Friday, May 2, 2008

Whoops! Capcom announce Rocketmen expansion, and then takes it down

Oh Feedreader, I love you and your Intelliupdates, keeping copies of blog posts before spelling mistakes are corrected (I'm looking at you Kotaku and.. well, me), but best of all - keeping backups of blog posts which are then deleted!

Such was the case for the Capcom USA blog, which accidentally added a post describing Rocketmen: It came from Uranus - discussed a couple of times before here from ESRB updates, as an expansion pack for the original Rocketmen game.

Trailers and Flickr accounts were connected to this, but have now all been taken down - all that remains in this update below. Read carefully, you may notice a slightly incorrect phrase being used!
The next chapter of Capcom’s Rocketmen: Axis of Evil is coming! Rocketmen: It Came from Your Uranus, an expansion to the original digitally-distributed title, will be available through Xbox LIVE Arcade and the PlayStation Network Store on Wednesday, May 14 and Thursday, May 15 respectively.

For 400 points on Xbox LIVE or $4.95 on Playstation Network, Rocketmen fans will have access to 3 new maps, 3 new main and 2 new secondary weapons, and or course new enemies.
Now this date may be incorrect, which could be the reason it was taken down, the PSN is notorious for being a lot more difficult to get what you want them to do - see Capcom's other title Super Puzzle Fighter II HD for example, which has still not been released in Europe.

Source: Removed Capcom USA Blog Post - "Rocketmen: It Came From Uranus"

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

They actually just put out an official press release for it again today. Who knows what's going on lol.

- Tony

Rlan said...

Yup, and still has that silly error in it :)