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Capcom will be releasing a 2-disc, 40 track soundtrack set in celebration of the company’s 30th anniversary on September 25th.

Entitled Capcom 30th Anniversary Music Best: Original & Arrange, the CD contains tracks from popular Capcom classic franchises such as Ghosts’n Goblins, Mega Man and Street Fighter, as well as modern hits Sengoku Basara, Monster Hunter and Dragon’s Dogma.

So far the CD is only planned for release in Japan, but you can easily obtain it from AmiAmi for the RRP of 3150 yen.

Via Siliconera

It’s Mega Man’s 25th anniversary in December, and although Capcom is mostly focusing on the earlier Street Fighter series anniversary, they’re not leaving their most prolific character in the dark.

The first piece of merchandise for the anniversary to be revealed is the Rockcan, a 10 disc soundtrack bringing together the original tracks from Rockman/Mega Man 1 through 10, as well as the arranged tracks from the PlayStation Rockman Complete Works re-releases in the last 90s. It’s packaged together with a small booklet in a case that’s shaped like an energy tank.

The Rockcan will be out September 19 and will set you back 14,700 yen (~$AU184). You can order it here.

Source: Rockman Corner

To celebrate their 20th anniversary, Epic Games are giving away a free soundtrack featuring 20 of the best tracks from their games of the past two decades.

Epic have personally selected and remastered the set, which includes tracks from such titles as Jill of the Jungle, Jazz Jackrabbit, Unreal, Unreal Tournament 3, Shadow Complex, Bulletstorm, and Gears of War 3. The entire set list has been included below – including the bonus track “Cole Train Rap”.

Head on over to Epic’s official blog to download the soundtrack.

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Track Listing:
1. Unreleased Theme – Unreal Tournament 3 (Rom Di Prisco, 2007)
2. Dan – Jill of the Jungle (Dan Froelich, 1992)
3. Main Theme – Unreal (Alexander Brandon/Michiel Van der Boss, 1998)
4. Armored Prayer – Gears of War 2 (Steve Jablonsky, 2008)
5. Vault of Tears – Infinity Blade II (Josh Aker, 2011)
6. Space – Epic Pinball (Robert Allen, 1993)
7. Main Menu – Unreal Tournament (Alexander Brandon, 1999)
8. Menu Song – Jazz Jackrabbit (Robert Allen, 1994)
9. They’ll Be Coming For You Now – Infinity Blade (Josh Aker, 2010)
10. Hope Runs Deep – Gears of War 2 (Steve Jablonsky, 2008)
11. Main Theme – Tyrian (Alexander Brandon, 1995)
12. Hyperblast Redux – Unreal Tournament 2004 (Kevin Riepl, 2004)
13. Hanover’s Favorite Son – Gears of War 3 (Steve Jablonsky, 2011)
14. Main Theme – Shadow Complex (Josh Aker, 2009)
15. 14 Years After E-Day – Gears of War (Kevin Riepl, 2006)
16. Lockdown – Unreal Tournament 3 (Jesper Kyd, 2007)
17. Theme – Bulletstorm (Krzysztof Wierzynkiewicz/Michal Cielecki, 2011)
18. Pull Back the Bass – Jazz Jackrabbit 2 (Alexander Brandon, 1998)
19. Transistor – Unreal Championship 2 (Kevin Riepl, 2005)
20. Finally A Tomorrow – Gears of War 3 (Steve Jablosnky, 2011)

Bonus Track: Cole Train Rap [EXPLICIT] – Gears of War (Mike Larson/Rom Di Prisco)

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Final Fantasy’s 25th anniversary will occur in December, if I am not mistaken, and Square Enix is intending on making the most of the celebration throughout the year.

The first thing they’ve announced is a pair of piano opera CDs – in other words, piano orchestrations of classic tracks from the Final Fantasy series.

The first CD, PIANO OPERA FINAL FANTASY I/II/III released today in Japan. It features 13 tracks from the first three games in the series and will set you back 2800 yen. The second CD PIANO OPERA FINAL FANTASY IV/V/VI will be out on May 16. You can buy the first CD here.

Retro City Rampage is due out later this year on a myriad of platforms, but for now you can enjoy the game’s soundtrack in one of two forms – digitally, through Bandcamp, or vinyl (for a limited time).

The soundtrack for the game is being created by Jake “virt” Kaufman, Leonard “Freaky DNA” Paul, and Matt “Norrin Radd” Cramer and consists mostly of NES inspired chiptunes.

The digital version is $CA7.99, while the vinyl copies will cost $CA43. The vinyl is limited to 500 copies – 300 black, 100 Green Sapphire and 100 Horizon Blue.

Dragon Quest fans are being spoiled for choice with new merchandise for the series upcoming 25th anniversary. Earlier today King Records revealed the Symphonic Suite Dragon Quest Scene-Separated I~IX CD-BOX, a 10 CD set containing music from every mainline Dragon Quest game released to date.

The set is a little unconventional. Rather than being grouped by game, the music on each CD is grouped by song type, so you’ll have one CD for all of the castle themes for the series, one for all of the battle themes, and so on.

The set is due out next year, and will set you back 15,750 yen.

Via Destructoid

With the recent cancellation of Mega Man Legends 3, many fans feel like Capcom has abandoned the once iconic character. However, several members of the Capcom Sound Team recently banded together to start a band called “We Are ROCK-MEN” with the intention of creating a Mega Man arrange album.

The video posted above contains the first track that the group has released. It is from the Darkman level of Mega Man 5.

The group also revealed that the soundtrack will contain at least fifteen tracks from the Mega Man and Mega Man X series, and will be available for purchase from September 21st for the princely sum of 2,100 yen.

Via The Mega Man Network

Seiken Densetsu, or the Mana series as we know it, is celebrating its 20th anniversary this year. The first game in the series was released as Final Fantasy Adventure in America and as Mystic Quest in Europe, just to make the name confusion all the more fun.

In celebration of the milestone, Square-Enix is releasing this absolutely massive soundtrack box. Inside are twenty CDs of music from each game in the series, from Final Fantasy Adventure through to Heroes of Mana. It’ll set you back 21,000 yen.

If that’s not enough Mana series music for you, the album SQ Chips will also be released in September. This album will feature 8 bit arrangements of Square’s classics. A recently released preview album revealed that two of the tracks come from Secret of Mana.

On top of that, there is also the Re:Birth / Seiken Densetsu Kenji Ito Arrange Album, due to be released in October. It’s a tribute to the soundtrack of the first game in the series, Final Fantasy Adventure.

Via Destructoid