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Samsung Application Store Unveiled by Samsung Mobile

By Evan Selleck on Monday, Aug 31st 2009 No Comments

TouchWiz wasn't the greatest. TouchWiz 2.0 was a huge leap in the right direction. But there was always going to be something holding back Samsung from taking any steps forward in the mobile marketplace, and it had nothing to do with proprietary software on their phones. They lacked what everyone else and their second-cousin has: a way to get first- and third-party developed applications onto their phones. Well, it looks like that's about to change.

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Capcom’s Lost Planet 2 Gets Co-Op Demo on Xbox LIVE

By Evan Selleck on Friday, Aug 14th 2009 No Comments

Did you enjoy Capcom’s foray into the beautiful, huge, and brilliant world of Lost Planet the first time around? Then get ready to take a 4-player ride through the second installment, in the meat and bones of a demo that will be launching on the Xbox LIVE network next week.

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Capcom and Nintendo Planning for the Future

By Evan Selleck on Wednesday, Aug 12th 2009 No Comments

If content isn’t a sure sign of a video game console’s prowess, than it’s an unarguable fact that Nintendo is the console juggernaut in the gaming world, and it looks like Capcom is about to start taking advantage. Japan’s Nihon Keizai Shimbun financial newspaper today states that the third party developing giant is taking the steps necessary to strengthening its bonds with Nintendo, hoping to reach out to the Wii’s 52 million customers.

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PSN to get 20-40 classic Capcom games

By Chris Davies on Tuesday, May 5th 2009 No Comments

Capcom have revealed their plans to introduce as many as forty new PlayStation Network titles over the next few months, comprising a selection of original PS1 titles that have been ported over to the newer Sony consoles, and PSP games now available for download. According to Capcom’s Chris Kramer, users themselves will play a part in choosing which titles will be available first.

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Capcom will continue to make PSP games

By Emily Price on Monday, Aug 18th 2008 No Comments

Capcom is disputing rumors that it is no longer making games for the PSP. In a statement this morning the video game publisher indicated that new Camcom games for the PSP were still in the works.

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Capcom to add sprite flickers and other bugs to Mega Man 9

By Chris on Tuesday, Aug 5th 2008 No Comments

Remember back in the day when you would play one of the original Mega Man games and you’d get those wonderful sprite flickers when too much was going on? Well it looks like we’ll be seeing those same things in the retro Mega Man 9. Hit the jump for a quote from Capcom’s Hironobu Takeshita on the subject.

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Capcom goes retro with Mega Man 9

By Chris on Friday, Jul 25th 2008 No Comments

Back in the NES days I loved to play Mega Man. However, much like Sonic the Hedgehog, as the games continued over the years, I started enjoying them less and less. It’s been a few years since I’ve even touched a Mega Man game (aside from replaying the original last year), but I have to say that I’m excited about what Capcom is doing with Mega Man 9.

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Okami replacement covers shipping with a bonus

By Chris on Tuesday, Jun 24th 2008 No Comments

A little while back the good folks a Capcom found themselves in a tight spot. It seems that someone used a picture which was watermarked by IGN for the cover of Okami for the Wii. Talk about embarrassing. They decided to make up for it by offering up free replacement cover art, which is promised to be watermark-free. So the question now is where the heck those covers are.

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Fans can apply to be in Street Fighter IV

By Abby McVay on Tuesday, Jun 17th 2008 1 Comment

Get your face put into the background of Street Fighter IV by applying to Capcom, but you’d better hurry to get it in on time. Then you can officially be that guy whose face you can see in the background of Street Fighter IV.

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Mystery of the Mega Man titles solved

By Chris on Monday, May 26th 2008 No Comments

Have any of you managed to figure out how many Mega Man titles there are? Apparently Capcom was having some issues figuring out the answer to that question themselves, and posed it to gamers earlier this month to find the answer. Well they seem to have gotten things sorted because they recently revealed the answer in a report listing various life-to-date sales figures of their gaming franchises.

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