Due to licensing issues certain "Tatsunoko" characters needed to be dropped for the U.S. release, but Capcom has promised to compensate for the missing characters with new ones. While it has already been confirmed that Phoenix Wright is out, Capcom has a thirty-year history of characters they can pull from to fill the holes. Here are just a few suggestions of characters that should make their way into "Tatsunoko vs. Capcom."

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by John Constantine

The problem with most press conferences in the gaming industry is that, with a few notable exceptions, there just aren’t many entertaining personalities. The marketing executives, the publisher presidents, the developers, everyone. The vast majority of them are pretty dull. It’s not their job to keep a crowd entertained for two plus hours. They make games. So, at first blush, you can understand the logic behind Ubisoft’s hiring of “The Soup” host Joel McHale as the host for their E3 press conference. McHale’s an entertainer. He also entertained, but the man’s scripted humor didn’t do much to save Ubisoft’s big-on-talk, low-on-games show.

Most of the first hour was devoted to talking up Ubi’s new multimedia initiative. With their acquisition of special effects studio Hybride Technologies, the French publisher has slowly but surely built towards their dream of making more than video games. Ubi started collaborating directly with filmmakers when developer Michel Ancel worked with Peter Jackson on 2005’s “King Kong”.

Today, Ubisoft Montreal’s Yannis Mallot discussed his studio’s collaboration with James Cameron on “Avatar”. Cameron himself came out to talk to the crowd about how both the “Avatar” game and movie share a metric ton of three-dimensional art assets. Ubi themselves have produced one-hundred shots for the film. They also revealed that the “Avatar” game is the first stereoscopic three-dimensional game. Even though the game’s on the E3 show floor, we didn’t get a demo from Mr. Cameron.
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You're looking at a screenshot of a Wii game that was in heavier rotation last month than just about anything else on the system. That's "Call of Duty: World at War" for the Wii, which was played more than six hours per player in March. Think on that and look below for MTV Multiplayer's newest listing of Wii game usage. We're tracking more than 50 games as played by a pool of over two million Wii owners. Forget sales for a moment and find out just how much people actually play these games. Read more...

Right now we might all be enamored with a certain Xbox 360/PC zombie shooter, but our intern still loves some classic light-gun action. See his thoughts on the Wii title a year after its release. Read more...

It's been a year since Nintendo's beloved fighting game was released. Our intern reminisces. Read more...

How long do people play the Wii games they buy and rent? Here's the March update, which, as always, includes some crazy stats about how many hours people are -- or aren't -- logging with Wii games. Read more...

"LittleBigPlanet" wins big: The 12th annual Interactive Achievement Awards, hosted by comedian Jay Mohr, were held on Thursday night near Las Vegas. Voted on by about 300 members of the gaming industry by secret ballot, here are your winners: Read more...

Our Multiplayer intern and multiplayer gaming expert, Sal Basile, is back for another piece about glitchy online games. Today, he's got a list of his five most notorious multiplayer glitches -- and info on what the developers and gamers did about them. Read more...

How long do people play the Wii games they buy and rent? Here's the February update, which, as always, includes some crazy stats. Read more...

A morning full of announcements from Ubisoft, as the company revealed new "Assassin's Creed," "Splinter Cell," "Red Steel" and "Ghost Recon" games releasing by the end of March 2010, in addition to introducing a "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" fighter from some of the "Super Smash Bros." team. Read more...