Challenge Quest09 for Monster Hunter Freedom Unite is live for your downloading pleasure. There's a whole pack of Velociprey just waiting to be slain. Easy right? Well, not exactly... There's something a tad bigger, faster, and meaner than Velociprey in the arena. I won't spoil it for you, so go download the quest, and be sure to get your stamina maxed out since you'll be running for your life most of this quest. 

Challenge Quest09

"I've got a special quest for you today! Your target: the pack of Velociprey waiting for you at the Great Arena. But! Those guys are small compared to the other monster that awaits!"

Monsters: 50 Velociprey

Area: Great Arena (Day)

Rank: Upper Class (HR 7 Or Above Only)

Reward: 12,000z

Yuffie's MHFU DLC thread in the forums has all the previous quests and stuff you might have missed out on, so go read up on it. And don't forget that we're playing some Monster Hunter today with you on adhocParty. 

With adhocParty out on the PS3, it's time to load up Monster Hunter Freedom Unite on the PSP and start some hunting parties. We'll be doing just that today at around 3:00pm PST. Look for PSN ID: "Snow_Infernus" in adhocParty room A8. The game will also be streaming live via our UStream PAC Channel, so tune in around 3 for some hunting goodness. 

Hope you've all been keeping up with your assignments! We're getting close to the end of REmake and this assignment will take you 3/4 of the way through the game.

Assignment #3

Play all the way through until you get to the lab by using the wolf and eagle medals. (Just after a major boss fight).

As incentive, I'll be randomly choosing a person that participates in our discussions to get some random RE swag (this will happen after the REmake game club is finished).

In addition, if you participate in our weekly discussions in the forums, you will get 20 Unity points for that week. If you send me a question via PM that we could use for our daily discussion questions, it will net you 75 Unity points!

This new vid has sneak peeks of the mysterious "Watchers" that Will is up against in Dark Void. 

If you watch closely, you'll find a bunch of various Watcher types shown here, from giant-slug sized to... well, just GIANT. Dark Void lands 1/19/10, but you can preorder here right now. 

 Our Japanese SFIV website and blog have been update-ified. The website has some more new portraits of El Fuerte, Rufus, and Dan in the new SSFIV pencil-style.  Check out the high-res files here.

The blog has a few notes about the Japanese National tournament (translation courtesy of Shoryuken.com's Azrael), but the real fun is the cropped screenshot of Chun-Li catching some ink-splatter from... who?

As I mentioned, we'll know more very soon :)

I love BoingBoing -- I've been following the evolution of this future-perfect media monster since I first ran across the original black & white zine in a sci-fi bookstore in the late 80s. The BB crew regularly explore the weird edge of science and technology, bringing back reports of robots that play Rock Band better than you do, guides to surviving the imminent and inevitable zombie apocalypse and photo montages of deer-butt faces.

Whilst crawling along the outer edges of the internet (it's a Mondo world out there in cyberspace, after all), BoingBoing ran across this story from the Fortean Times about "Aeronauts of the Future," strange sightings of flying dudes that seem... familiar. Brad Pitt, I mean, Will would be right at home amongst these various winged men and hovering platforms. Also, am I the only person who actually remembers seeing the flying platform to the right on That's Incredible?

Earlier this week Seth stopped by G4TV to give some hands on time with Super SFIV to the XPlay crew. Watch the interview with Seth and new gameplay above. He talks about all the things in Super you're dying to know. Well, all except more characters, but he does say that info on that is coming soon... 

Resident Evil 2 is re-launching today as a digital download to the PS3 and PSP.  We're talking the entirety of Raccoon City, Umbrella, and more, downloadable and playable on your Sony console of choice.  Imagine if we had the ability to take all awesome things and make them downloadable, instead of just awesome Capcom games.

For quite some time, Resident Evil 2 was the Survival Horror genre.  It brought chills to my spine, just like it brought chills to the spines of many others (Big shout-out to Mike for his 3-part RE2 recap here, here and here). 

The story of this game belongs in a museum.  Zombies try to kill you, then you meet Ada Wong, there are some quite spacious sewers involved, Umbrella being evil, Rebecca in a basketball uniform, and then an unmentionably tense ending.  Release date be damned, this game almost made my top 10 releases for the decade.

If you're excited about Resident Evil: The Darkside Chronicles, but are Wii-deprived, know this: one of the best parts of that game is the inclusion of scenes from Resident Evil 2.  You know what other game includes scenes from RE2?  RE2.  Download it.

Just a quick reminder that the Great Resident Evil Tribute Contest is still going on  and you have until November 30th to enter! Details are as follows:

We've got a great prize package that we've put together that includes copies of RE5 (PC, PS3, or 360), Resident Evil Archives: Resident Evil, and Resident Evil: The Darkside Chronicles. We've also got the awesome progenitor virus detection kit and the zombie transformation t-shirt as part of the package. PLUS, we've got some mystery RE-related prizes to include as well.

There will also be prizes for 2nd and 3rd place that we will announce once we get all submissions.

Now, how do you get to win these awesome prizes? As we did with the Mega Man Tribute Contest, all you have to do is create something to show how passionate you are about Resident Evil: baked goods, home-made models, music, videos, art, costumes, etc. Please be sure that it is something new that we haven't seen before OR something that has been improved upon. Your goal should be to warm our cold, jaded hearts on the panel because here at Unity, we've seen tons of fan made Resident Evil stuff. If you're not sure if something has been done or not, do a quick search on the site.

To enter, send a link to your tribute project to this account with a message with the Subject Line: "Resident Tribute Contest"

The contest ends November 30th, 2009 at 11:59PM PST and we will announce winners shortly afterwards.

Over on the PlayStation Blog our very own Chris Kramer wrote up a blog about adhocParty and Monster Hunter. First off, adhocParty hits the PSN today, so go get it! It's Free! And secondly, it allows you to take Monster Hunter Freedom Unite on your PSP online. Now you can take the hunt online with voice and text chat supported. 

Read Kramer's post about it to find out some more about how awesome and easy this is, and then go download it on your PS3!

"The tragedy of all losers is that they think they were on the verge of victory."  - Joe the Condor

That Joe is one ruthless dude (have you seen his gameplay footage?)!  The Japanese website has had this up for a week (yah we're lame), but we finally have the English (French, Italian, German and Spanish also included!) version of the Tatsunoko.VSCapcom.com website.  Click and read about Joe the Condor, Zero, Roll and more!

We're looking for your feedback on the new art for the Capcom Lithos available here. The free Capcom Lithograph program has been a huge success, and now we're picking the next generation of lithos. Vote for you favorites, and the top two will be added to the collection and available to you. 

See larger images of the art after the jump.