With the recent announcement of Capcom and MotoGP’s glorious 5-year partnership, it was safe to assume the deadbeats from Capcom Europe would be at the big MotoGP event in Jerez Spain, cluttering up a perfectly good motorcycle race with videogames. Pictured above is Capcom Europe’s Michael Pattison trying unsuccessfully to get an autograph from Dorna Sports (they own MotoGP) CEO Carmelo Ezpeleta.
MotoGP is the most exciting thing on two wheels, hands down. If you’re not familiar with the sport, you need to get onboard posthaste, as it’s growing faster than a hopped-up Kawa on a straightaway. With 18 Grand Prix races in 16 different countries, MotoGP is truly one of the most international of all motorsports. 800cc prototype bikes blasting sparks and melting rubber onto some of the hottest tracks on the planet, including Laguna Seca’s infamous corkscrew turn and (new this year) the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, aka “The Brickyard.” And now it’s all ours, for the next five years!
On Sunday, at the Circuito de Jerez in sunny Spain, Capcom announced that we have struck a licensing agreement with DORNA, the MotoGP organization. Capcom will be producing games for all platforms from now through 2012, from mobile straight through to PS3 and Xbox 360 and everything in between. In fact, we’ll be releasing a game for the 2008 season for 360, PS3, Wii, PC, PS2 and mobile this year.
We knew last year that we were going to be locking up the license, but we had to sit on the news as a few other MotoGP licensors finished their runs with the sport. This year, however, we’re going to be going all-out on the new game unchallenged by any other titles, which should hopefully knock out some of the confusion in the interactive space that we ran into last year. We’ll be bringing you more news on this year’s game soon!
Thanks to Ben L from Capcom Europe for the sexy pics from Spain!
Hey MotoGP Fans — From reading the MotoGP forums and other various posts on the Internets, it’s pretty obvious that you guys have some of the most discriminating tastes when it comes to games — it seems like you treat ‘em like fine wine. So who better to ask about what should be in the next MotoGP ‘08 than all of you?As Sven mentioned on the GP boards earlier, the current PS 2 edition was created with a shorter development cycle that we would have liked. The next one will be a full-on next-gen extravaganza deluxe full of bells, whistles, and all that stuff. We and the Milestone team have tons of ideas of what to put into the game, so now’s your turn. In the comments section below, tell us what you’d like to see and what you thought about Moto GP 07 PS 2. We’re listening.
(But this is my first post, so please, be gentle.)
So Tokyo’s a little far away and you can’t attend in person. While we can’t give you the sweaty nerds and sexy booth babes, we can offer you, as compensation, all the sweet Capcom trailers, screenshots, and other assets we are releasing at this year’s TGS for your consumption, including a brand new Devil May Cry 4 trailer featuring new brand new footage, and screenshots from the recently announced Wii title, We Love Golf!
After you’re all buckled in and ready, scroll down for all the goodies!
First off, the screenshot madness! Click on images to see the full Flickr archives.
Devil May Cry 4
Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law
MotoGP 07
Resident Evil: The Umbrella Chronicles
We Love Golf!
Zack & Wiki
And last but certainly not least, it’s the new Devil May Cry 4 Trailer!
Our own Christian Svensson has put up a post in our forums about the MotoGP event we attended a few weeks ago down in Laguna Seca, where I got really sunburnt and was peeling for over a week afterwards.
A couple weekends ago (pardon the delay, Comic-con and other stuff has kept me from getting this up), the only US-held MotoGP event attracted more than 100,000 attendees at Laguna Seca, just outside Monterey, California. Among the crowds were several Capcom executives from Japan and the US, including myself, eager to get our first look at a MotoGP event since we’d signed a long term deal for the PlayStation platform rights earlier this year.We were escorted by our Dorna hosts and given the full VIP treatment (rides in the pace car at 160+ MPH, pit lane walks, air conditioned suites to watch the event, etc.). What we found was quite the spectacle. Mind you, compared to some of the events in Spain or Italy, which have 250,000 or 300,000 people, (where fans sneak in entire motorcycle engines into the crowd to rev the hell out of them until they blow rather spectacularly in support of their favorite riders) Laguna Seca might seem a bit “tame”.
Click on the jump to see the rest of the post and more pictures!
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