Month: March 2009

Japanese casual wear designer UNIQLO will be releasing the first shirts in their brand of video game-inspired fashions soon, and its been revealed their shirt in celebration of the Rockman series will be coming on April 20th. Featuring shirts focusing on various franmchises by Capcom, Sega, Hudson and more, the first styles go on sale […]

Over on the Capcom*Unity forums, fans continue to exist in torment as Capcom’s Senior Community Manager, Seth “S-Kill” Killian continues to withhold his knowledge of one last mysterious secret which has yet to be discovered in Mega Man 9. After a number of tasteless taunts and insults in the Ask Capcom thread dedicated to the […]

Well, it seems that our worst fears have come true: Grizzled photojournalist Frank West is indeed ready, willing, and able to dress up like a 14-year old girl with a monkey on his sleeve. On the bright side, you’re unlikely to come across this haunting visage by accident. The discovery was made by Mirage86 on […]

Or rather, Edge Magazine has got Mega Man… X, that is. To celebrate 200 issues, Next Generation magazine successor Edge is doing something unprecedented: Releasing 200 covers for its commemorative issue to celebrate. And to look at all the covers is like looking at a who’s who of video gaming, with one iconic image after […]

After having just put up preorders yesterday, Capcom’s Ryuusei no Rockman 3 site now has a page for the Ryuusei no Rockman Official Complete Works book. While only a small preview, this should give a pretty good idea of what’s to fill the book’s 170+ pages. The detail is pretty amazing. Very sweet. Additionally there’s […]

Ryuusei no Rockman Official Complete Works is coming soon. Coming the end of this month! While it may not be your favorite series, it’s still exciting to have another huge book full of Mega Man artwork. Capcom of Japan’s online store e-Capcom has unvealed the cover of the book on their preorder page, featuring snazzy […]

Japanese magazine GameSide celebrated the release of Rockman 9 with an awesome pin up done by the talented Hitoshi Ariga.  It features Rockman, Blues and the Robot Masters of the game. The artwork is a two page spread, and limited to 2,000 copies of the issue. (I would kill for a full sized scan of […]

We recently learned that, at the very least, Roll Caskett’s costume is in the recently-released Capcom title Dead Rising: Chop Till You Drop, which would allow for war journalist Frank West to dress up as the 14-year old girl. After which, the world collectively shuddered. Better news arrives, however, as it seems that in addition […]

Recently, I lamented my inability to see the Mega Man Star Force anime, as a result of it being confined to the US-only and now-defunct Toonami Jetstream website, with the DVDs only being available in Europe’s Region 2. However, it seems that there may still be hope for people like me, who would love the […]

The Hip-Hop/Experimental musical duo of Duane & BrandO have applied their own brand of lyrics to several classic NES tunes, including songs from Super Mario Bros., Final Fantasy, Double Dragon, Battletoads, The Legend of Zelda, and the SEGA Genesis classic Sonic the Hedgehog. And while you can hear samples of these songs on their MySpace […]