Yes, as previously announced in brief, the atmospheric survival horror of 2002’s Resident Evil 0 is being remastered for a new generation. Following up on the success of this year’s runaway hit remastering of Resident Evil, RE0 will feature gorgeously upgraded HD visuals and sound, with toggle-able aspect ratio (16:9 or classic 4:3) and an optional updated control scheme.
Experience the origin of the entire Resident Evil series canon when Resident Evil 0 drops for PS3, PS4, Xbox 360, Xbox One, and PC in early 2016. Now hit the jump for a trailer and some purty screens!
RE0 puts players in the shoes of two protagonists—S.T.A.R.S. Bravo Team’s resourceful but green rookie Rebecca Chambers, and Billy Coen, an ex-Navy lieutenant on death row. Throughout the game, players will take control of both characters, with the ability to switch control between the two on the fly. Learning the advantages of each character will be key to surviving the nightmare.
Look forward to more info on the game in the near future!
In mere months you’ll be able to play the original six Mega Man games in crisp 1080p and enhanced with modern bonuses. Mega Man Legacy Collection hits Xbox One, PS4 and PC digital storefronts this summer, with a digital Nintendo 3DS version following in the winter.
In addition to the original six games, you also get challenges, a huge of-the-era museum packed with visual history and a helpful database that informs AND tests you on your Mega Man prowess. And for those keeping track, the trailer jam is “Searing Scissors,” part of OverClocked Remix’s excellent “For Everlasting Peace” album.
Some notes about the additional modes:
Leaderboards, challenges, replays: Challenge Mode takes moments from each title and weaves them into a series of, well, challenges! So things like ‘can you do these six areas strung together with one life bar’ or ‘try fighting all six Mega Man 1 bosses in a row.’ And to keep the quest for the best time alive, the top performers in each Challenge will have their replay data uploaded and viewable to everyone! There will be many challenges to vex seasoned players AND help train newcomers in the ways of the Blue Bomber.
Database: Each Mega Man game will have a database that includes enemy lists. From here you can read details about certain enemies and hop directly to them for a practice session. For example, say you’re tired of playing all the way to Quick Man just to lose over and over. With the database, you can hop directly to him and practice that buster run until you get it down to a science. Then it’s off to the full game for the real deal!
Museum : MMLC will sport an exhaustive collection of sketches, art and other visual materials that help put you in that 1987~1992 time period. Part of this game’s goal is the preservation of history, and the folks at Digital Eclipse are scanning items at absurdly high resolutions to make them as clean and clear as possible.
Speaking of Digital Eclipse, the team is bringing these 8-bit classics over via their new Eclipse Engine, which rebuilds the original games from their source elements. The result is a sharp, clean picture that proudly displays these iconic sprites in lovely 1080p, and presents the games as they existed in their original forms.
“Movies have the Criterion Collection, but there hasn’t been anything like that for games,” said Frank Cifaldi, Head of Restoration for Digital Eclipse. “We’re living in the golden age of a brand new form of artistic expression, and we’re not doing a very good job of making sure our games will be available five years from now, let alone fifty. The more we can do right now to take video game preservation seriously, the safer our history will be.”
For $14.99 you’ll get six timeless classics, a huge museum of high-res images and challenges with their own leaderboards and replays.
We’ll stream the title from E3 next week, and if you’re attending SDCC this year, you’ll be able to play it ahead of its release!
We’re now officially in June, and as promised, here’s another batch of FREE DLC for Monster Hunter 4 Ultimate! This time, we’re featuring the Animal Crossing and Devil May Cry collaborations as well as a brand new set of gear designed by renowned Square Enix designer Tetsuya Nomura! Watch the full DLC trailer below as you download this pack. =)
It’s worth noting that the Tetsuya Nomura collaboration was made specifically for the Western version Monster Hunter 4 Ultimate . And here are some renders of what it looks like up close:
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UPDATE: Fashion hunting apparently isn’t enough for some of you, so here are the stats for the armor designed by Tetsuya Nomura:
Blademaster Gunner
As usual, here are some numbers for those that are keeping count:
14 New quests 5 New weapons 1 Complete armor set 4 Palico weapons 4 Palico armor sets 1 Bonus Palico: Pink Pal 3 Guild Card backgrounds 6 Guild Card titles
To get this content, all you need to do is 1) connect your Nintendo 3DS to the Internet, 2) load your copy of Monster Hunter 4 Ultimate , 3) go to the “DLC” menu and 4) download all the things!
Quests will be saved under “Event Quests” (with the Questatrix) and “Challenge Quests” (with the Arena Bambina) in the Gathering Hall. G-Rank quests and G-Rank Challege Quests can be found in the Elder Hall and Assembly, respectively.
For the Episode Quests make sure to talk to your Housekeeper and read their directions; some quests will show up at the Gathering Hall while other will come up at the Elder Hall.
Remember to get all of this as well as the March , April and May DLC packs. Happy hunting!
It’s been a long road peppered with passion, panache, technical mishaps and a strange sort of competitive camaraderie mirroring that occasionally seen in Dante and Vergil themselves, but we can finally crown a grand prize winner in the DmC Style Tournament.
First off, we have our Dante submissions. Each Finalist submitted a Dante clip. Here’s a recap:
Our Dante showing was strong, but in the end the Dante vote was taken by SteeleSerpent, who secured 40% of the electorate, which translates to 12 votes. Zeno Xyvorean came in second with 9 votes.
For this Final Round, our Finalists were also required to each create a Vergil submission. This would prove to make or break. Here’s a recap:
Once again, the vote came down to SteeleSerpent and Zeno Xyvorean. Steele nabbed 9 votes, while Zeno took a solid 16. Which means….
Zeno Xyvorean takes it, with a total of 25 votes!!
Congrats, Zeno, you will be shipped a Grand Prize as soon as it becomes available. Our other Finalists will receive Japanese retail copies of Devil May Cry 4 Special Edition .
Great job to all who participated, and look forward to our 4SE style tournament following the game’s release on June 23rd!
If you have a North American PlayStation Network account, now’s your chance to get caught up on a whole heap of great Capcom titles you might have missed. PSN’s Capcom Sale has great deals on a ton of awesome games: Dragon’s Dogma Dark Arisen, Okami HD, the Resident Evil series, Devil May Cry HD Collection, and plenty more.
New and veteran hunters alike will find that MH4U is filled with little secrets, and while I know there’s a great satisfaction in discovering these gems, I’m also reminded that “sharing is caring”. So here’s a bunch of useful everyday hunting tips 4 U :
If you follow the Monster Hunter social channels, you know we have a running series of short clips under the tag #DidYouKnowMH , and since we’ve now submitted more than 20 of these, it felt like the right time to compile a single destination featuring all them.
And to facilitate things, I’ve put them under various categories. =)
I’ll be updating this blog whenever a new #DidYouKnowMH tip is posted online, so check back once in a while, if you’re not into that social media stuff. If you are into social networking, however, you can find these, and future tips, on Vine , Instagram , Twitter and Facebook !
In the meantime, remember to share this with your fellow hunters. Imagine what it would be like if everyone out there knew that Teostra does his Supernova attack 100 seconds after entering rage mode, or that you can find out exactly where the monster is in the map by waving at the hot air balloon. 😉
Big news today – Capcom, Man of Action Entertainment and Dentsu Entertainment USA are joining forces to bring a 26-episode Mega Man series to airwaves in 2017!
The full release:
SANTA MONICA, CA – Dentsu Entertainment USA has partnered with Man of Action Entertainment to develop a 26-episode animated series based on Capcom’s iconic video game franchise Mega Man’ for the global market, it was announced today by Yuichi Kinoshita, President and Chief Executive Officer, Dentsu Entertainment USA, Inc. Under terms of the deal, Dentsu Entertainment holds worldwide broadcast and licensing rights for all aspects of the new Mega Man TV series.
Dentsu handpicked Man Of Action Entertainment , creators of Ben 10 and Generator Rex, to create, write and executive produce the all-new Mega Man animated series. Disney/Marvel’s Academy Award®-winning feature Big Hero 6 utilized the characters and team created by Man of Action, the bi-coastal creative studio and writers’ collective formed by creators and acclaimed comic book writers Joe Casey, Joe Kelly, Duncan Rouleau and Steven T. Seagle. Marvel called upon Man of Action to produce and write Ultimate Spider-Man and Marvel’s Avengers Assemble for their successful launches on Disney XD. The new Mega Man series has a target air date of 2017, coinciding with the franchise’s 30 th anniversary.
“We are very excited about the opportunity to introduce an all-new Mega Man to loyal fans and kids,” said Kinoshita, commenting on the deal. “Having a celebrated character from Japan reimagined by Man Of Action is the ideal project for Dentsu Entertainment USA.”
Man of Action’s Rouleau said, “The 1990s Mega Man TV series was cool and different than other series targeted at kids during that time. It featured great action, but also brought the laughs. Mega Man is a character that is even more relevant for today’s kids and we are really looking forward to creating something new that still respects the long tradition of the character.”
The Mega Man franchise is grounded in a series of video games, first launched in 1987, featuring battles fought by the eponymous blue robot protagonist and an ongoing cast of allies and enemies. The Mega Man multiverse has spawned over 130 video games on multiple gaming systems, selling over 30 million copies worldwide, as well as a plethora of toys, comics and collectibles. A highly-rated Mega Man TV series was popular in the USA in the 1990s and aired for several seasons.
Now, 2017 is still (counts on fingers) TWO years away, so there’s no art or anything to share just yet. But as the months count down, we’ll be sure to share any and all news regarding this new series.
Another Monday is upon us, and with it comes another Monster Hunter Mondays live stream. Tune in to twitch.tv/capcomunity at 4pm (Pacific Time) and join us on the journey to G-rank on Monster Hunter 4 Ultimate . See you online!
In case you haven’t heard, Devil May Cry 4 Special Edition will feature a whopping roster of five distinct playable characters, which includes the two returning protagonists from the original DMC4.
We’ve been dropping weekly overviews of each of the new characters’ mechanics, but in case you missed the original game when it released in 2008, hit the jump for a quick primer in the combat mechanics of Nero and Dante.
Nero offers a more welcoming but highly addictive and versatile entry point for newcomers to the series, while Dante takes stylish combat to unrivaled heights with an incredibly deep network of mechanics. Both offer nearly endless potential for experimentation and creative application. Go nuts.
Grab a chair and your favorite snack or beverage at 4pm PT today and join us on Twitch for a rousing session of The Misadventures of Tron Bonne, which was of course recently rereleased on the North American PSN Store for a refreshingly affordable six bucks.
If for some reason you still haven’t picked it up, we do have a couple of download codes to give away during the stream, so we hope to see you there!
The Devil May Cry series made a name for itself with “stylish action.” The idea of playing not just for efficiency or to overcome challenges, but with the unconventional and perhaps impractical goal of being “stylish,” has always been part of the series, from the moment it first dawned on players that they could juggle enemies in the air with bullets.
In Devil May Cry 3, the series took this concept to a new level, not only increasing players’ stylish combat options tenfold, but by employing the talents of famed action director Yuji Shimomura .
By the time DMC3 rolled around, Shimomura had already become a prominent action director and stunt coordinator with flicks like The Princess Blade, Returner, and Moon Child under his belt. But the video gaming DMC3 medium gave him a new freedom to do things not possible or too costly with film. The results were as we have seen:
Yes, pretty much the most incredible, over-the-top, hilariously action-packed, and beautifully shot cutscenes in all of gaming.
Shimomura continued his contributions with Devil May Cry 4, and has returned once again to lend his talents to the new cutscenes in Devil May Cry 4 Special Edition.
He and the game’s director, Hideaki Itsuno, recently sat down for a candid interview about their collaboration on the series. Check out the first part of the interview below.
Look forward to Part 2 in the near future, and DMC4SE’s release on PS4, Xbox One, and PC beginning June 23rd.
Even if you’ve finished the story mode in Revelations 2, Raid Mode offers dozens (100+!) of additional gameplay hours chock full of unique abilities, unlockable characters and escalating difficulty.
Many of you have come up with some impressive character builds in the process, and I thought it would be fun to ask the Raid team what they use when clawing through the harder levels.
Raid Mode Game Designer:
I’ve been a fan of HUNK ever since RE2 – so I’m obviously going to choose him. I’m raising him to be the ultimate operative starting with his proprietary Stealth Cloak skill and inheriting skills from other characters. Befitting of the man called “Mr.Death!”
Cinematics Artist:
I love Moira. Especially Ninja Moira. Currently I’m getting into maxing out skills for inheritance, and enjoying that ninja feeling you get when using the Samurai Sword with the Stealth Cloak skill. If only we had put in a shuriken throwing skill!
Animation Artist:
Gina all the way. She dies right off the bat in the scenario mode, but I can use her around the clock in Raid Mode so I’ve been testing the possibilities provided by the “Gesticulating” skill. My favorite gesture for this is “Hip-hop Dance.” It triggers fast and has the best cancel frames so I can pull this move off and watch as the Afflicted and Rotten continually get knocked dizzy as she waves her head around. Hearing her say “Please forgive me!” is also a high point.
Raid Mode Game Designer:
I’m a Barry fan. In order to maximize his single shot potential I’ve leveled up the damage on my lv100 assault rifle 30 times at the bench, installed Charge Shot C and like to shoot while crouching. I wish we would have given him his “I have this!” line in Raid Mode. If I ever come across someone playing as Moira online I tend to be nicer to them than I would be otherwise.
Character Artist:
Alex. She’s not just some old lady! Even though she’s a new character she unfortunately starts out with some handicaps, but her “Bewilder” skill is incredibly effective in stages with enemies that are much higher level than her. You have to completely beat the scenario mode to unlock her, so there aren’t a whole lot of people playing as her yet (I’ve heard that she’s the 2nd least popular of the 15 characters) – so come on people! We need more Alex players out there! If you see someone online with an Alex icon, using Alex – that’s probably me.
Programmer:
I’ve been using with Lottie a lot. Even though she’s an alternate costume for Cipher she’s got her own voice clips! She says stuff like “I’m Lottie!” and “Don’t you love me anymore?” during gestures and she ends her slicin’ and dicin’ combo with the Samurai Sword with an “Aahhh ha ha ha ha!”, which is totally psycho! She wouldn’t feel out of place at all in something like Dead Rising!
Also, please keep an eye open for a little something extra in an upcoming update…
