Dead Rising 2

Capcom is set unleash the Dead Rising 2: Case Zero DLC, which for now is a Microsoft's Xbox 360 exclusive, on August 31st on Xbox Live Arcade.

The DLC will serve as a standalone zombie filled prologue to the story of Dead Rising 2 in which you will guide a character name Chuck Greene trying to escape from the town of Still Creek while in search of Zombrex that he needs in order to save his daughter from becoming one with the undead.

Big news this week for fans of the Dead Rising series as Capcom announced both the schedule for release of the Dead Rising movie "Zombrex Dead Rising Sun" and the details on the North American collector's edition of the game. Pictures, information, and schedule of both of these features to be provided below!

Earlier this week Capcom Europe teased that a big announcement would be made on this Thursday.  With Capcom being relatively low key at E3, some had assumed we would be graced with an announcement of a new game or perhaps a cool new addition to the PSN or XBLA. Well today is Thursday, at least in most parts of the world, and that means it’s time for the reveal. Unsurprisingly the announcement doesn’t involve a new IP or game as it’s all about the zombie killing action of Dead Rising 2.

Bad news everyone! It seems that Capcom requires another month to complete the second chapter in the Dead Rising franchise. Earlier today it was announced that the game will now be releasing on September 28^th instead of the previously announced August 31^st.

Today’s news from Capcom is one of those occasions where I can understand the move they’re making but I still find it befuddling.  Capcom has announced that their upcoming zombie epic Dead Rising 2 will be teaming up with the iconic men’s magazine Playboy to offer unique content for the game.

Less than a week away (check out that snazzy countdown clock on the left) Capcom has finally announced their E3 line-up. It’s somewhat surprising Capcom has decided to even bother announcing their line-up but hey, got to hype the games up as much as you can.

Capcom’s E3 2010 line-up consists of:

Today is a good day to be a fan of Capcom games. With the news of Marvel vs. Capcom 3 and Bionic Commando Rearmed 2 I’m sure lots of people are giving exploding high-fives right now.  But the Capcom goodness keeps rolling in with the release of new Dead Rising 2 media.

The announcement that the Xbox 360 version of Dead Rising 2 would be getting exclusive DLC wasn’t the only DR2 news to come out of the recent X10 event as Capcom also demoed the game for the first time since TGS last year.

It’s been a little while since we’ve heard anything from Capcom about Dead Rising 2. The last bits of information that trickled out were regarding the combination of weapons that was going to be available to help you hack your way through the hordes in the upcoming sequel. Today Capcom decided to make up for the DR2 drought by providing us with two rather large announcements.

With today being the slow news day that are most Monday’s I’m resorted to writing a quasi-fluff story based on a piece of Twitter info. Yes, once again Twitter is showing that it’s becoming an actual source for news instead of being a place where I can post that I’m having a nervous breakdown.

Finally thanks to TGS we have some new footage for Dead Rising 2 including our first look at the inventive multiplayer mode.  If you’re looking for fun ways to kill zombies then DR2 is the game for you and people will definitely get a kick out of some of the new weapons.

Among the new weapons players can use to kill the endless zombie horde include combining a pitchfork and a shotgun to make an almost modern take on the bayonet.

Since the E3 trailer news on Dead Rising 2 has been rather quiet and many were bummed out that the game didn’t have a presence at E3.  Well since it's TGS time the lid is ready to be blown off on the latest installment of the zombie killing franchise.

One of the wildcard games this year was Capcom’s reboot/relaunch or whatever the hell you want to call it of Bionic Commando. After releasing a remake of the original Bionic Commando last year that not only was a good game but hit all the right notes when it came to fan nostalgia it was unclear if the “proper” next-gen version of Bionic Commando would be solid as well.

If you're an ADD gamer, with a taste for zombies, gore, and mall-rating like myself; then one of your favorite games of the last couple of years was Dead Rising for the Xbox 360.

A recent GDC announcement is good news for gamers and bad news for lead character in the next Dead Rising 2 game.

Izmeth Siddeek, Dead Rising 2's character art lead, announced at GDC that a new game engine technology called "Mental Mill" will allow up to 6,000 zombies to appear on-screen at once, without any sacrifice to the quality of graphics or frame rate. The developer of Mental Mill, Laura Scholl, has confirmed that Siddeek told him that their development teams were ready to take advantage of the technology and hit that magic 6,000 mark.