The father of Mega Man will be stopping by next week, and Team Unity has hatched a plan to ambush him with YOUR questions, rapidfire-style, before he activates his Leaf Shield and we are inevitably escorted away by his Robot Master security team.

We'll take the 10 best questions we find in this forum thread, so ask away!

Although primarily renowned for his bullet-proof relationship advice, Inafune-san will also be willing to answer your questions about videogames.

Make em good guys!

Seth and I are currently in Elll-Ooh-Vee-EEEEEE with Tatsunoko vs. Capcom, the newest game in Capcom's long-running "VS" series. We've been able to play a very, very limited version of the game with just a few of the characters available and we've come away excited as all get-out. TvC combines the best of the VS games with a truly awesome line-up of fighters that is still slowly being revealed every few weeks in Japan. The game is currently on test in Japanese arcades (don't expect this title to show up in the US arcades) and is also making the rounds at some of the various Japanese games conventions, where Mega Man Volnutt (aka the Mega Man from Mega Man Legends) and sneaky Yatterman lady-baddie Doronjo popped up. Kombo has some YouTubed shaky-cam footage of the new duo, and you can also read about (or at least look at) the expanding roster on the official site.

That's right! Capcom rocks three of the top five PSP games in Japan. Well, more specifically, Monster Hunter. Kotaku has the list up, with Monster Hunter in First, Second, and Fourth places! 

If you're one of the, "What the heck is 'Monster Hunter' ?" guys, then check out what the buzz is all about!

IGN Australia's internet may be upside and backwards from our own, with information that swirls counter-clockwise due to the Corilios Effect, but that doesn't stop 'em from pontificating about the same games we play here on the correctly-facing portion of the globe. The Ozzie version of IGN (fact: it's winter in their IGN while it's summer in our IGN) kicks off a new, awkwardly-named feature called "Fanboy vs Fresh-Face" with two geeks squaring off pro/con on Mega Man 9. 'Unity Awesome Phrase Award' goes to usage of the word "fangasm" in the opening salvo of their discourse.

Ono-san, producer of Street Fighter IV, was a busy man during the 2008 Games Convetion held in Leipzig, Germany. Not only did he (finally!) debut the console version of Street Fighter IV, but he dropped loads and loads of new tidbits about the game. Videogamer.com has probably the best interview of the bunch, getting Ono-san to open up about online play, thoughts on bringing SFIV to the Wii, why he is against console exclsuive characters and much more. Best part of the interview is his response to Ed Boon (co-creator of one of the many Street Fighter clones, now working on a Marvel vs. Capcom clone): "Bring it on!"

Over at the MTV Multiplayer blog, Stephen Totilo has been making me cranky over the last few weeks, posting about Rock Band 2 demos and getting an early copy of Dead Space. So when he IM'd this morning, casually asking about how a person would go about buying a Street Fighter IV arcade machine in the US, I was determined to be unhelpful and sullen. Had I been smarter, I would have traded him the info for an early copy of Rock Band 2 (or at least the crazy ION drum kit), but my innate professionalism kicked in at the last moment, forcing me to divulge secrets. Thinking about picking up the full-blown SFIV experience before the 360, PS3 or PC versions hit home? Stephen has a few ProTips for those of you with more money than time.

The first installment in the five-part series has kicked off over on IGN.com.

It is cool to see how this game:

 ...had its roots as this:

Check out the diary to see more and to see why a real pirate, David Bowman, was chosen to be the project's Lead Designer.

It's that time again, time for the weekly dose of Ben Judd's risqué jokes... Wait, what's this? Ben Judd not in this podcast!?! No worries though, as Gearoid tosses in a few "fiddlesticks" specifically for us who love Ben. Aside from that, hear talk of random things as usual, including; which console controllers are best, why doesn't BCR have online, and various insults slung at the new Ice Boy(s). Check it all out here on Top Secret File 022: Everything Changes.

By the way, I voted for Gearoid. 

I just watched Doomsday, an amazing homage of a movie. A curveball popcorn throwback to glory days of sci-fi action movies of the 80s, Doomsday isn’t even coy about its obvious nods to Escape From New York, Aliens, The Warriors, Mad Max and even a hint (well, a total swipe, really) of 28 Days Later. Even the score sounds like vintage John Carpenter keyboard noodling. The cast includes a former Lara Croft model, the fat English fella from Roger Rabbit, that doctor guy from Deep Space Nine and the one white-haired English actor who wasn't in a Lord of the Rings movie but probably should have been. Rhona Mitra is channeling Snake Plisken (with a touch of that other Snake, too) with all of her might and pulls it off pretty damn well.

This movie has literally everything: Camera eyeballs. Gratuitous Mohawks. Accidental shotgun headshots. A gimp. Trashed APCs. Trashed Bentley. Trashed Glasgow. Multiple decapitations. Incongruous train escape. London burning. Leather pants. Leather boots. Leather everything. Car surfing. Slow motion knights on horseback. Exposed lady bits. Obviously expendable military hardasses. A dude who is neither quite the Ayatollah of Rock ‘n Rolla or The Duke, but almost. Extreme gore. Major daddy issues. Tattooed faces. Tattooed backs. Tattooed everything. Lock picking. Ass kicking. The world’s most dangerous bus. Crossbows. Foam grenades. Flying saw blades. Robotic gun turrets. A motorcycle with a skeleton on the front. Chicks sword fighting. Lots of shooting. Rioting. Cannibalism. Dance review numbers set to Fine Young Cannibals and Siouxsie and the Banshees. Exploding cars. Exploding rabbits. Exploding everything.

If you like your dystopian futures filled with vomiting infected Londoners and costume designs one part nine inch nails, one part Burning Man and 100% awesome, Doomsday is the movie for you. Your PS3 was designed specifically by Ken Kutaragi just to play a BluRay disc like this.  Get it!

...well, three of them did anyway.

I brought a friend into work tonight to check out the final version of Age of Booty.  He drug a couple of his DotA and AoE friends in with him.  We got rolling at 8:00pm and I had to kick them out at 12:30am.  (Pirate Captains need their sleep.)  Two said they'd buy it for $10 and one said he'd easily buy it for $20.  (That guy has a little too much gold to spare.)    ...and this was based only on the quality of the multiplayer gameplay over LAN.  They didn't get to see the single player mode, map editor, or match making system.

Good thing we'll be pricing AoB at $10.