Joystiq: Capcom and Udon Entertainment spent years redrawing and re-balancing Super Street Fighter II Turbo for its HD Remix version. Later, Capcom announced and released a port of Marvel vs. Capcom 2 over the course of a few months, with filters on the original sprites. Guess which one sold better?
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VG247: Capcom's told VG247 that its not currently working on any more updates to its historic fighting games, but will almost certainly revisit its older scrapper titles in the future.
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.....Empire will be presenting a 3-day fighting games extravaganza, 9 massive tournaments which will include the most enjoyed fighting games of all time.
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411mania talks about this week's game releases. Highlights include BlazBlue, Hatsune Miku: Project Diva, Diabolik, Treasure World, Street Fighter IV PC, and Roogoo.
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While Super Street Fighter II Turbo HD Remix may have broken numerous digital download records on the Playstation Network and Xbox Live Arcade, Capcom isn't too keen on the idea of giving the same HD Remix treatment to the sequel, Street Fighter III.
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Major Nelson writes:

"This weeks Deal of the Week is now available.

"The Xbox LIVE Arcade title Super Street Fighter II Turbo HD Remix normally 1200 points is now available for Xbox LIVE Gold Members for 800 points."
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Patch available for Super Street Fighter II Turbo HD Remix. The patch will install automatically once you start the game connected to Xbox Live and should solve some problems in multiplayer mode (lag, disconnects, etc. ..)
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Capcom announced that it was working on a patch for Super Street Fighter II HD Remix back in January. Today the publisher revealed more details about the patch, which will be released in the next few weeks.

Although Capcom was quick to point out the technical limitations to what a patch can fix, there are a total of 13 fixes on the way. You will be disappointed if you were looking forward to a patch for Akuma – apparently it has not yet been 100% proven that he's unbalanced, although many players believe he is too powerful.

For full details of the patch head over to Capcom's Blog before jumping back into the game.
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The patch release notes for Super Street Fighter 2 Turbo HD Remix were announced today. The details were posted on the Capcom-Unity blog.

The patch is supposed to be released in the next few weeks, here's the full scoop.

Please keep in mind, there are technical limitations to what a patch can fix, so we fixed as many as we could given these limitations. I know many users requested patching Akuma, but we didn't touch any balancing this time. This is mainly because I think the jury is still out on him. Sure, he's pretty powerful, but I don't think it's been 100% proven yet that he's unbalanced. I'm not saying that he's definitely balanced, but before we start tinkering with the balance, we want to make sure we're making the right move.

A big thanks to all you guys that were diligent in reporting the bugs that they encountered. Also, a big shot out goes to "The Furious One" who was a big help in compiling bugs and especially to "zerojay" who took his testing experience and actually created a bug data base to help organize the bugs.

Without further ado, here are issues that the patch fixes:
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411mania gives a rundown on this week's game releases. Highlights include Legacy of Ys: Books I & II, Dead Rising: Chop Till You Drop, Stoked, The King of Fighters 2002 Unlimited Match, 50 Cent: Blood on the Sand, and Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li.

Legacy of Ys: Books I & II (DS)
Ys I and II have seen many ports and remakes since the first one came out in 1987; they've seen the light of day on such systems as the PC-8801, Famicom, Master System, DOS, Apple II, Saturn, and PS2 to name a few. The most widely-known versions are contained in the TurboGrafx-CD compilation, and for years that release was considered the best. It's place at the top was eventually challenged by Ys Eternal as it sported upgraded graphics, effects, and artwork as well as extras like new characters and scenarios. Unfortunately, Eternal didn't include voiceovers and some say that the remixed music was not as good. Apparently, enough people weren't satisfied so another update known as Ys Complete, which is said to have better graphics but an inferior soundtrack, was unleashed. Despite my best efforts, I could not find any agreement amongst Ys fans as to which official release is the definitive version since each of the three does at least one thing better than the others.

Preferences aside, there is one thing that fans of the first two Ys games can agree on no matter which version they've played - Ys I and II have some of the best music you will find in a video game. Every place I visited for info makes note of how awesome the soundtrack is. Knowing this, I questioned whether or not it was a good idea to play the games on the DS for the first time when I could just as easily track down the PC version and patch it or download the Wii VC one. Granted, Legacy of Ys comes with a free soundtrack if you preorder and it is portable. Maybe it would be easier to just flip a coin...

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Dead Rising: Chop Till You Drop (Wii) ...
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Members of the Shoryuken message board have pointed out problems with the Mad Catz SFIV stick which render it problematic to use.
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Ken Masters papercraft. This adorable version of the Street Fighter hero must live with the knowledge that his first Fierce Dragon Punch will kill him.
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VG247: Capcom UK has told videogaming247 that there is still no date for a European release of Street Fighter II Turbo HD Remix on PlayStation Network.
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For the second year running, the Xbox 360 is the king of consoles. Barely edging out the impressive PS3, the swanky new dash and the amazing exclusives like Gears of War 2 and Fable 2 put Microsoft over the top. The Wii's casual focus didn't garner it any votes this year.
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Capcom has announced that Super Street Fighter II Turbo HD Remix has sold over 250,000 units year to date, breaking both day one and week one sales records and will likely go on to break the 30 days sales record as well. Capcom also states the game is on its way to becoming the largest grossing digital title ever.
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David Sirlin, lead designer on Super Street Fighter 2 Turbo HD Remix, hopes that Capcom will patch its recently released downloadable fighting game, but revealed that cost may prevent such a move.
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Super Street Fighter 2 Turbo HD Remix developer Backbone and redrawn art overseers Udon were "worried" that Capcom might cancel the game during the early part of its troubled development, lead designer David Sirlin has revealed.

Speaking to VideoGamer.com in the second part of a mammoth post-mortem interview, due to be published later this week, Sirlin suggested that Capcom continued to support the project because of pressure from the "world of gaming".

SSF2THDR, which is out on Xbox LIVE Arcade now (it's still to appear on the PlayStation Store in Europe), suffered a high profile delay earlier in the year when redrawn art based on Udon source material was thrown out of the window and work began with a new set of artists.
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Due to popular demand from the XNA Community, Major Nelson is now including the Top Community Games in his weekly lists. Like the Arcade list, the Community Games list is based on full versions sold.

Xbox 360 Top Live Titles (based on UU's)
1 Halo 3
2 CoD: World at War
3 Gears of War 2
4 Call of Duty 4
5 GTA IV
6 Left 4 Dead
7 Madden NFL 09
8 Fable II
9 Fallout 3
10 FIFA 09
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Doctor Octoroc gives us 8-bit renditions of our favorite christmas themes... with a video game twist!
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Microsoft Canada sends word about two cool deals during the month of December. Free Multiplayer gaming for the month of December for select games on the Xbox 360 and starting this coming Monday December 8th, Canadian gamers will be able to buy select Xbox LIVE Arcade games, Xbox Original or even Maps for a discount.

Sorry no cheap movie rentals or anything of the like, but the discounts for the games will be posted on the Xbox Canada website starting on Monday.
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