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Capcom has announced a demo for Asura's Wrath on PSN and XBLA. The demo is available now on PSN and will head to Xbox Live players tomorrow. This comes over a month ahead of the game's official release...

#asuraswrath Capcom's interactive anime epic Asura's Wrath doesn't hit North America until February 21, but you can play it right now via downloadable PlayStation 3 demo, or tomorrow if you're all Xbox-y. Enjoy the demo trailer, randomly in German. More »

By which we mean that the latest Asura's Wrath footage -- extended from footage released in November -- doesn't actually take place on the moon.

Famitsu has revealed that an Asura's Wrath demo is slated for a January 10 release in Japan, reports Andriasang. In other news, if the demo does not see a release outside of Japan, we will punch the moon until it explodes.

Head over to Famitsu for a new trailer.

Capcom announced today that Asura's Wrath will receive three retailer-specific pre-order incentives when it launches early next year. The following are the bonuses, as described by Capcom: Amazon Fans who pre-order Asura's Wrath at Amazon.com will earn the Devastator Pack. This includes two additional gauges in the game that allow the player to reduce damage taken by Asura, and fill his Unlimited Rage Gauge faster...

The choice of where to purchase Asura's Wrath may not have religious significance in the strictest sense, but it will certainly affect Asura's outsized battle against the gods. Both Amazon and Best Buy will confer gameplay bonuses with pre-orders of the game.

Amazon pre-orders will get the "Devastator Pack," which reduces damage and fills the "Unlimited Rage Gauge" more quickly. Best Buyers get the "Infinity Pack," offering the ability to recover from overheating more quickly, and spend more time in "Unlimited Rage."

GameStop's bonuses don't alter your performance in-game at all, instead offering you something to look at on breaks from the game. Pre-orders will include a "combination art and comic book" by Penny-Arcade, half devoted to concept art, and half devoted to Penny-Arcade comics about Asura "and how he would deal with everyday situations."

Asura's Wrath was one of the major hits at what was otherwise a very quiet Tokyo Game Show this year, a beacon of madcap creativity amid a sea of sameness. It was almost more captivating because we had pretty much no idea what was going on in it, most of the time. Demos have showcased epic one-on-on...

This one time, we totally told the guy no ketchup and, sure enough, as soon as we got our order, it had ketchup on it. So we did what any rational person would do: we covered our arms in metal and beat the crap out of the guy on the surface of the moon. You know, for justice.

#capcom Asura's Wrath will release Feb. 21 and Resident Evil: Operation Raccoon City will hit shelves March 20, Capcom said this morning in a news release. Both games will have Xbox 360 and PS3 versions. More »

Last week, during a Capcom event showcasing the publisher's upcoming games, a brief demo on Asura's Wrath was given by Capcom's Kazuhiro Tsuchiya and developer Cyberconnect 2's Hiroshi Matsuyama, giving us a glimpse at the game's opening portion and the stage immediately following Asura's fight on the moon.

While the two talked about all of the crazy stuff going on in Asura's Wrath at length, the end of the demo yielded a far more juicier nuggest: a launch date for the game in North America. Capcom reconfirmed the date this morning via press release, revealing a February 21, 2012 launch for Asura's Wrath on both Xbox 360 and PS3. That gives us plenty of time to practice our pose!

#asuraswrath Capcom set up a sound booth in the middle of their New York Comic-Con booth this weekend not to keep the noise out, but to keep it in. More »

If you read our preview of Asura's Wrath from Gamescom, you might remember that protagonist Asura battles a god named Augus on the moon. Augus chooses to end this fight by lunging at Asura with a very long sword, launching him right off the moon and all the way back to Earth. At this point, said sword impales Asura and the Earth, eventually popping out of the other side of the planet. Like we said, it's a long sword.

Thanks to Hiroshi Matsuyama, CEO of developer CyberConnect2, we now know exactly how long it is. During an interview with Joystiq, Matsuyama gleefully informed us that the sword is 380,000 kilometers long, or roughly the average distance from the Earth to the moon. Another fun fact: At one point during development, the sword didn't actually emerge from the other side of the planet after impaling Asura.

In other words, at some point -- perhaps during a very official business meeting -- someone at Capcom or CyberConnect2 said, "You know, I'm not sure the sword is long enough."

Should you get bored with Asura's Wrath, developer CyberConnect2 has revealed a second playable character, who no doubt has a totally distinct and fresh style of wrath.

Yasha blames Asura for the death of his sister (Asura's wife), and thus has that rage going for him in addition to sharing Asura's own ire against his many, many enemies -- including the "Shinkoku Army," a newly announced faction of would-be Asura-punchers.

Capcom says it'll tell us more about Yasha at TGS. For now, you can look at the screens and check out his weird mask.

#asuraswrath Asura isn't the only playable character in Asura's Wrath. Capcom said today that you'll also be able to play as Yasha, Asura's brother-in-law. More »

#asuraswrath Asura's Wrath is an angry game based on an angry group of Buddhist demigods. More »

#hack Or maybe it's a game within a movie? Or maybe it's just a movie—enough! Okay, .hack, the video game within a video game video game, is getting a movie version. More »

We saw Capcom's bizarre CyberConnect2-developed action game Asura's Wrath back at E3, and JC wrote up an excellent preview at the time. Walking into the Gamescom presentation of a previously unseen part of the game, I was reticent to write up yet another preview just a scant few months later, but that feeling quickly vacated my brain and was replaced with pure, unadulterated madness -- madness that I'd be remiss not to share.

If you're not already sold on Asura's Wrath, here's why you should be: you fight a dude on the moon. Oh, is that not exciting enough? Would it be better if you knew the dude you fight is a god? Oh, and he's also obsessed with battle, constantly going on about how he "lives for it" and ... pffft, whatever, Asura's not listening. He's too busy being furious and punching that dude in the face with one of his six arms.

You'll excuse my lack of tact, but I came out of the presentation grinning like a child, ready to evangelize the uniquely bizarre experience that is Asura's Wrath.

Back at E3, Joystiq Features Editor JC Fletcher took the best picture ever, as seen above. Little did we know that Capcom's Kazuhiro Tsuchiya and CyberConnect2's Hiroshi Matsuyama would be so keen to show off their latest version of "The Asura Pose" this week at Gamescom after demoing Asura's Wrath. Osuuuu!

#asuraswrath In Asura's Wrath, bosses are as big as planets (awesome!) and sword attacks are stopped with bare hands (rad!). More »

#comiccon Asura's Wrath, a new game (joining Dragon's Dogma) due for a 2012 release, got a showing at the World of Capcom panel yesterday at Comic-Con. Here is a two minute video full of gameplay, showing off the game's beat-em-up adventure cred. More »

What Lord Deus spoke of was true: fight a boss in this gameplay!

Massive craft and enemies highlight this gameplay!

The odds are stcked against him and yet the demigod Asura will not give up until his wrath is quenched with revenge.

A few choice story and sci-fi mythology details revealed at E3 2011!

Stand back for this rage-tastic gameplay that shook the floors of E3 2011!

Asura used headbutt. It's not very effective.

Asura faces off against Wyzen of the Seven Deities in the first part of over 15 minutes of footage!

The battle heats up as Wyzen and Asura both take on new forms.

Asura unleashes his inner fury and sends Wyzen soaring into the heavens above.

Wyzen takes things to a galactic scale and rains down destruction from on high!