Microsoft and Capcom are making a Lost Planet 2 hardware bundle just for Japan. The package includes an Xbox 360, 60GB hard drive, Lost Planet 2, headset, media remote control, wireless controller, a ton of cables, and a 2GB flash drive.

Everyone’s favorite Resident Evil villain found a way into another series. Capcom is putting Albert Wesker in Lost Planet 2.

A slide from Microsoft’s Xbox 360 Invitational 2009 conference in Korea says yes.

Microsoft has a holiday bundle or value pack as it says on the box just for Japan.

The pack includes Dead Rising, Lost Planet: Extreme Condition – Colonies Edition and Devil May Cry 4 for $39.99.

Capcom just got around to confirming the PlayStation 3 version of Lost Planet 2 for Japan. SCEA President, Jack Tretton, mentioned this last week, but hey who’s counting.

Capcom updated the Japanese Lost Planet page and gave Lost Planet 2 a release window. The mecha in marshlands shooting game is slated to come out this winter in Japan.

The cat was mostly out of the bag on Monday when Capcom announced Lost Planet 2 with a trailer distributed on Xbox Live. There was one tiny detail Capcom left out, though. Which console(s) is Lost Planet 2 coming out for?   The Xbox 360 is obviously on the list and the press release sent [...]

Capcom teased an announcement over Xbox Live and all the hype was for Lost Planet 2. Instead of blowing up Akrid in tundra the “Snow” Pirates head to a swamp / jungle base. Mecha, or as Capcom calls them Vital Suits, are still part of the game. New for Lost Planet 2 is a cover [...]

Capcom who is partially financing the Lost Planet film adaptation isn’t skimping on the budget. Toshihiro Tokumaru, Head of Capcom’s Character Contents Business, explains the “project will cost somewhere between 150 million and 200 million dollars to make.” Just for comparisons sake the planned budget is bigger than Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within and falls [...]

I already own Lost Planet and I’m on the fence about buying the expanded version. Akrid Hunting in Lost Planet: Colonies Edition makes it very tempting. The concept is simple: people and people in giant robots versus giant, insect-like aliens on tundra. Sure, you get to fire rounds at the Akrid in Lost Planet, but [...]

Lost Planet is coming to the Xbox 360 again with even more content than the PC and PlayStation 3 releases. Four multiplayer maps, five character models, a single player score attack mode and Akrid Hunter where you get to play as the insect-like creatures that populate the frozen wasteland.   Lost Planet: Colonies is essentially [...]

Capcom yanked the Lost Planet Online demo off the PlayStation Network in order to revise and release an updated demo at a later date. The PlayStation 3 online servers were supposedly to be taken down too. However, they are still working as of this morning. It is unknown when (if?) Capcom will shut down the [...]

If you missed playing Lost Planet: Extreme Condition on the Xbox 360 or PC check out the Japanese PlayStation Store. Capcom uploaded a demo, which lets eight players log on an online survival match for free. The demo includes voice chat support and is entirely in English. Since the demo is already localized Capcom USA [...]