Phantom Breaker Extra Opening Movie Introduces The Game's Fighters

5pb are hard at work on an updated version of fighting game Phantom Breaker, and they’ve shared the game’s opening movie. You can check it out below:

Phantom Breaker: Extra has new playable characters, new stages to fight in, a spectator mode, and a new fighting style—Extra, in addition to Hard and Quick, which were already present in the original game.

Phantom Breaker: Extra is slated for release on September 19th in Japan for the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3. You can find a teaser site for the game here.

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Japan To Get Shin Onigashima, That Nintendo Game You've Never Heard Of

This week in Japan, Nintendo are going to be releasing one of their more obscure classic games for the Nintendo 3DS Virtual Console—Famicom Fairytales: Shin Onigashima. The game begins with a couple being told that they will soon be entrusted with the care of two children.

Soon enough, the couple run into the two babies, Donbe and Hikari, and proceed to raise them as their own.

Eight years later, an evil dragon attacks and begins to steal people’s souls, turning them into Oni. It isn’t long before Donbe and Hikari watch their parents being Oni-fied themselves, and decide to set out on a journey to save them. Along the way, they also learn of their own mysterious origin.

Shin Onigashima is a text-based adventure game. You select commands like “Talk,” “Move” or “Look” from a menu, and then select an object or place to interact with the command.

Famicom Fairytales: Shin Onigashima was originally released as two parts on the Famicom Disk System. On Virtual Console, the game will cost 500 yen.

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Ubisoft Reveals Next-Gen RPG, Child of Light

During its Digital Days event today, Ubisoft unveiled Child of Light, a digital download RPG heading to next-gen consoles and PC.

Child of Light's standout feature is the UBIArt Framework graphics engine, which allows the developer to create the game world using original concept art. This has allowed Ubisoft's creative team to design a game that appears to be a water color painting come to life.

“Ubisoft’s strengths include its diversity and the freedom it gives its creative teams,” said Patrick Plourde, creative director, Ubisoft. “We want Child of Light to be like a playable poem, a love letter to art and video games.'

Key Features [via press release]:

An Adventure Waits! ' Created by the talented team of Ubisoft Montréal using the UBIArt Framework, Child of Light is an RPG inspired by fairy tales. Take an extraordinary journey through the vast world of Lemuria and explore its mythical environments, interact with its inhabitants as you discover new locations and their secrets.The breathing world of Lemuria ' Across your experience through Lemuria you will meet encounters that you will remember, from friendly fairies and gnomes to vile wolves and dark dragons.Fight monsters and evil mythical creatures ' Aurora has the power to fight creatures from the dark and to restore the Stolen Lights. Fight alongside the Igniculus in Active Time Battle Systems.Your firefly ally can be controlled by another player, so you can live this adventure with your friends.

Child of Light will release on next-gen consoles and PC in 2014.

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Capcom Profits Drop As Resident Evil Revelations Fails To Make An Impact

Capcom’s profits dropped 37.3% to 828 million yen in their first financial quarter (April – June, 2013), the publisher announced today. Capcom attribute the drop to a lack of major videogame releases.

While Resident Evil: Revelations on PC and consoles and Dragon’s Dogma: Dark Arisen both enjoyed “solid sales,” Capcom say that both titles fell short of driving an increase in the company’s overall sales.

As part of their future plans, Capcom are focusing on restructuring their organization to focus more on internal development and a reduction in outsourced development work. In May, the company stated that the move wouldn’t lead to an increase in development costs.

News of Capcom’s drop in profits comes shortly after an announcement that the company was reorganizing its staff, which led to the resignation of its senior vice-president, Christian Svensson.

Capcom have not changed their financial forecast for the full fiscal year.

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New Nintendo Direct Presentation To Discuss 3DS And Wii U Games

A new Nintendo Direct presentation will be aired on Wednesday, featuring details on previously announced Nintendo 3DS and Wii U games, according to Nintendo of America. Here are the timings and streaming links for the U.S., Europe and Japan:

Nintendo Direct U.S. 鈥?7 am PT

Nintendo Direct EU 鈥?4 pm CST

Nintendo Direct JP 鈥?11 pm JST

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