Jojo's Bizarre Adventure: All Star Battle commercial - shows off Gold Experience Box and gameplay footage of Yoshikage Kira

Docternakabachi uploaded a brief commercial for Jojo's Bizarre Adventure: All Star Battle. This video features some great gameplay footage and shows off the contents of the Gold Experience Box including a quick clip of Yoshikage Kira in action.

Check it out below.

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Sega Cup 2013 - Virtua Fighter 5 Final Showdown's $16,000 up for grabs

Sega has updated their blog with some new information about their upcoming Sega Cup Virtua Fighter 5 Final Showdown tournament coming April 20, 2013.

They mainly cover the tournament's registration stating that anyone interested in participating must register before April 15, 2013. Additionally, they cover the cash prize they will distribute the $16,000 they are putting up for the 128 man tournament.

To register or see the full breakdown for top 16 head over to Sega's Blog for more information.

If you missed it, Sega challenged Evil Geniuses' Justin Wong to compete in this tournament and he has updated the community on his status last week.

Dead or Alive 5 Fighters costume pack preview featuring Bayman, Hayabusa, Rig and Jann Lee

Team Ninja has released a bit of footage showing off a few DLC costumes from the upcoming Dead or Alive 5 Fighters pack. Featured here are two matches that give us a glimpse of new costumes for Bayman, Hayabusa, Rig and Jann Lee, who all appear to be sporting MMA style trunks.

The Dead or Alive 5 Fighter Pack will run for 400 Microsoft Points / $5.00 USD and will include new costumes for Hayabusa, Brad Wong, Jann Lee, Bayman, Gen Fu, Hayate, Rig, Eliot, Bass, Zack and Akira.

Hit the jump for more.

Jojo's Bizarre Adventure: All Star Battle Gold Experience Box details and images

Gematsu posted an article that divulges information and images of the Jojo's Bizarre Adventure: All Star Battle collector's edition that will be available in Japan upon the release of the game. The contents of the Gold Experience Box are listed below complete with images of the statue, soundtrack and character art for Yoshikage Kira whom will be available via DLC.

The Jojo's Bizarre Adventure: All Star Battle Gold Experience Box will retail for ¥16,980.

Hit the jump to check out the rest of the images.

Jojo's Bizarre Adventure: All Star Battle trailer featuring footage of Jojolion, Jonathan Joestar, Will Zeppeli and more

Namco Bandai has released the latest trailer for Jojo's Bizarre Adventure: All Star Battle. Although this video is in Japanese, it features a ton of excellent gameplay footage and even shows off a few of the recently announced characters such as Jojolion, Will Zeppeli and Jonathan Joestar.

Jojo's Bizarre Adventure: All Star Battle is set for a Japan release on August 29, 2013.

Tips by phantomking00, USAtlas, Vawned, LordKurow, MajorPug, JanTheMan and okamiking.

World Game Cup 2013 latest trailer confirms attendance of Mago, Tokido, Gamerbee, Poongko, madKOF, Alioune and Luffy

World Game Cup 2013 is kicking off their promotion campaign for the tournament by releasing a new trailer that shows off the register-able games and the long list of power players both local and abroad.

The tournament takes place on March 1st and will be provided with two streams, in French and English (presumably one hosted by Gamekult). WGC has traditionally been an extremely large tournament with a lot of international participation.

Yoshikage Kira confirmed for Jojo's Bizarre Adventure: All-Star Battle along with new screens for Jojolion

Famitsu recently revealed some new screenshots for Jojo's Bizarre Adventure: All-Star Battle. Also in a different page they uploaded image teasers to show off what their next trailer is going to look like.

Yoshikage Kira is confirmed to be a DLC character who will come with a code prepackaged in with a new copy of the game. Whether he is free DLC, timed DLC or charged DLC outside of this code is unknown. The new screenshots display Jonathan Joestar, Johnny Joestar and Jojolion (titled Higashikata Josuke in the image).

Hit the jump to see all the scans and images from both gameplay and what appears to be an upcoming trailer.+

Dead or Alive 5+ shows off first person mode, new outfits, touch screen controls and more

Tecmo Koei is showing off the features in Dead or Alive 5+ on the PlayStation Vita via some new images and a slick trailer. If you're curious how the game's touch screen controls and first person mode will look and work, the media below should give you a great idea.

The team also shows some new costumes, and the game's new frame data and training mode options. To check out more visuals, hit the jump.

Latest Dead or Alive 5 patch enables boob jiggling via DualShock controller

Dead of Alive 5's game director, Yohei Shimbori, once said that Tecmo Koei planned for their latest game to have a more mature look, but later relented due to fan demand to honor the series' past.

Taking this a step further in the 1.03A release for the PlayStation 3, fans discovered that you could manipulate the female character's breasts by shaking the DualShock controller. The video below shows how it's done.

Via GameRevolution, video from Yuuka Edogawa.

Jojo's Bizarre Adventure All Star Battle Japan release date in August, Jojolion confirmed as playable

Siliconera posted an article earlier today with a bit of details on the upcoming Jojo's Bizarre Adventure All Star Battle game. The Namco Bandai published fighter will be released in Japan on August 29, 2013 and will retail at ¥7,980 ($85 USD).

A special edition of the game will also be available for ¥16,980 ($182 USD) and will come with a Jotaro figure, a gold plate with an illustration drawn by Hirohiko Araki and a soundtrack CD all encased in a special box.

Additionally, the Shonen Jump magazine scan below shows that Jojolion will also be included on the Jojo's roster. First prints of both the standard and special edition of the game will include a DLC codes for a Hayato Kawajiri memo book and Yoshikage Kira.

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Dead or Alive 5 ver. 1.03A patch now live on PlayStation 3, Tecmo Koei releases excellent tag combo video

It has been reported by several readers that the Dead or Alive 5 ver. 1.03A patch has been released on PlayStation 3 today. This update will fix the Stagger Escape issue that was discovered in the ver. 1.03 patch a few weeks back.

The update is still currently being worked on for Xbox 360 and a release date has not yet been divulged.

Additionally, TecmoKoeiAmerica uploaded a tag combo video in order to promote the new patch. This compilation shows off some great tag combos with numerous characters on the roster.

Tip by InitialR and a few anonymous submitters.

Justin Wong updates community on his Virtua Fighter 5: Final Showdown challenge from Sega

Evil Geniuses' Justin Wong updated everyone on the status of his Virtua Fighter 5: Final Showdown challenge that Sega offered him over on Sega's Blog. If you missed it, Sega challenged Justin Wong to participate in their Sega Cup 2013 Virtua Fighter tournament on April 20th.

This is what he had to say.

Super Smash Land makes Super Smash Brothers into original Gameboy game

If you ever wondered what your favorite Super Smash Brothers characters would look and play like on the original Gameboy, look no further. Super Smash Land is a free, fan made PC game developed by Dan Fornace, that takes the Super Smash Brothers formula and puts it into the style of an original Gameboy game.

Some of Nintendo's most well known characters are playable including Mario, Link, Pikachu, Kirby and there is even an appearance by Capcom's own, Mega Man.

Although this project was released some time ago, this is still quite the awesome achievement. You can snag a free download of this game for PC on the Super Smash Land website.

Check out the trailer below.

Via Ripten and PikiNetwork.

Jojo's Bizarre Adventure All Star Battle new character and stage images showing Will Zeppeli, Jonathan and Johnny Joestar

After the latest reveal from V Jump Magazine, Famitsu has released exclusive in-game screenshots of the newest fighters for Jojo's Bizarre Adventure: All-Star Battle.

For those unfamiliar with the characters, Will Zeppeli and Jonathan Joestar are from Part 1 of the JJBA series and use the power of the Ripple to fight opponents. Johnny Joestar is from Part 7 and uses rotating fingernails like a pistol gun to attack enemies. His truly bizarre power evolves as the series goes on and it's likely we'll be seeing this evolution in-game.

Hit the jump to see all the images.

My Little Pony: Fighting is Magic receives cease and desist from Hasbro

In a move that was anticipated yet still came as a surprise, developers of Fighting is Magic received a C&D from Hasbro, the owners of the My Little Pony franchise. This cease and desist effectively halts all work on the fighting game that was to have a booth at the indie showcase at EVO 2013.

You can read the full statement from the developers below. Though there are other avenues the developers can take with other original fighting game titles, it appears that losing access to the MLP characters may have put an end to their efforts forever.

Submitted by two anonymous contributors and BUYACUSHUN.

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