“Merchandising, merchandising, merchandising! Where the real money from the movie is made!” Capcom Japan is adding to the stack of Mega Man 9 promotions. They are producing t-shirts with that wonderfully horrible box art, pressing two CD soundtracks (one original sound version and one arranged and played by real instruments), and now Capcom is introducing [...]

Gashapon – Japanese capsule toys sold through vending machines. They are collectable, inexpensive and are usually pretty well detailed. Being a fan of shmups, I was excited to see Think Geek carrying a series of gashapon for shmup games, including my favorite R-Type. Before you could say “SHOOT THE CORE”, a number of them are [...]