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.

Warner Bros. and Capcom are traveling to Lost Planet. The studio will distribute a pic based on the hit vidgame that will be co-financed by the Japanese publisher. David Hayter, who is coming off the Zack Snyder-directed WB pic Watchmen, will pen the screenplay. Hit the jump to read the full story

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...

What makes a good video game? Strong visuals are important. Good controls are essential. A well-crafted concept helps too. These days, most games can boast at least two-thirds of that criteria. So, then what makes a game great? Feeling. Emotion. Surprise. Interaction. Even addiction. It's a magical feeling when a game offers all these elements. Here are the titles L.A. Times deemed the best experiences of 2007. Admittedly, they didn't play everything (because that would probably be impossible), but of the titles that did cross their paths, these are the ones that resonated most. Their favorites in order: Best of the Year: ¿ BioShock ¿ Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare ¿ Assassin's Creed ¿ Super Mario Galaxy ¿ The Orange Box Honorable Mention: ¿ Halo 3 ¿ Rock Band ¿ Ace Combat 6: Fires of Liberation ¿ Cooking Mama: Cook Off ¿ Lost Planet Worst of the Year: ¿ Lair Dishonorable Mention: ¿ Fusion Frenzy 2 ¿ 300: March to Glory ¿ Tenchu Z [ By Pete Metzger, December 21, 2007 ]

Capcom announced today that they are releasing a new patch as well as new multiplayer maps for Lost Planet on the PC. The new DX enhancement for Lost Planet PC will be released as an automatic download on August 16 and will utilize Geometry Shaders to improve the overall visual quality through beter depth of field effects and improve motion blurring.

A number of Capcom's videogame characters are being made playable in multiplayer in Lost Planet: Extreme Condition on PC. It's all been made possible courtesy of an update for the PC version of the game. Frank West (Dead Rising) in boxers, Mega Man and character Jo from Lost Planet are introduced in the update - check out the screenshots. In addition, the update, which weighs in at around 400MB, features PC Map Pack 1 and Wide and Resident Evil 4-style" view modes along with a movie mode

Console gamers spent most of their winter bundled up and armed to the teeth, raining heavy weapons down upon endless streams of giant bugs. Their home planet, an icy rock unfit for any living thing, made the perfect battleground both in the game and in reality - winter is the least-forgiving season for most of the country, after all. But now in bright, sunny June, the idea of traversing a snowy plain ravaged by a building-sized worm might actually come as a welcome reprieve from the sweltering