Tag: Capcom

This isn’t strictly Mega Man-related, but given who it focuses on and what he is talking about, we figured the relevance was enough that you might be interested. Keiji Inafune, former Capcom employee of 24 years and who is often hailed as the “Father of Mega Man,” recently addressed Kyoto’s Ritsumeikan University’s film school students […]

Fan participation in the creative process is nothing new to Capcom, as fans have been helping design Robot Masters and NetNavis for years. But with the rise of the Mega Man Legends 3 Project and Devroom, which allows fans and users to interact with the developers and participate in the creative process for the game […]

Last month, Siliconera ran an article with some talk from Capcom’s Seth Killian, admitting that some people internal to Capcom of Japan didn’t view Mega Man as being especially popular in the U.S. Since then, a thread at Capcom Unity was opened on the matter and both Christian Svensson and Seth Killian have elaborated further. […]

Protodude has managed to track down the last Mega Man commercial aired in the United States. Thankfully, it’s not the “He’s Called the Blue Bomber… Because He’s Blue!” one. Oh, Mom… (Really, that reminds me a bit of growing up.) TMMN Staff

Our final stop on our trip back through Mega Man‘s adventures into the North American mainstream comes not from the United States, but Canada, and a small comic book company once known as Dreamwave. Though Archie’s first issue of Mega Man will be available in comic shops next week, this will not be the first […]

To date, Mega Man‘s biggest excursion into the mainstream (mind, the video game industry wasn’t quite the same then as it is today) came to be in 1994, thanks to the animation company Ruby-Spears Productions*.   Together with Capcom Productions, they were able to create a highly-successful animated series which ran for three seasons**, and even […]

With things chugging along for Legends 3, the updates continue to come. The Japanese site for Rockman DASH 3 has gotten a total overhaul, and while most of the info concerns what we’ve already heard there are a few bits of interest. First off, you just have to love that rendition of the classic “Flutter […]

Well there is certainly a tremendous amount of chatter about with today’s big Mega Man Legends 3 announcement! And it would seem a new face has stolen the spotlight for now. Given that, Eguchi-san has made a post explaining the reasoning behind Barrett and what to expect in the near future: I suppose I should […]

Following up with the very recent Japan announcement, Capcom Unity confirms that Mega Man Legends 3: Prototype Version will be among the first available contents when the Nintendo 3DS eShop goes online (expected to in May). The article reports: After years of waiting, the new installment of Mega Man Legends draws closer with Mega Man […]

The big announcement for Legends 3 so far is the introduction of a new character named Bullet (baretto). He seemingly will be a playable character, and exhibited the abilities to move quickly and run up walls. Other new characters and mecha were briefly shown as well. More footage is shown of Bullet performing a mission […]

A certain wiki aside, the first time anyone had heard of anything called “Mega Man Universe” was when Capcom USA’s trademark for the name as the title of a video game was discovered in April of 2010. And amusingly enough, it seems that as many visitors to The Mega Man Network were concerned of what […]

Good news, everyone! According to a report from Siliconera, it appears that two Super Nintendo Entertainment System classic titles have been added to the Wii’s Virtual Console release schedule for April in Japan. One of them is the Square Enix RPG classic Chrono Trigger, while the other is the original Rockman X, better known out […]