Tag: CAPCOM

What do you get when you give an iPad to an 8-year-old girl? A bunch of Smurfberries, and a $1,400 bill from iTunes. That's what Stephanie Kay received, after her daughter Madison spent her winter break playing the 'Smurfs' Village' game on her family's iPad. The second-grader from Maryland apparently wasn't aware that the Smurfberries she collected cost real money -- a detail that, according ...

Capcom wants to remind you that Smurfberries cost real money, as do other items in the company's popular iPhone and iPad game 'The Smurfs' Village.' The free game has added pop-up warnings, notifying players that in-game purchases cost actual dollars and cents, which get charged straight to your iTunes account. This might seem a bit unnecessary, but it turns out that inattentive parents were ...

Assaulted by a major sensory overload, we felt like we saw so much (and missed even more) at this year's E3. With everyone justly excited about 'Zelda' and 'Halo: Reach', a couple lesser hyped titles caught our eye as we perused the aisles. Here's a list of some hidden gems we unearthed, hopefully giving you a leg up on gameplay, before one of these might go on to win Game of the Year. ...

The launch of a new 'Street Fighter' game is no small occurrence. 'Street Fighter 2' is arguably the single most beloved video game of all time, and yet sequels have been a very rare thing, appearing only about once a decade (the last one, 'Street Fighter 3,' came out in 1997). The fourth game has finally hit the streets, and represents the first time the franchise has hit the third dimension, ...

Last Friday, the folks at Capcom unveiled the full list of Street Fighter IV's characters, Joystiq reports. The long-awaited new version of the famed arcade fighting game -- the first since 1999 -- will be made available for U.S. consoles on February 17th. Plenty of the latest version's characters are old favorites, including Ken, Ryu, Chun-Li, Guile, M. Bison and the like, but others are new ...