This weekend, save 75% off Lost Planet: Extreme Condition.
Capcom sent PS3Center an e-mail earlier saying that the official press release for the title will be due out Wednesday and a few more details may just slip out in it. PlayStation owners especially should keep an ear out - it's likely to be revealed whether or not the game will be coming to the PS3 then as well.
With all the attention being paid to the vaunted New Xbox Experience interface that will launch later this month for the Xbox 360, Microsoft quietly updated the Games for Windows - Live client today. The update doesn't introduce any new functionality--that is planned later on with the release of a desktop client as well as the Games for Windows - Live Marketplace. However, the update does give the GFW - Live client a whole new look that's better suited for PCs...
Joystiq has put two and two together and is guessing that a Lost Planet movie may be showing up at E3.
IGN writes: As one of AX's most distinguished guests of honor, voice actor/screenwriter David Hayter was the focus of some the convention's most interesting and crowd drawing panels. On Friday, Hayter hosted an open Q&A panel with an audience of several thousand enthusiastic fans. While a majority of the questions were related to the Metal Gear Solid game franchise and countless requests to recite lines as Snake, Hayter did make mention of two new projects he is engaged in: an unannounced action/adventure film that he will likely direct, and a screenplay for the film adaptation of Capcom's Lost Planet. As of June, Hayter was engaged in preliminary talks to draft the latest game-to-film, however, when we spoke to him at an press exclusive panel this afternoon, it would seem that Lost Planet is closer to fruition than previously thought. It's not entirely confirmed yet, said Hayter. But we are just closing the deal with Warner Bros. for me to adapt Lost Planet. Unfortunately, due to Hayter's contractual agreements, we were unable to obtain more specific information about the film. However, we did get a chance to probe into Hayter's approach to adapting games to film, having now been slated to write the adaptation for Lost Planet, and a treatment for the potential adaptation of Metal Gear Solid.
Don't confuse this week's new release of Lost Planet Extreme Condition: Colonies Edition as just a regular re-released Xbox 360 Platinum Hits game priced at $29.99. Lost Planet's Colonies Edition features many character, weapon and multiplayer gameplay extras. Capcom also wants you to know that Dead Rising's Frank West can be found in the game, complete (or incomplete) with Capcom-colored tiddy-whities. See a bunch of newly released character and weapon screenshots from Capcom here.
From the article: Lost Planet: Extreme Edition COLONIES EDITION has gone gold and is set for release in stores on May 27th, 2008. The COLONIES EDITION features the original Lost Planet game along with three new campaign modes as well as new multiplayer maps and playable characters. The new edition will be available on the Xbox 360 as well as PC platforms...
Dead Rising's Frank West is such a man that he can run around snow-blasted environments in just his underpants. And they're blue underpants with yellow trim at that.
Anyway, that's a slightly round-a-bout introduction to the fact that we've several new-ish screenshots from Capcom's Lost Planet - Colonies, the special edition version of the shooter that's releasing on PC and Xbox 360.
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Other than a bit of a mouthful to say, the new version will include some new modes and cross-platform play say Capcom. It's arriving at $29.99 for North America while the European tag is yet to be announced, but will be in line with other platinum releases.
Capcom has revealed a new weapon for Lost Planet Colonies, the flame launcher, its like a rocket launcher, but, you know, for flames. Capcom's Seth Killian detailed the Flame Launcher in a video on Capcom's blog. To sum up, while players had to use a grenade or dig using B to find items buried the snow in the original game, the flame launcher can be used to melt snow almost instantly. In addition the flame launcher is pretty effective to take down structures and it does take them down a lot faster than normal weapons. It also does good damage on people but you may have to keep them cooking for a while.
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