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Capcom/Sega/Namco Bandai's 1st Project X Zone Promo Streamed

Saturday's Nintendo Direct event streamed the first promotional video for Project X Zone (pronounced Project Cross Zone), a simulation role-playing game for the Nintendo 3DS system with characters from the game companies CAPCOM, Sega, and Namco Bandai Games. The video highlights the characters that will be battling from several different franchises:

From the CAPCOM side, Chris Redfield (Hiroki Touchi) and Jill Valentine (Atsuko Yuya) from Biohazard Revelations (Resident Evil Revelations), Dante (Toshiyuki Morikawa) from the Devil May Cry franchise, Demitri Maximoff (Nobuyuki Hiyama) from the Vampire (Darkstalkers) franchise, Ryu (Hiroki Takahashi) and Ken Masters (Yūji Kishi) from Street Fighter franchise, and X (Takahiro Sakurai) and Zero (Ryōtarō Okiayu) from the Rockman X (Mega Man X) series will appear.

From the Sega side, Akira Yūki (Shinichirō Miki) and Pai Chan (Minami Takayama) from the Virtua Fighter series, and Tōma (Romi Park) and Cyrille (Houko Kuwashima) from Shining Force EXA will appear.

From the Namco Bandai Games side, Yuri Lowell (Kōsuke Toriumi) and Estelle (Mai Nakahara) from Tales of Vesperia, Jin Kazama (Isshin Chiba) and Ling Xiaoyu (Maaya Sakamoto) from the Tekken series, Kite (Sayaka Aida) and Black Rose (Masumi Asano) from the .hack series, and KOS-MOS (Mariko Suzuki) and T-elos (Mariko Suzuki) from the Xenosaga series will appear.

Kensuke Tsukanaka is producing the game for release this year.

[Via andriasang]