Street Fighter X Mega Man is just the start of Capcom’s plans for the Blue Bomber’s 25th anniversary.
News will begin to arrive on December 17. That’s a pretty good date for announcements, given how the series will have made its debut 25 years ago on that very day.
The first round of news will only apply to “the start of the celebrations”. More news will be shared next year.
According to Capcom’s Christian Svensson:
“I don’t know that there’s more substantial for me to talk about but there’s a TON more things we have in the works, only some of which will be shared on December 17th. There’s a whole year of things that will happen… you’re only going to hear about what’s happening fairly close to the start of the celebrations at first.”
The first free downloadable content has arrived in Ninja Gaiden 3: Razor’s Edge. Players can now take on the role of Momiji.
Team Ninja is working on a second DLC character in addition to Momiji. Sometime in the future, Kasumi will be added to the game.
Square Enix is introducing holiday elements for Dragon Quest X, just in time for the holiday season.
Players can visit partake in the “When You Wish Upon a Star! The Great Festival On A Holy Night”, which contains a large Christmas tree. There are also monsters to fight that give Ornaments of Light. The tree will continue to light up further as users defeat more monsters and earn addition ornaments. Christmas-themed goods will also be sold in the in-game stores.
Nintendo Everything reader Pie has informed us of issues he’s having on Club Nintendo. He’s been trying to register an eligible product on the site, but things aren’t working properly.
Here’s what Nintendo customer service said about the situation:
Thanks for writing. I appreciate your contacting us regarding the Coin issue you experienced when registering eligible products via Club Nintendo. Our site should be operating normally within the next couple of days, so I ask that you please check back. If the situation continues after the next 2-3 days, we will contact you again to let you know. You have our most sincere apologies for any inconvenience this matter may have caused you.
Periodically, our website may experience technical problems or maintenance issues. When this occurs, you can be assured that we are hard at work getting the site running properly as quickly as possible.
I wouldn’t worry about this too much. If you’re having issues, I imagine things will be fixed before the end of the week – just like Nintendo said.
To the surprise of no one, Capcom still isn’t planning on localizing E.X. Troopers for North America or Europe. Based on comments from Christian Svensson, it would appear that the company was never planning on bringing it over in the first place.
It would take a lot of work to localize E.X. Troopers if Capcom were to ever think about heading in this direction. Svensson wrote on the Capcom-Unity boards that a great deal of art would need to be redone and the project would require much more than a standard localization effort.
Svensson said:
“It was not planned for Western release… you can tell this because all of the text is ‘hard coded’ as actual art. The text isn’t just standard ‘text’ that could be swapped relatively easily. To localize a release, one would have to redo a ton of art in the game, not just do the localization and loc QA.”
Here’s the release status of Retro City Rampage at the moment. It launched on PSN and PC in early October. Now we’re waiting on the WiiWare and XBLA versions.
The game’s developer is hoping the WiiWare version will be out this month. And regarding XBLA, it’s in certification.
Retro City Rampage won’t be receiving any sort of price adjustment in Europe. The title will be priced similarly to the North American version, but it will come with extra polish and development.
Lastly, the following was posted on the Retro City Rampage Twitter account regarding a sequel:
“No plans right now. Need a vacation once the remaining platforms are out the door. …To clarify, I’m interested in doing more open world games at some point, but nothing is planned for the near future.”
Software
1. Pokemon Dream Radar
2. Pokedex 3D Pro
3. Crashmo
4. Super Mario Bros.
5. Zelda II – The Adventure of Link
6. Paper Mario: Sticker Star
7. The Legend of Zelda: Link’s Awakening DX
8. Pac-Man
9. Super Mario Land 2: 6 Golden Coins
10. Pushmo
11. The Legend of Zelda
12. Liberation Maiden
13. Photo Dojo
14. 3D Classics: Kirby’s Adventure
15. Cut The Rope
16. Brain Age Express: Sudoku
17. Aero Porter
18. Bloons TD 4
19. Plants vs. Zombies
20. New Super Mario Bros. 2
Videos
1. Nintendo Show 3D: November 22, 2012
2. Nintendo Direct Mini: November 27, 2012
3. Crashmo Video
4. Pac-Man Video
5. Paper Mario: Sticker Star Video
6. Nintendo Show 3D: November 8, 2012
7. Aero Porter Video
8. Wario Land 2 Video
9. Zelda II – The Adventure of Link Video
10. Paper Mario: Sticker Star October 25, 2012
11. Pokedex 3D Pro Video
12. Adventure Time Video
13. Wreck-It Ralph Video
14. New Super Mario Bros. 2 Coin Rush
15. Super Mario Bros. Video
16. Mario Kart 7 Video
17. Pokemon Dream Radar Video
18. Epic Mickey: The Power of Illusion Video
19. New Super Mario Bros. 2 Warp Canon
20. Sonic the Hedgehog: Triple Trouble Video
Source: 3DS eShop
