A supposed piece of sheet music titled “Killer Instinct 3 – Main Title” has surfaced on the web. The site fueling the rumor, mundorare.com, claims to have recieved the sheet music from an unamed source within Microsoft. High res scan of the document available after the jump.

Of all the new fighting games being released this year, SoulCalibur IV represents, like, half of them. Considering it doesn’t have much competition, SoulCalibur really didn’t need to try very hard to pillage the average fighting game fan’s cash. Instead of just phoning it in like some series do (*cough, Madden, *cough), Namco Bandai Games [...]

I got some hands-on time with Hector and the MK vs DC game at E3 this year, and while I was impressed with the amount of blood they worked into the game, the Fatalities and Brutalities demonstrated at that point were a little on the lighter side. So when I saw the Joker’s Fatality (and [...]

Prior to Midway’s Leipzeig conference, Midway released a bunch of new screenshots that showed the Green Lantern and the Joker in action. After the Leipzeig conference, people noticed 4 new characters that hadn’t yet been announced, but were shown briefly in a Midway slideshow- Kano & Raiden from Mortal Kombat, as well as Wonder Woman [...]

The 2008 Pokémon World Championships took place this past weekend, along with the first-ever Video Game Showdown. Over 400 players from nearly 30 countries qualified for and competed in the Championships, but the United States swept first place in all three divisions of the Trading Card Game (TCG) finals. Additionally, the U.S. won the Junior [...]

Controversy is brewing over poll results featured in a What They Play article featured earlier this month. The poll, published in a story titled “Parent’s More Concerned About Video Games than Alcohol or Pornography” generated significant attention from the video game media as well as mainstream news outlets. Representatives from What They Play told Ripten.com [...]

Long time fans of Super Street Fighter II Turbo (and the Street Fighter Alpha series) will be pleased to know that today, Capcom announced that cult fan favorite Akuma and his dragon fists of fury will indeed be returning to Street Fighter IV. Complete with the images that Capcom put on the Japanese blog this [...]

It seems there’s a trend lately in the industry- whenever a company announces a game, you can bet that they will probably release, or leak, the screenshots in less than a couple of days. The latest game that follows this trend is RockSteady Studios Ltd.’s Batman Arkham Asylum, a chilling thriller from the mind of [...]

I recently reported that Sega CEO Simon Jeffery, in an interview with Gamastura, stated that Yu Suzuki, Sega’s long time game designer, was no longer employed by the company. The interviewer then made an interrogative statement seeking to further confirm Suzuki’s situation, to which Simon said “Not as far as I know.” Well, apparently the [...]

In a recent interview with Gamasutra, Sega CEO Simon Jeffery commented on the whereabouts of Yu Suzuki, the long time Sega game designer and producer who brought Virtua Fighter, Virtua Cop, and Out Run to life. His response confirmed that he is no longer employed by the company.

“Look at it!” Destructoid’s Jim Sterling did, and his conclusion was that the latest render of Kitana, created for the upcoming Mortal Kombat vs DC Universe game, had a little too much “bump” in her lower region bump map. What do you think? Is Kitana now Midway’s unofficial spokesperson for transvestite ass-kickery, or is the [...]

Those guys from Epic aren’t the only famous people to appear in a fan-made fighting game matchup this week. Darren Gladstone, formerly of Games for Windows Magazine and now of PC World Magazine, created a custom battle of change vs experience in Soul Calibur 4. Check out the video after the jump.

After being nominated as some of the people in videogaming that need to “shut the fuck up“, Cliff Bleszinski and Mark Rein take it to the ring to decide which of the two of them wins the right to shut up more. Using the photo upload tools in EA’s new game Facebreaker, I was able [...]

SoulCalibur IV’s character creation system is, to say the least, pretty potent. It allows for the production of some pretty diverse personalities, though all of the chicks have huge tits and the dudes are all ripped. Regardless, here’s a video of some classic videogame characters and a few comic icons that were recreated using the [...]

Mortal Kombat vs. DC Universe could just be the beginning of a movement that will have the Mortat Kombat fighters ripping each and every fighting game character limb from limb, if co-creator Ed Boon has his way.