No! You got your Pinball in my Street Fighter 2!

We keep saying it, but we're firm believers in this digital distribution thing and we also believe that promoting digital titles requires a different set of tactics than physical games. 

To that end, we wanted to partner with likeminded folks to celebrate the near-arrival (we promise) of Super Street Fighter 2 Turbo HD Remix and Zen Studios was at the top of the list.

They really love Street Fighter and we really love PinballFX.

The result of this unholy union was the birth of a new Pinball FX SSF2T HD Remix table, which makes nifty use of the art, sounds and music we'd created for HD Remix. If you've played Pinball FX or picked up any of their other add-on tables, you know they do quality work.

Two great tastes that taste great together.

The Super Street Fighter 2 Turbo HD Remix table will be available for download Xbox Live Arcade on November 12th.

Now I wonder what else we have up our sleeve? :)

Long time since last blog.

Just got home from the office.

Haikus are pointless.

I spent almost no time on the floor, but my first meeting was at the Capcom booth at the show opening so I witnessed the madness.

I'll remind you, yesterday was a "business day". That means, these are industry professionals and media.

That didn't stop HUNDREDS of people from storming the Monster Hunter Tri portion of the Capcom booth (no joke, people were running). Ten minutes after the show opened, the line to play the game was upwards of 4 hours. I can't even imagine what Saturday and Sunday are going to be like with consumers having access.

Here's a really lousy cell phone pic of the madness.

For comparison's sake, here was EA's completely empty booth right next door at the same time (the few people playing mostly were wearing EA shirts):

Ouch.

Having been on planes for 24 of the last 50 hours of my life, things could be better. But I'm here, in Osaka. It's abou 6:30pm Osaka time as I write this (2:30AM PST). Here's my swanky hotel room. :)

Headed downstairs to meet some co-workers for dinner and beers but more updates to follow later. I'll take a few pictures of Osaka Castle tomorrow during the day.

So I'm back from London as of late Thursday night. It's now Saturday morning and I'm leaving for Osaka. But in my last minute surfing before heading to the airport, I saw that Major Nelson has updated his blog with a look at the new Xbox Live Marketplace coming with the UI refresh.

I can't wait to see our digital content up there (especially Age of Booty which is releasing on XBLA on October 15). Check out his blog for more details if you're interested in that sort of thing.

And PS3 users, we'll have some PSN store related news in a few weeks too. :)