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Ponder the 'Pawns' of Dragon's Dogma
Dragon's Dogma lets you recruit AI "pawns" to fill out your adventuring party. You get to customize one of your own, which can then travel into other players' games via "rifts," and vice versa. Learn more about the monster fodder in this video.
Get indoctrinated with lots of Dragon's Dogma, Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3 video
Capcom-Unity captured 30 minutes of uninterrupted Dragon's Dogma gameplay from Gamescom, controlled by producer Hiroyuki Kobayashi. Even while being interviewed, Kobayashi holds his own in open-field battle scenes and close-quarters combat alike. Capcom also captured a producer interview-slash-gameplay session for Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3, which is even more impressive in its potential for distracting a producer mid-sentence. Check it out after the break.
Clay a visit to the Golem of Dragon's Dogma
Here's one of the many creatures you and your team will probably fail to defeat in Dragon's Dogma: the Golem. Enjoy looking at it in stirring artwork and screenshots now, before you spend the better part of 2012 screaming obscenities as it lasers your face.%Gallery-128660%
Dragon's Dogma preview: A song of 'ice and fire'
Capcom's Dragon's Dogma shares some top-level similarities with Monster Hunter -- like the part about how the whole game is hunting monsters, for example -- but Capcom feels like it's approaching this one from a more Western perspective. It's a bit more grimdark, a little more realistic, with no poogies around or adorable cat-guys to help you out. "Our goal was to make it a very Western fantasy lore-based game," director Hideaki Itsuno told me during an interview. "Most of the creatures you see in the game come from Western fantasy lore." This includes not just the boss-type monsters, but, for example, the hordes of goblins attacking you in-between.%Gallery-125793%
Dragon's Dogma trailer features a griffin fight, but not a Griffin fight
We were a little apprehensive when we heard this new Dragon's Dogma trailer was about fighting a griffin. We like Griffin! He's a nice guy and a great writer, and we don't particularly care to see him sworded by some beefy medieval type. If you're also sensitive about seeing Joystiq editors face fantasy combat scenarios, allow us to calm your nerves: it's actually the mythological flying creature that is the subject of the Dogmatic beatdown, not our colleague. Phew!
Capcom estimates sales for Operation Raccoon City, SF x Tekken, and other upcoming games
In a document about its "Strategies and Plans" for the fiscal year ending March 31, 2012, Capcom provided estimates for how many copies of its upcoming games it expects to sell. Or "plans" to sell, although those plans aren't entirely up to Capcom. It expects the biggest seller of the fiscal year to be Resident Evil: Operation Raccoon City, which it estimates will sell 2.5 million units. Following that is Street Fighter x Tekken at 2 million -- a game whose presence suggests a release before next April, even though the date is still listed as "TBA." The open-world action game Dragon's Dogma is expected to sell around a million and a half, the first step in an initiative mentioned elsewhere in the document: to "develop Dragon's Dogma and Asura's Wrath into new franchises." And Dead Rising 2: Off the Record, Capcom's modern-day answer to Final Fight Guy, is expected to sell around 800,000 worldwide.
Dragon's Dogma is an open-world action game from Capcom
Announced during Capcom's Captivate event – in Miami this year! – Dragon's Dogma is billed as "a unique action experience that blends exciting and fulfilling combat with the freedom to explore and interact in a rich, living and breathing world." Oh, that world is also "open." Your party of three must "track down and destroy a mysterious dragon," but there will be plenty of other critters to slay on your journey. It shouldn't be a surprise that Capcom is tying DD's lineage to two of its most successful action titles; the press release says it's from "the creators behind some of Capcom's best action games" including Resident Evil 4 and Devil May Cry 4. Those creators include producer Hiroyuki Kobayashi and director Hideaki Itsuno. The new game is being built on an "enhanced" version of the company's already impressive MT Framework engine (think: Resident Evil 5 and Lost Planet 2) and will track down and destroy your Xbox 360 or PS3 some time in "early 2012."%Gallery-120999%
Capcom's 'DD' teased with dragon hearts, stone walls
Earlier this week, Capcom opened a countdown site at capcom.co.jp/DD, which displays a timer that will elapse on April 12, and the outline of a dragon. Today, mysteriously, the dragon has a visible heart, which would seem to confirm a new game adaptation of a certain Sean Connery movie. Maybe not. In addition, readers have found hidden images in the source of the site, which ... don't really help us identify anything. They're landscape pictures of a grassy field with medieval ruins nearby. Siliconera has suggested the countdown is for "Dragon's Dogma" -- a trademark for which the site discovered back in August. As with all countdown sites, we know precisely when we'll get the full story ... one day before the countdown runs out, when Famitsu leaks reveal it.
