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Rate The Following, Old Capcom Games Will Soon Be Available On The PlayStation Network [Psn]

Original at Kotaku external link    Wed, Jul 1

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By Luke Plunkett Tomorrow, for example, Capcom will be releasing the "Capcom Classics Collection: Remixed", which includes: • Mega Man Powered Up • Dino Crisis • Mega Man Maverick Hunter X • Resident Evil 2 • Darkstalkers • Street Fighter Alpha 3 Max • Capcom Classics Collection Reloaded

Rate Week in Games: There's Bound to Be Blood [New Releases]

Original at Kotaku external link    Sun, Jun 28

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By Owen Good Grand Theft Auto (PC) Trilogy (PC) Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (DS, PC, PS2, PS3, PSP, Wii, 360) Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs (DS, PC, PS2, PS3, Wii, 360) Infernal: Hell's Vengeance (360) Mega Man Star Force 3: Black Ace (DS) Mega Man Star Force 3: Red Joker (DS)

Rate Original Final Fantasy, Mega Man Hit PSN (With A Catch) [Psn]

Original at Kotaku external link    Wed, Jun 24

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By Luke Plunkett Mega Man, meanwhile, is a little more complicated. See, Mega Man 9 has only just been released on the PSN in Japan, and to help kick things along, Capcom are running a competition. You win the competition, you get a copy of Rockman: Complete Works, which is a compendium of Mega Man 1-6.

Year 2009

 

Rate Father Knows Best: The Best and Worst Fathers in Video Games [Feature]

Original at Kotaku external link    Sat, Jun 20

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By AJ Glasser Dhalsim, Street Fighter – Father of Datta: Dhalsim serves as a father to his entire village by entering the World Warrior tournament to raise money for them. Dr. Light, Mega Man series – Father of Mega Man: Okay, so he didn't provide Mega Man chromosomes; but Dr. Light built him and raised him. S...

Rate Fan-Made iPhone Wallpapers Look Familiar [IPhone]

Original at Kotaku external link    Wed, Jun 17

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By AJ Glasser Surprisingly, there's more than just Street Fighter in this lineup of fan-made Capcom wallpapers. Mega Man, Duck Tales and Lost Planet feature prominently plus some games I'm not even sure I can name. Custom Capcom iPhone/iPod Touch Wallpapers [Capcom]

Rate Shadow Complex: Orson Scott Card's Empire Meets Super Metroid [Rumor]

Original at Kotaku external link    Fri, May 29

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By Michael McWhertor Sources claiming to have already played that game told us about their experience with the title, a side-scrolling shooter likened to classics Super Metroid and Mega Man X, a mash up of genres that's a 2.5D platformer. Card has said in the past that the game will focus on the Battle Room simula...

Rate The Chiptunes Band That Just Might Break Through [Feature]Video included in this story.  Click to view.

Original at Kotaku external link    Thu, May 28

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Berkman also maintains a fascination with what he calls "absurd things — bargain bin VHS tapes, public access TV shows" – and says the juxtaposition between the sounds of an old Nintendo and updated, upbeat rock music is "another one of those absurd, surreal things that shouldn't work, b...

Rate Kotaku Robot Wars Round Three: Salvation [Kotakuroboto]

Original at Kotaku external link    Thu, May 28

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By Mike Fahey The Kotaku Robot Wars continue on the other side of the world, as Osaka Japan and Canberra Australia are reduced to steaming piles of rubble and broken robot parts...but whose broken robot parts? Results So Far Tune in tomorrow for the epic conclusion of the Kotaku Robot Wars!

Rate Kotaku Robot Wars Round 2: The Quickening [Kotakuroboto]

Original at Kotaku external link    Wed, May 27

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By Mike Fahey Mega Man VS. HK-47 Mega Man: 60% (2676 votes) HK-47: 40% (1798 votes) Winner: Mega Man Using its powerful randomly running around ability, Crecente's R2-D2 robot picked Optimus Prime, Kos-Mos, Mega Man, and Fruit Fucker 2000. So both the robot team and the human team had the same picks.

Rate Our Missing Video Game Robot Hero [Kotakuroboto]

Original at Kotaku external link    Wed, May 27

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By AJ Glasser We have one, in fact, and his name is Mega Man. Mega Man does most of the same stuff as Astro Boy – he even has the beam cannon on his arm – and he beat Tezuka's beloved boy robot to the US gaming scene by a good decade or more. He may not be as fleshed-out a character as Astro Boy, because Mega Man didn't...

Rate Kotaku Robot Wars Round 1: From The Ashes [Kotakuroboto]

Original at Kotaku external link    Tue, May 26

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By Mike Fahey A nuclear explosion has whittled down our list of thirty-five video game robots to a mere eight, their ultimate fate resting in the hands of our readers, a real-life robot, and random chance. Capcom's blue bomber materializes on the streets of San Francisco, immediately spying what is ob...

Rate Kotaku Robot Wars: The Beginning [Kotakuroboto]

Original at Kotaku external link    Mon, May 25

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By Mike Fahey The interspatial beacon high atop Kotaku tower has harnessed the power of our latest obsession, forging a temporal reality scoop that is gathering robots from throughout the history of gaming to do battle across the globe. From Optimus Prime to Mega Man, Chrono Trigger's Robo to Disgaea...

Rate Today Is Memorial Day, This Week Is Robot Week! [Note]

Original at Kotaku external link    Mon, May 25

By Brian Ashcraft This week here at Kotaku Tower is a very special week — ROBOT WEEK. Robots are great. We love robots. I love robots. I named one of my family members after a robot. That's not a joke. That's me being dead serious. You can tell it by the way I typed it — dead serious like.

Rate Robots We Love: Mega-Man [Robot Week]

Original at Kotaku external link    Mon, May 25

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By Brian Ashcraft He's blue and sports an plasma-shooting arm cannon. He's Mega-Man — aka "Rockman" in Japan. Designed by Keiji Inafune, the character debuted in 1987 in truly horrible localized box art. The game was hard, the music was great, and the robot was and still is fantastic. Pic]

Rate Square Enix's Vanguard Storm Brings More Crystal Defense To iPhones [IPhone]Video included in this story.  Click to view.

Original at Kotaku external link    Tue, May 12

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By Michael McWhertor Vanguard Storm may not look like your standard "tower defense" title, with a battlefield and multi-tiered plane system that looks more like a Mega Man Battle Network game than the maze one expects to see when protecting exits from netherworldly creatures.

Rate Capcom Has A "Whole Slew" Of Titles Coming To PSN And PSP In '09 [Capcom]

Original at Kotaku external link    Mon, Dec 29

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By Jim Reilly Capcom Generation 1 Capcom Generation 2 Capcom Generation 3 Capcom Generation 4 Capcom Generation 5 Capcom vs. SNK Pro Fushigi Keiji Marvel vs. Capcom Mega Man Legends (also on Nintendo 64 as Mega Man 64) Mega Man Legends 2 Mega Man X3 Mega Man X4 Mega Man X5 Mega Man X6 Rockman Complete Works

Rate Weekly Nintendo Update: Yummy Yummy Mega Man 3

Original at Kotaku external link    Mon, Nov 10

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By Mike Fahey Mega Man™ 3 (NES™, 1 player, Rated E for Everyone-Mild Cartoon Violence, 500 Wii Points): In the year 200X, the notorious Dr. Wily, now reformed and working for the forces of good, works hand-in-hand with Dr. Light to build a new type of peacekeeping robot. When a new set of eight Robot Masters...

Rate Weekly Wii Update - Old Man Mega

Original at Kotaku external link    Mon, Aug 18

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By Mike Fahey Hooray, Mega Man hits the Nintendo Wii this week! *scans release list excitedly* Oh wait. It's just Mega Man. No Mega Man 9 with Splashwater Falls Woman. Mega Man (NES, 500 points) is nice and all, but I've played it a couple thousand times now and am ready to move on. Oh well, at least we've still g...

Rate Opinion: Game Marathons: Fad, or Going the Distance?Video included in this story.  Click to view.

Original at Kotaku external link    Sat, Jul 12

By Owen Good The Megamanathon will likely last into Sunday, Willingham said. They started with original Mega Man, and have been drawing titles out of a hat at random. They're playing the Mega Man Anniversary Collection and Mega Man X Collection on a Wii, using a HORI Digital GameCube pad. You can follow t...

Rate Mega Man 9 Details: There's A Woman!

Original at Kotaku external link    Thu, Jul 3

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By Leigh Alexander Galaxy Man: level consists of portals that fling Mega Man all around the level, maintaining his momentum with each fling (a lot like Portal, actually), plus enemies that divide into multiple copies of themselves. Concrete Man: the Guts Man of Mega Man 9

Rate Mega Man 9 Coming For XBLA, PSN As Well

Original at Kotaku external link    Mon, Jun 30

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By Luke Plunkett A retro-themed Mega Man 9 is a surprising move by Capcom! You know what's less surprising? The news the game won't just be appearing on Nintendo's WiiWare service. Really, why would Capcom turn down free money? Turns out the game's also destined for the PlayStation Network and Xbox Live Ar...

Rate Anyone For The Lifetime Sales Of Some Capcom Games?

Original at Kotaku external link    Mon, May 26

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By Luke Plunkett When you think Capcom, you think a couple of decades worth of good times. Street Fighter, Resident Evil, Mega Man...good times. But which of those series has brought us the best times? Who knows. That's a subjective question. One you could, however, try and answer by seeing how many people bought...

Rate Bashcraft Numero 2, Inafune Numero 3 (Does Not Compute) [Capcom]

Original at Kotaku external link    Tue, Feb 12

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By Brian Ashcraft Earlier, I appeared on the Bionic Commando podcast and rambled on about pointless things and got in an argument with some Capcom dude. Good times. The official word from Capcom is that the podcast I appeared on is the second most downloaded BC podcast. The first is where the team discussed Bio...

Year 2007

 

Rate Simple 2000: The Japanese Software Chart, Brought To You By Wii Fit [Media Create]

Original at Kotaku external link    Wed, Dec 5

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By Michael McWhertor And, hey, not a bad debut for the Xbox 360 version of Assassin's Creed. The PS3 version doesn't hit Japan for over a month, so we'll see if Sony fans help it chart well then, too. The following represent sales from November 26th to December 2nd.

Rate Yay! Friend Codes Announced For Smash Bros. Brawl [Nintendo]

Original at Kotaku external link    Mon, Dec 3

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By Michael McWhertor It may not have the allure of a new character announcement, say, Mega Man or Bubbles from Clu Clu Land, but I'm sure there are many Super Smash Bros. fans looking forward to inputting a series of Friend Codes in the Wii version. The Smash Bros. Dojo writes today of the exciting, and quite expecte...

Rate Simple 2000: The Japanese Software Chart [Media Create]

Original at Kotaku external link    Wed, Nov 28

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By Michael McWhertor Guess what Japan likes? Dragon Quest, obviously, as the Nintendo DS remake of DQIV moved over a half-million copies in its debut week. The slime-ridden adventure is just one of many new games to chart this week. In fact, nine of the top ten are all brand new games, with only Mario Party DS makin...

Rate Only In Japan: Simple 2000: The Japanese Software Chart

Original at Kotaku external link    Wed, Jul 25

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By Michael McWhertor The PlayStation 2 showed the Wii who's the boss of Japan this week, at least in terms of Konami' s Jikkyou Powerful Pro Baseball sales. The PS2 version trounced the Wii's by a factor of three, proving that baseball and PlayStation still matter to the Japanese. Nintendo had the last laugh, of c...

Rate Capcom's Schedule [Comic Con]

Original at Kotaku external link    Thu, Jul 19

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By Brian Crecente 10:00am - 2:00pm Mega Man ZX Advent costumed actor (new costume) FRIDAY 10:00am - 2:00pm Mega Man costumed actor (new costume) 10:00am - 2:00pm Mega Man costumed actor (new costume) Rap impresario Random will be spitting rhymes from his brand new Mega Man-inspired album, "Mega Ran."

Rate Mega Man, Frank West Visit Lost Planet

Original at Kotaku external link    Mon, Jul 16

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By Michael McWhertor Capcom dropped word with us today that the PC version of its third-person shooter Lost Planet will be getting a feature rich update next week. The July 20th update, an automatic patch, will add Mega Man, Dead Rising's Frank West and Joe from Lost Planet as playable characters. In addition, t...

Rate Podcast: Clips: Mega Man Music Pain!Video included in this story.  Click to view.

Original at Kotaku external link    Fri, Jun 1

Video game music cover bands are a dime a dozen. Regurgitating NES tunes with the standard guitar-bass-drums set up was cute when the Advantage and the Minibosses did it, but now, now it's just bordering on sad. That's why when someone writes rapid-fire lyrics and actually sings the melody...

Rate Finally, News Of A Mega Man Remake

Original at Kotaku external link    Tue, May 1

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By Michael McWhertor Mega Man remake watchers are well aware of last year's Mega Man Powered Up for the PSP, which saw a hyper-cute Blue Bomber take out Dr. Wily again... for the first time. Critically lauded but commercially 'meh', Mega Man Powered Up featured two new Robot Masters in Oil Man and Time Man. Will this be...

Rate Mega Man ZX Advent, Mega Man Star Force End Mega Man Drought

Original at Kotaku external link    Fri, Apr 13

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Capcom has officially announced that they're bringing two more Mega Man titles to the Nintendo DS, with Mega Man ZX Advent and Mega Man Star Force both due to his this year. BIOMETAL ACTION IS REINVENTED AS CAPCOM ANNOUNCES MEGA MAN® ZX ADVENT FOR THE NINTENDO DS™

Rate Capcom Thinks Wii Is The Kiddy-Console

Original at Kotaku external link    Tue, Feb 13

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By Brian Ashcraft Who are Wii owners? Old people? Kids? My boss? (He just got a Wii, he's soooo excited.) Capcom knows who they ain't: The "mature playerbase." In a post over at the Capcom Forums, Capcom's Senior Director of Strategic Planning & Research Christian Svensson types: We have more titles com...

Rate Inafune On Mystery Wii Title

Original at Kotaku external link    Fri, Jan 19

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By Michael McWhertor IGN is reporting (by way of Japanese game rag Gamega) that Keiji Inafune, Mega Man creator, has revealed that Capcom is currently working on an unannounced game for the Nintendo Wii. The man responsible for the Onimusha series, Lost Planet and Dead Rising hasn't divulged much more inform...

Year 2006

 

Rate Instant Console Collection

Original at Kotaku external link    Sat, Dec 16

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By Flynn De Marco 60 Gig PLAYSTATION 3 Console with one additional Wireless Controller (Unopened and with receipt) Nintendo 64 Console with 3 Controllers Includes the following games: Wipeout Pure, Daxter, Burnout Legends, Lumines, Mega Man Powered Up.

Rate Resident Evil Announced for Wii

Original at Kotaku external link    Wed, May 10

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By Kotaku As a worldwide leader in the gaming industry, Capcom is on the forefront of this new cutting-edge technology, and is proud to have produced a number of hit products such as Mega Man, Street Fighter, Onimusha, Devil May Cry and Resident Evil. Capcom will continue to provide customers with t...

Rate Games of the Week: Me And My Corleone [PSP]

Original at Kotaku external link    Sun, Mar 19

By Michael McWhertor Hey, it's still card based strategy, not traditional MG stealth adventure gameplay. Don't forget! Capcom Classics Remixed (PSP) The PSP port of last year's Capcom Classics Collection, but now with more Street Fighter, more Strider, more Magic Sword and wireless multi-play.

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