Street Fighting IV is still sitting on the shelf for me (borrowed from our reviewer Victor) but always keep an eye on BlazBlue: Calamity Trigger thanks to its superb 2D graphics. However, and as rumored weeks before, ArcSystemWorks is indeed working on the consoles port for BlazBlue Continuum Shift with μ-12- making her home consoles debut along with Tsubaki and Hazama. Beginner Mode is being added for people like me who have hard times activating finishing moves and there will more than 11 new beautiful stages for the game. BlazBlue Continuum Shift will be released in Japan first this summer.

Apparently Street Fighter IV is still hot among the Famitsu editors and they decided to interview Producer Yoshinori Ono to discuss more about the game recently (July issue of Famitsu PSP + PS3) where he talks about the pressure in making the game a reality, why he thinks it’s an alumni, his favorite character and also the reason behind Chun Li’s muscular legs.

The game shipped 2 million copies in its second week and Ono is thankful to players who have always supported the series. Not only they made it possible for the rebirth of the series, they have also sent in plenty of encouraging messages during development. He admits that this is the most tiring project he involved in so far, thanks to the amount of time the series spent in “dormant” and the enormous pressure in touching the characters some consider as the king of Street Fighter II. This kind of pressure come from within the company too, there were many ideas being suggested and some even consider everything there is to be done has been done in Street Fighter III.

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