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Capcom Is Going To Make Games Quicker

Capcom, fresh off months of sluggish sales, is keen to make more video games. More video games might mean more sales!


May 18, 2010
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Bionic Commando, Dark Void Last Straws For Capcom

After not one, but two Western-developed sales blunders, Capcom is planning to stick with its home turf.


May 7, 2010
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Capcom Profits Plummet 73.1 Percent

Last year was a rough year. Just ask Osaka-based Capcom. The game company, which is best known for the Street Fighter series, sales profits down. Way down.


May 4, 2010
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Super Mario Crossover Creator Cut Luigi, Bionic Commando, More

Jay Pavlina recently released a sensation of a video game, a remix called Super Mario Bros Crossover that allows gamers to play Super Mario Bros as the heroes of Mega Man, Metroid and Castlevania. Other legends almost made it in.


April 27, 2010
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Culture Clash

The man behind Mega Man is very busy these days.


April 23, 2010
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Mega Man Creator To Assure Capcom’s Future

The man behind some of Capcom’s biggest video game creations is now in charge of personally assuring that all of the developer’s titles are hits.


April 15, 2010

Game Changers: Sequels That Scared The True Fans

Yesterday, 2K Games panicked some gamers with news that the turn-based tactics series X-Com will return as a first-person shooter. What other classic video game franchise have had their genres changed, and how did they weather the transformation?


March 30, 2010
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Where Posters, Packaging & Box Art Comes From

A few weeks ago, I did a feature on a company that’s responsible for game logos and box art. Today, then, I thought we’d look at something similar: a company that does box art and marketing material.


March 29, 2010

Bionic Commando Meets Blaster Master Meets Metroid

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This is Grapple Buggy, shown here in Boston at PAX East by Nathan Fouts, the almost-solo developer behind Xbox Live Indie game Weapon of Choice. You can tell which classic Nintendo Entertainment System games he loves.


December 29, 2009
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Capcom Still Burning Over Bionic Commando Failure

In a Q&A session held earlier this week, president Haruhiro Tsujimoto became the second high profile Capcom employee this month to get all negative when it comes to the company collaborating with Western studios.