Month: March 2010

Back in February we reported an announcement from Japan’s Wonderfest that Kotobukiya, a maker of highly detailed and poseable plastic figures, would be creating a Rockman figure. A Kotobukiya showcasing has now revealed a prototype of the figure, which is a 1/10 scale model. This prototype is unpainted but you can already observe the high […]

Those who have been a little late to the PlayStation Portable party and hoped to get their hands on Mega Man Powered Up by way of the PlayStation Network should probably start making other plans. According to Capcom’s Vice President of Strategic Planning & Corporate Development, Christian Svensson: There are techinical problems that neither we […]

They say you can’t remain a kid forever, and perhaps that holds true for our heroic Blue Bomber, Mega Man. So what happens after he grows out of the blue tights of his youth and takes on the challenges of the real world? Apparently, he gets an office job as “Rick Mann.” However, old habits […]

This is a curious tale I’ve been thinking of writing up for some time now, and was inspired by yesterday’s Press The Buttons article about the “Capcom Turnaround.” I referenced this account at the end of the report, and amazingly enough, more of you were interested in that last line than in the PTB article! […]

TMMN resident Maverick-Jin brought my attention to an interesting article on Press The Buttons today. It’s a little feature in many Mega Man games I never thought much about, but immediately recognized its persistence when it was brought to light. So you’re playing a Mega Man game, when you drop down to a lower level. […]

Thought we were done giving away copies of Mega Man 10? To be honest, I did too! But behold, the fun goes on! With huge props to jgonzo and the crew at Capcom*Unity, I have four PSN download codes for Mega Man 10 I’m ready to throw out to you. PSN codes, as in, only […]

Last week, we posted this little blurb about the judging of Capcom’s Solar Man fan art competition, the results of which can be found here. And at the time, this week’s contest had but a single hint: a picture of Duo, which led to some fun speculation. But as it turns out, I was wrong. […]

When Mega Man 9 came out, it caused quite a stir. As games continually strove to push the boundaries of graphics, story and budget, Mega Man 9 had the nerve to be a simple action game with a retro presentation. It was the first milestone in what we now consider console retro revivals, including New […]

After completing this funny Solar Man animated short, my good pal AWD! requested me to showcase it here. I thought it might give him a little of an unfair advantage, since he entered it into Capcom*Unity’s Robot Master fan art contest. But now that the results are out, I’m absolutely pleased to show it off! […]

While it would seem that we’ve seen Japanese commercials for nearly every Rockman game under the sun, with each featuring original animation (if only the Mega Man titles received that same love), one* has remained conspicuous by its absence: Rockman 6. However, that would no longer seem to be the case, as only hours ago, […]

If you’ve been following the Mega Man 10 art contests at the Capcom Unity, then you know that they have nearly reached the end of the road with the judging for Solar Man, which runs through the weekend, if I’m not mistaken. But just because they’ve run out of Robot Masters for fans to render […]

The Robot Master known throughout the world as Air Man has quite the memorable theme, one which has been played and remixed numerous times. Today, Robert Kovacs dropped us a line to let us know that he has taken his own stab at performing the classic 8-bit arrangement via the piano: In addition, he’s produced […]