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Dead Rising 2

X360, PS3, PC / Action / Release: Sep 27, 2010 / ESRB: M

Capcom sees record revenues in FY2011

Capcom sees record revenues in FY2011

Capcom revealed its earnings for fiscal year 2011, which ended on March 31, and unlike last year it's good news for the company. Net sales increased 46.2% to 97.7 billion yen ($1.2 billion). Operating income was up 155.8%, and ordinary income was up 132.6%. Net income increased to 7.7 billion yen ($95 million), up a whopping 257.6% from the prior year. The company says this marks record net sales, operating income, ordinary income, and net income.

Monster Hunter Freedom 3 was credited for a large part of the profits, which shipped more than 4.6 million units and became the fastest-selling PSP game. Capcom also credited Western-focused games Dead Rising 2 and Marvel vs Capcom 3 for two million units each. In alternative revenue streams, the company said the online title Monster Hunter Frontier Online showed "solid performance," and the Facebook and iOS social game Smurfs Village had a surprising level of downloads. Read more »

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Daily Filter: November 2, 2010

Shacknews receives a slew of new screenshots and trailers for upcoming games everyday. The most anticipated titles receive their own post, because we know you're eager to see that content. For the rest, we have the Daily Filter, a place to feature all of the media we add to our enormous database on a daily basis.

Today's Filter features media for MLB 10: The Show, Unbound Saga, Woody Two-Legs: Attack of the Zombie Pirates, Blood Drive, God of War: Ghost of Sparta, LittleBigPlanet 2, Firefall, Dead Rising 2, Antiques Roadshow, and Earth Defense Force: Insect Armageddon. Read more »

"FYI the Unbound Saga pic links to the original PSP version, not the new 360 screens."
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Capcom Reports Sales Up, Profits Down in First-Half of Fiscal Year 2010

Citing the "substantial underperformance" of Lost Planet 2 as one hurdle--relative to sales projections--within the last six-month period, Capcom revealed its net profits were down for the first-half of the fiscal year 2010, while sales were up.

In the report, Capcom noted that sales increased to 4.7 percent during the fiscal year (which ends on March 31, 2011), while net profit dropped 39.9 percent. Read more »

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Daily Filter: October 19, 2010

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Today's Filter is jam-packed with content, so let's get going. We've got new media from Trine 2, Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War II - Retribution, Red Dead Redemption: Undead Nightmare, Rift: Planes of Telara, Battlefield: Heroes, Dead Rising 2, EA Sports MMA, League of Legends, Dissidia 012[duodecim] Final Fantasy, and Tron: Evolution. Read more »

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September NPD: Halo Reach Reigns; PlayStation Move, Metroid: Other M and Dead Rising 2 Debut Strong

Although they will no longer provide any of those pesky "numbers" we all like so much, the NPD Group has released its report for the month of September. As Microsoft announced earlier, Halo: Reach topped the charts, selling 3.3 million units in its first month of sale.

Capcom's Dead Rising 2 took the third spot across three platforms, despite launching on September 28 in North America. EA Sports saw three of its titles land in September's top ten, with Madden NFL 11, NHL 11, and FIFA Soccer 11 invading the month's top five sellers. New exclusive titles Kingdom Hearts: Birth by Sleep for the PSP and Nintendo Wii's Metroid: Other M also had strong debuts. Note: The NPD Group no longer lists software as individual platforms. Sales for all platforms will now be combined when listed in the "Top Ten" and no figures will be released to the public from the NPD Group. Read more »

"Wedbush announced that PS3 sold like 312,000 hardware units also. Honestly, even with the Slim ..."
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Daily Filter: October 11, 2010

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Today's Filter includes new media for Medal of Honor, Dynasty Warriors Online, Dinner Date, Dead Rising 2, Knights in Shining Armor: Our King's Tale Episode One, Ultima Online, the X-series Superbox, Ghost Trick: Phantom Detective, and Fist of the North Star: Ken's Rage. Read more »

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Upcoming DLC Packs Give Dead Rising 2's Chuck New Wardrobe Options

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Dead Rising 2 senior producer Josh Bridge laid out some of the DLC planned for Dead Rising 2 in a post on the PlayStation Blog. Four packs--originally offered as pre-order bonuses across multiple retailers--staggered over the coming four weeks, give the game's lead character, Chuck, new outfits with associated special powers. Though announced on the PlayStation Blog, Shacknews confirmed with Capcom that the same packs will be available simultaneously on Xbox Live.

First up is the "Psychopath" pack, due on October 12. It offers a horror movie look with a soiled apron and sinister mask. Donning these makes Chuck stronger and deadlier with classic "tools of the trade" like the chainsaw, cleavers, axes, and machetes. Read more »

"No word on pricing yet? It also sucks that the ninja one is outside the 2400 MS points ..."
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Daily Filter: September 24, 2010

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Today's Filter features new media for John Daly's ProStroke Golf, Star Wars: The Old Republic, Explodemon, Trinity: Souls of Zill O'll, Quantum Theory, Warriors: Legends of Troy, WWE Smackdown vs. Raw 2011, Disney Sing It: Party Hits, Dead Rising 2, Vindictus, Medal of Honor, and DC Universe Online. Read more »

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Dead Rising 2 Launch Trailer is Grindhouse-Inspired

Dead Rising 2 will be released on September 28 in the US and on September 24 in Europe. While you wait, enjoy the following trailer, full of grindhouse influence and zombie killing.

It also does a good job of setting up the game's story, which many of you may have already been exposed to in prologue form in the $5 'Case Zero' game.

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"Where is missing Dead Rising 1 in Playstation 3? :[ I want to have both games on this ..."
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Dead Rising Star Returns in Xbox 360-Exclusive Dead Rising 2 Epilogue 'Case West'

The Xbox 360 is to receive another exclusive Dead Rising 2 episode, this time in the form of an epilogue featuring the original Dead Rising's hero, photojournalist Frank West.

Dead Rising 2: Case West will have Frank helping the sequel's star Chuck Greene to clear his name, complete with a co-op mode that Capcom explains "will see the two protagonists delve deeper into the reasons behind the Fortune City outbreak and provide further links to the Willamette incident." Read more »

"ATTENTION GAME COMPANIES: This is how you do it. THIS IS HOW YOU DO IT!"
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Capcom: Dead Rising 2 Case Zero Breaks Xbox Live Arcade Sales Records

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It appears that Capcom's Xbox Live Arcade/Demo experiment has paid off. Today, the publisher revealed that the XBLA-exclusive "prologue experience" Dead Rising 2: Case Zero has "broken all records on Xbox Live" selling more units in one week than "all content" distributed in the downloadable platform's history.

According to GamerBytes, more than 320,000 users were found on the Dead Rising 2: Case Zero leaderboards seven days after the game launched. According to their estimate, Capcom could have raked roughly $1.15 million for the downloadable prequel. Of course, Capcom insists that "these are NOT official numbers." Read more »

"I don't know how anyone can consider this a demo, sure it gives you a taste of what's to come ..."
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Daily Filter: September 6, 2010

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Today's Filter includes new media from PAX 2010. We've added a "Story" trailer for Vanquish, gameplay footage for Dungeon Siege 3, a "Causality" trailer for EVE Online, a trailer featuring the "Mysteries" of Star Wars: The Old Republic, the launch trailer for Kirby's Epic Yarn, the debut trailer for Fluidity, gameplay footage for Mega Man Universe, a number of "Making Of" trailers for Dead Rising 2, a "flythrough" video of Rift: Planes of Telara, and the announcement trailer and screens for Swarm. Read more »

"Thanks for doing this Xav, love this section. Kirby and Swarm are looking great."
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Dead Rising 2: Case Zero Delayed in Japan, Still Coming to North America and Europe Tomorrow

Dead Rising 2's upcoming XBLA-exclusive prologue, Case Zero, has been pushed from its original release date in Japan. Andriasang reports that the delay is due to undisclosed "violent" content sneaking its way into the game's free trial, which is funny considering the nature of the product as a whole.

The questionable content will still available in the full version of Dead Rising 2: Case Zero when it eventually launches. According to Famitsu, the delay for the downloadable title will not affect the release date for the full retail Dead Rising sequel in the region. Read more »

"Wait, Tomorrow? Damn... Good thing I'm done with Alan Wake. :)"
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Daily Filter: August 18, 2010

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Today's Daily Filter includes a whole bucket full of screenshots and trailers from Gamescom 2010. So many, that we couldn't even fit all of them here. We've filtered the filter! Below you'll see new footage of Dead Space 2, two videos from Red Faction: Armageddon, a trailer for Metroid: Other M, new images of BioShock Infinite, Dungeon Siege III, screens and a video for F.E.A.R. 3, a retro-inspired Splatterhouse trailer, screends and video of TERA, a fast new trailer for Need for Speed Hot Pursuit, two gameplay videos for Enslaved, screenshots from Dead Rising 2, Bionic Commando Rearmed 2, Civilization V, DiRT 3, Mortal Kombat, and some screends and video for End of Nations. Whew! Read more »

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We've got yet another monster of content for Daily Filter as assets continue to flow from Comic-Con 2010. Today we've added new screens for Lionhead's Fable 3, the ARMA 2 expansion Operation Arrowhead, scratching sequel DJ Hero 2 featuring newly added pro DJ QBert, PlayStation Move's Kung Fu Rider, screens from the action-MMO Tera and PureSim Baseball 3. Read more »

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