Resident Evil 5 DLC, Gold Edition details

Capcom revealed a variety of details on the downloadable content and a brand new Gold Edition of Resident Evil 5 for PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360. The downloadable content will be released as two new episodes, along with new costumes, and a new mode called The Mercenaries Reunion. The Mercenaries Reunion mode will offer 8 new playable characters and some weapon load outs. The DLC along with the original game will be released at retail as Resident Evil 5 Gold Edition. Resident Evil 5: Gold Edition will be available for $49.99 as a single Blu-ray disc for the PlayStation 3 or as a DVD with a token for the downloadable content for Xbox 360.

The first new episode, “Lost in Nightmares, finds BSAA agent Chris Redfield and partner Jill Valentine investigating Ozwell E. Spencer’s hideaway. Spencer, the evil mastermind and co-founder of Umbrella Corporation, has been hiding a new evil deep within the basement of his mansion. Chris and Jill discover this and enter into the catacombs beneath the mansion. To be released at about the same time, are new costume for Chris and Sheva. They don’t do anything other than make you like poretty,

The new mode, reimagining of Mercenaries Mode, gives players new playable characters and weapon load outs which provide additional challenges. Each piece of downloadable content will contain two new playable characters, while the Gold Edition will offer all eight.

Lost in Nightmares and Costume Pack 1 will be released Feb. 17, 2010 in Europe and the U.S. on Xbox 360 and Feb 18 on PS3. The Xbox 360 versions of Episode 2 and Costume Pack 2 will be released on March 3, 2010 in both regions; while the PS3 versions will be released March 4, 2010. Resident Evil 5: Gold Edition hits North America on March 9 and Europe March 12, 2010.

Resident Evil Archives: Resident Evil Zero Dated

Capcom today announced the official ship date for Resident Evil Archives: Resident Evil Zero. A Wii exclusive, Resident Evil Archives: Resident Evil Zero will ship on December 1 and will carry an MSRP of $29.99.

Resident Evil Archives: Resident Evil Zero retells the back story and internal tyranny of the Umbrella Corporation and lets players discover the origins of the T-Virus in a storyline that reveals the horrors leading up to the infamous mansion incident. Only available on the Nintendo GameCube until now, Resident Evil Zero brings Rebecca Chambers – rookie member of S.T.A.R.S. Bravo Team – to Raccoon City , where she must investigate a series of gruesome murders. Almost immediately she stumbles upon a military transport truck filled with corpses and her journey of horror begins.

Look for it before the holiday shopping season.

Final Tatsunoko VS Capcom: Ultimate All-Stars characters revealed

Today Capcom revealed the final two playable characters in Tatsunoko VS Capcom: Ultimate All-Stars: Joe the Condor and Zero. Tatsunoko’s Joe the Condor comes via the Gatchaman series (better known as G-Force in North America), joining teammates Ken the Eagle and Jun the Swan. He’s got some stylish attacks as well as a powerful gun-grappling hook sidearm. Next up is Capcom’s very own Zero from the Mega Man X and Mega Man Zero series of games. Zero comes equipped with his Mega Buster, Plasma Sword and some very speedy moves. He also has a very dangerous Ultra combo - a Plasma Sword.

Tatsunoko VS Capcom: Ultimate All-Stars ships to retailers in the U.S. for the Wii on Jan. 26, 2010.

Capcom joins R4 lawsuit

According to a report on Game Politics, Capcom is the latest company to join in on a lawsuit against R4 flash cartridge makers using Japan’s Unfair Competition Prevention Act as the hammer.

Capcom joined Nintendo and 53 other game publishers in this lawsuit that hopes to curtail the use of this game copying device for the Nintendo DS. While Nintendo managed to get an injunction against the makers of these devices last year in a Tokyo court, that doesn’t seem to have had much impact of the situation.

“We are expecting the entire society including users to recognize that our company and other software manufactures have extremely sustained damages from proliferation of illegal instruments, such as the Game Copying Devices,” said Capcom is a statement today. “..and the computer industries have sustained serious damages because of those vendors, and we expect to influence the society to eliminate such illegal instruments from the market.”

It will be interesting to see if Nintendo and friends can do anything to curtail the use of the R4 in Japan. While it’s not impossible, it won’t be easy either. It will be a lot harder to deal with the use of the R4 in places like China where piracy and black markets are an integral part of the consumer shopping experience.

The Dark Void Tesla Roadster Giveaway

Capcom and Tesla Motors have partnered to bring gamers the Dark Void Tesla Roadster Giveaway, a sweepstake which began on Monday at an exclusive event at the flagship Tesla Motors showroom in Silicon Valley. The giveaway invites everyone to visit Capcom’s official Dark Void site to enter for a chance to win a variety of prizes, including an all-expense paid trip to Las Vegas to test drive a Roadster, as well as the Grand Prize: their very own Roadster. Nice - even if you don’t give a damn about Dark Void. I mean come on, it’s a freaking car!

The Dark Void Tesla Roadster Giveaway is the first time that Tesla Motors has partnered with another company to give away a Roadster, the electric sports car that’s is allegedly faster than a Porsche 911 Turbo and greener than a Toyota Prius. To celebrate the launch of the sweepstakes and promote Capcom’s action-adventure game Dark Void, Capcom held a test drive event Monday that allowed the media and San Francisco Bay Area members of Capcom-Unity.com to experience both the car and the game. We were not involved in that chicanery for the record. Sign up for the contest at www.darkvoidgame.com/tesla/.

Dark Void is a sci-fi action-adventure game that combines aerial combat and ground-based third-person combat against filthy aliens. Set in a parallel universe called The Void, players take on the role of Will, a pilot dropped into the mysterious Void. This unlikely hero soon finds himself swept into a desperate struggle for survival, joining forces with a rebel human group called The Survivors. Trapped in the Void, these resistance fighters are battling to hold off a mysterious alien race that plans to threaten Earth.

Street Fighter IV gets super in 2010

Capcom today announced that Super Street Fighter IV, the ultimate vision of Capcom’s newest Street fighter game, will be coming to the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 in Spring 2010. The follow-up to Street Fighter IV will feature new and returning characters, more advanced online gameplay, new ultra combos and much more. If you are a long-time fan of the Street Fighter series you already know that this is Capcom’s modus operandi: add more charcters, some new features and release!

Super Street Fighter IV will feature the full roster of 25 characters from Street Fighter IV such as Ryu, Ken, Crimson Viper, Abel, El Fuerte, and Rufus, while adding about eight characters new to the world of Street Fighter IV. The new roster includes classic combatants from previous Street Fighter games like T. Hawk as well as all-new characters such as the mysterious and deadly female fighter, Juri.

Super Street Fighter IV also adds new Ultra Combos and advancements to the online gameplay introduced in Street Fighter IV. Capcom promises to take many of the features introduced in Street Fighter IV and refined them to deliver “the ultimate vision of Street Fighter.” We’ll see.

More information about Super Street Fighter IV will be coming soon.

Ace Attorney Investigations: Miles Edgeworth site launches

Capcom has launched the official full featured web site for Ace Attorney Investigations: Miles Edgeworth, the newest title in the Ace Attorney series for the Nintendo DS coming in February 2010. Fans of the Ace Attorney series can check out new character bios, screen shots, trailers, developer’s diary with the first blog by producer Eshiro-san and more. Fans can also download desktop wallpapers featuring Phoenix Wright’s famed rival, Miles Edgworth.

Head on over to ace-attorney.com for more info on the game.