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Super Street Fighter IV Arcade Welcoming New Challengers?

Just when you thought you'd seen all the characters Street Fighter IV had to offer, along comes a tease for more.
A flyer for the upcoming arcade release of Super Street Fighter IV has a fairly significant tease along the bottom.

It's not talking about the characters added to the console version - like Dudley - because those are already pictured.
What's more, the Japanese text splashed across the front of the statement isn't a question. It says something along the lines of "The Appearance Of New Challengers!"
Some new fighters, perhaps? Could be. It's not like it'd be without precedent; after all, Capcom added a bunch of new fighters to Street Fighter IV when it made the jump from arcade to console; no reason they can't do the same in this case, especially since they'll need to convince people to head to an arcade to play a game they already own at home.
New challengers coming for Super Street Fighter 4? [eventhubs, thanks Jon!]

World Officially Ending - Capcom vs Namco Rumors

Game Informer is reporting a rumor that two very different Versus style games are being developed by the two biggest companies in the fighting game arena. Supposedly, both companies are developing their own game, pitting their characters against the rival's. Namco's game is reportedly being built with the Tekken 6 engine, while the rumor has it that Capcom's game is being developed with the SFIV engine. Given that the heads of both franchises were recently on stage together in Vegas, hamming it up, and with Ono's imminent announcement of a game, the stars do seem to be in alignment.

Note, that these games are not continuations of the previous Namco x Capcom, an RPG. These are fighting games.

ARCADE VERSION OF SUPER STREET FIGHTER 4 PLAYABLE THIS WEEKEND IN JAPAN

  

Oichi over at VersusCity recently posted that the arcade version of Super Street Fighter 4 will have a location test this weekend in Akihabara. More location tests will be held in Japan over the following weeks, and you can check out the dates and location by clicking here. This was confirmed with screenshots of the arcade version at the official CAPCOM site.
Oichi also mentions there is apparently a new ranking system for the arcade version -- one number for your national rank and another for your local rank. There have been hints of additional features not seen in the console version being added to the arcade version as well, so we'll keep you updated as new info surfaces about this release of the game.

Wow...!

EVO 2010 from richhhard on Vimeo.

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Fighting Real Street Fighters

As seen at EVO 2010 by slash5150's SmugMug.

Dashboard Redesign Coming in November?

The Xbox 360 dashboard, the user interface for Microsoft's gaming console, looks like it may be getting a slight polish in November when the company launches their Xbox Live Gold Family plan.
The Family plan includes four one-year Xbox Live gold memberships for $100, as well as a new Family Center on the dashboard and the addition of more parental controls for the console.
A set of images that hit the Internet last night showing off a slightly reworked dashboard for the Xbox 360 seems to show the same changes seen in images Kotaku posted of the Family Center, due out in November. Those images, found here and here, were provided to Kotaku by Microsoft.
The changes seen in the images include slightly smaller text for the menu options and presenting the sub menu as a series of side-by-side images rather than images that drop away from the screen.
We've contacted Microsoft for clarification and will update this story once we hear back.

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