It's time for your weekly week in review! Very slow bits of news lately as things become increasingly quiet on the Rockman front. I wonder, when we wil learn of Coro Coro's mystery game?
ESRB Rates Marvel vs. Capcom 2 For 360, PS3Back in mid October, the Entertainment Software Ratings Board (ESRB) mysteriously
re-listed MvC2 for the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3. What does this mean? Well, if we take the
other day's news into consideration, this could be a sure fire sign that an HD remix of the title is coming along.
To make matters a little more interesting,
NeoGaf members discovered that MvC2
showed up on PartnerNet, a special version of Xbox Live used on 360 developmet kits.
GameStop Tentatively Dates Mega Man Star Force 3Although Capcom USA have yet to announce an official release date, GameStop's
online listings indicate that
Mega Man Star Force 3: Black Ace and
Red Joker are slated for a June 9th, 2009 release in North America.
This should come as great news for those of you eagerly awaiting the third (and possibly final) iteration in the Star Force series. Bear in mind, this date could change upon Capcom's whim, so take this with a grain of salt for now.
Hitoshi Ariga Reveals New Pet ProjectIt's been a little while since we last heard from Hitoshi Ariga, creator of the ever classic Rockman Megamix comics. What's he been up to lately?
Besides feverishly creating the newest Megamix volume, Ariga is apparently working on a
small side project entitled, “Rockman Development Secrets: The Men who Created Rockman."
The project will presumably chronicle the secrets behind Rockman's history and development, planned to be included within the pages of Megamix 4. Ariga states he wanted to make a similar book over fifteen years ago, but due to a number of circumstances the project never came to be.
As a small bonus, Ariga plans to make a parody comic called, “Secrets of the Rockman Development Secrets : The Man who Depicts the Men Who Created Rockman" (talk about tongue tied), a fictional dramatization of his encounters with the Infaune and other Rockman staff. Sounds like fun.
Ariga hopes to bring more information to us soon.
Capcom Very Happy With Mega Man 9's Sales NumbersDestructoid sat down with Capcom's Seth Killian to discuss a number of issues, the most noteworthy being Capcom's impressions with Mega Man 9's sales:
D: While on the topic of Mega Man 9 secrets, Capcom has been pretty secretive about how well the game sold. Is there anything you can tell us about how successful the game was, like which console the game sold best on, and if it meet Capcom’s sales expectations?
SK: We don’t discuss specific numbers, but we were definitely happy with the sales of Mega Man 9. I can tell you it was our best-selling title ever on Wiiware (also our only title there so far.)
I think it's safe to assume MM9's sales will spell out the beginning of more games from the classic series. Bring on Mega Man 10!