Publisher Capcom has announced that Japanese mega hit Monster Hunter Tri will be released in the UK and Europe early next year. Tri marks the series’ first foray onto Wii and Capcom hopes that the combination of one of its key IPs and the hugely popular Wii will result in …
Read More »Dark Void joins the 2010 club
For year’s retailers have been begging publishers to stop flooding the market at Q4 and instead spread their releases across the whole year – but at this rate, retail is going to be scratching its head wondering where the big Christmas releases are coming from. Capcom has become the latest …
Read More »Bionic Commando disappoints
Whilst the news from Capcom has been good for its first fiscal quarter of 2010, the publisher has admitted that recent release Bionic Commando has not met the company’s sales expectations. Bionic Commando shipped just 550,000 units worldwide in the quarter ending June 30th. Of the numbers, Capcom said the …
Read More »Capcom bucks financial trend
Flying in the face of disappointing financial results from both Nintendo and Sony, Japanese publisher Capcom has continued its fine momentum from the last fiscal year with a further quarter of growth. For the quarter ending June 30th, Capcom’s revenues saw a 19.2 per cent year-on-year increase, finishing at YEN …
Read More »Capcom plots Monster Hunter success
Publisher Capcom has vowed to keep up the TV advertising to promote its new Monster Hunter game. The title has sat at the top of the ChartTrack PSP Top 10 since its launch last month, and the firm is hoping to build on these sales to establish a ‘body’ of …
Read More »Resident Evil 5 hits PC in September
Resident Evil 5 will get a PC release on September 18th across European territories. The game makes use of NVIDIA’s new GeForce 3D vision technology, which means the title features stereoscopic 3D both in-game and during the cut scenes. The title also features extra costumes and a new and improved …
Read More »Resi4 for iPhone released then pulled
No-one even knew that hit GameCube, PS2 and Wii outing Resident Evil 4 was heading to iPhone until it was unexpectedly released on the App Store earlier this week. Tough luck if you missed it though as the game was removed from the Japanese portal moments later. The game appears …
Read More »JAPAN: Monster Hunter ships 3.5m
Publisher Capcom has revealed that over 3.5m copies of its PSP hit Monster Hunter Freedm Unite have now been shipped in Japan – the first PSP title to reach such a landmark in the region. The game was first released in March of last year, propelling PSP to the top …
Read More »Capcom licenses ATR’s AniFace
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Read More »Capcom classics heading to PSN
Japanese publisher Capcom is to pillage its supremely rich back-catalogue of retro titles for a slew of releases on Sony’s PlayStation Network, all of which will be playable on both PS3 and PSP. To see the complete list, click here to head over to CasualGaming.biz.
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