The Great Eastern Street wall in London's East End received a facelift last week, a brand new paint job for celebrating the release of SoulCalibur V.

The visual masterpiece in the heart of Shoreditch took three long days and was painted by the East End's infamous painter decorator extraordinaire, Jim Rockwell: Graffiti artist & Creative Director of ENDoftheLINE. A time-lapsed video, filmed and painted on location shows the entire process from beginning to end, capturing the mural in all its glory.

Namco have today revealed that three packs of DLC for SoulCalibur V are scheduled for February 2012, the DLC packs are each priced at €1.99 or 160 MS points in Europe and loaded with exclusive new customization items and music that players can then unlock in-game. Pack contents are as follows:

Pack 1: Launch Day February 3rd
Nine exotic customization items including bikinis, wings and face paints.
Original music from Soul Blade and SoulCalibur (tracks also available individually for €0.99 or 80MS points).

Pack 2: Valentine’s Day February 14th
Nine fearsome customization items including breast plate, kimono and animal heads.
Original music from SoulCalibur II and III (tracks also available individually for €0.99 or 80MS points).

Pack 3: February 28th
Nine exclusive customization items including mask, face paint, camouflage and skull.
Original music from SoulCalibur  IV and SoulCalibur: Broken Destiny (tracks also available individually for €0.99 or 80MS points).

Namco has announced that Project Soul has completed development on SoulCalibur V for the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360. Set in a new era 17 years on from its predecessor and loaded with new game features, including the guest appearance of master assassin Ezio Auditore de Firenze from Ubisoft’s Assassin’s Creed Brotherhood, SoulCalibur V is heading to retailers on January 31st in North America and February 3rd in Europe.

Alongside the standard retail edition, a special Collector’s Edition of SoulCalibur V will also be available at launch. Packed in a specially designed ‘book’ box, the Collector’s Edition will include a high quality art book, a CD containing a selection of music spanning the history of SoulCalibur, the making-of videos, a DLC card for the Black Knight and White Knight armour sets, plus original artwork and letter on reproduction parchment paper signed by the team at Project Soul.

Fans who pre-order either edition of the game from participating retailers will receive a code to unlock Dampierre as a playable character as soon as they fire up the game.

Following the launch of the game, Namco are organising a tournament schedule to unite the community and let fans publicly demonstrate their weapon-wielding prowess. More details on this will follow soon.

Check out Xiba, Cervantes, Aeon and Yoshimitsu's best moves. Then have a quick look at the other characters in Soulcalibur V.

Namco have today released a new cinematic trailer showing the final battle from SoulCalibur IV between series regular Siegfried and Nightmare.

The final battle brought about a cataclysmic conclusion to an era and ignited a new one. Since then, the sword was thought to have lost its power... But the new story that will unfold in SoulCalibur V will prove everyone to be wrong.

Namco have announced that Ezio Auditore from the Assassin’s Creed series will be a playable guest character in Soulcalibur V for PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360. This monumental collaboration will let players control Ezio and his wide range of assassination tools including a Roman Longsword, Stiletto, Crossbow, Hidden gun and his trademark Hidden blade.

In addition, Dampierre from Soulcalibur: Broken Destiny will be available as an exclusive pre-order bonus playable character, and a feature-packed Collector’s Edition will be available on February 3rd 2012.

“The entrance of Assassin’s Creed into the Soulcalibur universe is an historic meeting of two of the most revered and influential game series,” said Olivier Comte, Senior Vice President at Namco Partners. “Ezio has captured the imaginations of millions of fans around the world, and it will be very exciting to see how his lightning fast moves stand up to the mighty swordplay of Soulcalibur’s finest.”

“We are thrilled to see Ezio enter the world of Soulcalibur, as we believe the values of both brands fit together” said Geoffroy Sardin, EMEA Chief Marketing and Sales Officer at Ubisoft. “We think that this partnership will bring a great new gameplay experience to both Soulcalibur and Assassin’s Creed fans”.

Packed in a specially designed ‘book’ box, the Collector’s Edition of Soulcalibur V will include a high quality art book, original soundtrack CD, the making-of DVD, a DLC card for the Black Knight and Paladin armor sets, plus original artwork and letter on reproduction parchment paper signed by the team at Project Soul. Fans who pre-order Soulcalibur V at participating retailers will exclusively receive Dampierre from Soulcalibur : Broken Destiny as a playable character on day one.

The development team members behind the SoulCalibur series discuss where the franchise is headed with next year's anticipated release of SoulCalibur V.

Gameplay trailer for Soul Calibur V.