Capcom have announced a release date for Lost Planet 3 in North America and Europe, alongside a new trailer for the game.

Capcom will release Lost Planet 3 on June 27 in Japan, according to a report from Famitsu.

Capcom’s Senior VP, Christian Svensson, explains what drives decisions to collaborate with western developers or cater to the western market.

In our interview, we also talked about creating Jim, the game’s bearded hero, and how Rig fights are kind of like Punchout.

“Well, from the Capcom side, it’s a very much a situation of when I saw the coverage coming out of E3 for Dead Space 3, the first emotion was flattery,” said Andrew Szymanski from Capcom.

One of them being a lets bring all of friends together and let’s go crazy – almost a ‘party game shooter’ style of gameplay. And the other side of the coin would be to make a product that gets back to the franchise roots.”

Lost Planet 3 got a new trailer at Gamescom, and you can watch it inside.

Lost Planet 3 has mechs, but they aren’t war machines like in the original Lost Planet. Rigs are primarily construction vehicles, so they don’t even have guns. How are you going to defend yourself against giant Akrid like the Crab creature at the end of the demo?

The curious thing about Lost Planet 3 is that it abandons what I always thought were the staples of Lost Planet.

Poor Jim just wants to finish his job and go home to his family, but Lost Planet 3 has other plans.

Capcom’s Chairman and CEO, Kenzo Tsujimoto, aims to turn the company into the world’s #1 provider of digital content by 2022.

Capcom have some very high expectations for sales of Resident Evil 6.

Jim and his beard are truly expressive in these Lost Planet 3 screens.

You’ll play as Jim, a rig pilot who leaves Earth to work at E.D.N. III.

Capcom is making Lost Planet 3 and duties this time are handed off to a Western developer. Update: Trailer added.