Random’s “Mega Ran” is Blowing Up

Wired’s always-entertaining music blog, the Listening Post, has a nice piece up on Capcom Unity’s golden child, Random.

Random talks about the love for Mega Man that inspired his Mega Ran album, and talks at length about our crazy policy of encouraging the good stuff from our fans instead of, you know, suing them. Check it out here.

PS- we only give thumbs-up to the GOOD fan stuff–your hentai mugen Kobun games are still banned.

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Behind-the-Scenes with UDON’s Street Fighter Tribute Art Book

Comicbookresources.com has a great, in-depth piece detailing UDON’s upcoming Street Fighter Tribute art book, which collects Street Fighter art from big-name comic artists as well as art submitted by fans just like you.

They talk to UDON staff, individual artists, and provide plenty of sneak-peeks at the motherlode of SF art contained within. Check it out here!

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The Fan’s-Eye View of CAPTIVATE08

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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Monster Hunter Fan Movies

Just a few “best in class” Monster Hunter fan-made movies to keep the fires burning in the West for this runaway smash hit from Japan. My favorite is embedded above, but this one is also pretty hot.

Thanks to Capcom Unity member kaiser-blade for the tip!

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New Lost Planet Colonies Wallpapers

Superfan Shawn Baxter is back with a fresh new set of wallpapers for Lost Planet Colonies! Though they look great on a desktop, hese 6 (yes, 6!) wallpapers were specially made for easy import onto your XBox 360.

Creating a custom background requires a few extra steps, but isn’t hard and is totally worth it in terms of awesome. If you’ve never done it before, read this thread for some quick tips on how to get it done, and check here for all the other wallpapers.

Thanks Shawn!

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Mega Man History Lesson

The Gaming Historian travels back to investigate the origins of the Blue Bomber. In addition to being filled with a bunch of Mega Man fun facts, it also opens with quote from the father of the New Criticism, Robert Penn Warren. Classy!

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Don’t Stop the Rock: The Megas

Yes, the Megas are one of many Mega Man-inspired musical acts, but they’re not inspired by just ANY Mega Man–they’re inspired by Mega Man 2. Mega Man 1? Get bent. Mega Man 3? For bandwagoners! Mega Man 2 is where it’s at. That’s what I call focus!

Since the year 200X (4), The Megas have strived to bring a message from Dr. Light to the people. They have chosen to transmit that message, the tale of a small blue robot named Megaman, directly into the eardrums of the general populace through the power of rock.

Check out their tracks on their myspace, or one of their videos here.

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3D Street Fighter Sidewalk Art

Some nice work from master illusionist and Capcom Unity member CptMunta. Click here to break the illusion’s spell, and here to see more on his Pavement Art website.

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Fansplosion of Mega Man Music

A lovely piano arrangement of the classic theme from Dr. Wily’s Castle. Fan-made Mega Man music is always great (well, maybe not always) and there’s a ton of it, but here are few more of our recent favorites:

–Mega Man X2, Flame Stag, on guitar

–Mega Man 3, Top Man, on piano and saxaphone

–Mega Man X, hot rendition of Storm Eagle on guitar from the shred-tastic GodlyJester

–Mega Man 2, Bubble Man, on piano (check out the cross-handed style!)

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Fan-Made Wallpapers: SFIV & Okami

Spotted on the sometimes questionable but occasionally awesome 4chan, Street Fighter IV and Okami themed wallpapers! Click on the images to get to the original large sizes on our Flickr pool.

I’d credit the whoever made these, but they were posted as Anonymous, as most 4chan posters tend to do.

Update: Thanks to commentors, I can give credit where credit is due. The above SF4 image was created by Giovanny. The Okami image is entitled Okami - 13 Brush Gods, by syncaidia@dA over on Deviant Art.

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