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.

 

 

By MATT RICHTEL; Compiled by DAVE ITZKOFF

Published: May 15, 2009

Video game sales in the United States totaled $1 billion for April, 17 percent lower than in April 2008, according to NPD, the market research firm. This is the second consecutive month in which sales have fallen sharply compared with a year ago, suggesting that the industry is not as recession-proof as it had hoped. Software sales fell 23 percent, while sales of consoles and handheld players dropped 8 percent. In a news release Anita Frazier, an analyst at NPD, said, “This year’s performance still represents the second-best performance for the industry in the month of April.” But it also represents a sharp drop-off, as sales of major consoles have been falling month after month. In February Nintendo sold 753,000 Wii machines but sold only 601,000 in March and 340,000 in April. Microsoft sold 391,000 Xbox 360s in February, 330,000 in March and 175,000 in April.  story source