Warner Music Japan has announced on Wednesday that the American rock band Linkin Park is contributing a theme song for Bandai Namco Games' Mobile Suit Gundam Extreme Vs. arcade game. In addition, a deluxe box of the band's newest album, A Thousand Suns, will bundle a limited-edition Gundam plastic model ("Gunpla") in Japan on November 24.
The theme song, "The Catalyst," is the first single from the album. Two editions of the album will ship in Japan on September 15, two months before the "Gunpla 30th Anniversary Edition" will ship. This is the first time that a video game from the Gundam franchise has featured a song from a Western musical artist.
The album's Gunpla 30th Anniversary Edition will include a HGUC 1/144 RX-78GP01Fb Gundam GP01Fb Full Vernian "Linkin Park Edition" plastic model kit. According to their official Japanese website, the members of the band are big fans of the Gundam robot anime franchise, and they designed the custom color scheme of the model. The Gunpla Edition will feature special box art with the band members and the Gundam design.
This is too amusing to be ignored on our site. I feel like pumping my fist in the air. Gundam + Linkin Park = a nerd's heaven. And do you see those boys in uniform? I can haz a thousand new fics inspired by this? You may wanna consider buying this.
Another great news: MTV reported that Linkin Park's performance at Griffith Observatory was voted best surprised at VMA 2010, leading by 56 per cent of votes. MTV also commented
When the band appeared at the observatory (watched by thousands of excited fans on hand) and kicked into "The Catalyst," it was a truly epic moment in VMA history.
In second place, Rihanna racked up 32 percent of the vote for her surprise appearance during Eminem's show-opening performance of the pair's chart-topping single "Love the Way You Lie." Third place belonged to Cher's outfit and Lindsay Lohan's cameo (both got four percent), while Swift's song, Justin Bieber's drum solo and the drop-in by Pusha T during Kanye West's "Runaway" brought up the rear. But in a show full of surprises, Linkin Park topped them all.
Seems like our boys just had quite a smooth start so far. Congrats!
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