A retailer on Sun. price cut Capcom Co.'s Lost Planet: Extreme Condition for Sony Corp.'s Playstation 3 to under $16 in an new round of game discounts.
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 news over the weekend that the Lost Planet film would be backed by a huge $150-$200 million budget, Capcom has also announced that a sequel to the game is in development. Capcom made the announcement via the Weekly Famitsu, a popular Japanese gaming magazine. The sequel will be due out for the PS3 and 360 in 2009, with some exclusive content for the Xbox 360 version.
Capcom's "head of character contents business" Toshihiro Tokumaru was interviewed by his company, and while he talked a bit about the "Resident Evil" franchise and upcoming Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li, he made a big reveal about Warner Bros. Pictures' big screen adaptation of Capcom's Lost Planet:
A lot of people feel that Capcom's conference to reveal their plans for the Lost Planet movie was a huge waste of time, but Corporate Officer/VP of Strategic Planning & Business Development for Capcom Christian Svennson explains why it was an important conference to have.
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.
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.
So, it seems Capcom not only wants to "do with games what Marvel did with comics," but it looks like they want to do with comics what Marvel did with comics, too.
Lost Planet: Extreme Condition for Xbox 360 was released in January of 2007. Consequently, you can also pick that up for less than $30 bucks on the 360. The PS3 version should be less than most new PS3 titles, at around $40. Is it still as good as it was over a year ago?
Shacknews writes: If you've got a thing for lost planets, lost crash survivors, probing aliens, or Nazis invading America, this is your week for new games on PC, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, Wii, Nintendo DS, and PSP.
First Day sales in Japan for February 21.
The internet went a bit mental when we reported that Devil May Cry 4 on PS3 forced you to install 5GB of data taking over 20 minutes - and Capcom has done it again with Lost Planet on PS3. Lost Planet: Extreme Condition, which releases on PS3 on February 29 (Feb 25 in the States), has picked up a mandatory 20-minute installation process before the game can be played, according to reports. This, as Capcom was quick to tell us after the DMC4 ...
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Capcom have announced that the demo for Lost Planet: Extreme Condition will be released on the European PlayStation Store on Thursday, 21 February...
The upcoming Lost Planet from Capcom is joining the ranks of Devil May Cry 4 and Everybody's Golf, coming with a 5GB installation on the PS3 which can take up to twenty-minutes to complete. The good thing about this though is that the PS3 game has lightning fast load-times following the installation.
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Kotaku reports: After being yanked from the PlayStation Store for unspecified technical "issues" earlier this week, the PlayStation 3 demo version of Lost Planet: Extreme Condition makes its way back online. If you missed the multiplayer taste the first time, or you're bored of this week's other offerings, hit up the PlayStation Store for your download
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IGN Reports: "Well, after about 24 hours on the PlayStation Network, Sony has taken down the Lost Planet: Extreme Condition demo."