Details about the curious Capcom, Sega and Namco Bandai collaboration for Nintendo 3DS have surfaced. The game is called Project X Zone, and is an RPG that will feature characters from Resident Evil, Virtua Fighter and Tekken among others.Namco Bandai is leading development of the project, with producer Kensuke Tsukanaka revealing that the project got underway after successful discussions with Capcom. SEGA joined in shortly afterwards.
The characters announced for the game include: Capcom's Ryu and Ken (
Street Fighter), Mega Man, Dante (
Devil May Cry), Chris Redfield and Jill Valentine (
Resident Evil); SEGA's Akira Yuki (
Virtua Fighter) and Ulala (
Space Channel 5); and Namco Bandai's Jin Kazama and Ling Xiaoyu (
Tekken) along with characters from
.hack,
Xenosaga and
Tales of Vesperia.
Project X Zone will be ready for release in Japan sometime in 2012.
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