Free shirt to anyone who can send me in a picture with them and the Street Fighter vehicles (two shirts for the “Beast Blaster”!).

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While it may be your last stop for good taste in names, this expansion pack for Rocketmen: Axis of Evil is your first stop for bullet-flying, asteroid-crushing, space-faring hijinx. Well, maybe its your second stop, since you need the original Rocketmen game to play this expansion pack. But after you’ve blasted your way through that, this is where you’ll want to go next. If you’re new to Rocketmen, be sure to check out the updated, powered-up demo.

Uranus video above, and check out the new screens here!

We have a new batch sweet new screenshots from the upcoming Lost Planet Colonies. Although the screens are a bit, er, “petite,” they include some big action, including shots of the sweet new Akrid Hunter mode, as well as Egg Hunt and some single-player bosses. These are giant bugs fighting giant robots in space, people!

Click here to see them all.

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!

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.”

You asked for it, we listened, and made Okami on the Wii a reality. Read the review, then buy it today!

Admit it. When you hear Mickey’s Magical Quest, you don’t immediately think “Capcom”. I think it’s rather safe to assume that most people didn’t realize, or don’t recall, that Capcom made surprisingly good platform games for Disney back in the day.

GameTrailers.com takes a look at one of the classics, Mickey’s Magical Quest, and inducts it into their Video Game Vault, moonwalking Goofy and all. This game definitely deserves the recognition as one of the most fun games from a time when games were simply about how much fun you had while playing it.

Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun Li screenwriter Justin Marks talks character background, shower scenes, and explains that Van Damme is a confused old man. Zing!

Check it out here.

Behold!–the latest LP Colonies-inspired creation of Shawn “Snow Infernus” Baxter (previously mentioned here, here, and here).

Not only do I not know how to make one of these things, I don’t even know where to buy the stuff you would need to put it together. Also I am afraid of electricity, which this thing seems to have harnessed somehow.

Amazing as always Shawn, and see you in a few weeks!

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What did Capcom do to the USA network in a past life to deserve this kind of treatment?

Yes, it’s another set of painfully bad clips from the Iron Chef of awful cartoons: TheSwitcher. This time, it’s USA’s Darkstalkers cartoon, which was so bad that even as a semi-serious Darkstalkers player, I didn’t know this even existed. As it turns out, ignorance was bliss–watch at your own risk.

Thanks to TheSwitcher himself for the tip. Chris complains about our lack of tips and the next day they’re flooding in! That’s great, but next time complain about our lack of 10$ bills, dummy.

Could it be just a randomly awesome picture, or could it be leaked concept art from our new spin-off “Mike Haggar Vs the Environment” where Mike discovers all this environmentalism nonsense was just a dastardly scheme concocted by the earth itself, which is trying to take over the earth! Only a man as hard as Haggar is strong enough to shoulder the truth, and now he has to single-handedly go out and pound the crap out of the environment until it submits to mankind’s enduring mastery!

Pic sent in by SSF2T HD Remix and Wolf of the Battlefield: Commando 3 producer Rey!