The San Francisco Examiner put together a fun list of the "Top 10 Hip-Hop songs that Sampled a Videogame."

In addition to YtCracker, who played Capcom's Nerdcore showcase at our Comic-Con booth (before Comic-Con cracked down on the music!), the list is topped by Unity favorite Random.  We met the man on Unity and liked his stuff so much that we worked together with our licensing department to get him an official license to use the songs in an upcoming film.

Anyway looks like we were not alone in our love, and his ShadowMan track from the Mega Ran album took top honors.  Great stuff, and congratulations Random!

You remember the Capcom Store, right?  You should:  it's the place where you're going to get your hot little hands on THESE.

Store Baron Darin (drop him a message to tell him what you want to see in the store!) has some updates on a few of these other lost treasures that can still be found at the Capcom Store, including Viewtiful Joe 2, Capcom Fighting Jam, and more Mega Man than you can shake a stick at!

They're the last few new copies of our games for older systems like the OG XBOX, Game Cube, and even GBA. All of this and more can be yours for a song.

Click here to get his full list of buried treasure or just browse the store directly.

Yes, we <3 the Rock Band as well, but it's good for you to get out and see the real deal.  After all, if it weren't for actual rock shows, the game's tracklist would be pretty thin, right? 

Anyway, if you just can't bring yourself to separate your rocking and your gaming, check out the Gold Medallists, featuring area gamesbiz impressarios Pete Nguyen (in glasses-less rockmode) and the sublime Jane Pinckard.

The show was lousy with gamer press neer-do-wells (and even a Melody from Capcom), and rocking out at Bottom the Hill beats the pants off drinking alone on the couch in the dark!

Patrick Klepek has a nice writeup of the show over at the MTV multiplayer blog, and although he does suggest I'm one of Capcom's (notoriously filthy) producers, you should still check it out here.

So yeah, the Large Hadron Collider (which, bafflingly, does not actually cause Large Hadron's to collide) might accidentally create a black hole or two in Switzerland.  After consuming all of their chocolate and the Alps, said hole would then go on to swallow the rest of the Earth.  They turn this thing on tomorrow.

I'm told the scienticians tell us this black hole apocalypse is "unlikely," but even if it doesn't create any black holes, it seems virtually assured that it will eventually be used by Ivo Shandor as a gateway for Gozer.

All of this is only important because it raises the question:  if the world ends tomorrow, what are you playing today? 

I will personally be using the occasion to justify drinking even more than usual, and then playing some Super Street Fighter II Turbo, RE4 Wii, and Ultimate Ghosts n' Goblins Kai (because I always hated life anyway, so getting owned by Kai seems like the right way to go out).

Confused?

We can help.  And by "we" I mean somebody else here in Unity-land that actually knows what they're talking about, and has written it out in handy FAQ form!

Head over to Eastx's blog to find some HQ FAQs for a bunch of Capcom's recent releases, including Bionic Commando: Rearmed, 1942: Joint Strike, and Commando 3: Wolf of the Battlefield.