Capcom Heads to Comic-Con
The San Diego playground for comic geeks just got a little geekier.
Published: July 10, 2006
No one could fault video game publishers for wanting to get in on comic conventions; the meeting of the socially awkward masses is an audience seemingly bred for cross-promotion and sale, and few companies in the games industry inspire as much rabid devotion and idol worship as Capcom, what with their Street Fighter and Mega Man franchises.
It's hardly a surprise, then, that Capcom would want to show their wares to the comic-buying public geeking out over all the goods that the San Diego Comic-Con has to offer when it hits later this month. It is a surprise that they're treating the Con as something of a mini-E3, showing off just about every big upcoming project and highlighting the stuff they already have with plenty of goodies for all attending.
For starters, they're whipping up an interesting multi-platform tournament for the hardcore fighting game fans out there; 360 fans can play the awesome Xbox Live Arcade version of Street Fighter II Hyper Fighting, Game Boy Advance folks will take a crack at Mega Man Battle Network 6 and PS2 owners can square off in a little game called Street Fighter Alpha 3 (courtesy of the effin' awesome Alpha Anthology).
All three games will be played in tourneys of 128 players in double elimination brackets, with the grand prize of the SFIIHF matchup being a free Xbox 360, and the Alpha 3 tournament taking home a $250 Best Buy gift certificate. The GBA folks get that warm fuzzy feeling that comes from winning... and one of two DS Lites up for grabs. To register for the tourneys (there are only 72 online slots, so move fast), head to the Capcom site or the Evo2K site and be sure to show up in Room 29 C/D from 12-5PM on the 22nd for the 360 bout, the 23rd from 10AM-Noon for the GBA matches and 12:30-4PM for PS2 events.
But wait! There's more! Not one to pass up the chance to show off the PlayStation goods, the Big C will have a booth with tons of merch like Chun-Li plush dolls, Dante's Awakening Dante figures, a Resident Evil 4 soundtrack book, and UMD versions of [umd=66]Darkstalkers Revenge Alpha[/umd] and [umd=67]Omega[/umd]. Oh, and then there are the demos of Capcom Classics Collection Reloaded, Capcom Puzzle World, Power Stone Collection, Ultimate Ghosts 'n Goblins, Clover Studio's God Hand and Okami and Capcom Classics Collection Vol. 2 -- and that's just the PlayStation-related stuff.
The whole shebang goes down on July 20-23 at the San Diego Convention Center. Should you feel the need to subject yourself to that display (and, well, this seems like a pretty good reason to do so), you can try to navigate the wall of text and random images that is the Comic-Con 2006 web site. Before your brain shuts down, click the upper-right image to buy tix online. Don't say we didn't warn you.
It's hardly a surprise, then, that Capcom would want to show their wares to the comic-buying public geeking out over all the goods that the San Diego Comic-Con has to offer when it hits later this month. It is a surprise that they're treating the Con as something of a mini-E3, showing off just about every big upcoming project and highlighting the stuff they already have with plenty of goodies for all attending.
For starters, they're whipping up an interesting multi-platform tournament for the hardcore fighting game fans out there; 360 fans can play the awesome Xbox Live Arcade version of Street Fighter II Hyper Fighting, Game Boy Advance folks will take a crack at Mega Man Battle Network 6 and PS2 owners can square off in a little game called Street Fighter Alpha 3 (courtesy of the effin' awesome Alpha Anthology).
All three games will be played in tourneys of 128 players in double elimination brackets, with the grand prize of the SFIIHF matchup being a free Xbox 360, and the Alpha 3 tournament taking home a $250 Best Buy gift certificate. The GBA folks get that warm fuzzy feeling that comes from winning... and one of two DS Lites up for grabs. To register for the tourneys (there are only 72 online slots, so move fast), head to the Capcom site or the Evo2K site and be sure to show up in Room 29 C/D from 12-5PM on the 22nd for the 360 bout, the 23rd from 10AM-Noon for the GBA matches and 12:30-4PM for PS2 events.
But wait! There's more! Not one to pass up the chance to show off the PlayStation goods, the Big C will have a booth with tons of merch like Chun-Li plush dolls, Dante's Awakening Dante figures, a Resident Evil 4 soundtrack book, and UMD versions of [umd=66]Darkstalkers Revenge Alpha[/umd] and [umd=67]Omega[/umd]. Oh, and then there are the demos of Capcom Classics Collection Reloaded, Capcom Puzzle World, Power Stone Collection, Ultimate Ghosts 'n Goblins, Clover Studio's God Hand and Okami and Capcom Classics Collection Vol. 2 -- and that's just the PlayStation-related stuff.
The whole shebang goes down on July 20-23 at the San Diego Convention Center. Should you feel the need to subject yourself to that display (and, well, this seems like a pretty good reason to do so), you can try to navigate the wall of text and random images that is the Comic-Con 2006 web site. Before your brain shuts down, click the upper-right image to buy tix online. Don't say we didn't warn you.
