Just a few words from the infamous Ishizawa-san (aka "Neo_G", TvC game director), who is busy burning up TvC roms and providing us some amusing new TvC: Ultimate All-Stars videos. 

For the record, it's stuff like this video above that makes me absolutely love this game.  Why did they bother programming this?  Because they love these characters and are having fun.  That fun is infectious--play this yourself and see...

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Hi everyone, it's Neo_G, doing some ROM burning party these past few days.

Recently, the development schedules started to calm down so I thought I sit down, take it easy, but that was just for a little moment - I've started to receive lots of requests for ROMs to present the game at many different events in the pan-western territories.

Well of course, this is great!

America, UK, Canada, Australia, Germany, France, Spain, Switzerland, Netherlands, Denmark, Finland...
TvC is one of the titles that's receiving the most ROM requests in all titles that I ever took part in.

Talking about being well-received with TvC in pan-western territories, at one of the major gaming websites "IGN" has chosen TvC as "BEST WII GAME" in "TGS09: The Best of Tokyo Game Show"!

We didn't have any playable booths at TGS!
After receiving many E3 awards, I'm very happy about this!!

...With that in mind, I keep burning ROMs, on and on...
I'm the director of the game, but every 1 ROM, I burn them myself!!
(Other Capcom R&D members take their master-up holidays, and so there are only 3 of us: Niitsuma-san, Kadowaki-san and me, so I take care of little chores to directing games :p)

So here's a picture of me burning ROMs and checking whether the ROMs work on the dev kits and writing each ROM label by hand....
(these are all manual labor... X( )

Hm?  What's this screen showing....?

Super Street Fighter IV has "IV" New Modes, and they are JUICY.  Get Hype!

--Team Battle.  Team up with your friends (or strangers) to take on all-comers in 2v2, 3v3, and 4v4 formats, and more!

--Replay Channel.  Record, watch, and save matches, or watch how everyone else is playing on one of a variety of streaming match "channels"

--Endless Battle.  Play in arcade-style "winner stays, loser to the back of the line" lobbies. 

--Bonus Stages.  Crush the car and smash the downpour of barrels in a test of skill against the clock. 

In all the online battle modes, you can watch the match in progress while waiting your turn to play, and talk trash about the online action with the other spectators :)

PS- You might have seen this trailer appear overnight in Japanese, but here it is in conventient translation.

Shocktilyoudrop has a few sneak shots of the lovely Milla Jovovich on the set of the new Resident Evil movie.  

If you're hungry for some RE movie-news, you should really be following Milla on twitter.  Yes, it's really her, and she's been unloading a dumptruck of semi-coherent updates!:

so wild, we just got the diary back from RE3 and this guy bought it, so we had to track him down and now its "on loan" to us!

apparently he's a serious collecter who has spent like 40k on RE paraphernalia.

but i had asked to keep my kukris(alice's machetes)and was told that they couldnt b found!lol! well, this guy bought them!

Trailer is in Japanese, but you get a great look at what's going to be some Capcom fan's favorite new game.  Basically you get surprise murdered in the first scene, and then spend the game using your ghostly powers to defend your girl while trying to get to understand the mystery of why you were killed in the first place.

I had a chance to play through the Ghost Trick demo at TGS this year, and I have to say that even without speaking a word of Japanese, I had a blast.  It's got a great sense of style, humor, and the silkiest animation I've ever seen on a DS.

This will be making it's way west in 2010, so stay tuned...  

A little two-fer of lingering Halloween fun...

First up is the winner of the Capcom pumpkin-carving contest (our Mega Man pumpkin came in 3rd), which stole the show with its outstanding lighting effects.  You've got Dark Void's Will (in helmet) up front, and the illuminificated DV logo shining out the back.

It was just plain purdy, and carved by Brian, the easily-found Waldo pictured on the right. 

Next is one of our favorite Capcom costumes this year.  It didn't make it into our costume contest, but in truth, this is less a costume than a lifestyle, and... wow.  Just wow:

--Crazy beard and mohawk?  Check. 

--Banana-hammock?  Check. 

--Bear-wrestling scars?  Check. 

--Appropriately shaved chest-hair?  Double-check. 

In short, some of the finest, most terrifying Zangief cosplay on record. Thanks to Shana and Danny for the pix!