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While everyone pretty much knew he was coming, it's still nice to see Capcom take the wraps off Super Street Fighter IV's final new character Hakan with a couple of trailers.

There's a gameplay trailer, above, and a character trailer below. Amazing how, even in these lo-fi web clips, he's already so oily.

Super Street Fighter IV will be out at the end of April, and will be released on PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360.

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Opening statements are likely Wednesday in the trial of developer Calvin Boender after lawyers questioned more than 30 prospective jurors Tuesday.

Boender is accused of paying for almost $40,000 in home improvements for then-Chicago Ald. Isaac "Ike" Carothers, 29th, to win his support for a large real estate development in his West Side ward.

On Tuesday lawyers questioned two panels of prospective jurors, asking if they had any experience dealing with Chicago's zoning system or ever had contact with aldermen or Mayor Richard Daley.

Attorneys are expected to wrap up jury selection Wednesday before making their opening remarks.

-- Jeff Coen

Source: Chicago Breaking News | Published: 9 Mar 2010, 9:19 pm

We knew which characters would be available. We knew it would be released in March. We knew we were skeptical. Regardless of all of that, Street Fighter IV is now available on the iPhone and iPod Touch through the App Store.

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The iPhone version was officially released at the GDC 2010 Super Street Fighter IV Fight Club.

A Warrenville alderman has been charged with theft by deception and deceptive practices.

Court documents indicate that Christopher Halley, 26, knowingly delivered a $1,500 bad check to the victim "to obtain control of a certain property" of the victim's. The check was dated Nov. 6, 2009. The documents do not specify what the property was.

Halley, arrested Monday, was released after posting $5,000 cash bond. He is scheduled to appear in DuPage County Circuit Court on April 13.

Halley has served as an alderman since 2007 and is up for re-election in April 2011.

"They were personal things, not directly related to his position as an alderman," said Warrenville City Administrator John Coakley.

Halley could not be reached for comment.

Halley was censured by the Warrenville City Council in January 2009 amid accusations that he tried to use his authority three times to get preferential treatment for himself, his brother and a friend from local police...

A man died tonight after he jumped into the south branch of the Chicago River to elude police, officials said.

The man, believed to be in his early 20s, was rushed to Stroger Hospital, where he was pronounced dead at 8:16 p.m., according to hospital spokesman Marcel Bright.

Aided by a police helicopter, the police Marine Unit worked for nearly an hour to rescue the man first spotted at about 6:45 p.m. in the river near the Turning Basin, in the 2800 block of South Ashland Avenue, officials said.

Authorities said the man was one of three men being pursued by officers for spray painting a building on Ashland Avenue, police spokesman Dan O'Brien said.

Officers were able to apprehend two of the men, O'Brien said, but the third leapt into the water to escape officers, a police source said.

--William Lee

Source: Chicago Breaking News | Published: 9 Mar 2010, 9:00 pm

This Wednesday, God of War III director Stig Asmussen joins us live from the Game Developers Conference on our weekly podcast to take your calls.

God of War III hits Playstation 3s next week, so I'm sure you're bursting with questions for Asmussen. No problem, he will be on Kotaku Talk Radio this Wednesday at 11 a.m. Kotaku Time (that's 1 p.m. ET, 10 a.m. PT), giving you a chance to quiz him on everything.

Look for a reminder post about the podcast at 11:00 a.m. mountain time (1:00 p.m. ET) on Wednesday. The post will include call-in info so you can ask your questions. The show will be live a few minutes after the hour. If you're too busy, nervous, or shy to call in to ask your questions, you can always Tweet me during the show with them.

Subscribe to "Kotaku Talk Radio"...

A couple of new developer-centric tools facilitating the integration of the bluntly-named "Ultra-Precise Motion Controller" were released today via Steam, Valve Software's digital distribution service. Created by PC gaming peripheral-maker Razer and technology developer Sixense, the tools mark the latest endeavor born from the multi-year partnership between the three companies, which was announced back in January.

With or without motion control, these Left 4 Dead 2 zombies aren't likely to last long. Reve...

The day after a 16-year-old Joliet girl was killed and two other teen girls injured in a car crash, friends and classmates grieved, bid their farewells on a social networking page and comforted each other at school.

Emily A. Dukovac, 16, died at Silver Cross Hospital in Joliet on Monday night, about an hour after the Chevrolet Cavalier she was riding in rolled through a stop sign and was struck by a Ford F-150 truck.

A neighbor said Emily was an honor student at Plainfield High School's Central Campus, where she was a member of the pom squad. She was the only child of Mario and Pam Dukovac, said Karen Gura, who lives across the street from the girl's family.

"She was their everything," Gura said. "She was a wonderful girl. She was such a sweetheart, every mother's dream."

The crash occurred shortly after 5 p.m. in New Lenox, said Pat Barry, a spokesman for the Will County sheriff's office. The girls were headed east on New Lenox Road when their car was hit...