Mad Catz stopped by our booth yesterday and brought by a few non-playable Wii-version mock-ups of their famous "SFIV proven" Fight Stick featuring Tatsunoko vs. Capcom: Ultimate All-Stars artwork!  It's a mock-up designed to get consumer (your) feedback...what do you think?  Come by the booth and check-it out up close - I think it looks....'WOW'.  Hopefully this gets made one day!!!

As I mentioned in my last post (thanks to everyone for the great feedback on the game cover BTW), we are working on some great Spyborgs stuff to share with all you Capcom fans.  

For Comic-Con, we teamed up with UDON Comics (official Street Fighter comics) to provide a premium heavy stock Comic-Con exclusive comic book giveaway.

Based on some back story/scripts from Daryl, Udon created an original story and pre-quel to the Spyborgs game.  This comic will actually lead you up to the start of the game and give you some color as to what tragedy happened to the team.  It's packed with action, guns, robots, swords...all the fun stuff) and gives you the inside juice on what this dynamic team of cyborgs will be facing come September 29th.  Hopefully you'll be at Comic-Con to get your free copy!

See below for the cover, and a cool black and white sneak peek.  -GRANT

We're glad to announce that in North America, Spyborgs will be shipping on SEPTEMBER 29TH, 2009! 

That day you can get your hands on the awesome two-player co-op action that was born from classics such as Final Fight, Captain Commando, and all those addicting old-school brawlers.  If you've been tracking this game, you'll see that we've been jamming satisfyingly fun, button-mashing gameplay in it - but it's wrapped in a seriously beautiful graphics engine.  "Really, is that on the Wii?!" is a typical response that we get if you can believe that.  To prove this...check out IGN's great preview story that ran yesterday.. They're digging the game.

For any Comic-con attendees, we'll have a cool giveaway (check back soon) as well as the first consumer hands-on in our booth.  Anyway, hope you're excited about Spyborgs as much as we are...and while you're waiting, check out the final pack art and let us know what you think.

Finally, after several months, we're announcing the winners of the SFIV Inside Cover Art contest! A big "I'm sorry!" for taking so long to make this announcement, but we received such great entries (over 200 entered) that it was tough to pick the best.

Although we only intended to feature two entries for the inside cover art, we received such awesome work that we selected several winners - six total (!) to cover the regular and collector's editions (two cases) for both X360 and PS3 platforms. So take a look at the amazing art and join us in congratulating the winners! These pieces will be featured on the inside covers - and the artist's name and unity ID will be included right on the image!  As the game is shipping today...I'm sure some of you already have seen this great stuff.

Artists' names and Unity name in "quotes" below.

• Chris Lie & Lius Lasahido "c4rvanstudio" (above)
• Ross Burt "Arkade" (below)

• Pedro Pitéu "Pyteo" (below)

• Yukiko Otsu (below)

• Xavier Garcia "xavipants" (below)

• Felipe Aguiar "Fezat" (below)

Here is where each piece will be featured:

• Chris Lie & Lius Lashido "c4ravanstudio":  X360 - Regular Edition Game Coversheet
• Ross Burt "arkade": X360 - Collector's Edition Anime Movie Coversheet
• Pedro Pitéu "Pyteo": PS3 - Regular Edition Game Coversheet
• Yukiko Otsu (below): PS3 - Collector's Edition Game Coversheet
• Xavier Garcia "xavipants":  X360 - Collector's Edition Game Coversheet
• Felipe Aguiar "Fezat":  PS3 Collector's Edition Anime Movie Coversheet

"> Hopefully you're coming to the SFIV Launch Party tonight, but if not, you can still join in on some of the fun.  We've created a cool "viral" tool on StreetFighter.com (click "My Fist UR Face")where you can actually be Ryu, Chun-Li or a bunch of other SFIV favorites.  Check out the sample above I created of my daughter as Chun-Li.

By the way, Kotaku already picked it up...and it seems people love it already!

-Grant