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Mega Man Zero/ZX Legacy Collection brings more futuristic robots into the present ⊟

Look, here’s a collection of all the Mega Man Zero/ZX games, coming to Switch on January 21. It’s also coming to PC, PS4, and Xbox One the same day. That makes (counts on fingers) a lot of Mega Man games available easily on modern consoles. This one includes optional HD smoothing and a new casual difficulty mode, for me.

If you’d like a Mega Man game to be newly available on a less modern console, I’ll direct you to Retro-Bit’s new printing of Mega Man: The Wily Wars.

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This “groveling” Mega Man 11 statue is important ⊟

Here it is, the most thrilling frozen-in-time moment from Mega Man 11: an old man crying at a robot.

This is really remarkable. It’s available at GameStop for $40. 

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Mega Man poster by Sachin Teng ⊟ 

Wow! Mondo will sell 18"x24" prints for this sick artwork by Sachin Teng tomorrow (expected to ship this August). The limited run of 255 posters will go for $45 each, but Mondo will begin selling them online at a random time, so you’ll have to keep an eye on their site.  Shoutouts to Sam for the link!

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iam8bit making fancy Mega Man 2 and Mega Man X cartridges ⊟

In cool colors, with deluxe foil, embossed boxes, secret extras in the packages. They’ll ship in a limited run of 8,500 each in September, for $100. That’s definitely “prize display item” money and not “oh, I’d like to play Mega Man 2 again” money (for that, the Mega Man Legacy Collection is cheap on every platform).

For what it’s worth, I don’t know if these new cartridges suffer from the voltage concerns that made their Street Fighter II release vaguely terrifying.

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Mega Man X Legacy Collections coming to Switch ⊟

And PS4, PC, and Xbox One. The two collections encompass Mega Mans X 1-8, with optional filters for the 2D games and updated graphics for the 3D ones -- and a 25-minute animated movie thing, why not.

The collections will cost $20 each digitally when they come out on July 24, with $40 retail collections on Switch, PS4, and Xbox. Yes, the Switch one does that thing where the first part is on the card and the second part is a download.

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2.5D Mega Man 11 coming late 2018 to Switch ⊟ 

It’s also coming to Xbox 1, PlayStation 4, and PC next year!

Capcom is promising to deliver more news on the game next summer, which seems like forever from now, so enjoy this trailer for now:

The publisher announced that Mega Man X's eight games are also headed to the Switch, PS4, XB1, and PC. And Mega Man Legacy Collection 1 and 2 will come to the Switch with support for amiibo!

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Mega Man Legacy Collection 2 is 30% off ⊟

Thing’s not even out yet! Amazon is offering a dang near irresistible price on this PS4/XB1 package, which contains Mega Men 7, 8, 9, and 10. I need Mega Man 9 and 10 without having to find them on my Wii SD card menu...

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I love you, Nendoroid Mega Man X ⊟ 

I guess I never gave Mega Man X’s character design enough credit. It’s not as clean or iconic as the original, but there’s more of like a super sentai type deal to it? I always loved the games, but not really the look.

I’m totally coming around as I stare at this Nendoroid Mega Man X Full Armor toy, out in April. Yes, this would do nicely. A lil’ X doing lil’ hadoukens on my shelf.

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Tiny Contest: GET EQUIPPED WITH Mega Man costume ⊟

I experienced a true Halloween miracle: after posting about these new Mega Man and Proto Man costumes, HalloweenCostumes.com got in touch and offered one to give away. Adult or child size, Mega Man or Proto Man. I know. I know, you guys.

If you think your physique is up to the task-- or, alternatively, if you have a child -- comment on this post and tell us the following piece of information:

Where would you like to go in a Mega Man costume?

This contest is open in the US only, for shipping reasons, and you have until Sunday, October 16 at 11:59 PM ET to enter. And PLEASE send us pictures if you win!

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Should I subject my kids and neighbors to these Mega Man costumes ⊟ 

So there are officially licensed Mega Man and Proto Man costumes now, which means that conceivably (and with $70) I could take my 3-year-olds trick-or-treating in a Proto Man costume. 

There’s just the question of, uh, how good an idea it is on a scale of 0 to, let’s say, 2, for me to wear a skin-tight one-piece around the neighborhood, while my kids knock on the doors of everyone I know and many people I’ll be meeting for the first time and forming crucial first impressions.

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Pay what you want for Mega Man 9, 10, and other Capcom PS games ⊟

It’s a Humble Bundle for PlayStation! Just PS3 and PS4 now, no Vita stuff, but it’s still dang irresistible. Pay any amount for stuff like Super Puzzle Fighter II HD, Final Fight Double Impact (which includes Magic Sword, don’t forget) and that new Strider game!

Pay above the average and add Mega Man 9 and 10, Okami HD, Remember Me, Resident Evil HD, SSF2THD, and Lost Planet 3. For $15 or more, you also get Resident Evil 0 Remastered and DMC HD Collection. Plus you get to feel like you’re doing a good thing for charity by hoarding all these games.

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Relive Mega Man Legends 3′s short life with this documentary ⊟

The Get Me Off the Moon community has put together this 24-minute video about the history of Mega Man Legends 3. Remember Mega Man Legends 3?

I’m about to watch this and get sad. Join me!

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Good news if you need a Proto Man helmet ⊟

I don’t know why you ned a Proto Man helmet! I don’t know your whole deal. But Capcom is taking preorders on this beautiful, wearable, lightup helmet-- with a display stand for the rare occasion you don’t want to wear it-- with a bonus Proto Man scarf included with website orders. Perfect for its winter shipping estimate!

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Let’s open these six-year-old Mega Man snacks ⊟

Over the weekend, my wife and I worked on cleaning and organizing some closet space. That put me in direct contact with... this. It looks like a boxed Japanese copy of Mega Man 10, but that game was digital-only.

This box is labeled “Rockmanjuu,” a pun on “Rockman” and “manjuu,” a Japanese treat made of rice flour and filled with red bean paste. So, yes, it’s full of sweets. I picked this up as a low-price souvenir at the Capcom booth at Tokyo Game Show.

Tokyo Game Show 2010.

Yikes.

Heyyy, Mega Man Legends 2 works with Vita now ⊟

Just FYI. It launched yesterday, seemingly PS3 only, we were crushed, etc. I thought it was going to be another Pocket Fighter situation where it just inexplicably didn’t run on PSP or Vita.

But later yesterday, Capcom updated the Unity blog post to say you can get Legends 2 on Vita now. I don’t exactly know why it wasn’t working before, or why not every PSP/PSOne game runs on Vita, or any of it.

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Mega Man Legends 2 rated by ESRB ⊟ 

Yeahhhhhh, eat it, eBay profiteers. Looks like we’ll be able to get this PSOne Classic at a reasonable price soon, as a PSP/PS3/Vita download. No word on when, since it wasn’t actually announced yet...

Update! April 5 is when. Thanks, PlayStation Blogcast.

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Finally, Mega Man headphones ⊟

I’m not an authority on headphone quality -- I never jumped fully from game to tech blogging, so I never learned to care that the earbuds that came with my phone or whatever are apparently bad. 

So all I know about these (officially licensed!) Emio headphones is that they look beautiful and perfect. Like, completely perfect. Via miki800.

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