I’m liking Silicon Era more and more. They have just put up an excellent interview with Ippo Yamada (IPPO) of Inti Creates, developer of MegaMan 9. He discusses the inspirations and challenges of making the soundtrack for a new game sound like it should be over 15 years old. Siliconera: There were aspects of even [...]

Reviews of MegaMan 9 are coming in, and the reception is overwhelmingly positive! A good cross-section is represented in this roundup at Gamasutra. I haven’t had much time with it myself, but so far I’m totally enjoying it. The development team knew exactly what they were doing when they designed this return to 8-bit platforming. [...]

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The hype for the impending release of the 8-bit-styled MegaMan 9 has kicked into high gear! First off, Joystiq reports that MegaMan 9 will be available in Japan on September 24th. SiliconEra has dissected the official sountrack CD, including statements from the staff (“The staff comments found in the soundtrack booklet all seem to include [...]

“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 [...]