The Electric Playground crew took a few minutes to talk to Kramez about one of our biggest games releasing this year, Monster Hunter Tri. Kramer gives a run down of some of the big ways we're changing Monster Hunter, and how that experience is making the most of the Wii. Everything from tons of customization, beautiful and huge environments, awesome monsters, and fully loaded online play. 

We've already blogged about Udon's upcoming Street Fighter Legends: Ibuki comic book mini-series, but now we have new information that a limited set of variant covers will be made for issue #1 and they can only be obtained at comic book conventions!

The variant cover (on the right ->) is limited to 400 copies and will be made available at the following conventions:

Seattle’s Emerald City Comicon in March

Calgary Fan Expo

San Diego Comicon

Otakon

Toronto Fan Expo

and PAX, with possibly more to cons yet to be announced.

Also, don't forget to pre-order the first issue of this series at your local comic shop!

First up is ScrewAttack's Destin talking up the raw awesomeness of the TvC's Lost Planeteer:  the PTX-40A and his (apparently) unbeatable chainsaw hand.  Not just any chainsaw hand either--that saw is bigger than the entire body of most of his opponents (and you thought getting hit with a regular chainsaw was bad enough). 

And just in case you think the PTX-40A really is unbeatable, here's one of the best PTX players in America, but unfortunately for him he's facing his character's worst nightmare: a Tekkaman/Tekkaman Blade tag team (the "Tekkamen"). 

Tekkaman is the PTX's natural enemy, and T. Blade might be even worse--kudos to Il.nd for his great showing against tall odds!

Happy Monday! OK, enough small talk, let's cut to the chase!

The winner for the Strike Man Fan Art Contest is Creepo, with his (or her) stunning take on the seemingly innocuous Strike Man! With 64.04%(!) of the vote, this entry is a landslide victory. Congrats! Send me a private message with your mailing address to collect your prize!

But Creepo is not the only one with incredible talent! Thanks to everyone that participated in this week's contest: the art has been amazing to look at! Hit the jump for the rest of the top 10 (you can view them all in my public photo gallery)--and don't forget to check back in later today to see the community team's picks and the next Robot Master for this week's contest!

Remember, you can chat about all the entries in our forums here. Please be respectful of others in there and in the comments here.

Sure, Marvel VS. Capcom 2 had an amazing mixtape (which you can win, details here), but what about Tatsunoko VS. Capcom? No, this is not an announcement that we're working on one, but we do have the next best thing!

Capcom Unity member Power-Stunna created this incredibly well done and catchy TVC rap! Good work!

Thanks to Curleh for the tip!

Good news Capcom AND Marvel fans!

You can get Marvel VS. Capcom 2 for 800 MS points starting today as it is part of this week's Xbox Live Deal of the Week! That's 33% off the regular price! Most of you probably own this by now if you're reading this, but spread the word and share the awesomeness that is MVC2!

As an added bonus, if you help spread the word by retweeting this story with the tweetmeme button below, you are automatically eligible to win the really, really, rad (and rare) MVC2 mixtape vinyl! Just hit the green tweetmeme button below this story (don't edit the tweet, so we can track you)  and we'll randomly select a retweeter and post his/her twitter name on the blog (and our twitter account). Winner will be announced tomorrow morning!

We've set aside FIVE of those horrifically cute chibi Majini shirts that I totally modeled for you earlier today. As Mikeeb mentioned, we've only printed 100 TOTAL. The RE5 Gold Edition marketing team was kind enough to set some aside for Unity (thanks Deezie!), which we will be giving away throughout the rest of this month and March via posts like these.

Now, in order to win one of these 5 t-shirts here's what you're going to have to do. The Resident Evil Gold Edition team wants to hear your questions about the upcoming DLC episode, Lost in Nightmares, featuring Chris and Jill. Just leave a question about Lost in Nightmares in the comments and the team will select 5 to answer! Those lucky winners will receive one of these ultra rare shirts!

What are you waiting for? Ask away!

We know that you missed us, and we missed you too! But with holidays and erratic schedules, we had to take a midseason break from 360 Netflix nights!

Not to worry, though, the Capcom Unity Xbox 360 Night returns next week! In the meantime, while you wait to hear our dulcet tones over xbox live again, head on over to the forums and let us know what movie/ tv show we should all watch together next Friday!

To help tide you over until the release of Ace Attorney INVESTIGATIONS: Miles Edgeworth, this week's Deal Of The Week in the Capcom Store is a BOGO. I really dislike that euphemism, but I used it anyway.

Buy The Art Of Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney book and you get the Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney game for the ridiculous price of $9.99.
That's $20 off the regular price!

Just add The Art Of Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney book to your cart and Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney magically appears there, too. Of course, if you want the book and don't want to take advantage of this killer deal, just remove the game from your cart. No harm, no foul.

Following in the footsteps of the wildly popular RE: Darkside Chronicles "let your darkside out" zombie T-shirt, the Resident Evil squad has come up with another awesome shirt idea that we'd like to show you today.

We've dubbed this creation the "Chibi Majini" T-shirt and it features the cutest little chainsaw majini you've ever seen. He'll tug at your heart strings, then cut them to pieces like the little maniac he is. This is a SUPER limited run (only 100 or so will ever grace the US) so if you want one of these shirts you've gotta be ready! Above we've got jgonzo showcasing the Lost in Nightmares color of Milit"eerie" Green and yours truly sporting the Desperate Escape color of "OMG Explosion" Red.          

You're probably thinking, "I love Resident Evil, I love awesome T-shirts, how can I acquire one?" Rest assured Unity friends, we've set aside a stack of shirts for you guys (in both colors mind you), so keep your finger hovering over the F5 key, because we'll have more details on how you can score one soon!

In the meantime you can check out the official RE5 Gold Edition website which has been recently updated with new info, screens, and trailers. If that doesn't satisfy your appetite for new Resident Evil content, you can check out Gamespot's preview for Lost in Nightmares. You can expect more RE5 Gold Edition info, more details on Desperate Escape, and plenty of other Gold Edition goodies to be coming soon as all of this content will be here in just a few short weeks! Have a great weekend Unity!

~mike

All right, the Strike Man deadline has passed! Now it's time to vote for your favorite piece of fan art! Remember you only get 1 vote, so choose wisely! If you want to discuss the fan art in this week's poll, head on over here.

TO VOTE: Click here.

You can also view all entries in my public photo gallery.

As always, the winner receives copies of Udon's Mega Man: Official Complete Works and Mega Man X: Official Complete Works and a spot in the finals!

Also, I'm very impressed by the work in this week's contest! I know Strike Man is basically a giant baseball and would present some issues artistically, but you folks managed to impress me yet again! Well done!

Good luck and happy voting!

First presented at Monster Hunter Fest ’09 in Osaka, Japan, Monster Hunter chocolates and other treats are now available in Japan (I know, I apologize for all the teasing, but this is just too awesome to not mention) via the fine confectioner, Poire. You can drool at all the good stuff by visiting Poire's site here.

For more pictures, hit the jump!