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Tuesday6th Feb 2024
Random Capcom Survey Asks If Fans Want Sequels To Okami, Dino Crisis, More
Yes to all
Capcom has launched a rather elaborate survey dubbed 'Super Elections' via its Capcom Town website, in which it is asking fans ten questions relating to its games and business. Answering all ten questions will grant users eligibility to win one of three prizes: a Capcom wood badge set, a key art catalogue, and Capcom Hanafuda. The most...
Tuesday13th Jun 2023
News Capcom's 40th Anniversary Site Is An Incredible Digital Museum With Playable Retro Games
A beautiful nostalgia trip in Capcom Town
Capcom has launched a beautiful 40th-anniversary website which celebrates the company's history, as well as shares artwork and design docs, and acts as a hub for some of the developer's biggest titles. Capcom Town is bursting with colour, characters, and chiptune music, which will get anyone who's ever...
Monday28th Nov 2022
Random Website Domain For Mega Man 12 Draws Attention Ahead Of Anniversary
Keep expectations in check, though
Whenever a significant anniversary for a video game franchise looms on the horizon, certain parts of the internet inevitably start speculating about the potential announcement of a brand new game. It's not entirely unfounded, as some companies have used such milestones to break down their future plans, but we've...
Tuesday11th Oct 2022
News Capcom Begins Mega Man's 35th Anniversary Celebrations With Logo Reveal
More Mega
There are a lot of classic video game franchises celebrating milestones this year, and joining them is Capcom's blub bomber, Mega Man. December 17, 2022 will mark the iconic character's 35th anniversary. In the lead-up to this, Capcom has unveiled the official logo along with the first collaborative product - a t-shirt by the clothing...
Friday2nd Sep 2022
News Evercade EXP Handheld Will Come Bundled With 18 Classic Capcom Titles
Including Street Fighter, Mega Man, Strider, and more
Initially announced back in May, Blaze Entertainment's Evercade EXP looks like a natural progression of its original Evercade handheld, showcasing a streamlined design with a solid glass-covered 800x480 pixel 4.3-inch IPS screen and built-in Wi-Fi for firmware updates, along with a USB-C port and...
Monday20th Jun 2022
Random You Can Complete The Mine Cart Mini-Game In Super Mario RPG Without Actually Playing It
Give yourself a rest!
It's always interesting to see just how some games would function if you just... do nothing. Indeed, one of the most famous examples is the Metal Man boss in Mega Man 2. If you simply leave the controller alone upon entering the boss room, your opponent will do nothing until you make the first move; step forward just an inch...
Friday3rd Dec 2021
News The "Live-Action" Mega Man Movie Could Be On The Way To Netflix
More Mega?
As you might have heard, Capcom's blue bomber Mega Man will be receiving the same Hollywood treatment as Sonic the Hedgehog and Detective Pikachu in the near future. According to a story over on Rockman Corner, it's now been been "pretty much" confirmed that Netflix will become the exclusive home of Chernin Entertainment's "live-action"...
Tuesday7th Sep 2021
News Former Capcom Designer Wishes He Could Have Stopped The North American Mega Man Cover
"I couldn't believe this was allowed to happen"
The North American cover artwork for the first Mega Man game has become the stuff of legend. It's effortlessly one of the worst covers ever, not just because it's a rough illustration but because it totally fails to capture the nature of the lead character. A lot of the time, western covers for...
Wednesday19th May 2021
News One Of The Rarest Mega Man Titles Is Getting A Physical Reprint
Never before released in physical form in North America
Mega Man may have made his name on the NES, but one of the rarest and most desirable products to showcase his moniker isn't on a Nintendo system, but a Sega one. Mega Man: The Wily Wars (AKA: Rockman Mega World in Japan) arrived in 1994 but was only released physically in Europe and Japan; in...
Tuesday26th Jan 2021
News Mega Man Historians Just Bought A Load Of Unreleased Mega Man Art From The '90s
And they're going to upload it all to the internet for free!
Back on the 5th January, a Twitter user and self-proclaimed "unofficial Mega Man brand ambassador" named Brian put out a call for donations. He wasn't raising money for a medical procedure or a political campaign, though - he wanted to buy a "rare and unusual piece of Mega Man animation...
Thursday21st Jan 2021
News A Capcom Vs. Osamu Tezuka Characters Book Is Coming In April (In Japan)
Epic crossover art exhibition to be captured in a new book
All the best stuff's made in Japan. Marty McFly knew it, Nintendo fans know it, and a newly announced artbook only reinforces that fact. Entitled 'Capcom Vs. Osamu Tezuka Characters', this 112-page A4 tome is scheduled for publication in April and will capture the unique exhibits currently...
Saturday25th Jul 2020
News Mega Man's Live-Action Movie Still Happening, Expect Big News Soon
And the directors are "super excited"
In case you forgot, a live-action video game film based on Capcom's Mega Man series is still happening and some "big news" is apparently coming soon. The directors - Henry Joost and Ariel Schulman - revealed this during a recent interview with IGN. Mattson Tomlin (who helped write the screenplay for the...
Sunday26th Apr 2020
Poll Box Art Brawl #40 - Mega Man
It's not like 'Phil Megaman'
Are we back? We're back. Yes, it's time for another edition of Box Art Brawl, the weekly public vote where you decide the best (or 'least bad') of three regional box art variants. Last week we watched cult classic Wetrix take itself to task. Following a wet and wild wrestling match, the Japanese cover emerged soaked but...
Saturday21st Jul 2018
Video Here's A Look At The Mega Man: Fully Charged Animated Series
"It's time to go mega!"
The first trailer for the television animation, Mega Man: Fully Charged, has been shown at the San Diego Comic-Con. The show is based on the classic games, with season one running for ten episodes in total. The story is about Aki Light – a schoolboy who can transform into a powerful hero known as Mega Man. When...
Saturday12th May 2018
News The Mega Man Animated Series Will Be Called Mega Man: Fully Charged
And Mega Man is now named "Aki Light"
For a few years now, we’ve known about an upcoming animated series centered around classic Mega Man, though it’s been one of those projects that seems to be weaving in and out of development hell. Nonetheless, it appears that the show is still on track for a release sometime later this year. Man of Action...
Wednesday7th Mar 2018
News This Faithful Fan-Made Brawler Is Mega Man Meets Smash Bros
Blue Bomber beatdown
Do you love yourself a bit of Mega Man? Can't wait until the release of the Mega Man Legacy Collection and Mega Man Legacy Collection 2? Well, how about a fan-made creation that takes the classic retro platforming of the Blue Bomber and transforms it into a multiplayer brawler, a la Smash Bros? Mega Man Arena - which you can...
Wednesday21st Feb 2018
News Mega Man Composer Addresses Similarity Between Elec Man's Theme And Journey's "Faithfully"
Manami Matsumae breaks her silence on plagiarism claims
With the great news about Mega Man Legacy Collection 1 and 2 coming to Switch being announced recently, we've got another slice of Blue Bomber-related news - this time going all the way back to the first NES game. In the world of games, a lot of minuscule things get dug up,...
Sunday9th Jul 2017
News Fan-Made "Mega Maker" is Releasing Next Week
DIY Mega Man
“Super Mario Maker's” popularity proved something most people in the ROM hacking community already knew for years: there is a game designer hidden in all of us. Yet most of us do not have the technical expertise to look up code and understand how it works. Level editors are nothing new, of course, going as far back as some games...
Thursday24th Nov 2016
Art This Guy Has An Insane Amount Of Original Western Mega Man Cover Artwork
Boxing clever
This promotional image for Game Players Magazine unites two of Greg Winters' cover subjects - he also did some covers for Sega's Sonic the Hedgehog While it can't always be said that western cover artwork is superior to that seen in Japan, it's important to remember that for many gamers growing up during the 8 and 16-bit eras, it was...
Friday27th May 2016
News Next Year's Mega Man Cartoon Looks Certain To Maintain Proud Tradition Of Annoying Fans
Say hello to "normal, upbeat, schoolboy robot" Aki Light
While Mega Man successor Mighty No. 9 appears to be losing the interest of its fanbase even before it hits the market, our friends over at Capcom continue to struggle to find an effective use for the Blue Bomber himself. With no original game in quite some time, the Japanese publisher is...
Tuesday8th Mar 2016
News The Original Mega Man Gets a Fresh Coat of Paint with Mega Man Redux
If only Capcom loved this series as much as the fans
Mega Man was the game that started it all, catapulting the Blue Bomber to fame and kicking off what would be a long and rich line of action games. Though the Mega Man games have all but screeched to a halt in more recent times, Capcom did decide to throw fans a bone and put out the Mega Man Legacy...
Thursday11th Feb 2016
News Mega Man's Creator Outlines The Rules Used To Shape One Of The Most Brutal Games Ever Made
"The way the enemies act [is] totally unfair and absurd"
Mega Man is one of the most beloved series to emerge from the melting pot that was the Japanese 8-bit development scene, and also ranks as one of the toughest. At a time when most NES games were happy to adopt a simplistic approach to suit younger players, Capcom's action platformer seemed...
Friday4th Sep 2015
Rumour Mega Man Is Starring In A Mega Movie Thanks To The Help Of 20th Century Fox
In collaboration with Chernin Entertainment
According to Hollywood film and television website, The Tracking Board, Capcom’s 1987 video game character Mega Man is reportedly on his way to the big screen, courtesy of a collaboration between 20th Century Fox and Chernin Entertainment – with development apparently already underway. Being classed...
Monday15th Dec 2014
Video Today's Teens Simply Cannot Handle The Insane Challenge Of Mega Man
"EVERYTHING is hitting me!"
As seasoned gaming fans we all wonder exactly why Capcom is ignoring its legendary Mega Man franchise, but the latest video in the React series points to a possible answer: the games are just too damn hard for modern players. The video places a NES controller into the hands of a group of teens and points them in the...
Wednesday8th Oct 2014
News Miniatures for Mega Man: The Board Game Take Shape
You can keep your stupid Monopoly car
While many are enjoying a new way to play as everyone's favourite super fighting robot in Smash Bros., let us not forget the fully unplugged experience coming in the form of Mega Man: The Board Game. Developer Jasco games has been working steadily on the project since blasting their Kickstarter goal early this...
Thursday11th Sep 2014
News Nintendo Confirms Week Two Details for Super Smashing eShop Sale
Featured characters like Link! Mega Man! Captain Falcon! Pit! More!
Last week Nintendo of America caused a fair amount of buzz when it launched the first week of its Super Smashing eShop sale, which is a series of promotions over a four week period to celebrate the fighters in the upcoming Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS. The initial batch has...
Monday20th Jan 2014
News Mega Man Board Game Kickstarter Destroys Boss, Gets Money Beam
PayPal backing still possible
In further proof that the words "Mega Man" cause a violent reaction in money that makes it leap out of wallets and hurl itself kamikaze-like into screens, the Kickstarter for the Mega Man Board Game ended yesterday with almost six times the funding it initially requested. Jasco Games's Kickstarter finished at around...
Thursday9th Jan 2014
Video Learn How To Play Mega Man: The Board Game
Figure out the rules and power-up with this sample playthrough
Let's forget all about consoles for a moment. Mega Man is an icon that defies the medium, up there among the greats and immortalised in song, literature, and even Lego. He's had a shot at just about everything by now, and in December we reported that an officially l
Friday13th Dec 2013
News Mega Man Board Game Hits Kickstarter
The Blue Bomber, Unplugged
How about we shift away from recent Mega Man-related Kickstarter madness, take a deep breath, and cleanse the palette with some other Mega Man-related Kickstarter news? Back in July we reported on the intent of Jasco Games to develop a Mega Man tabletop game, trading in pixels for pieces. That game has now hit
Thursday21st Nov 2013
Nintendo Download 21st November (North America)
Mario, Zelda, Crazy Coasters, EDGE, discounted Mega Man and much more
It's Nintendo Download update time again, North America, and this week brings two long awaited retail releases on the Wii U and 3DS, a new Mario Party game, plenty of reduced price Mega Man and some promising download-only content on the Wii U, in particular. There's plenty to...
