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Capcom has detailed its 2015 Pro Tour fighting game circuit schedule, with the eSports organization offering up a prize pool of $500,000 this season. A post on the Capcom Unity blog details how the purse will be spread across 16 Ultra Street Fighter IV Premiere events at locations in Asia, …
Read More »Monster Hunter 4 Ultimate ships 3m copies worldwide
Monster Hunter 4G and its western release Monster Hunter 4 Ultimate have combined to ship 3m units, Capcom has announced. The figure includes both physical copies and units purchased through the 3DS eShop, but omits the original Monster Hunter 4’s 4m sales. Monster Hunter 4 Ultimate launched earlier this month …
Read More »INTERVIEW: Capcom’s 2015 comeback
The last time MCV met with Capcom’s UK team, they were full of optimism. It was early 2012 and the next year was to mark the arrival of Resident Evil: Operation Raccoon City, Street Fighter X Tekken, DmC: Devil May Cry and Resident Evil 6. The products were in place …
Read More »Resident Evil HD re-release is the fastest selling game on PSN
The recent re-release of Capcom’s classic survival horror title Resident Evil has become the fastest-selling digital title in the PlayStation Store’s history The game, which launched on January 20th, broke the record for day one sales of a digital title on PSN in Europe and North America. Resident Evil HD …
Read More »‘Stronger’ Capcom ready for 2015 comeback
Capcom says it is now in a ‘better place’ as it prepares for its 2015 comeback. The firm underwent a major restructure in 2013 after lower than expected sales of DMC: Devil May Cry and Resident Evil 6. As a result the firm has published very few games in the …
Read More »Resident Evil 7 will ‘blow our minds’
The producer of Revelations 2 has said he is confident that the team working on Resident Evil 7 will produce something good enough to dispel the nightmares of Resident Evil 6. "Unfortunately we work on Revelations and that’s kind of it. We don’t really have a window into whatever else …
Read More »Dragon’s Dogma Online announced for PC, PS4 and PS3
A free-to-play entry in Capcom’s Dragon’s Dogma series has been unveiled for release in Japan later this year. Japanese gaming publication Famitsu broke the news of the new title, following weeks of speculation fuelled by trademark filings in Japan and Europe. The first Dragon’s Dogma was released for PS3 and …
Read More »Tekken X Street Fighter still in development
Harada confirms crossover brawler was supposed to be released much earlier
Read More »Game director confirms active development on Tekken X Street Fighter
Tekken X Street Fighter game director Katsuhiro Harada has confirmed crossover fighting game Tekken X Street Fighter is still actively being developed. In an interview with Polygon, Harada admits that the team had planned to launch the game in a more timely manner than the delay-riddled schedule that has evolved. …
Read More »How to be a community manager
New Year New Job 2015: Capcom UK's social and community manager Neil Gorton tells us how producing videos on YouTube helped him get his job today
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