Before Street Fighter IV feasts on 100 yen coins in Japanese arcades on July 18, you can play Tatsunoko vs. Capcom: Cross Generation of Heroes. The catch is you have to be around Tokyo and visit Akihabara Hey or Ikebukuro…

I had a chance to try out Otomedius, a shmup from Konami, which feels like a spiritual successor to the Parodius series. Similar to Gradius V the graphics, including character models, are in 3D, but you don’t fly a ship…