Capcom Co., Ltd. (株式会社カプコン) is a Japanese developer and publisher of video games.
The announcement from Capcom yesterday that development of Mega Man Legends 3 has been discontinued marks the latest in a series of canceled third-party projects for Nintendo 3DS, putting the future of the recently-launched handheld console in jeopardy. Read on
There's speculation that Capcom deliberately made it impossible for users to delete their save data from Resident Evil: The Mercenaries 3D to discourage used game sales.
Well, when I was about 20, I was really passionate and entered the game industry, but now I'm in my mid-40s. It's a matter of my age. My generation is, for better or worse, holding the game industry back...competition has intensified, and furthermore, players have gotten "used to" games. To use a simple analogy, any kind of erotic picture will turn on a middle school student, right? (laughs) Oh, but it's not like that so much anymore...
Capcom has been working hard on restructuring its operations over the past few years in order to build a development organization that is not dependent on any single individual.
The veil has been finally lowered, it's coming ladies and gents, Mega Man Legends 3 is here. Following the 3D platforming iteration of Mega Man that debuted on the PS1, Capcom has revealed this new long-awaited sequel today which will come out on Nintendo's 3DS. Not much else has been detailed other than a short quote from the game director Masakazu Eguchi: Read on
