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Marvel vs. Capcom 3: Updated Roster
If Wolverine from the X-Men and Ryu from Street Fighter got into a fight, who would win? This is the sort of question that fuels the development of games like Marvel vs. Capcom 3: Fate of Two Worlds. This crossover fighting game features memorable characters from the Marvel universe and the Capcom games library, just like the previous Marvel vs. Capcom titles that launched years ago.
We've assembled a list of all the characters that have been officially confirmed for a playable appearance in Marvel vs. Capcom 3. We'll keep this list updated as new characters are announced, so be sure to check back in the coming weeks as Marvel vs. Capcom 3's release date of February 15th draws closer.
See below for the complete, up-to-date list, and check the official site for even more information. 
Name: Akuma
Affiliation: Capcom
First Appearance: Super Street Fighter II Turbo 
Name: Albert Wesker
Affiliation: Capcom
First Appearance: Resident Evil 
Name: Amaterasu
Affiliation: Capcom
First Appearance: Okami 
Name: Captain America
Affiliation: Marvel
First Appearance: Captain America Comics #1 
Name: Chris Redfield
Affiliation: Capcom
First Appearance: Resident Evil 
Name: Chun-Li
Affiliation: Capcom
First Appearance: Street Fighter II 
Name: Crimson Viper
Affiliation: Capcom
First Appearance: Street Fighter IV 
Name: Dante
Affiliation: Capcom
First Appearance: Devil May Cry 
Name: Deadpool
Affiliation: Marvel
First Appearance: The New Mutants #98 
Name: Doctor Doom
Affiliation: Marvel
First Appearance: The Fantastic Four #5 
Name: Dormammu
Affiliation: Marvel
First Appearance: Strange Tales #126 
Name: Felicia
Affiliation: Capcom
First Appearance: Darkstalkers 
Name: Hulk
Affiliation: Marvel
First Appearance: The Incredible Hulk #1 
Name: Iron Man
Affiliation: Marvel
First Appearance: Tales of Suspense #39 
Name: Jill Valentine (DLC Character)
Affiliation: Capcom
First Appearance: Resident Evil 
Name: Magneto
Affiliation: Marvel
First Appearance: The X-Men #1 
Name: Mike Haggar
Affiliation: Capcom
First Appearance: Final Fight 
Name: M.O.D.O.K.
Affiliation: Marvel
First Appearance: Tales of Suspense #93 
Name: Morrigan Aensland
Affiliation: Capcom
First Appearance: Darkstalkers 
Name: Nathan Spencer
Affiliation: Capcom
First Appearance: Bionic Commando 
Name: Phoenix (Jean Grey)
Affiliation: Marvel
First Appearance: X-Men #1 
Name: Ryu
Affiliation: Capcom
First Appearance: Street Fighter 
Name: She-Hulk
Affiliation: Marvel
First Appearance: The Savage She-Hulk #1 
Name: Shuma-Gorath (DLC Character)
Affiliation: Marvel
First Appearance: Marvel Premiere #5 
Name: Sir Arthur
Affiliation: Capcom
First Appearance: Ghosts n Goblins 
Name: Spider-Man
Affiliation: Marvel
First Appearance: Amazing Fantasy #15 
Name: Storm
Affiliation: Marvel
First Appearance: Giant-Size X-Men #1 
Name: Super-Skrull
Affiliation: Marvel
First Appearance: Fantastic Four #18 
Name: Taskmaster
Affiliation: Marvel
First Appearance: Avengers #195 
Name: Thor
Affiliation: Marvel
First Appearance: Journey Into Mystery #83 
Name: Trish
Affiliation: Capcom
First Appearance: Devil May Cry 
Name: Tron Bonne
Affiliation: Capcom
First Appearance: Mega Man Legends 
Name: Viewtiful Joe
Affiliation: Capcom
First Appearance: Viewtiful Joe 
Name: Wolverine
Affiliation: Marvel
First Appearance: The Incredible Hulk #180 
Name: X-23
Affiliation: Marvel
First Appearance: NYX #3 
Name: Zero
Affiliation: Capcom
First Appearance: Mega Man X
Tuesday, January 18, 2011
Modern Warfare Falls Victim to PS3 Hacks
A recent security exploit discovered by a group of PlayStation 3 hackers has become a major issue for one of gaming's most popular shooters.
Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare and Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 have become "exposed to exploits and hacks" due to the PS3 security breach. What's worse is that developer Infinity Ward is currently unable to provide a complete fix.
"Games rely on the security of the encryption on the platforms they're played on, therefore; updates to the game through patches will not resolve this problem completely, unless the security exploit itself is resolved on the platform," Community Manager Robert Bowling explained. "However, that doesn't mean we're not going to look into every option available to us."
"Regretfully, Call of Duty games are receiving the bulk of the hacker's attention, due to its high player counts and popularity. However, the number of legitimate players severely outweighs the bad apples."
"At this time, we do not have the ability to restore or adjust individual stats."
In the meantime, Bowling suggests concerned players should play exclusively with friends until Sony is able to resolve the issue. He added that Infinity Ward's future titles will unlikely utilize the platform's security.
"In the future we plan to adjust our approach to not rely solely on platform security and reduce the ability for this to happen in our games, as has already been displayed by the work Treyarch has done on Call of Duty: Black Ops to prevent similar measures."
Activision has not responded to requests for comment.
L.A. Noire Interrogation Screenshots
Things Gamers Do: Nick Tonks (He Paints Shoes)
"I'm not an artist that took inspiration from video games. I am just a video gamer who was really excited about what I was seeing, and wanted to express that. To be in some small way involved with video games."
Is that not a rather humble and beautiful manifesto?
Nicholas Tonks paints designs inspired by his love of video games onto shoes. He doesn't create original artwork. He doesn't reinvent the colour schemes. He doesn't have a factory and they probably won't make him a millionaire (but that's totally cool by him). He makes them one at a time, painstakingly, by painting onto Vans or Chucks.
Oh, and they happen to emerge looking totally pimp.
We sat him down to get a few insights about his craft, and just why guys like him take their appreciation of video games to that next level.
After posting a pair he did in homage to Noby Noby Boy on his Flickr page, Nick started getting emails and shout outs from people who liked them, and who wanted to see more. His second pair was inspired by the Phoenix Wright series – those electric blue badboys sold on eBay for £145. Nick was as surprised as anyone.
I'm not mass producing them. They know it's a one man operation, and they think it's really cool."
"My thing has always been that if the shoes pay for themselves, then I'll do it," he says. "Well, they paid for themselves, and paid for another [blank] pair [for painting] and ever since then it's paid for another pair, and another pair."
Since, Nick has painted shoes based on Grim Fandango, Okami, Patapon, the Legend of Zelda, among others. One of the latter pairs are reportedly worn on stage by country singer/songwriter Jared Salte, who approached Nick (@KyozoKicks) via Twitter. His delightful Twilight Princess design has been one of the most popular (that's Zelda fans for you).
But what about copyright infringement?
"There's been absolutely no negative fallout," Nick says. "Totally the other way." He points out that the Grim Fandango pair he did found their way to the Double Fine website, and when he approached Media Molecule about getting his hands on some Little Big Planet 2 artwork, it transpired that they'd already heard of him and were only too happy to oblige. "I'm not mass producing them. They know it's a one man operation, and they think it's really cool."
Early in 2010 Nick did some work with Vans, creating five pairs of shoes in aid of promoting the company's "custom culture" push. The designs all had to come from Nick's own melon.
"It made me realise that it's the combination of video games and shoes that I like. I had to do my original ideas and it wasn't exciting." Those unexciting original ideas are now on display in Las Vegas, Washington DC and San Francisco.
Nick is candid about his process, and has even offered to help others make their own shoes, happily telling people where they can get the right paints and taking snaps of his work as it progresses. He maintains there is no big secret here – as he says himself, anyone can get started with an old pair of sneakers and ten bucks.
As his work has featured on major video game news outlets, message boards and the Twitter accounts of companies like Disney Pixar (he recently branched out and did a brilliant pair of Toy Story shoes, Nick is finding no shortage of people who are interested in making their own stuff.
Ideas seem to come to him more or less complete, he says, ("ninety five percent fully formed,") and can strike out of nowhere. "I played Assassin's Creed II when it came out, and then just the other day I suddenly went, ah! I know exactly what I want to do!" The hardest bit, he says, is not to overcomplicate the shoe. "[you need to] cherrypick the ideas. You could just squeeze them all in, and I've seen that, but I think the less you do, the better."
Also the design must speak for itself, despite being an "in-joke for gamers."
"The designs [should be able to] be in stores, and anyone could look at them and go 'those are cool'. But a gamer will look and go 'those are cool because they're Zelda shoes'.
Monday, January 17, 2011
The Week That Was: January 16 2011
You didn't expect to see us here today did you? As part of our ongoing commitment to you/something to do to fill our lonely weekends as we consider whether it's time for that fourth playthrough of Bayonetta, we're going to be bringing you the week's big news in one handy lump on a regular basis. Or possibly a semi-regular basis, if our duvets prove particularly heavy on future Saturday mornings.
3DS FACTS
With the festive fug clearing 2011 is beginning to take shape – and on the gaming front that shape is looking distinctively pocket-sized. It's looking like this will be the year of the handheld: first off the public had a chance to give Nintendo's 3DS a proper shakedown in Tokyo, and the three-day event brought with it a fistful of news. The Japanese launch line-up looks less than spectacular, with only Professor Layton and the Mask of Miracle capturing the imagination. Next week's confirmation of US and EU release dates will hopefully bring with them some brighter news of what we'll be playing on day one.
It had better be good news too if reports that the 3DS will be region locked are to be believed. Given Nintendo's poor track record at getting games out globally in a timely manner it could lead to severe frustrations, and it flies in the face of handheld conventions. It won't be enough to derail the train of excitement that's leading up to the 3DS's release, but it certainly takes some of the shine off. PSP TOO?
Region-locks might not wreck Nintendo's merry 3D juggernaut, but Sony's certainly waiting trackside and trying to set up an ambush. Reports are suggesting that its PSP 2 – the worst-kept secret from a company that's made leaks its speciality – is to get its long-overdue reveal on January 27. With the torrent of information that's been slipping through Sony HQ there won't be too much that'll come as a surprise, but with visuals that are set to rival the PS3's and a brace of touchscreens it's guaranteed to be spectacular.
Whether that's enough to see it avoid the pitfalls of its predecessor remains to be seen, and there were some ominous overtones for Sony in one of the week's biggest stories. Hackers – amongst them the group fail0verflow and the prolific George 'Geohot' Hotz – successfully bypassed the PlayStation 3's security measures late last month, bringing down what had been the current generation's most stable of consoles. Such was the success of the hacks that it's believed that only a hardware update will circumvent them, leaving Sony understandably peeved. Restraining orders were filed against the relevant parties, though some believe it's already too late and that the PlayStation 3 could soon have a piracy problem that eclipses the epidemic that's thwarted the PSP.
DEMOLITION MEN
That aside there's been the usual helping of whispers, announcements of announcements and game unveilings ranging from the exciting to the eccentric. Wesley Snipes' Julius Styles: The International is certainly the latter, though the iPhone action/puzzle hybrid suggests that the incarcerated star has found something to keep him occupied while he's behind bars.
A domain registration that pointed to a direct sequel to Final Fantasy XIII enraged many, but news that Battlefield 3 is drawing closer to a full reveal proved more delightful as DICE's shooter shapes up for a GDC reveal. There was also happy news at both ends of the gaming spectrum as Minecraft racked up a million sales and Microsoft's Xbox 360 enjoyed its biggest year to date.
And that's the week that was, wasn't it?
Sunday, January 9, 2011
IGN AU Pubcast: Ep. 9
Season's greetings! It's time for another IGN AU Pubcast - our distinctly Aussie take on the traditional podcast, blending our love of gaming with beer and toilet humour - and a liberal dose of intelligent debate.
[NB: IGN AU encourages responsible drinking, folks.]
This week we have Tristan, Cam, Steve, Jem and Patch to provide all your drunken trash talk on gaming in the final IGN AU Pubcast of 2010!
This Episode Includes:
