Full FeedGamertell Was There: Gamestop, Capcom, and EVO Street Fighter IV National Championship Finals
On April 18, 2009, Gamestop partnered with Capcom and the EVO Champisonship Series to hold the Street Figther IV National Championship Finals. The event was held amidst a backdrop that very much paralleled Ken’s background stage in SFIV at the Fort Mason event center in San Francisco, California.
And we’ve got exclusive coverage and photos of the event. Just click through.
2009 Northern California Cherry Blossom Festival
San Francisco’s little niche known as Japan Town celebrated its 42nd annual Cherry Blossom Festival that ended with its highly anticipated grand parade on April 19, 2009.
This event usually spans for two weeks in mid-April when the cherry blossom trees are in full bloom. Hordes of people come together to partake in an abundance of ethnic foods, activities, and contests. This year’s celebration welcomed Star Trek veteran and community activist George Takei (aka Mr. Sulu) as its Grand Marshall.
Since 1999, Japan Town’s local and flourishing video rental place, aptly named Japan Video, has been sponsoring the Cherry Blossom Festival cosplay contest. This year mustered up a whopping 200 attendees who vied for the position of grand prize winner.
Participants congregated in front of San Francisco’s City Hall at 10 a.m. on Sunday (April 19, 2009) where judges would deem those worthy of receiving coveted prizes. Participants are promised gifts and goodies but neither they nor I know exactly what’s at stake until the very last minute (and remain a mystery to me even now). All participants were invited to march in the grand parade while the winners of the competition were featured on a motorized float.
Tecmo announces Ninja Gaiden Sigma 2 for Playstation 3
Tecmo knocked the socks off of the lucky individuals who were invited to experience the announcement of Ninja Gaiden Sigma 2 for the Playstation 3. The event was held March 24, 2009, at the Playstation store located at the Metreon in San Francisco, California. There, gawkers were treated to an adrenaline filled trailer showcasing some pretty interesting new elements to be included in the PS3 version of this formerly Xbox 360 exclusive title (Ninja Gaiden 2).
There, a slew of brand new beautifully rendered backdrops and for Ryu Hayabusa to mince oncoming hordes against. Adding to that were the inclusions of all new bigger than life bosses (literally) that included scenes of a huge Buddha statue knocking over a temple on its way through a city as well as Ryu facing off against a perturbed Statue of Liberty bringing to mind the phrase “hell hath no fury like a woman scorned”. It’s best to think twice before angering a lady, especially when she’s 300ft tall and could squish you like an ant under her titanic sandal.
GDC 2009: Satoru Iwata keynote download
On March 25, 2009, the president and CEO of Nintendo, Satoru Iwata, took the time out his busy schedule to travel all the way from Japan to grace the attendees of the 2009 Game Developer’s Conference (held in San Francisco, California) with a highly anticipated keynote.
Held in the Moscone South Esplanade Ballroom, interested attendees entered an impressive sized room capable of holding 1000s of people. Three huge screens graced the front stage amidst a blue and indigo light scheme. Contemporary music tracks played in the background to entertain the audience until the main attraction begun.
The momentous keynote was titled “Discovering New Development Opportunities” and included several interesting topics:
Gamertell Review: Star Ocean: The Last Hope for Xbox 360
Star Ocean: The Last Hope is the latest installation to the Star Ocean franchise and serves as the prequel to the entire series of games released so far. Players are thrust into a not so distant future where the planet Earth we know and love is no longer able to sustain life on its surface thanks to the mass destruction resulting from World War III. Earthlings now have no other choice but to rely on the ambitions of the Space Reconnaissance Force and must abandon their beloved blue planet for the great star ocean in search of another terrain capable of sustaining life.
Capcom bringing more gore and mayhem to the Wii with three Resident Evil games
The Wii is finally getting some action, literally, as Capcom just announced that it will be releasing the sequel to Resident Evil: The Umbrella Cronicles (RETUC) exclusively on the Nintendo Wii and plans to release remakes of two classic Resident Evil titles.
The chronological predecessor to RETUC is titled Resident Evil: The Darkside Chronicles (RETDC) and will be based on the original Resident Evil 2 (released on the PSOne) story following familiar paths of characters Leon S. Kennedy and Claire Redfield.
Retaining its first-person shooter format, RETDC promises…
Guinness World Records celebrates Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars, Resident Evil 5
Guinness World Records is trying to get in on the hype surrounding the highly anticipated releases of Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars (March 17, 2009) and Resident Evil 5 (March 13, 2009) by announcing each of these franchises’ biggest records.
All of this interesting yet useless information was taken straight from the Guinness World Records 2009 Gamer’s Edition book…
Tokyo Game Show 2009 dates and details announced
The Computer Entertainment Supplier’s Associaton and Nikkei Business Publications, Inc. will be holding the Tokyo Game Show (TGS) beginning September 24 (Thursday) and concluding on September 27 (Sunday).
If you could only ever attend at least one video game convention in your life, the Tokyo Game Show would definitely be that one. Since the Electronic Entertainment Expo has been diminished into a measly press event without all the flash and fervor of its previous fame, TGS easily picks up the slack…
Wondercon 2009: Video game highlights
WonderCon is the premiere comic book, science fiction, and motion picture convention that has graced San Francisco, California, since 2003. Usually held at San Francisco’s Moscone Center, just a few blocks from Union Square, WonderCon has grown significantly in size over the past few years thanks to its inception into the Comic-Con International family.
This year, WonderCon was held at the Moscone South Center from February 27 to March 1, 2009. Surprisingly, there was a handful of video game booths that decided to grace WonderCon attendees with their presences - Capcom, EA Games, Namco Bandai and Fire Emblem: Shadow Dragon...
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Black Friday 2009
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Important Importables
Jenni Lada brings us information about all of the groovy new gaming imports from around the world.
