New Jojo's Bizarre Adventure: All Star Battle trailer - shows off ACDC and Ceasar

The official Namco Bandai Games YouTube has posted their new trailer for Jojo's Bizarre Adventure: All Star Battle. This shows off the two newly announced characters ACDC and Caesar. Caesar is a ripple user who utilizes bubbles and ACDC is one of the Pillar Men who can raise his blood temperature upwards of 500 degrees Celsius.

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Dead or Alive 5+ released on the PlayStation Network for the PS Vita, features First Person Mode, cross-platform play and more

Dead or Alive 5+ has been released on the PlayStation Network for $39.99 on the PlayStation Vita. This features a ton of new modes including Touch Play Mode, Training Plus Mode, detailed frame data, cross-platform play between PS3 and PS Vita, first person mode and more.

If you aren't certain you want to pick this up, you can download a demo. Below is a few images of the game's first person mode and some of the new outfits for the characters.

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Updated: Caesar and ACDC confirmed for Jojo's Bizarre Adventure: All Star Battle

Updated: A new image has been added into the story, this shows more of the two characters abilities. Such as Caesar's bubbles some blood related attacks for ACDC.

Both Caesar and ACDC (Esidisi) have been confirmed as playable characters in Jojo's Bizarre Adventure: All Star Battle in the new issue of Famitsu magazine.

Caesar is a ripple user who utilizes bubbles and ACDC is one of the Pillar Men who can raise his blood temperature upwards of 500 degrees Celsius.

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Lab Zero to give MLP project Skullgirls engine if $725,000 mark is reached, Skullgirls linux port in the making

Lab Zero has recently added a new goal to their Indiegogo campaign. If they can pass the $725,000 mark in the remaining 11 days of their campaign, they will give Mane6 their fighting game engine for free.

Mane6 are the developers behind My Little Pony: Fighting is Magic which was recently cancelled by Hasbro due to copyright infringement. The fighting game engine would be used for the current project that is being developed which is not the cancelled project, but a slightly different game that is being led by one of the creators of My Little Pony.

In other news, Mike Z recently announced that a Linux port for Skullgirls is currently in the making.

The Skullgirls team also said on Twitter that the beta release of the PC version should be out in June, followed by the final release in July.

Via Destructoid, tips sent by Nago, Teohkaka, and Gailim.

Sakurai intends to improve next Smash Bros.' online play, says idea of Brawl was 'carefree brawling'

Smash Bros. producer, Masahiro Sakurai, recently received a letter from a former Brawl player about his experience playing online for the very first time. The player describes his experience from the online play detailing how no items were used as well as how no approach were made by other players, as they all waited for the other to strike first. The player expresses this as, "not something you do in Smash Bros."

Masahiro Sakurai replied to the letter on his Famitsu column explaining both his view and how he envisioned Brawl:

Sakurai then goes on to explain why he feels his own team was more than a little at fault for this:

Justin Wong updates community on his Virtua Fighter 5: Final Showdown challenge, discusses training and tournament experience

Evil Geniuses' Justin Wong has once again posted a new blog over on Sega's website detailing his progress with Virtua Fighter 5: Final Showdown. Justin was challenged by Sega to compete in the Sega Cup tournament in April and has been documenting his learning process.

Justin notes how he's been training as of late, his experience in the Virtua Fighter 5 tournament at Winter Brawl and more. Here's a small except from the article.

Missed the first update from Justin? Check it out here.

Read the full article over on Sega's Blog.

Dead or Alive 5+ 'comprehensive' demo will launch shortly after Vita release, has cross play option against PS3 users

A new trailer for the Vita version of Team Ninja's Dead or Alive 5+ was released today, to hype up the game's March 22, 2013 release date. There's also a free demo coming shortly after that time, and one of the more notable things is that you to use the crossplay option with PS3 users, so if this is something you want to try out before deciding to buy the game, you can.

The trailer also shows a good bit of the game's touch play options, including the new frame data options and other bells and whistles Team Ninja added to this version.

The Vita release will also come with new cheerleader costumes, which you can check out below. Hit the jump to see more images and read the press release.

World Game Cup 2013 results, battle logs, brackets and more

Updated with final results: This story has been updated with the final for World Game Cup 2013. Hit the jump to check them out.

This weekend, the World Game Cup 2013 is taking place in Cannes, France at the Palais des Festivals. Notable players in attendance include: MCZ|Mago, MCZ|Tokido, AVM|GamerBee, CafeID|Poongko, EMP|Dieminion, RZR|Itabashi Zangief, BCN|Alioune, WDM|Luffy and CafeID|MadKOF.

Many of the the top tournament games in the scene are being competed at this weekend, including SSF4 AE v2012, UMvC3, SFxT and KoF13. You can scope out our preview of this event for additional details.

Hit the jump to see an embed of the live stream, early brackets and more details.

Development of new Smash Bros. game impacted by Sakurai's right arm

The creator of the Smash Bros., Masahiro Sakurai, is having trouble with his right arm, and it's impacting development of the latest entry in the series, he wrote in his Famitsu column.

Sakurai said he's getting "calcific tendonitis" and apparently they also found several ruptures in his arm. He notes specifically that there's a feeling of fatigue around the flexor muscles that turns into pain when he tries to use a keyboard or game controller with his fingers. He's now using a track ball and learning to do other day-to-day functions with his left arm.

Masahiro cites a hectic work schedule for contributing to these issues, noting that he often comes in on his days off to work on the project and catch up on things, but with his body giving out on him, he's likely going to have to cut out the extra days.

Sakurai ominously notes that if this disorder lingers, or if it never gets fixed, there's no telling what impact that would have on the project.

Via Polygon and Famitsu.

Dead or Alive 5's Hotties Swimwear and Fighter Pack DLC in game preview

With the release of patch 1.03A on Xbox Live Marketplace for Dead or Alive 5 yesterday, came the DLC costumes the Hotties Swimwear set and the Fighter Pack . These are available for download with the current discounted prices as an apology to Xbox users who have been waiting on the patch to release.

With it's release BloodBurger has put together a video showing off all of these in game.

Dead or Alive 5 patch 1.03 now on Xbox Live Marketplace, discounted price on DLC costumes for delay

The Dead or Alive 5 pach ver. 1.03A has been released on the Xbox Live Marketplace today, this was previously released on the PlayStation Network two weeks ago. This update will fix the Stagger Escape issue that was discovered in the ver. 1.03 patch a few weeks back.

To apologize for the delay on the Xbox Live Marketplace, Team Ninja is putting the DLC costume Fighter Pack up for 80 MSP and the Swimwear Set for 480 MSP.

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Jojo's Bizarre Adventure HD, Virtua Fighter 5 Final Showdown and more 50% - 67% off on Xbox Live Marketplace beginning March 5

Major Nelson posted a blog earlier today with details on an upcoming sale for games on the Xbox Live Marketplace. Quite a few fighting games will be going on sale beginning on March 5 and ending on March 11.

Games such as Virtua Fighter 5 Final Showdown, Jojo's Bizarre Adventure HD, Sonic the Fighters, Fighting Vipers and Virtua Fighter 2 will all be 50% - 67% off during that time. You can check out a list of the prices below or over on Major Nelson's blog.

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Itabashi Zangief lists his bottom 10 characters in Super Street Fighter 4 Arcade Edition v2012

Ryan Hart recently conducted an excellent interview with RZR|Itabashi Zangief in which they discuss various topics including his attendance at World Games Cup 2013, the Virtua Fighter franchise, how the Japanese community trains and more. Players usually divulge who they feel are the top characters in Super Street Fighter 4 Arcade Edition v2012, but this time around, Ryan asks for the bottom 10.

Itabashi also gives his thoughts on who he thinks is the best player around right now. He states that Fuudo is the most complete player all around and more complete than any other player on the planet.

Check out a couple of snips from Ryan's article below.

Winter Brawl 7 results, battle logs, stream archives and more - UMvC3, SFxT, SSF4 AE v2012

Updated with final results: This story has been updated with the final results for Winter Brawl 7, hit the jump to check them all out.

Winter Brawl 7 has kicked off in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and it runs through this weekend, ending late Sunday evening. There are three streams of the festivities being ran by Team Spooky, Bifuteki and 8WayRun.

Notable players in attendance include: EG|PR Balrog, AGE|NYChrisG, EG|Justin Wong, EG|Ricky Ortiz, BT|Dieminion, BT|IFC Yipes, BT|MarlinPie, AGE|Snake Eyez and many more. You can find our preview of the event with additional players who are attending here.

Hit the jump to check out the live streams, schedules and additional notes.

Images of new costumes and minions found on Japanese PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale site

The Japanese PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale website has updated with what appears to be images of upcoming DLC costumes and minions. Marked with the date March 14, 2013, in the images below we can see new costumes for Drake, Kratos, Emmett, Kat, Fat Princess, Sack Boy, Sly Cooper and Parappa the Rapper.

We can also see there is a fresh batch of minions that will likely become available on the same date.

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