If so, please comment on this post with your suggestion for what the league names should be called..

If there's enough interest, I'll set a up a few over the upcoming months, probably starting in June / July and maybe I can give away Capcom games as prizes.

Of course, I'll be playing (and so will some of our Capcom devs.) in all of them! >:)

Bear Has a Knack of Working on Kick Ass Things that Fly

Hey all,

I just wanted to point out two of the coolest things I've been a part of during game development in my weird design career -- and they've happened in just one short year.

First, I am working on a game (Dark Void) that involves Bear McCreary, a true rennassaince man whose music has single-handedly helped oblitterate any of our preconceptions of what science-fiction is or should be with BATTLESTAR GALACTICA. Second, he is here on Capcom Unity, answering questions and asking our community about whether or not they would be interested in a DARK VOID soundtrack. (My Iphone filled with Galactica music shows that I know I am.)

Bear is a gamer -- he knows his stuff and he's a really good dude, so please say hello or support his soundtrack cause right over here in the Dark Void forums!

(He's also a huge Mega Man fan.)

 -Kraig

Man oh man. I've been on the road for three weeks straight, checking out some of the best products I've ever worked on. All the time on the road can be draining, and a buddy of mine suggested that I should let you in on the action, Twitter-stylie.  I don't know how interesting or uninteresting that may be, but I'll give it a shot -- it should be easy with an iPhone right? 

Let me know how I'm doing as this goes. It may end badly.

My Twitter name is CapKraig.

The Cover of the Last EGM. Pretty, eh?

.....speaking of James Mielke, he just released the last cover of EGM.

Having worked there, it really seems fitting -- I can't recall how many Street Fighter covers EGM did in the arcade / Genesis / SNES days, but it was a ton. As a Capcom employee, it's an honor

There's more where that came from, just check out Mielke's blog.

As most of you probably heard, EGM has been shuttered as a side-consequence of 1up.cop joining UGO.com. It's hard even now to write it, and actually believe it.

EGM.. has been... shuttered?

To be honest, I was surprised at how much of a loss it felt like when I got the news. EGM was the magazine I looked forward to getting in the mail when I was young. It always had the coolest first looks at Japanese games, which always came out months and years before their American counterparts (Capcom included.) EGM probably also ran about 58 Street Fighter covers..

It became a goal, a dream, of mine to work for that magazine one day. Right when the internet and web started to become a usable place to get information, I wrote tons of web articles, pestered lots of people on #irc and at CES, and finally I got my break. I began working for then Sendai Media in 1996.

EGM was completely different back then, but many things remained the same. It was a fantastic experience, and an honor to work for a magazine I grew up loving as a kid. I finally left Ziff Davis and my Senior Editor spot in 2002 to try my hand at genuine game development. (Shane Bettenhausen took my open spot, and he did an awesome job with it!) 7 years later, just shy of EGM's 20th anniversary, the magazine is gone, without so much dignity of an official good bye issue.

James Mielke, the last EGM Editor-in-Chief is someone I've known for a very long time. He'll go on to bigger and better things, as will the rest of the staff, I'm sure. But what won't change is that an instutition, an era, has uncerimoniously ended.