Get your weapons ready! The latest issue of Nintendo Power features some mega news — specifically, the upcoming release of Mega Man 10 on WiiWare.

The new installment, like the brilliant Mega Man 9, uses an NES-style aesthetic, and features wacky new bosses like Sheep Man. Sheep Man! Proto Man returns as a playable character (this time immediately, and not as time-delayed DLC), along with a third mystery character! The extra character’s identity: just one of the details, like the release date or whether or not it’s on other platforms, that we’re just going to have to wait to find out.

An image in the writeup also reveals an Easy Mode for the game, which we can imagine being welcome for a lot of people not accustomed to the uniquely painful experience of trying to complete an NES Mega Man title.

Microsoft has told CNET that at least 2 million Xbox Live users logged into Facebook through Xbox 360 in the week since the two services were integrated, and that half a million Last.fm accounts were created in the first 24 hours of availability.

No figures have been released on Twitter use through 360, but according to a rep, there have been “tweets from nearly every market where we have Xbox Live.”

A tenth of all Live users have accessed Facebook through 360 in a week? Amazing scenes.

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Capcom today announced a spurt of new stuff for Resident Evil 5, to be dribbled out this February and March as downloadable content and a boxed “gold edition”. A new episode will be set in the castle seen only in flashbacks, where Sheva will be replaced by the considerably less interesting Jill Valentine, minus her weird bird costume. There will, however, be new costumes for Chris and Sheva. And new characters and weapon loadouts for Mercenaries mode. However, there is no word of any of this being available for the PC.

What’s more, it seems that Capcom has reneged on their promise to even complete the PC release of Resident Evil 5. When the game was released for console systems, Capcom charged players five dollar to unlock a competitive mode called “Versus”. This was available as soon as the game was released. But despite telling players Versus mode would either be included with the PC release or available for download shortly thereafter, it seems Capcom has changed its mind. I’ve just been told there are currently no plans to release Versus mode for the PC.

I wouldn’t normally mind missing out on being charged five bucks to unlock a feature, but the real bummer in this situation is that Versus mode is a fantastic way to play Resident Evil 5. If you’ve tried Mercenaries mode, you’re only getting about a quarter of the game’s multiplayer awesomeness. I couldn’t care less if Capcom doesn’t give the PC version whatever upcoming B-side material they’re releasing next year. But I do wish they’d at least complete the PC release by doing whatever it takes to unlock or restore one of Resident Evil 5’s best features.

 

Functionality aside, one of the biggest differences between Microsoft’s Xbox LIVE gamer network, and Sony’s PlayStation Network (PSN) has been the cost: If you want to play against other gamers on Xbox LIVE, you need to pay around $50 annually for Gold service (though various retailers offer discount cards); multi-player on the PSN is free.

But in a statement to VG247, SCEA president and group CEO Kaz Hirai revealed that the company plans to launch a premium, pay-to-play service on the PSN: “We are studying the possibility of introducing a subscription model, offering premium content and services.” No details on pricing, what the premium content would include, or a launch ETA-but Hirai made sure to note that it wouldn’t be in lieu of the free service.

Sony (NYSE: SNE) is already making money through PSN Store game downloads and add-ons; the company said October was its “highest month” in terms of revenue, with downloads up 60 percent year-over-year (via Gamasutra). But adding a subscription option would definitely move the company closer to its goal of getting the games business “profitable” by 2011 (via the AP).

Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) has kept mum on how much money it makes from Xbox LIVE Gold subscriptions, but leaked documents (revealed by our own Joe Tartakoff, when he wrote for the Seattle P-I) showed that subscription revenues from Feb 2008 to June 2008 were at least $280 million.