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Jojo's Bizarre Adventure HD delisted on Xbox 360
The Xbox Live Arcade version of Capcom's manga-based 2D fighter JoJo's Bizarre Adventure has gone missing from the Xbox Live Marketplace, suggesting that a permanent delisting is imminent. "I can confirm that online play is not affected for existing owners," a Capcom representative told Joystiq earlier today. The publisher has not issued a comment regarding the game's marketplace status or availability. Jojo's Bizarre Adventure HD is still available for the PlayStation 3 via the PlayStation Network as of this writing. Many license-based games have disappeared from digital storefronts in the past due to expired licensing agreements and other rights-related issues, including TMNT: Turtles in Time Re-Shelled and BurgerTime World Tour. [Image: Capcom]
Deja Review: JoJo's Bizarre Adventure HD
We're of the firm opinion that your time is too precious, too valuable to be spent reading a full review for a game that was already reviewed many, many years ago. What's the point of applying a score to a game that's old enough to be enrolled in the sixth grade? That's why we invented Deja Review: A quick look at the new features and relative agelessness of remade, revived and re-released games. Let's put my history with fighting games into "weird relationship" terms. If Guilty Gear XX: #Reload was my first girlfriend, and Soul Calibur 2 my first true love, then JoJo's Bizarre Adventure was my first kiss. I was 12 when the game was originally ported to the PlayStation in 1999, and while I'd flirted with various Mortal Kombats and Street Fighters, never had I been so enthralled by a fighting game.Its oddball cast, absurdly supernatural narrative and artistic, surreal presentation made it different from not just the rest of Capcom's catalogue, but also every other 2D fighter on the market. It was unique, for better or for worse, with overflowing coffers of goofy, brilliant single-player content that made it so much more than a simple arcade port.Unfortunately, JoJo's Bizarre Adventure HD for PSN and XBLA is so much less.%Gallery-160443%
August XBL deals: Assassin's Creed: Revelations DLC, Rockstar sale
This week Xbox Live Arcade sees the launch of Jojo's Bizarre Adventure HD and Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, and Mass Effect 3's Leviathan DLC is set to drop next Tuesday, August 28. Xbox Live's deal of the week for August 21 - 27 includes Skydrift and its DLC, Deadblock and a map pack, and a smattering of other games for 50 percent off.Next week, August 28 - September 3, Xbox Live will host a half-off sale for a batch of Assassin's Creed: Revelations DLC: the Ancestors Character Pack, Mediterranean Traveler Map Pack, The Lost Archive, Codex, Eagle and Piece of Eden, each at half off.A Rockstar publisher sale will hit Xbox Live August 28 - September 3, with an offering of unknown items for "up to" 50 percent off. Left 4 Dead, Metal Gear Solid HD, Resident Evil: Operation Raccoon City and Ratatouille will all come to Games on Demand on August 21.
Capcom media megapost: Resident Evil 6, Lost Planet 3, Remember Me and more
Capcom just left a massive pile of trailers and screenshots on our doorstep, and rather than breaking them down into a bunch of tiny, annoying posts, we figured it'd be more convenient for you at home to bunch them all together into one big cornucopia of media consumables. Mediumables, if you will.Above and below, you'll find a gameplay trailer of Remember Me, as well as a corresponding gallery. Then, after the break, you'll find trailers and screenshots from pretty much everything else Capcom has going on for a while: Lost Planet 3, DmC: Devil May Cry, Resident Evil 6, Street Fighter X Tekken Vita, Okami HD and Jojo's Bizarre Adventure HD.%Gallery-162365%
JoJo's Bizarre Adventure HD's bizarre trailer
After Capcom announced JoJo's Bizarre Adventure HD Ver., you may have asked yourself, "Who's JoJo? And why can't he have normal adventures like everyone else?" This trailer will do nothing to answer those questions. Sorry.
Jojo's Bizarre Adventure continues to look bizarre in HD
Even with advance warning, we still kind of can't believe it happened: Capcom took time out during Comic-Con to announce an HD port of Jojo's Bizarre Adventure.The implementation, as demonstrated by the new screenshots in our gallery, is quite a bit more believable: it uses the same kind of (optional) graphical filters seen in games like Street Fighter 3 Third Strike Online Edition. The completely incomprehensible imagery in every screen is just a little bit smoother. But still incomprehensible.In addition to filters, Jojo HD will use Battle Points and Player Points with leaderboards, and will include an eight-player lobby system with a spectator function, allowing you to try to make sense of other people's fights. You can also save and view replays.%Gallery-160443%
Capcom announces Jojo's Bizarre Adventure HD, coming to PSN and XBLA August 21/22
An HD remake of Jojo's Bizarre Adventure was just announced during a Capcom panel at the San Diego Comic-Con. The remake features both the original graphics and a high-def reskin, as well as online multiplayer capabilities. Reliving one of the craziest fighting games ever made will run you $19.99/1600 MSP when the game launches on PSN and XBLA August 21 and 22, respectively.Hints of this remake were uncovered just three days ago by Xbox360Achievements, though this announcement failed to confirm speculation that CyberConnect2 would be handling the HD conversion. CC2 is making the new 3D fighting game for Namco, and its name also showed up on Xbox360Achievements as the developer for HD Ver., possibly erroneously.If you're mystified and confused, let us fill in the gaps: Jojo's Bizarre Adventure was a Capcom-developed fighting game released in Japanese and North American arcades in 1998, and on the PlayStation and Dreamcast in 1999 and 2000. The exceedingly eccentric fighting game, based on an equally eccentric manga, was developed by the team at Capcom responsible for the Street Fighter III series.
Rumor: Jojo's Bizarre Adventure HD coming from Capcom
Achievements for an alleged HD version of Jojo's Bizarre Adventure, one of the strangest and most unique fighting games of the 20th century, have appeared on 'chievo database Xbox360Achievements. The list, which makes reference to gameplay mechanics like Stand Crushing and specific character abilities like Mahrahia's magnetism, also mentions Xbox Live-enabled multiplayer and to-be-expected Story and Challenge modes.Capcom is listed as the publisher, while CyberConnect2 is surprisingly listed as the potential port's developer. CyberConnect2 is currently in the process of developing Jojo's Bizarre Adventure: All Star Battle for Namco Bandai. We've reached out to Capcom for comment and will be keeping an ear to the ground for more on this as it develops.
