Darkstalkers coming to consoles soon

Capcom's most famous beat 'em up is obviously Street Fighter, but after that my favourite is the ghoulish Darkstalkers. Ostensibly, the game plays like Street Fighter, just with vampires, demons, Frankenstein monsters and lots of other camp horror monsters, but everything so was over the top and... well, camp, that it had a charm all of its own. One thing I've always found interesting is that there are people who know of the succubus, Morrigan, but not the game that introduced her (and her cleavage) to the world. Anyway, it's been far too long coming (especially considering how many ports, remakes and sequels of Street Fighter games there have been this generation), but Capcom are finally porting Darkstalkers to home consoles. Actually, not Darkstalkers itself, but the sequel, Night Warrior: Darksider's Revenge, and Darkstalkers 3 in one downloadable bundle.

As usual for these sort of ports, Capcom are adding online multiplayer, tutorials and graphics filters to overcome the fact modern TV have twice the resolution of the original arcade machine. So until next year, here's a nice little teaser trailer from IGN:

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