Resident Evil 5 and Street Fighter Iv were excellent performers for Capcom; critically and publically adored – with sales to match. Lost Planet 2, on the other hand; a game the company had pegged to be a flagship, pretty much tanked – both in the hearts of gamers, and at retail. It’s now one of the reasons that Capcom have …

Capcom has come up with a novel way to try and stop people from trading in their copy of Lost Planet 2 as soon as they have finished it. Playing on the odd hoarding trait of Achievement and Trophy junkies Capcom have included an achievement/trophy that only activates 6 months after your first gameplay. Last Updated: May 25, 2010

Today isn’t Friday, which means you probably wont find your self passed out in a ditch tomorrow morning, dressed in a tuxedo and scuba gear. On a more positive note, at least it’s not Monday! Below you’ll find the stuff we couldn’t find time to squeeze on to the site today, probably because we were all drunkenly scuba-diving in our …

Capcom has announced a unique way to get their Lost Planet 2 demo into people’s homes this month. They have revealed that they will donate R148  272 ($20 000) to charity if one million people download their new Lost Planet 2 Multiplayer demo that is available right now on Xbox Live and tomorrow on PSN. Last Updated: April 22, 2010

Marketing in general continues to baffle me and as I get older I am convinced that the marketing is just getting weirder and weirder. The above image was taken by a Kotaku reader in Manhattan and sent in, the idea behind it makes some sort of sense since Lost Planet was based in a frozen wasteland and Lost Planet 2 …

The Playstation 3 features a shiny Blu-ray drive. This affords it much more storage space than a DVD. 25GBs (On single layer BR) as opposed to 9Gb (On dual layer DVD). The Xbox 360? It just has a good ‘ol regular DVD. That’s quite a disparity in available space available to developers – and it’s one that’s starting to become …

Today sees the return of Microsoft’s own gaming event – this year being X10. X9 didn’t happen for whatever reasons, but it’s back – And Xbox’s Major Nelson has in a not exactly cryptic series of tweets let us know what they’ll be showcasing. “At the venue for our X10 event. A LOT of cool stuff to talk about starting …

Okay I am all for cross game experiences and I will be one of the first to admit that seeing Marcus and Dom in Lost Planet 2 is pretty awesome… but I fail to see why they are doing it? Is it just because people like me find it awesome? Are Capcom paying Epic for this or is it the …