Video Games Coming Out This Week [April 25-May 01, 2010]: Super Street Fighter IV

            

                          

AAA’s Targets of the Week: Splinter Cell: Conviction, Serious Sam HD: The Second Encounter, Super Street Fighter 4, Dead to Rights: Retribution  

A pick up in things this week as there are quite a few good titles releasing within the next several days. There’s the PC version of Splinter Cell: Conviction. The 360 version came out two weeks ago, and the PC one was delayed until now.

Serious Sam HD: The Second Encounter is a high-definition remake of the 2nd game in the series from years ago. SSFIV is also out this week. That’s basically a special edition of SSIV, and reportedly the last in the series for some time. This is for consoles only so far. There are rumours for a PC version, but nothing official.

There’s Dead to Rights: Retribution, a remake of another DTR title from years ago.

And another game out this week is 2010 FIFA World Cup South Africa for multiple platforms. I would have put this on my most wanted list but for a few reasons, one of them being I have very little national pride, and in real life the 2010 FIFA World Cup is going to be a disaster on so many levels. The game will probably suck anyway.

Available links go to game detail pages at retail and digital distribution outlets at Amazon, Steam, etc.

Remember to check out my Amazon aStore where you can see what the latest and greatest games out this year are.

[PC]

Lead and Gold: Gangs of the Wild West [Steam]
Serious Sam HD: The Second Encounter [Steam]
Splinter Cell: Conviction
The Whispered World

[Xbox 360]

2010 FIFA World Cup South Africa
Dead to Rights: Retribution
NIER
Record of Agarest War
Super Street Fighter IV - Super Street Fighter IV Peripherals
Tecmo Bowl Throwback [XBLA]

[PlayStation 3]

2010 FIFA World Cup South Africa
Dante's Inferno: Trials of St. Lucia
Dead to Rights: Retribution
NIER
Record of Agarest War [PSN]
Super Street Fighter IV
Tecmo Bowl Throwback

[PSP]

2010 FIFA World Cup South Africa
Harvest Moon: Hero of Leaf Valley
PixelJunk Monsters Deluxe

[Nintendo Wii]

2010 FIFA World Cup South Africa
Free Running
Horrible Histories: Ruthless Romans

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Sources:

The Video Game Release List of 4/25 - 5/1 [Shacknews]
New Releases Week of Apr 25, 2010 [Gamespot]

Video Games Coming Out This Week [April 25-May 01, 2010]: Super Street Fighter IV

Super Street Fighter IV Delayed in SA, PC Version a Possibility

LazyGamer found that by looking at a few local retailers’ listings, it seems as though Super Street Fighter IV will not make the April 27 release date that the rest of the world will enjoy.

After contacting Nu Metro, it was confirmed that the game will be arriving between April 30 and May 7, 2010. In fact more stores are listing the release date as the 7th of May. [1]

In related news, I found it interesting to note that the title may well come to PC. After all, Street Fighter IV did, but SSFIV is going to make it onto Capcom arcade machines, and it’s been said that these run on hardware based on Windows XP’s Taito X2 system, so it would apparently be quite easy to come up with a PC port. [2]

A release date for the arcade cabinets is believed to be July or August this year.

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Sources:

[1] Super Street Fight IV Could Be Delayed In South Africa [Lazygamer]

[2] Super Street Fighter IV Confirmed for Japanese Arcade Release; PC Version More Likely [shacknews]

Super Street Fighter IV Delayed in SA, PC Version a Possibility