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A Critical Look at Mega Man 2 Stages: Crash Man
Apr 29, 2012 | Articles, Community Developments, Featured
Crash Man's Stage and Music The first screen is just beautiful. At first glance it seems like one could just blast the Tellys and move on, but the top one spawns right over the ladder you need to climb to get out. Plenty of the game's special weapons could get a...
Reminder: Two Days Left for Capcom Store Mega Man T-Shirt Giveaway
Apr 28, 2012 | Community Developments, Contests, Mega Man
This is just a quick reminder: If you haven't already, you still have just over two days (as of this writing) to enter our Mega Man Network/Capcom Store Mega Man t-shirt giveaway. All of the details are right here, and as soon as our e-mail box stops marking entries...
GameSpite Looks at Mega Man X3
Apr 28, 2012 | Community Developments
It was one of the ones which nearly got away. Originally, Capcom USA was not going to release Mega Man X3 or its Classic series stablemate, Mega Man 7. The game came during the console's twilight years, which is evident in the ports made to the next generation...
100,000 Strong for Mega Man Legends 3 is Making Headlines Again
Apr 28, 2012 | Community Developments
When Mega Man Legends 3 was initially cancelled, headlines were made all throughout the gaming world, some of which involved the formation of the group whose focus was to prove Capcom wrong; that there is indeed interest in creating a sequel to the long-dormant tale...
ScrewAttack’s “Terrible Thursday” Presents Mega Man X7
Apr 27, 2012 | Community Developments
Recently, we received an interesting e-mail* which posed a question: "X7 seems to be universally panned as an awful game. I certainly don't think it's bad, at worst okay. I thought X6 deserved that title the most due to obvious complications in its design. But that's...
Fans Culminate to Create Zero 10th Anniversary Compilation
Apr 26, 2012 | Community Developments
Following in line with Mega Man Zero's 10th anniversary, passionate fans in Japan are putting together something pretty special. It's a community collaboration called the "Rockman Zero 10th Anniversary Anthology." This self published book (aka doujinshi), contains 110...
Get Me Off the Moon is Now Truly 100,000 Strong
Apr 25, 2012 | Community Developments
The time has finally arrived! After nine months of conventions, Devroom contests, and other happenings, the Facebook effort known as "Get Me Off the Moon" has finally reached its goal: 100,000 members strong, united by their desire for Capcom to resume development of...
Paging Dr. Light to the OR – Emergency Operation on Guts Man
Apr 24, 2012 | Community Developments
Do you recall that old game Operation? There was no way I could play that as a kid that wouldn't have resulted in a major lawsuit in real life. So this Guts Man version of Operation, created by Kodykoala, might do the trick. Robots can't take you to court you, right?...
The Most Adorable Mega Man Ideas You’ll Ever See
Apr 23, 2012 | Community Developments
This is Mark, five years old. Young as he is, he's pretty excited about Mega Man. And not only does he love the games, he's got plenty of his own ideas as well. Furthermore, towards the end Mark says just how he'd react if Capcom ever stopped making Mega Man games. So...
Get Me Off the Moon: Support Morishita Reika’s Music to Support Mega Man Legends 3
Apr 22, 2012 | Community Developments, Mega Man
One of the biggest disappointments of the Mega Man Legends 3 Project is that we never received the opportunity to express our interest in the game through downloading the Mega Man Legends 3 Prototype Version, a factor which Capcom had stated would determine whether or...
A Critical Look at Mega Man 2 Stages: Heat Man
Apr 22, 2012 | Articles, Community Developments, Featured
Alright, I'm sure a lot of you we just twiddling your thumbs during all that thinking "Yup, Mega Man sure was a game, now let's hear about 2 already!" To be honest, so was I. Let's dive in and see where all that love came from. Like last time, I'll avoid talking about...
The Protomen Bring News Both “Awesome” and “Bad” About Their Current Tour
Apr 21, 2012 | Community Developments
We don't often report too much about the Mega Man rock opera group The Protomen in this space, but knowing how popular they are throughout the fandom, we thought it might be fitting to pass along this intriguing bit of news. The group sent out an e-mail to their...
Join Capcom Unity Today for a Mega Man 4 Playthrough and Big Prizes!
Apr 20, 2012 | Community Developments, Mega Man
At 2pm PST (5pm EST) today, Capcom Unity is going live on their Twitch TV Channel to bring you a complete playthrough of Mega Man 4. See the rise of Dr. Cossack's robot army! Watch as Mega Man fights to overcome impossible odds with his new chargeable Mega Buster!...
Dorkly Bits: Mega Man Meets “The Wire”
Apr 19, 2012 | Community Developments
Here's Dorkly's latest, which... well, probably makes a lot more sense if you've ever watched The Wire. Also, Not Safe For Work language, just so you know. Yep... didn't get a single one of those. Hopefully some of you might.
Do You Want a Critical Look at Mega Man 2 Stages?
Apr 16, 2012 | Articles, Community Developments, Site Developments
Yesterday saw the final installment of our "Critical Look at Mega Man Stages" series, a group of articles from Glass Knuckle we had hoped might inspire some discussion among The Mega Man Network's readers, to say nothing of giving us a steady stream of regular weekly...
A Critical Look at Mega Man Stages: Afterword
Apr 15, 2012 | Articles, Community Developments, Featured
Alright, so this game may have started one of the best platforming series ever made, but now that we've got the whole thing laid out on the table, so to speak, it's clear that the first one didn't deliver on that quality. After playing through this, the thing that...
Small (and Medium, and XL, and XXL) Update for the Mega Man T-Shirt Contest
Apr 14, 2012 | Community Developments, Contests, Mega Man
Just a quick update for those of you who might have been interested in entering our Mega Man t-shirt giveaway, but were reluctant because the only size we had was Large. Good news! The gatekeepers of the Capcom Store have loosened their grip, and we are now able to...
Well, That Was Fast: Capcom Store’s Mega Man T-Shirt Update
Apr 12, 2012 | Community Developments, Contests, Mega Man
Well, we knew that the other two t-shirts would be revealed really soon, but we didn't know it would be this soon! Capcom Unity has the scoop and the links to the Capcom Store, where you can order any of the three for $19.95 apiece. And in case you're just catching up...
Check Out Capcom’s Newest Mega Man T-Shirt, Then Enter for a Chance to Win! (Updated Twice)
Apr 12, 2012 | Community Developments, Contests, Mega Man
As you all might recall, we reported a few weeks back on the release of some new to-be-revealed t-shirts in the Capcom Store. At right, you can see the teaser image provided for one of the shirts. Well, after talking a bit with Gregaman, we've managed to secure the...
About Submitting News Tips (Again)
Apr 11, 2012 | Community Developments, Site Developments
So, remember what we said the other day about having to mail us your tips, etc.? Yeah, never mind that. The form seems to be working again, and it even dumped all (we think) of the old tips we didn't receive right in our Inbox. Huzzah! So, right then. Back to business...
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