Vanguard Games and 343 Industries made an annoiuncement today it’s great for those people who’ve terrible patience. Halo: Spartan Assault, Microsoft’s new top-down arcade shooter Windows 8 mobile devices, might be launching today at 4pm Pacific.

The game centers around Halo 4’s Sarah Palmer and the origins of the Spartan Ops program. The tale itself slides inbetween the events of Halo 3 and Halo 4. Players who blow through all 25 missions could be in a position to gain experience points and unlockable Spartan emblems for his or her Halo 4 game.

Read our preview of the sport for more details. When you’ve got a Windows 8 device, you’ll go download the sport today for under $6.99.

In response to fan inquiries on Twitter, Street Fighter series executive producer Yoshinori Ono apologized and said that there are not any plans to bring the sport to Wii U, PlayStation 4, or Xbox One.

Ultra Street Fighter IV was announced in this weekend’s EVO Tournament. It’ll be available early next year, and can add new characters and stages as DLC, otherwise you should buy the sport at retail with all of Street Fighter IV’s previous DLC included at the disc. Head here to look the announcement trailer.

so sry, we do not have plan for Wii U now… RT @FrostySphincter: No Wii U? That’s a shame 🙁

— Yoshinori Ono (@Yoshi_OnoChin) July 15, 2013

[Via: Kotaku]

Our Take
It’s disappointing, but not surprising to profit that Ultra Street Fighter IV won’t be coming to PlayStation 4 and Xbox One. As we journey into the following-generation, it would be time to begin occupied with Street Fighter V. However, not appearing at the Wii U sounds like it may be somewhat a missed opportunity. It’d be a pleasant treat for Wii U owners who’re awaiting Smash Bros. to have a top quality fighting game at the console. Also, as fighting games catch up with and in the direction of the area of spectator sports, it kind of feels like there can be some interesting innovations to experiment with having yet another screen. Maybe the player could play at the GamePad, while television viewers can have full 360 degree camera control to observe the match, or something along those lines. It makes you wonder whether Capcom felt burned by releasing a 3DS version of Street Fighter IV at launch.

Microsoft has done away with the Xbox One’s online requirement, and it appears like titles akin to Forza Motorsport 5 are still having to regulate.

In an interview with IGN, Dan Greenawalt, studio head for Forza 5 developer Turn10 Studios says that because of time constraints players could be required to download an afternoon-one patch for the sport that contains tracks, cars, and Drivatars – the game’s data-driven cars that duplicate the driving of real-life Forza 5 players.

“So while you first boot up the sport,” Greenawalt said, “we will ask you to log in. And whilst you log in you’ll get the Drivatars and you’re also going to get lots of of content: tracks and cars. Our production schedule is such that we’re putting them in as late as possible and that implies making them free as downloadable content on day one. [But] this is required content to play the sport.”

Going forward, it feels like a web based connection may be integral to the experience since you will need it to get new and updated Drivatars, which make up your field of AI cars notwithstanding you’re playing an offline, single-player game. “You do ought to connect the sport with a view to get the most recent Drivatars, because we want as many of us training them as possible. And so in preference to having only a launch-day set that was created by us, each day that folks race goes to make the Drivatar set that rather more accurate, that rather more diverse, that rather more interesting.”

Greenawalt didn’t go into specifics of what playing Forza 5 offline except the day-one download would appear like, but he did say the team is “attempting to get as much of [the Drivatars] into the unconnected, offline mode to boot.”

We’ve reached out to Microsoft and Turn10 Studios for more details at the matter, and may update this story if we hear anything.

[Source: IGN]

Our Take
The Drivatar feature – if done well – might be great for online players, but it surely sounds like Forza 5 is having to suddenly comply with Microsoft’s reversal of its online-requirement policy for Xbox One. Drivatars sound so integral to the now-offline single-player mode that we wonder what playing single-player will seem like if you are not connected. In the event that your Drivatars aren’t allowed to adapt since you should not have the newest download, can we be stuck with moronic, swerving drivers? Will Turn10 offer a hard and fast of developer-created AI it is more stable? This also brings up the age-old issue of what you as a client actual own once you buy a disc. Day-one patches are common, but to have it tied to something so fundamental to the sport as Forza 5’s Drivatars, cars, and tracks, may be something different altogether.

In celebration of the game’s 20-year anniversary, Ubisoft is releasing an HD remake of Flashback for Xbox Live and PlayStation Network. The sci-fi platformer was released within the U.S. as Flashback: The hunt for Identity in 1993 for Super Nintendo, Sega Genesis, and PC.  

Attendees of the San Diego Comic-Con this week could have the danger to determine Ubisoft showcase the approaching Flashback remake inside the Xbox Lounge. The development is scheduled to manifest within the Manchester Ballroom on the Manchester Grand Hyatt hotel on July 18 and 19 from 11 AM to eight PM PT, and on July 20 from 11 AM to five PM PT.

Ubisoft has also announced that the discharge will include the unique Flashback game. No official launch date was set.

Take a glance at some HD Flashback gameplay footage here.

Our Take
Flashback should make for one more quality addition to the Xbox Live and PlayStation Network libraries. Fans of Shadow Complex might note some similarities widespread and gameplay here, that is a very good thing. Hopefully this Comic-Con event will set off an official release date.

Some of the high-profile gaming-oriented Kickstarter projects are at the horizon. Which one are you desperately anticipating?

In the previous few years, Kickstarter has become a huge a part of the gaming industry, as numerous developers look to their fans to fund projects rather than a standard publisher model. Look no further than our Kickstarter Compendium for only a sampling of the games being built through crowd funding. While there is not any doubt that utilizing Kickstarter have been a successful approach for a lot of game makers, the gaming community continues to attend to determine how a majority of these projects will prove.

A few in demand Kickstarters, just like the Ouya, or games like FTL: Faster Than Light and Star Command, have already released. However, a few of the most highly funded gameson Kickstarter haven’t begun to peer the sunshine of day, and it continues to be seen how good those games can be. With next week’s release of Shadowrun Returns, we thought it was a great time to invite about which games you are looking forward to.

Games like Double Fine’s Broken Age, inXile’s Wasteland 2 and Torment: Tides of Numenera,  Obsidian’s Project Eternity, Hex, Star Citizen, and Shovel Knight are only a few of the large success stories. Which game is top in your list to look at? Whether you helped fund the sport or not, are there any Kickstarted games you’ll buy at the day they arrive out?

Share your opinions at the comments below.