Just in time (well, minus two weeks) for you to begin playing along to A Critical Look at Mega Man 5 Stages, the penultimate game in the Blue Bomber’s NES legacy has been released to the Nintendo 3DS eShop in North America and Europe (thanks, Rockman) alike. $4.99 is all it takes to go take [...]

Filed under: Mega Man News | 16 Comments »

We’re just over a month away from the release of Project X Zone for the Nintendo 3DS, featuring a crossover of characters from Namco Bandai, SEGA, and Capcom, including Mega Man X, Zero, Vile, Iris, Tron Bonne, and of course, the Servbots who follow her to and fro. If you’re the artistic type, then you [...]

Filed under: Mega Man News | 15 Comments »

First: Making a “Mega Man on 3DS” joke would have been too easy, and we’re pretty sure we did that one already. Besides which, the Virtual Console releases kind of make it moot anyway. In all seriousness, Capcom Unity has revealed a brand-new case coming to the Capcom Store. Inspired by the success of their [...]

Filed under: Mega Man News | 16 Comments »

Well, as we begin wrapping up “A Critical Look at Mega Man 4 Stages,” what better time for the game to hit the Nintendo 3DS eShop in North America and Europe than tomorrow? Well, maybe when we began Mega Man 4, granted; at least Mega Man 5 will be available shortly after we begin covering [...]

Filed under: Mega Man News | 4 Comments »

At long last, the wait is over: Project X Zone has a North American release date. Now a new wait begins! The last we heard about it, the game was slated for a release sometime in the summer of 2013. But now, Namco Bandai Games has posted a page for the title which gives us [...]

Filed under: Mega Man News | 17 Comments »

Update: Slag everything but the statue for the next two paragraphs– Joystiq clarifies that apparently “Capcom has clarified Elston’s comments, saying that a new Mega Man game has not been confirmed. The company is having “ongoing discussions about Mega Man,” but it “won’t announce anything until something is ready.” Well, it was nice for the [...]

Filed under: Mega Man News | 95 Comments »

As previously reported, the NES game Mega Man 3 is now available for $4.99 on the Nintendo 3DS Virtual Console in North America. Anything else you need to know?

Filed under: Mega Man News | 8 Comments »

As part of a congratulations for Street Fighter X Mega Man surpassing one million downloads, Capcom Unity has today announced that Mega Man 3will be hitting the Virtual Console on the Nintendo 3DS next week on the 14th. This is certainly exciting news, and I think only Mega Man 3 can be said to rival [...]

Filed under: Mega Man News | 46 Comments »

As promised by Capcom, the 1989 NES classic Mega Man 2 has now officially arrived on the Nintendo 3DS eShop in North America. You can download it now for just $4.99 and enjoy such benefits as portability and save states. Okay, so odds are that many of us around here have talked about Mega Man [...]

Filed under: Mega Man News | 10 Comments »

Ah, any excuse to post this amazing box art is great. Good news, fellow fans east of the Atlantic. If you didn’t hear, Mega Man 2 is now available for you on the Nintendo 3DS eShop. You can buy this classic for £4.49/€4.99. North Americans, fear not. Mega Man 2 is planned to come your [...]

Filed under: Mega Man News | 17 Comments »

Christmas is over, but 2012 isn’t through yet, and Nintendo wants to make you cry before the year is out. They want you to cry so good… or do they? As promised, today’s Nintendo 3DS eShop update has brought with it the Virtual Console release of the NES version of Mega Man, which is considered [...]

Filed under: Mega Man News | 25 Comments »

And the treats just keep on coming, but I think we all expected this one. Following the release of Street Fighter X Mega Man, Capcom Unity announces that they will be releasing Mega Man through Mega Man 6 on the Nintendo 3DS eShop in North America. You guys have been demanding these for months, I [...]

Filed under: Mega Man News | 24 Comments »

Good news for folks east of the Atlantic. Nintendo of Europe has announced that the NES classic Mega Man 2 will become available on the 3DS’s eShop sometime in Q1 of 2013. It appears Europe will be getting the classic Mega Man titles in a steady stream, albeit slower than the Japanese releases so far. [...]

Filed under: Mega Man News | 15 Comments »

TSSZ News is reporting that Nintendo has confirmed at a recent press event in Spain that the game no one (relatively speaking) thought had any chance of leaving Japan is doing just that. As seen in the picture at right (click to enlarge), Project X Zone– the crossover title featuring characters from SEGA, Namco Bandai, [...]

Filed under: Mega Man News | 32 Comments »

In the most recent issue of Nintendo Power, an interview with Christian Svensson and Brett Elston reveals that Capcom of America is planning on getting all six of the original NES Mega Man games available on the Nintendo 3DS eShop’s Virtual Console. Apparently, there have been some hurdles getting the games over, but they’re working [...]

Filed under: Mega Man News | 51 Comments »