I am leaving Capcom today after more than three years of being (back) with the company, a decision that was not easy to make. A new career opportunity has come my way, one that I simply couldn't pass up. Before I bolted, I did want to say farewell and tell you, the entire assembled avenging Unity community, how much I've appreciated everything we've built together over the last few years. Unity has turned into an amazing locale, one that's consistently name-checked as "best in the business" for the way the games industry brings fans together. I've been very proud and very, very lucky to have been a part of the evolution of the grand Unity experiment since the best-forgotten days of 2006 all the way up 'til, well, today.

I'm going to maintain my profile on Unity because I am now and ever will be a fan of Capcom and all of its many games. I leave you all to the very good care of Seth, Shawn and Joveth and in the very capable, competent hands of each other. Hope to catch you online in Monster Hunter Tri, Lost Planet 2, Dead Rising 2 and the other games Capcom has coming up in the future.

Stay classy, Capcom Unity!

This image popped up on the Japanese Xbox site yesterday. We can't tell you about all the delicious secrets that will be unveiled at this event, but we can hint that some of the news will be of interest to a global gamer audience. We'll have a lot more information for you first thing in the morning on Tuesday, January 26.

We never would have been able to get this game off the ground (<-- Get it? Ha!) without first carefully testing the technology of Dark Void in Japan, as this rare video demonstrates.

This is awesome. Also: crazy. I'm so glad to see that Hong Kong cinema remains so optimistically gonzo. Everything about this trailer has clearly been stolen from Mega Man games and then run through the HK movie blender. Andy Lau? Check! A director who once worked with Chow Yun Fat? Check! A dude who shoots robot dragon heads out of his arm? Uh, what now?

So help me god, if it turns out that little scooter thing at 1:08 turns into a robot dog, we're suing.

At our recent Las Vegas Fight Club, one of the dudes in the crowd was wearing an awesome Mega Man-themed shirt, which was composed of Mega Man's helmet over a "Year 200X" 8-bit styled logo. When I quizzed him about it, he told me a story about a college, his sister and seeing some band or something that was really interesting at the time, but then I immediately drank 47 more beers and forgot the gist of the convo. Whoops! Fortunately, Gerald jumped in to snap the blurry camera pic to the right, which helped remind me later.

A quick lap around the internets has revealed unto me -- and hence, you -- that Year 200X is none other than the finest heavy metal video game music cover band in all of Lansing, MI. They've been playing together since 2006, and released a 13 song shredfest in 2008 called We Are Error that contains their epic rock power takes on theme songs from Duck Tales, Contra, Mega Man 2 and 3, Ghosts 'n Goblins and more. Their website is better than 90% of band websites that I visit, with tons of info on the band, YouTube videos of their live performances in various arcades and nerdfests, a functional store, and more. They've got some awesome IP-infringing shirts as well, which you should take a gander at before the Capcom lawyers sue them out of exisitence now that we are aware of them. I kid! Sorta.