Lost-Planet posts

A few months ago, Capcom announced plans to release Lost Planet 2, their sequel to their hit third person action game. While the title is still officially an Xbox 360 exclusive there are strong hints that the title will be coming to the PC as well.

One hint is that the original Lost Planet, along with its expanded version Lost Planet Colonies, were both released for the PC (indeed Lost Planet Colonies is one of the few games that supports PC-Xbox 360 cross platform multiplayer). In a recent press event, Kotaku reports that Capcom was demoing Lost Planet 2 on a PC rig, not an Xbox 360 dev kit. The Capcom rep, when asked if a PC version was indeed in the works, stated, " . . . . there may be something we can announce fairly shortly." Lost Planet 2 takes the original game out of the snow and ice and into a trpoical jungle setting and will feature co-op multiplayer for the first time.

On Sunday we reported that Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li,the second live action feature film based on Capcom's fighting game series, bombed in its first weekend at the US box office. Box Office Mojo now has the final numbers, stating that the film brought in just $4.7 million to come in eighth place. The results were lower than the first weekend's box office for the 1994 Street Fighter movie.

Even with the poor reception from movie goers and critics, Capcom is not deterred by the inital results. Our sister site GameDaily chatter with Capcom's Corporate PR head Chris Kramer who stated, "Critics were unkind to the first Street Fighter movie as well, but that film has been ridiculously profitable for Capcom over the last decade. The original SF movie still generates millions of dollars in royalties for Capcom every year, thanks to cable, foreign distribution, home video, DVD and Blu-ray sales."

In fact Capcom might earn even more from the second film since it's the first time Capcom entered into a co-production deal with the movie studio that made the film. The publisher already has another movie under this new deal that has completed filming (Onimusha) and other films based on their game properties are under development, including Lost Planet.

Valve's regular weekend sale from their Steam service is a particularly timely one. For this weekend only you can download and purchase Capcom's 2007 third person sci-fi action game Lost Planet for just $4.99. That's 75 percent off its normal Steam price.

Lost Planet was one of the first PC games released that supported DirectX10 graphical features. In 2008 Capcom released Lost Planet Colonies which contained the original game with some new features and cross-platform multiplayer support with the Xbox 360 version. This week Capcom announced plans to release a full fledged sequel, Lost Planet 2. However at the moment the publisher is only officially confirming that it will be released for the Xbox 360. However it's likely that Capcom will port the game to the PC as well.

Capcom has lucky in seeing a number of movies made based on their games. There's been three Resident Evil live action films and a CGI movie was released in the US this December on DVD. In February a new Street Fighter film heads to theaters.

But Capcom isn't stopping there. In a new (English) interview on the company's web site, itts Head of Character Content Business, Toshihiro Tokumaru, chatted about future movie plans. One of them is the previously announced adaptation of Lost Planet which Warner Bros. is producing. Tokumaru states that the movie "will cost somewhere between 150 and 200 million dollars to make." That budget is certainly in the high end of sci-fi action films but at the moment there's no word on when production will actually begin.

Earlier this year we reported that screenwriter David Hayter had revealed his plans to try to bring about a Lost Planet movie. Now Variety has finally confirmed that such a project is indeed in the works with Warner Bros. Hayter, who just finished work on co-writing the script for Watchmen, will handle scriptwriting duties.

The movie, based on the Capcom sci-fi action game, will be produced by Seaside Entertainment which is co-founded by former Marvel Studios head man Avi Arad. Capcom has of course had three Resident Evil movies released and a new Street Fighter movie is in production.

Evil Avatar's latest radio broadcast had a chat with David Hayter who is best known in gaming circles for his voice work as Solid Snake in Konami's Metal Gear Solid series. However, Hayter is also a screenwriter who is best known for his work on the first two X-Men films.

Well, Hayter told the radio broadcast that he may be merging his two interests. He told Evil Avatar Radio that he is working with Warner Bros. on developing a script based on Capcom's sci-fi action game Lost Planet. It sounds like things are at an early stage and since this is Hollywood there's likely a good chance this movie won't ever be made. Still it's not that big of a shock since Capcom is already working on a Street Fighter film and has other game-to-movie projects in the works.

In what could be considered the definitive version of Mass Effect, PC gamers will now have the ability to explore a galaxy of possibilities from the genius-Canucks at BioWare with the anticipated PC version of the best-selling Xbox 360 title. Updated from the original console release is a brand new tactical HUD, graphical improvements and a code to download the first content pack, available to Xbox 360 owners, for free.

Also shipping this week, in an epic list of re-releases, is the platinum edition of Lost Planet from Capcom. Lost Planet Extreme Condition: Colonies Edition adds new maps and modes to the established subzero multiplayer gameplay, including the ability to play as the enemy Akrid.

While we're happy to get two more solid PC titles this week, it would be nice if we could have some fresh content instead of console seconds. Seriously, we're not as jaded as we sound!

Full release list available after the jump!

For those antsy to enter a barren winter wasteland, where the people hunt the eggs of giant homicidal insectoid alien things, you're in luck. Capcom has announced today that their bug-hunting epic, Lost Planet Colonies, has finally gone gold, and will be available to all who wish to partake in its wintry splendor in two weeks. So grab your thermos, gun, and overcoat (which Frank seems to be missing) and prepare for some awesome bug-killing action.

It's yet another games-to-comics press announcement today. We already have comics coming up this year based on Dead Planet, Prototype and Brothers In Arms among others. Now Devil's Due Publishing has revealed a new agreement with Capcom to bring a number of Capcom's game properties to the four color publishing world (more details will be revealed this July at the San Diego Comic-Con.

This new agreement will result in four comics based on Capcom games. So far only two have been announced but they are both games that have or will show up on the PC. The sci-fi action game Lost Planet is one of them and the other is the upcoming remake of Bionic Commando. Gee..what's next? A Doom comic? A Half-Life hardcover graphic novel? The possibilities are endless

Capcom's 2007 sci-fi action game Lost Planet is about to get a revamp later this month with the release of Lost Planet Colonies. We's reported about this game before; new single and multiplayer modes, new maps, new weapons and cross platform multiplayer support between the PC and Xbox 360 versions via Games for Windows Live (it will be only the third game to offer such support, Shadowrun and Universe at War: Earth Assault are the other two).

Today Capcom released a boatload of new screenshots from Lost Planet Colonies that show off scenes from one of the new multiplayer modes, Egg Bandit. This mode has you stealing your enemies Akrid egg and the longer you hold onto it the more points you accumulate. You can also see some of the new maps in the revamp and some of the new mech weapons that you can access. It's looking more and more that Lost Planet Colonies will be a terrific game with a great value price of $29.99.