming back." Read more »
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