The next chapter of Capcom’s Rocketmen: Axis of Evil is coming! Rocketmen: It Came from Uranus, an expansion to the original digitally-distributed title, will be available through Xbox LIVE Arcade and the PlayStation Network Store on Wednesday, May 14 and Thursday, May 15 respectively. For 400 points on Xbox LIVE or $4.95 on PlayStation Network, Rocketmen fans will have access to 3 new maps, 3 new main weapons and 2 new secondary weapons, and of course there will be new enemies.
Click logo above for a small Flickr pool of screenshots. Then click through to see the trailer.
3 New Weapons
Blobber: Shoots blobs of goo at enemies, does damage over time in the part of the ground that it covers.
Beamer: Shoots lighting at enemies, does high intensity damage.
Bomber: Shoots grenades instead of bullets; grenades explode on impact doing damage.
2 New Secondary Weapons
Falcon: Robotic falcon that attacks enemies automatically will disappear over time.
Screw bomb: Rocket that turns into a proximity mine on impact
3 New Levels
Level 11 - Finding Jane: The player must escape the Saturnian prison mine and reclaim Nick's ship, the Icarus Jane.
Level 12 - Clear the Asteroids: The player must clear a path for the ship through Saturn's rings
Level 13 - The Plan: The player must make his way through the Saturnian palace and convince Angelica, leader of the Saturnians, to join the Alliance.
We have a slew of new Lost Planet: Extreme Condition Colonies Edition screenshots and art for ya! The art shows off four new playable characters: The tough looking Eraser, the robotic PT-76, and new Lost Planet ladies Snow Bunnie and Valkyrie. In addition, there's a couple of new shots of the new Akrid Hunter mode in action.
As always, you can check them all out by going to our Flickr pool by clicking on the image above.
PS Lost Planet super-fan Snow Infernus will only be able to play as Snow Bunnie.
Japan loves them some Monster Hunter (I think nearly 1 in 4 PSP owners own a copy of MH). To foster this love, over the this past weekend our colleagues in Japan held the second annual Monster Festa event. While I couldn't be there to report on the event, uber Japanese gaming magazine Famitsu was! Here's their report, translated lovingly by our awesomely bilingual intern, Reed.
Started last year at the release of Monster Hunter 2, Monster Festa is a national tournament to determine the best monster hunters in Japan. This year, Monster Festa ’08 began by commemorating the release of Monster Hunter 2nd G. Starting in Fukuoka, the tournament will have regional tournaments set up in Tokyo, Sapporo, Osaka, and Nagoya, with the winners competing at the national tournament in Tokyo on 5/25. Like last year, teams consist of two people and compete in time-attack challenges.
Over 2200 participants waited in line for the Fukuoka tournament to begin, with the first couple coming all the way from Tokyo and waiting in line by 5:30 that morning.
In addition to a large vendor’s room, image girls dressed up as the character “Sherry”, the games’ directors Ise (2nd G) and Fujioka (2nd), as well as the games’ producer Tsujimoto were there to support the participants. Throughout the event, the main four (Ise, Fujioka, Tsujimoto, and Koshima) got on stage to show off their characters. At one point, Fujioka held a tutorial to explain some of the background behind certain characters and other aspects found throughout the game. At the end of the event, the winning team was announced and to the crowd’s surprise, the judges decided to send the running up team to Tokyo as well.
Other notable things to do at the tournament was the downloadable quest area, an art gallery and art contest, and photo opportunities with the image girls, Otomoairu and other life-size cosplayers.
This is only the beginning of this year’s Monster Festa, so stay tuned for more!
Check out the Famitsu article for more pictures of the event.
Love makes you do silly things like serenading in public. For the simple reason of love, Retromags has, through donations to their site, secured a copy off of eBay of EGM issue #1 from May of 1989, which they've then scanned and painstakingly cleaned up.
The first issue of EGM featured the Mega Man 2 box art on the cover (Which was a slight improvement over the infamous Mega Man 1 box art) with an accompanying sneak preview into the game. If you haven't play Mega Man 2, I suggest you don't download and read the PDF until you play it, lest you spoil the game for yourself.
Those guys at Gametrailers, with their fancy equipment and actual skills, have once again done what we wish we could have done: They've made a video comparison between the awesomeness that is Okami Wii, released this earlier this week, and it's original DNA clone, Okami PS2. If this video, and the awesome prospect of Celestial Brushing with the Wiimote doesn't convince you to buy Okami Wii, your video game heart must be black, or at least some shade of dark gray.
