June 5th, 2008 Seth Killian
Melanie (aka Croik from Ace Attorney supersite court-records.net), wrote up an amazingly in-depth review of the CAPTIVATE08 event from her unique perspective. We didn’t even bribe her! Check it out here.
Here’s a quote from her write-up, which I like because it says a lot about the new, community-scented breezes blowing at Capcom:
After introductions were made of the main Capcom players and event heads, I was a little mortified when they asked for us Community folks to stand up and get introduced as well. So I stood up in my Trigun Tshirt, tiniest person there, and waved hello to the gaming press like a sixth grader at the first day of school, while being introduced as “[she] runs the large Ace Attorney site.” To my shock, murmurs of recognition went through the crowd. People in suits recognized what that meant. I think I almost died (in a good way).
Community ftw!
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June 2nd, 2008 Seth Killian
As you may have heard, this past week was our epic CAPTIVATE08 press event. Held in the Palms’ hotel + casino’s “Sky Villa” (aka the 20k/night suite detailed here), CAPTIVATE is where we show off our latest and greatest inventions to an elite group of press from around the world. Well, elite press, and… you.
This year we were proud to invite 5 specially selected members of our Capcom Community to join us in Vegas, where they got all-access passes to our darkest secrets. After threatening them with zombie dismemberment if they leaked stuff early, I’m happy to report that they all turned out to be fun, delightfully-scented, supremely well-informed, and just overall cool. Basically our idea with community is to treat them like… gasp… real people who love Capcom as much as we do, and as people who occasionally even have non-idiotic ideas. Beyond that, we just want to have as much fun as possible, and I think this week was a big success.
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May 23rd, 2008 Seth Killian
Artist, writer, entrepreneur, everyman… we’re down to our last community invitee to CAPTIVATE08. I wish I could say I saved the best for last, but unfortunately it’s just Joe–jk Joe!
We love Joe, aka Lucent85, and as an ace Lost Planet player, a competitive Street Fighter, and Mega Man devotee, he’s the fabled triple-threat. He’s also a very active forum poster, which brings up a great point: For anyone that would have liked to go with us to Vegas but missed out this time, that’s the secret. You already love the Capcom games, so just get to know us. How, you say? Play some games with us, get busy in the forums, and stay tuned–we’ll have lots more opportunities for you to get involved with Capcom coming soon.
In the meantime, Joe… come on down and we’ll see you at CAPTIVATE08!
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May 22nd, 2008 Seth Killian
We’ve had an artist, a writer, an entrepreneur, and now… Dubindoh. Dubindoh is a college student, an aspiring game designer, and an active forum poster, but he’s mostly just a guy we like. There’s no questioning his fandom (he <3s all things Monster Hunter and is a devotee of the Monster Hunter club on Deviant Art) but overall his sunny disposition and sharp mind just make Capcom Unity a nicer place to hang out.
It takes all kinds to make a great community, and you don’t always have to be the biggest superstar (although it doesn’t hurt!) to score some super prizes, like an all-expenses trip to Vegas to see our newest games and kick back with Capcom staff and producers.
Yuri, come on down, and we’ll see you at CAPTIVATE08!
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May 20th, 2008 Seth Killian
It’s a clean slate! In response to your requests, the XBox Live leaderboards for Super Puzzle Fighter II Turbo reset this morning at 1 AM, PDT.
The scoring system had calcified, with some inactive players with good records clogging up the top positions, and discouraging new players from working hard to get their names in lights. It was also extremely difficult for established players to move up in the rankings without being able to play some of those top position-holders, so to let everyone stand on their current strength, we’ve wiped the slate.
Now it’s the wild west of Puzzle Fightin’ again, so hurry to pick your cheap Akuma and get served by my Chun Li (like this Friday, during our weekly Play Against Capcom matches).
Thanks to community member Gerald Guess for leading the charge on this issue. I’ll leave his gamertag private, but if you play a lot of Puzzle Fighter, chances are he’s mopped you up at least a few times.
Head over to our own Puzzle Fighter leaderboards page to see how you stack up and watch the drama unfold!
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May 16th, 2008 Seth Killian
Our big Las Vegas party isn’t quite at capacity yet, which means it’s time to invite somebody else from our big Capcom community family! This week it’s my fellow Midwestern native Melanie Schoen, aka Croik.
If Shawn was the artist and TAS was the writer, Croik would be the entrepreneur. As owner and administrator of the fantastic fan site, www.court-records.net, Croik keeps the Ace Attorney fan-fires burning at all times, maintaining a great archive of art, audio, and fan-fiction.
Melanie, come on down, and we’ll see you at CAPTIVATE08!
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May 16th, 2008 Seth Killian
In addition to the Wii-tastic golf action, one of the really fun things about We Love Golf is the alternate Capcom costumes for the characters. When we heard the team was adding two new characters for the upcoming Western release of the game, we asked “Why not let our fans pick the alternate costumes for the new guys?”
As it turns out, everybody at Capcom had lots of extremely good reasons why this was a terrible idea. But then we did it anyway!
For the female character, your choices for the alternate costumes were Cammy (Street Fighter), Morrigan (Darkstalkers), Rouge (Power Stone), Roll Caskett (Mega Man Legends), and Ashley Graham (Resident Evil). For the men, the options were Frank West (Dead Rising), Balrog (Street Fighter boxer), Guy (Final Fight), Ken (Street Fighter), Dhalsim (Street Fighter), and Captain Commando (from, um, Captain Commando).
Today we’re proud to announce the fans’ choices: Darkstalkers’ own Morrigan, and Street Fighter’s Ken! Morrigan’s outfit is available as Stephanie’s alternate costume, and you’ll find Ken’s red gi on Mark, giving us our first African-American incarnation of Ken Masters!
Thanks to everyone who voted for making this a ton of fun and adding some great surprises to the game.
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May 14th, 2008 Seth Killian
So we’re thinking about whipping up a new batch of SFIV figurines. We’re just dipping our toes in the water, and so won’t be making ALL of the characters right now, but we would like to make a few. If we’re not producing the whole cast, the question is which ones DO we make?
Obviously the new characters are cool, but Ryu, Chun, etc. are icons… Tough call. Anyway, rather than strapping on our thinking caps and then producing a bunch of stuff that nobody actually wants, we thought we’d ask you what you thought about it.
So, which ones are your favorites? Check out the poll on the right side of our blog and pick your top three!
Edit: As filthy Americans, we are using the filthy American names for the boss characters in the poll. For reference:
“M. Bison” = dictator with the hat.
“Balrog” = “what’s a kick?” Boxer
“Vega” = fancypants Spaniard with the claw.
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May 8th, 2008 Seth Killian
The Phantom of the Capcom Unity Opera, TAS can be found lurking in nearly any thread ready to drop science. If our first invitee Shawn was an artist, TAS is a writer, with thousands upon thousands of posts filled with frighteningly on-topic, accurate, and thoughtful information. His grammar is even good, and so obviously doesn’t understand how this internet stuff is supposed to work.
His pain is your gain, however, and like a little internet Amaterasu, his posts spread enlightenment throughout Unity. Woe to anyone preparing to spout nonsense—when it comes to Capcom, TAS knows his stuff.
While Street Fighter is his specialty, not a week goes by that I don’t read a TAS post about some esoteric piece of Capcom trivia and I go “really?” Then it turns out he was right. That is in my face, but I know when I am licked, and so we’re proud to announce that TAS will be joining us in sunny Las Vegas for the CAPTIVATE08 Spectacular!
TAS… Come on down!
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April 29th, 2008 Chris "Kramez" Kramer
Shawn Baxter, aka “Snow Infernus” and “The Nubbin,” is one of Capcom Unity’s most enthusiastic members. So much so, in fact, that a good portion of Capcom’s US marketing group — and some of our Japanese devs as well — actually know his name. Shawn is a constant poster on the forums, comments on blogs, pops into Friday PAC sessions regularly and has tons of dialog with other Unity folks as well as Capcom community commandos like Seth, Chris, Christian and myself (too many Chriseses, which is why I am always “Kramer”). And, as mentioned in the previous post, he’s also a pretty snazzy artiste, whipping up the kick-ass Lost Planet PS3 theme. Shawn’s one of the reasons why we’ve focused so much on our community outreach over the last 18 months: to be able to connect directly with people just like you, the diehard Capcom fan.
And that’s why Shawn will be joining Capcom in Las Vegas for CAPTIVATE08, our blow-out, world-wide media summit. Shawn is going to be amongst the first on the planet to see and experience some of the secret gems that we’ll be rolling out, and we’re pleased as punch that he’s going to be there with us.
How hardcore is young master Nubbin? He’s so hardcore that we actually informed him of his selection for CAPTIVATE08 via Xbox LIVE email. In real life, Shawn is a 21-year-old designer from Illinois who is quite possibly the world’s biggest Lost Planet fan. Shawn came to Capcom Unity by having his ass handed to him at Lost Planet multiplayer demo matches; turned out the player using him for target practice was Brian Dunn, our original Lost Planet blogger. Shawn’s done a number of cool freebie Capcom-centric designs, including some awesome Windows desktops and now his design work has actually landed him some paid gigs from Capcom; he’s currently taking stabs at a few different logo concepts, as well as whipping up a new Lost Planet COLONIES t-shirt. Since joining Unity, Shawn has posted over 2,300 messages on the forums, averaging almost 5 posts per day!
As Shawn puts it: “Lost Planet and the Capcom Unity site was the start of meeting a lot of Capcom employees, and great new friends. And it started a serious addiction to Capcom games. I always played Capcom games, but never knew what a difference being a part of the community would make.” We agree.
One down, four to go. Are you gonna make it? Keep your eyes on Capcom Unity, as CAPTIVATE08 is nearly upon us…
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