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Mega Man 10
Weapons Revealed

When Mega Man defeats the eight robot masters in Mega Man 10, he’ll be able to power up and use the following weapons: Chill Spike, Commando Bomb (shown above), Rebound Striker, Solar Blaze, Thunder Wool, Triple Blade, Water Shield, and Wheel Cutter. You can see all the artwork in our Mega Man 10 gallery.

Whether or not most gamers will be able to make it through all the bosses is another question. I’m guessing a lot of people may eventually resort to the Easy mode to avoid too much frustration. The game will be released on WiiWare first March 1, followed by its PSN release March 11 before releasing on Xbox LIVE Arcade March 31.

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Photo Post
Game Night And Podcast

Jorge took this great photo of Mike Jackson and me playing Street Fighter IV tonight. Click on the photo for an even bigger version. You can play “I Spy” if you want to. Or, you can also wonder why I have duplicate consoles. I’ll never tell.

More photos, along with an actual podcast, coming soon.

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DEERTASE 2: REINDEERTASE
Production Notes and Some Art

On Monday, we launched our second game, Deertase 2: Reindeertase. With it, we also released a few extra bits of content related to the game, such as the soundtrack, the instruction manual, and the desktop background downloads. Today, while cleaning up my files, I came across some early notes I had jotted down to help understand some of the functions that needed to be built into the game.

The notes are a little disjointed, and focus heavily on the item inventory system, but they also include mention of a few things that ended up being dumped from the final build of the game. If you’re into seeing handwritten notes, feel free to check out the scans of them.

On the subject of the actual game, it appears that no one has found this secret character yet.

Deertase 2: Reindeertase notes »

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Mega Man 10
Art and Screens

Capcom has released a handful of screenshots and some character art for Mega Man 10 and, in good fanboy fashion I’m devoting an entire post to it. Shown above is Proto Man with the blue bomber, while our Flickr set contains the game’s logo and the screenshots. Enjoy!

Check out the gallery »

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GALLERY
The Legend of Zelda: Spirit Tracks

The Legend of Zelda: Spirit Tracks will be in stores December 7, 2009. View the gallery »

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Super Street Fighter IV
A Fistful of Screens

Today Capcom released six new screens from Super Street Fighter IV. Unfortunately three of these screens are kinda boring seeing that they only show some menu graphics. The other three are of the car-crushing and barrel-bashing bonus stages. Come to think of it, some better stills could have been chosen. We don’t even get to see a barrel being hit (why would Dan taunt a barrel?) nor do we get to see what the car looks like before it’s smashed to bits.

Poor screen grabbing or clever attempt to whet our appetites for more? You decide! Check out our Super Street Fighter IV gallery for the rest of the shots.

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More Rabbids Fun

While browsing through some character art from the upcoming game Rabbids Go Home I came across the above image of two Rabbids. One’s wearing a lacey thong while the other is looking down into its boxers, and I’m not sure which is funnier.

The Rabbids’ sense of humour is at times more than I can handle, but after spending some time looking through the game’s artwork, I’m really looking forward to getting some hands-on time with the game. From what we’ve heard it involves the stealing of stuff to make a pile so that the Rabbids can climb it to reach their home: The Moon.

When asked how they felt about having their home world bombed in an unprovoked attack from NASA today, they replied with this.

Check out our Rabbids Go Home gallery »

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See Frank West Kick Ass in Tatsunoko Vs. Capcom

Tatsunoko Vs. Capcom looks like one hell of an awesome fighting game and it should go down in history as one of the best crossover fighters. The all-star cast on both sides of the Vs. is awesome, and this week Capcom announced another character for its team: Dead Rising’s Frank West. The antihero sports his trademark mannerisms, which of course have been exaggerated somewhat. We’ve got a Flickr set showing off some stills, but you’re better off checking out the video for a better depiction of how Frank West rolls. Fans of Dead Rising will dig the references.

Watch the video »

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A Diabolical Box FROM Professor Layton!

Sometimes it doesn’t take much to make my day. Sometimes, however, something happens that makes my week. Today, for instance, I received a rather abnormally shaped package from Nintendo. I opened it up. There was an envelope inside, and inside that envelope was this delightful wooden box with the logo for Professor Layton and the Diabolical Box embossed into it.

If that wasn’t clever enough, opening the box was a bit of a puzzle as well, as it has no obvious hinges. Upon opening it, I found a note from Professor Layton, congratulating me for figuring out the puzzle. This note was accompanied by hint coins: the same kind that Nintendo representatives had hidden around the dining room of Layton’s summer abode a few weeks back to help recreate puzzles from the game in a real-life setting.

This diabolical box has found its permanent home on my coffee table, where it will definitely be a great conversation piece. I now have a good excuse to stock up on chocolate coins. Much thanks to Professor Layton for sending it along!

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The New PS3 From Every Angle

There’s nothing readers of gaming sites like more than oodles of images of hardware they don’t yet have. I posted about Sony announcing the new PS3 earlier tonight, but now I’ve been sent some super high quality images of the new model and I gotta admit, the thing looks freaking sweet. There’s even a shot of its underside! From these new angles, we can appreciate the updated design quite a lot more.

New PS3 model gallery »

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