Resident Evil 5 Gold Mercinaries Roster

Earlier this week Capcom announced the last 2 new characters that will round out the roster on the upcoming Resident Evil 5 Gold Edition: Rebecca Chambers and Barry Burton.

These characters will be playable on the revamped Mercenaries “Reunion” mode. So far the Reunion mode roster is slated to include the following characters:

• Warrior Chris
• Folklore Sheva
• Heavy Metal Chris
• Business suit Sheva
• Josh Stone
• Excella Gionne
• Rebecca Chambers
• Barry Burton

In addition to the revamped Mercinaries mode the Gold Edition will also include two new episodes for the single player campaign and new costumes.

The Xbox 360 release will include a regular game disc with DLC content codes to download the new content, while the PS3 version will include the new content on the disc. Those who already own Resident Evil 5 will be able to purchase the new content though the Xbox Live Marketplace, or the Playstation Store.

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SSFIV Collector’s Package Detailed for Japan

Capcom recently posted details (translated) on their  blog for the upcoming Super Street Fighter IV Collector’s Package.

The Collector’s Package will be released alongside the regular edition for PS3 and Xbox 360 in Japan on April 28th for a price of 5990 yen (~$66USD) and is slated to include a disc with the various character’s background music, all promotional videos and trailers for the game, character art, and a mini story for SSFIV.

Buyers of the Xbox 360 release will also receive an exclusive SSFIV Anime by director Kizaki (of Afro Samurai fame) animated by GONZO.

There is one more bonus “to be announced”.

As a thank you to early adopters, a classic costume pack will be made available free for download from the release date until July 1st. After that you will have to pay (price yet to be determined) to download the pack.

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Resident Evil 5 PAL Collector’s Edition SteelBook Pictures Posted

grim_d was kind enough to send in photos of the PAL Collector’s Edition SteelBook of Resident Evil 5.

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Resident Evil 5 360 NTSC Collector’s Edition Photos Posted

Photos have been posted of the NTSC Xbox 360 Collector’s Edition of Resident Evil 5.

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Street Fighter IV Training Manual Availble for Download

Before Street Fighter IV’s release Capcom made a special training manual available to the press as a forum of advertisement. Today Capcom has made it available as a PDF (download as zip).

This might be of interest to collectors who like to get their hands on extra goodies like this.

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Street Fighter IV NTSC Collector’s Edition Pictures Posted

Pictures have been posted for both the  PS3 and Xbox 360 NTSC release of Street Fighter IV Collector’s Edition.

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Resident Evil 5 North American Collectors Edition Details Unveiled

Gamestop has unveiled details on the upcoming North American Release of Resident Evil 5 Collector’s Edition.

The Collector’s Edition comes in a carboard box containing the following:

• The Game in a SteelBook Case
• A Bonus Disc with a making of featurette, digital art gallery and movie trailers
• A Chris Redfield Figurine
• A TriCell Messenger Bag
• A Kijuju Necklace
• A BSAA Patch

This looks to be quite a nice package.

It will retail for about $90 and it ships on March 19th.

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Biohazard 5 Deluxe Edition Details Released

Kotaku has released details on the Deluxe Edition of Biohazard 5. According to the report it comes in a metal tin and includes a “Select Track” soundtrack CD. Slated for release March 5, 2009 at a price of ¥8,800 (US$97)

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Devil May Cry 4 PAL Collector’s Edition Photos

My man in the PAL region Grim picked up his copy of the Devil May Cry 4 Collector’s Edition today, snapped some photos and sent them to me to share here. Contrary to my previous assumption it would seem that while the PAL region did get completely different case art they also only got one disc and a paperback art book.

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Devil May Cry 4 Collector’s Edition Photos

I picked up my NTSC copy of Devil May Cry 4 Collector’s Edition for Xbox 360 today. Since it was a pre-order through Gamestop I also received a nice art book as a bonus. Unfortunately I was not one of the lucky ones who got an autographed copy.

Overall I must say I’m a bit disappointed with it. It’s your basic steel book case with an extra DVDs worth of content, and then the first disc of the animated series comes in a bi-fold cardboard slip cover that is simply shoved under main cases plastic slip cover. Had this been priced at the normal $69.99 for a CE I would say it’s above average but they charged a whole extra $20 over the regular edition. I realize they consider the Anime disc worth $25 but anyone who shops around could find it new for under $15 and that’s with a full real case. As usual the nice artbook thrown in by Gamestop made the bonus price pill a little easier to swallow but I would have received that even if I pre-ordered the regular version and unlike Assassin’s Creed the DMC4 case really doesn’t give me any place to put the Anime DVD or the artbook.

The PS3 version of the CE is essentially the same, and I suspect the PAL versions are also similar but with different case art and without the Anime disc.

If anyone has an autographed copy of the game, for either 360 or PS3 and is willing to part with it please let me know, in the mean time I’ll be watching eBay. I wont pay an astronomical price for it but I think it would be nice to have pictures of one for CEO here and I wouldn’t mind having it in my collection.

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