When a new Ask Capcom thread popped up on their community forums inquiring about the backwards compatibility of Tatsunoko vs. Capcom on Nintendo’s upcoming Wii U console, Senior Vice President Christian Svensson appeared with some bad news for fans of the niche fighting title. Our rights with Tatsunoko have lapsed fairly recently (so we’re no [...]

Following on the heels of MadCatz announcing their TTT2 arcade stick for the Wii U, Hori has revealed that they too shall be releasing a Tekken Tag Tournament 2 arcade stick for Nintendo’s new console. The upcoming Fighting Stick Tekken Tag Tournament 2 Wii U Edition uses new HLF-30 buttons, which are based on the [...]

A new round of media for Tekken Tag Tournament 2 Wii U Edition was released today that highlights a number of Nintendo-themed outfits that will be included as customization options, as well as the return fan-favorite minigame Tekken Ball. You’ll be able to deck your fighters out in costumes that resemble classic Nintendo characters like [...]

UPDATE – Namco Bandai just released the trailer shown during Nintendo’s presentation. As this is also meant for Tokyo Game Show 2012 next week, it’s possible we could receive a bit more information on this version. Nintendo is currently hosting a special live stream to highlight their upcoming Wii U system. Focused mainly on software, [...]

Eurogamer recently had another chance to sit down with Namco Bandai’s Katsuhiro Harada to discuss wide variety of subjects, an interview that they split into a few separate articles yesterday. The first touches on Harada’s recent message to complaining fans, which explained the ins and outs of voice acting from both technical and legal viewpoints [...]

The folks over at Siliconera recently sat down with Dead or Alive 5′s director Yohei Shimbori to discuss Team Ninja’s upcoming fighter. They briefly touch on older topics like the connection between their series and Virtua Fighter before moving onto questions about the game’s danger zones. The interviewer puts forth the idea that players could [...]

During tonight’s Nintendo Direct press conference, President Satoru Iwata announced that the next Super Smash Bros. game will be a joint collaboration between the company’s subsidiary Sora Ltd., which is headed by series creator Masahiro Sakurai, and Namco Bandai games for the Wii U and 3DS. While no other information has been divulged at this [...]

Gamespot recently posted footage from the stage demo Namco Bandai ran at E3 2012. They run through some of the major additions to the game, including the bonus characters and training mode’s customizable Combot. The previously announced Wii U version is also touched on a bit, which is set to be very similar to the [...]

UPDATE: Nintendo released the montage from their conference as well as a single screenshot from the game. The Tekken Tag Tournament 2 clip begins at 2:44. It was just revealed during Nintendo’s E3 2012 press conference that Tekken Tag Tournament 2 will be gracing their upcoming Wii U console in addition to Playstation 3 and [...]

In a recent interview published in the February issue of Nintendo Gamer magazine, Team NINJA’s head Yosuke Hayashi  and Ninja Gaiden Producer Fumiko Yasuda made some comments on the possibility of Dead or Alive 5 appearing on the Wii U. Hayashi had the following to say on the possibility of the game appearing on Nintendo’ [...]

In a short interview with 1up, Smash Bros series producer Masahiro Sakurai had one extremely interesting thing to say about the development of the next generation Smash Bros games (for Wii U and 3DS); They haven’t even started yet! “We’ve got no plans whatsoever,” he said. “We’ve got two new games out in the open [...]

Smash Brothers fans found out during Nintendo’s press conference on Tuesday that the company has begun work on a new game in the series. This game will be for both the Wii U and the 3DS, and will have some connectivity between the two versions. IGN interviewed the game’s producer on the topic of guest [...]