Rarely a day goes by here at 61FPS when we don’t at least tangentially talk about Capcom. Can you blame us? Some of 2008’s most exciting games will be released under the their banner and that’s not to mention the hundreds of titles they’ve made in the last twenty-five years that Pete, Derrick, and I still play with regularity. Last week’s announcement of Tatsunoko vs. Capcom, a new fighting game that pits the publisher’s characters against anime icons from Tatsunoko’s four-decades-deep catalog, is particularly momentous. Alongside Street Fighter IV and Sengoku Basara X, it cements Capcom’s recommitment to the genre they all but created: one on one fighting games. What’s exciting, though, is that the genre itself is on the verge of an apparent renaissance.
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