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Capcom have announed that the Super Nintendo ports of Street Fighter II: The World Warrior (Street Fighter II), Street Fighter II’ Turbo: Hyper Fighting (Street Fighter II Turbo) and Super Street Fighter II: The New Challengers (Super Street Fighter II) are headed to the Wii U Virtual Console this coming Thursday.

Players in North America buying one of the games (US$7.99 each) can purchase either or both of the others at half price, while players in Europe (and hopefully Australia) can buy two of the games (£5.49 each) and get the third Street Fighter II game for free. All three titles come with Miiverse support.

That’s a whole lot of Street Fighter II to keep you busy this weekend.

Spanish artist Abel Alves has posted a trailer for a new creation that will have many of you excited – a free 8-bit style game based on the popular Game of Thrones TV series.

The game features four different characters (Jon Snow, Daenarys and Tyrion are shown in the video – each with different abilities and attacks) from the TV show as well as awesome chiptune renditions of the music from the show created by Floating Point. There are four levels in all, based on different parts of the book and TV series, some of which were provided by pixel artist Carl Olsson.

You will be able to the game here soon.

Japanese translation blog Yomuka has posted an English version of the three way interview between Shigeru Miyamoto, Satoru Iwata (then HAL Laboratory President) and Mother series creator Shigesato Itoi which was posted not long after the official announcement of the cancellation of the Nintendo 64 version of Mother 3 (known to us as Earthbound 64).

The interview is long, but goes into a lot of detail about where the game was at, what was going wrong with it and why the cancellation occurred.

It’s a fascinating read.

Capcom will be releasing a 2-disc, 40 track soundtrack set in celebration of the company’s 30th anniversary on September 25th.

Entitled Capcom 30th Anniversary Music Best: Original & Arrange, the CD contains tracks from popular Capcom classic franchises such as Ghosts’n Goblins, Mega Man and Street Fighter, as well as modern hits Sengoku Basara, Monster Hunter and Dragon’s Dogma.

So far the CD is only planned for release in Japan, but you can easily obtain it from AmiAmi for the RRP of 3150 yen.

Via Siliconera

Back in the 1990s, Nintendo licensed Donkey Kong Country out for a CG animated TV show produced by France 2 and Nelvana. The result was not pretty, and most people have tried to forget about it.

However, those of you with a morbid curiosity may be excited to know that a new DVD featuring three episodes from the short-lived series will be released in North America in October. The DVD is called Donkey Kong Country: Raiders of the Lost Banana and will set you back $US10.

This may be the first release of the series on DVD in North America, but a couple of single episode DVDs and one collection have been released in Australia and can be found for cheap.

Via GoNintendo

Sega has finally announced that Castle of Illusion HD will be hitting the PlayStation Store on September 3, with the Xbox Live Arcade version to follow on September 4.

As an added incentive, Sega will be giving away the Mega Drive version of Castle of Illusion with digital preorders on the PlayStation Store. It is our understanding that this will be the only way to get the classic version of the game, as plans have not been announced for a separate release.

A local price for the PSN version has not been revealed (it is £9.99 / €12.99 / $US14.99 elsewhere), but it will set you back 1200 Microsoft Points on Xbox Live.

Bare Knuckle, or Streets of Rage as it is known here in the West, is set for a 3D Classics release on the Nintendo 3DS eShop in Japan.

3D Streets of Rage (3D Bare Knuckle) will include local co-op, 3D graphics and a newly added One Hit Deathblow Mode, were enemies are killed in a single hit.

The game comes out on August 21 and will cost players 600 yen. There is no word on a western release yet, but we suppose it is only as matter of time.

Source: Nintendo Life

Nintendo eShop (Australia, Europe)

WiiU Virtual Console
Romance of the Three Kingdoms IV (SNES, 60Hz) – $AU10.40
Galaga (NES, 60Hz) – $AU6.50

3DS Virtual Console
Super Mario Bros. 2 (NES) – $AU6.50

Nintendo eShop (North America)

WiiU Virtual Console
Romance of the Three Kingdoms IV (SNES) – $US7.99

PlayStation Store (Australia, Europe)

New Releases
Zone of the Enders HD – $AU11.75
Zone of the Enders: The Second Runner HD – $AU20.95

PlayStation Store (North America)

New Releases
Superfrog HD – $US9.99
The Red Star (PS2 Classics) – $US9.99

Discounts
50% off Rayman games on PSN, Extra 25% off for PSPlus

Good Old Games

Discounts
Team 17 / Kalypso sale

Steam
Duke Nukem 3D Megaton Edition – 66% off
Shadow Warrior Classic Redux – 66% off
Duke Nukem 3D / Shadow Warrior Bundle – 66% off

Over the weekend, Capcom announced their plans to bring Breath of Fire II to the Wii U Virtual Console.

Capcom excitedly shared the news that fans can expect to see the classic Super Nintendo turn-based RPG on the Wii U in the coming months via the Nintendo eShop. This is obviously not the first re-release of the Breath of Fire II, with the game being ported to the Game Boy Advance in 2002 and appearing on the Wii’s Virtual Console in 2007 – still, it is good news!

Japan recently received news that Breath of Fire VI is in development for PC and mobile devices, but there is no word as of yet regarding such a release in the West. Hopefully the aforementioned re-release with satiate Breath of Fire fans’ appetites until we hear more about the new entry in the series – the game headed to 3DS or Wii U would make many a person happy, I suspect.

Check out the Breath of Fire II Virtual Console trailer above.

Sources: Capcom Unity, Retrospekt.

The latest version of Exploding Rabbit’s popular Super Mario Crossover flash game is now available. The update was previously planned for release in June, but unforeseen circumstances held the game back another month.

New to version 3 are the Super Mario Bros. Special levels, based on the maligned version of the game released for the Sharp X1 computer, a selectable difficulty mode which adjusts layouts of the levels and more game specific skins.

The next project up for Exploding Rabbit is an original title – Super Retro Squad, which expands upon the formula seen in the Super Mario Crossover game and features original characters and designs.

Source: Exploding Rabbit (via Destructoid)