Capcom, Sega & Namco Bandai’s Project X Zone

Capcom, Sega, and Namco Bandai were rumoured to be working together on a new title, but it has now been revealed that the title is indeed new cross over title, much like Namco Bandai and Capcom have done with Street Fighter X Tekken.

Project X Zone is to be a strategy RPG for Nintendo 3DS, featuring characters from Street Fighter and Virtua Fighter teaming up in pairs.  Based on the information from Hachima blog (via Sgcafe), the characters showed off and announced for the Capcom side so far are Ryu and Ken, X and Zero from the Mega Man series, Demitri and Dante (Darkstalkers and Devil May Cry respectively), and Chris and Jill from the Resident Evil series.

The party members from the Sega side are Shinguji Sakura and Ogami Ichiro from Sakura Wars, Ulala and Touma from Space Channel 5 and Shining Force respectively, Kurt and Reila from the Valkyria Chronicles series, and Pai and Akira from the Virtua Fighter franchise.

From Namco Bandai’s stable, players will get to use Sanger Somvold from Super Robot Wars, Jin and Xiaoyu from the Tekken franchise, Kos-Mos and T-elos from Xenosaga, Yurie and Estelle from Tales of Vesperia, and Black Rose and Kaito from the .hack franchise.

A trailer for the game is set to be released later this month.

Source: Gamespotuk