There’s something about chainsaws and zombies that just makes them go satisfyingly together. This fact obviously did not escape our partners over at Microsoft Japan, as they’ve announced a special Mature-games bundle for the Japanese territory that brings together Dead Rising and Gears of War in one bloody bundle.

This bundle sounds brilliant, and would probably do well here in the States as well, but there’s no one left here who still don’t own Dead Rising and Gears of War, right?

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You can now hop on Xbox Live and download some sweet new content for both Dead Rising and Lost Planet.

First, Dead Rising now has three free new costumes for Frank available: The “Pure White Suit”, “Stripe” and “Accountant”. In addition, 2 new themes and picture packs are also available.

For Lost Planet, you will also find 2 new themes and picture packs, in addition to the upcoming free release of the Battlegrounds multiplayer map.

Both the Dead Rising and Lost Planet themes are available for 150 MS points each, while each picture pack will be 50 points.

Japanese gaming magazine, Famitsu, considered the most important gaming magazine in Japan, has honored Capcom with three awards for their Famitsu Awards 2006.

The games under consideration for this year’s awards were games that were released in Japan during the period of January 1st, 2006 through December 31st, 2006. Votes were cast by game players around Japan and the editors from the Famitsu Group of Enterbrain’s publications determined the final awards based on the votes received.

Monster Hunter 2 Dos was awarded for Best Multiplayer Action Game, Dead Rising received an award for Best Impact Game, and Okami received an award for Best Game Design.

There’s been a flood of reviews, previews and impressions around the Internet from the all the media sources we invited to our Gamer’s Day last week. Click on Read More to peruse a collection of some of the initial articles.

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Okami topped the list of Game Developer’s Choice nominees this year, earning nominations for Game Design, Character Design, Visual Arts and Best Game; Dead Rising was also nominated for Best Technology.

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With over 1 million units shipped, Dead Rising has proven a commercial and critical success. Check out this year-end recap of awards for our zombie-crushing extravaganza (we’re talkin’ Zombies of the Mall Species, not those eastern European “faux zombies” from Resident Evil 4).

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CAPCOM®’S LOST PLANET™: EXTREME CONDITION AND DEAD RISING SHIP MORE THAN TWO MILLION UNITS WORLDWIDE
50 Billion Zombies and One Million Snow Pirates Cant Be Wrong

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We’re proud to say that both Dead Rising and Okami made the list of Gamasutra’s Most Important Games of 2006!

You can check out the original article here:
http://www.gamasutra.com/features/20061220/cifaldi_01.shtml