We’re sold out (for now). You said you wanted the Mega Man Zero Official Complete Works art book. As soon as we made it available in the Capcom Store, you backed up your words big time. Orders are still coming in. Thanks! If you place an order and get a notification that your book is on backorder, please be patient. If stars Capcom and Udon align, we will be getting more.
Look out for the brief return of the Street Fighter Eternal Challenge, Shinkiro hardcover edition coming soon and the Street Fighter Tribute Book coming later this summer.
In the latest issue of Edge, the UK’s highbrow games mag, the creative director of the next Prince of Persia game name checks Street Fighter IV as a reference point for their design. Ubisoft Montreal’s Jean-Christophe Guyot told Edge:
“In terms of style, we know we’re on the right track when you consider something like the new Street Fighter.”
Additionally, Edge reveals that art influences on the new PoP include the aforementioned SFIV, Princess Mononoke, first-person running/hopping/climbing game Mirror’s Edge and everyone’s favorite lupine painter, Okami. Not bad company, really. For the record, we’re looking forward to playing the next Prince of Persia game!
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.
For anyone still sleeping on this gem, Eurogamer has brewed some coffee and you need to smell it:
“The danger with Okami is that people will be so busy looking at how pretty it is, they’ll fail to appreciate just how brilliant it is underneath as well. Okami is an astounding videogame. Its world is living and organic, infused with ideas of mythology and natural beauty and influenced by several areas of the Japanese aesthetic, from sumi-e to architecture to religious and ritual tradition, as well as by other games as diverse as Zelda and Devil May Cry.”
“Okami should not be a little-known classic. It is an item of culture, informed by thousands of years of Japanese art and mythology and fashioned into perhaps the most thoroughly beautiful thing that gaming has to offer.”
“It’s as well-designed as Zelda, as involving as Final Fantasy, and as beautiful as anything you’ve ever seen; it belongs with the best of the Zelda series at the very apex of its genre.”
There’s news that Grand Theft Auto IV just surpassed Call of Duty IV as the most played game on Xbox Live. No doubt most of you, along with many of us here at Capcom, have been contributing to their success. However, is GTA4 something you want to play all the time? Can it satisfy all your gaming urges? Can it help you achieve zen?
Tim Agne doesn’t think so. Over on the mlive.com blog, Tim writes:
But an odd thing happened to me last week, and I feel the need to share it. I came home from work primed to uncork a gaming binge, but GTA IV just wasn’t screaming at me. I didn’t want to unload a workday’s worth of frustrations in an explosive catharsis of car wrecks and homicides. I needed something more relaxing, more chill, more Zen.
Given the fan reaction to the new alternative cover art for Okami on the Wii, we should offer alternative covers on every one of our titles! Unfortunately, some of our loyal Capcom fans live overseas and will not be able to be sent the alternative covers. To set that right, since everyone should enjoy Amaterasu’s beauty, we’ve put together the following links to high quality images of each of the covers.
Right click on the following links and save the images to your computer. Be aware, each image is over 10MB in size so that they will look fantastic when printed out and placed in your copy of Okami for the Wii. You can see snapshots of what each of the alternate images look like in our flickr pool here.
I can honestly say that my worst day at Capcom was this Monday. After releasing Okami for the Wii last week to some great reviews (Metacritic Average: 88), one of our Okami diehard fans discovered that the folks who work here at Capcom are, in fact, human and can make mistakes.
As fans know, the real art of Okami is on the game disc itself, but given the artistic nature of this game, we’d like the outside of the box to match the beauty contained within. To that end, we’re offering a free make-good gift to our fans. If you purchased Okami for the Wii, for a limited time, you can choose from one of the three art pieces below and Capcom will ship a high-quality version of the box cover straight to your door.
Each piece is sized to fit perfectly into your Okami Wii box and will transform your copy into the best-looking game on your shelf. Just head to http://www.capcom.com/artredemption/, fill out the form, and go back to playing Okami while you patiently wait for your new, improved art to make its way to you.
Thanks again for being a fan of both Capcom and Okami! Now get back to painting!
Those guys at Gametrailers, with their fancy equipment and actual skills, have once again done what we wish we could have done: They’ve made a video comparison between the awesomeness that is Okami Wii, released this earlier this week, and it’s original DNA clone, Okami PS2. If this video, and the awesome prospect of Celestial Brushing with the Wiimote doesn’t convince you to buy Okami Wii, your video game heart must be black, or at least some shade of dark gray.
I’ve been meaning to post this, but webcomic VG Cats had a strip one day, probably in celebration of a game that totally should have had Mega Man in it, called “100 Kirbies”, dedicated to the “what if” forms that Kirby could take on if he had to chance to suck them down like so many Slurpies.
How many incarnations can you recognize above? (Hint: They’re all Capcom related)
After you’re done with that lineup, check out the full strip. Scroll to the bottom of strip if you’re wondering which Kirby each is.
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