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Udon has just dropped us a line to let us know that Darkstalkers/Red Earth: Maleficarum Vol. 1, the brand new manga featuring Darkstalkers and Red Earth characters, will be arriving in stores on October 13th. From their press release: Get ready for witches and wolfmen, demons and dinosaurs, knights and vampires – all in one manga! This fall UDON brings two classic Capcom® fighting games together in one action-packed manga title with Darkstalkers' / Red Earth: Maleficarum. Written and drawn by Itou Mami(ROBOT, Pilgrim Jäger) Maleficarum is video game manga at its best. This standalone volume includes five short stories from across the monstrous Darkstalkers universe, as well as a four-chapter tale featuring the swords & sorcery world of Red Earth. You’ll see succubus Morrigan fight the wolfman Talbain, the devilish Jedah confront vampire lord Demitri, the heroic lion-man Leo questing to cure his cursed body, and several more fantastic tales. Also included are gag strips and artist commentary. More preview art can be found on Udon's blog here.

Update: As was pointed out, it has sold 300k+ downloads, not physical copies (since it's not available physically). Although technically, it IS a digital copy. Bah. Whatever. Dead Rising 2: Case Zero has received a ton of glowing reviews (as evidenced by our recent review round up). The combination of its low price, long gameplay length, and the utter joy of killing zombies have helped it sell over 300 thousand copies downloads in its first week, according to website GamerBytes. Destructoid's Jordan Devore had this to say: "I can only speak for myself here, but the pricing was right, the content was both worthwhile and substantial enough, and I went from "I'll probably pass on Dead Rising 2" to "GIMME DR2, NOW!" after playing Case Zero. Mission accomplished, Capcom." Please note that these are NOT official numbers, but an estimate from website GamerBytes. Thanks to all of you that checked it out and let us know what you thought of the prequel in the comments below! Source: Gamerbytes [Via Destructoid]

Resident Evil Afterlife 3D premiered in Tokyo this past week and it looks like TONS of zombies were in attendance. Hey, those shirts look familiar! via Kotaku

Good news to those of that have been waiting to check out all the really cool DLC that Resident Evil 5 has to offer. Xbox's Major Nelson revealed that the Deal of the Week for Xbox Live gold members is centered around RE5 DLC. The new pricing is as follows after the jump (click on any of the links to add to your download queue): Untold Stories Bundle, 560 Microsoft Points (originally 960 points) Desperate Escape, 240 Microsoft Points (originally 400 points) Lost in Nightmares, 240 Microsoft Points (originally 400 points) Versus Mode, 240 Microsoft Point (originally 400 points) Additionally, a few Resident Evil 5 avatar items are also on sale, including Chris Redfield's uniform (now only 160 MS points), the awesome puzzle crank (80 MS points), and the RE5 Hawaiian shirt (80 MS points).

Today the PSN is getting a demo ofSengoku BASARA: Samurai Heroes! Turn on your PlayStation 3 and check for the update, releasing the demo for download. Featuring two of the more than 15 playable characters available in the retail version, players can pound their fists as Ieyasu Tokugawa, or yield their sword as Mitsunari Ishida. Taking place during 16th century feudal Japan, Sengoku BASARA: Samurai Heroes tasks players with fighting their way through hundreds of enemies in an effort to take over the whole of Japan. With highly stylized characters taken from the realistic stories of this period, each has their own unique weapons and moves that are upgradeable as they progress throughout the game. After filling their BASARA meter, players can unleash over the top BASARA moves for maximum damage. The full game of Sengoku BASARA: Samurai Heroes takes over PlayStation 3 and Wii on October 12, with this PS3 exclusive demo arriving for download today!

Thanks to a gift from fellow reviewer Ed Sizemore, even though I didn’t like the first book of Chi’s Sweet Home, I read the second. And everything I disliked about the previous volume had been fixed!
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This book was the “cute cat doing cute things” comic I’d come to expect from hearing others praise it. All of the out-of-place depressing “I miss my mom” stuff was gone. The overdone lisp in the cat’s internal voice had been minimized. Almost all of the exaggerated near-slapstick of hiding the cat from the neighbors was eliminated. (The situation does come up in a chapter or two here, but it’s handled at a reasonable level.)
Enough of what this comic isn’t. What is it? It’s 18 comfortably colored chapters of adorable cat behavior. Chi begs for people food (two of my favorite stories here). Chi doesn’t like water but is attracted by tub toys (another high point). Chi begs for attention or naps with the child or bothers dad at work or fights going to the vet. These are all very standard pet situations, but they’re drawn well, and the lovely pastel colors make them especially pleasant to relax with. This captures the joy and amusing frustration of pet ownership for those who can’t or don’t have one. Readers who do will love it even more.
There’s another character introduced in this volume, a free-roaming adult black cat who invades Chi’s space and shows her another way to behave and to relate to humans. In contrast to Chi’s kittenish cuteness, it’s almost frightening, The Cat Who Walks by Himself, to evoke Kipling. I don’t particularly like this cat, but I don’t think I’m supposed to. I’m still curious as to how much more we see of him and why. One other cat makes a guest appearance in a bonus chapter. FukuFuku is the star of an earlier series by Konami Kanata, drawn in a more minimal style and having less of a personality (at least in this appearance). That history is explained in an additional text note, a helpful addition.
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It's time to start voting on your favorite track for theBionic Commando Rearmed 2 Make Something RADD Music Remix Contest. Your votes will help us pick the track that goes into the game! The poll is below, as well as all the tracks for your listening/downloading pleasure. If you didn't get a chance to read about all these tracks, you can read our re-cap Part 1 here, Part 2 here, Part 3 here, and Part 4 here. Click the name to hear the track. A_RivalAer0blue,Aer0blue2Antoine_1,Antoine_2,Antoine_3Del_icio_usDZXGalenGreyJacobJeffZylanceThe Ghost StationMazedudeMercuriusMindelixerAxiom CruzRobotbootTony Vote for your favorite below!

Our Servbot Bobble Budd turned out to be so popular, that we wanted to repeat it again specifically for PAX Prime attendees. This time, the servbot is joined by none other than Dead Rising 2's Chuck Greene! Look at how cute he is! JUST LOOK AT HIM!! Cuteness overload aside, Chuck will be available for sale at the Capcom Store during PAX Prime so please be sure to stop by and make sure that you get your hands on one!

With all of these collectible figures I've been highlighting today, I figured I might as well run with this title :) At any rate, the Mega Man Network has managed to obtain a first look at Kotobukiya's Blues (Proto Man here in North America) figure and it is as amazing as the Rockman and Roll figures! Man, I