As far as unofficial mascots go, however, yes, MM would definitely be that. I have actually heard someone discuss this, and I think the reasoning was something akin to Mega Man best embodying the spirit of the company.

So apparently in addition to making great games, Capcom is also here to save the planet from overthrow by evil robot masters (and according to recorded history so far, I’d say we’re doing pretty well–2009 and still no overthrows). ” – Capcom’s Senior Manager of Community, Seth Killian

For me, when I think of Capcom, one of the first characters that comes to mind is Mega Man…Other than Amaterasu! All jokes aside, I really think that he is a great character to represent the company. What do you guys think?

Capcom to reveal “several” games at TGS 2009

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“Hard at work on Tokyo Game Show plans. Several new games to be announced in Japan, lots of new content for LP2, TvC, DR2. Exciting!” – Capcom’s official Twitter page

Of course, we don’t know if any of the announcements will be Nintendo-related, but we at we’ll finally see which secret characters are making it into the North American release of Tatsunoko vs. Capcom. And hey, wouldn’t it be great if one of the titles was that “Okamiden” sequel?

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Ni no Kuni screenshots

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245,000 visitors experience spectacular premiere of gamescom in Cologne

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Trade fair and event highlight of the interactive entertainment industry at Koelnmesse goes straight to the top as the world’s largest games fair. New level of visitor numbers and internationality. Industry, specialist and private visitors enthused by the trade fair and festival
The premiere of the new leading trade fair for interactive entertainment and games – gamescom – has been a complete success. 245,000 visitors came to the Koelnmesse site from 19 – 23 August to experience and try out game novelties provided by 458 exhibiting companies from 31 countries. Straight away this makes gamescom the largest games fair in the world and with a ratio of around 44 percent, internationally extremely successful. After five intensive trade fair days, event organiser Koelnmesse and its conceptual sponsor, the German Association of Interactive Entertainment Software (Bundesverband Interaktive Unterhaltungssoftware – BIU) were very pleased with the result.

Silent Uproar Records releasing Metroid Metal’s first album, Varia Suite

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“Varia Suite contains a collection of MM tunes rerecorded and “redone a bit” by the members of MM live. At over 50 minutes, It marks the first official release by Metroid Metal, has fresh production with a new take on some songs, and will be released under Silent Uproar Records”

More details here

Thanks to Scott for the news tip!

For Retro Studios, the fans come first

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“Our gratification is when we read those message boards and we hear how much fun people have playing our games.” – Michael Kelbaugh – Executive Producer, President & CEO

“When Retro Studios develops games, the first audience that we think about are the fans of that series. And that is what drives our gameplay decisions.” – Mike Wikan – Senior Designer

You can clearly tell that Retro Studios wanted to pay respect to Metroid when developing the Prime games. Of course, some gameplay elements were different, but Prime 1, 2, and 3 featured a number of classic elements from the Metroid series.

Silicon Knights talks Eternal Darkness sequel

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“I get that question asked probably about once a week [Eternal Darkness sequel]. You know we love Eternal Darkness. We’re big fans of it. I think the future is bright in that regard, but there’s no comments to make whatsoever.” – Silicon Knights president Denis Dyack

An Eternal Darkness sequel has been discussed for a number of years. I know the sales of the first game weren’t too impressive, but it seems as though Silicon Knights isn’t opposed to creating a second game…I know that I’d be ecstatic if it were to happen.

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Iwata hopes gamers say that this holiday “was the best one ever for Nintendo”

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By the time this year is over, Nintendo will have launched three key releases: Wii Sports Resort, Wii Fit Plus, and New Super Mario Bros. Wii. Nintendo President Satoru Iwata recently commented about sales for the holiday at the first quarter financial results briefing and seems to believe that making these games available in a short amount of time will lead to success. Moreover, he hopes people people will say that “Holiday 2009 was the best one ever for Nintendo.”

“In September, which people overseas call ‘back-to-school,’ people start to pay more attention to home consoles. If we can convey the appeal of Wii Sports Resort to existing customers then, it will surely contribute to the sales of hardware and generate good momentum toward the holiday season. So we feel that Wii Sports Resort will drive hardware sales mainly in Q3 from October to December. Last year, we had some internal discussions about the close launch period of Mario Kart Wii and Wii Fit but we ended up launching them with the hypothesis that several major title launches in close proximity can produce a synergetic effect. As a result, it went very well. This year we hope to do well again as we will be launching three ten-million class titles consecutively, and would love to hear that ‘Holiday 2009 was the best one ever for Nintendo!'”

High Voltage Software and SEGA could work together again in the future

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This is yet another snippet from the same Radio-Blodec podcast we’ve been mentioning this week, with High Voltage’s Joshusa Olson and SEGA’s German Fritsch. The possibility of High Voltage and SEGA working together again was discussed and we’ve translated the response below.

“…Well, we are all talking amongst ourselves. High Voltage is satisfied with SEGA and SEGA is satisfied with High Voltage. We have worked very well together. Whether we would like to end our relationship or not is a matter of numbers, but for now we will wait for sales…It depends on how everything works out but we would be happy to work together again without a doubt.”