Lost Planet: Extreme Condition

EDD THE PEZ of CheapAssGamer writes: Big discounts on these two PS3 titles.

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. On Sun., Lost Planet held a sale price of $15.26, 62 percent off the $29.99 MSRP.

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. 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.

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. Four comics are on the way, and so far, two have been named in Bionic Commando and Lost Planet. Published by Devil's Due, these two comics, plus the identities of the remaining two, will make their debut soon at the San Diego Comic Con.