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It's always nice to see the gaming media give praise to the people who work very hard behind the scenes on games.  Gametrailers has recently put up their top 10 game creators and the creator of Mega Man/Rockman comes in at number 9. Link: GT Countdown - Top Ten Game...

UNIQLO, a Japanese T-Shirt designer, is now teasing a partnership with game companies including Capcom, SEGA, Sony, Taito, Hudson, and Bandai Namco in order to bring the world some pretty interesting game T-Shirts. I'll let you figure out who's who.  The new shirts...

Anyone who knows of Lucky Star also knows of the tons of remixes that have ended up on Nico Nico Douga and subsequently Youtube.  While some are basically remixes that overlap songs, a few stand out and are copied ad nauseam with other characters.  Here's my latest...

This one's a little more all-purpose gaming, but I wanted to share nonetheless. Apparently, Melodie here is a really fast learner, and so her parents have taken advantage of this to get her started on the road to gaming by creating a set of flash cards which each...

Tired of that same old tired holiday music? Aren't we all. Heat was actually just mentioning a radio station he was listening to wouldn't stop playing the Dradel Song last night... Here to liven up the holiday spirit is the joy that keeps on giving: 8-bit music. Of...

Now if only we could find the answer to making the sequels we want, like X9 and Legends 3. Mega Man 9 was a fluke. Source: Dueling Analogs :: Acquired Learning

There's been a lot of discussion about a new Rockman title in the works lately. Unfortunately, it's a lot of discussion based on smoke. I haven't seen much of anything that proves the accuracy of what's been going around, including small snippets taken from Japanese...

I think we can all agree that the Robot Masters in a Mega Man game play a big role in how well that game is regarded. Gaming analyst Sean Malstrom has a pretty lengthy article which seeks to rank each Robot Master from the first eight Mega Man titles and see if the...

For as long as Mega Man has been around, there have been certain questions, certain bright ideas about how things are done. Things like "why not put those instant-kill spikes everywhere?" or "why not make a Robot Master completely out of Mettaur metal?" And while some...

From S-kill's Capcom*Unity blog: Japanese Tibori Design has a blog showcasing their beautiful 3D visions of some 8-bit classics. Very Mario-heavy, but also some beautiful work on a variety of other titles, including our own Blue Bomber. It's pretty neat stuff,...

We normally don't promote eBay auctions here on the front page, unless it's something truly unique and out of the ordinary. And while model sheets for animation are sort of a middle ground, the fact that these are on eBay instead of some Japanese Yahoo! auction site...

Lucas Gilbertson, voice of Zero in Mega Man X Command Mission, Mega Man X8, and Mega Man: Maverick Hunter X has courteously agreed to an interview with Protodude's Rockman Corner, wherein he answers questions submitted by fans. In addition to telling what it was like...

Game industry website Gamasutra has added a new opinion piece about Mega Man 9. It is described as an examination of "Mega Man 9's anachronistic design to see how it provides an exhilarating experience uncommon with today's games, and how its pacing of positive...

The title says it all, really. Since TMMN went down, Animal Crossing started taking up a lot of my time. Thought you guys might enjoy some of the outfits I made in this lovely time sink of a game. More here

Nolife, a French television network for gamers, otaku and geeks, will be celebrating Mega Man's 20th anniversary with a three hour block of programming on Thursday, November 20th from 9pm to midnight (French time). According to our source, the programming will...