Yesterday's announcement of Gears of War characters Marcus and Dom appearing in Lost Planet 2 had us wondering one thing: whose crazy idea was this? Kotaku reports that it was Capcom's, and they took the first step in contacting Epic about it. "[Capcom] contacted us about the cameo and we said, 'heck yeah'," said Cliff Bleszinski. "We're mutual fans of each other's work and crossovers are darned cool so we sent over the Marcus and Dom models for implementation."

Bleszinski says he can't account for how the controls of Lost Planet 2 will correlate to the Gears franchise, but he leaves that in "Capcom's capable hands." Discovering that it was Capcom's idea gives us suspicions that the company may have contacted one of the popular PlayStation 3-exclusive developers for a cameo in the version for that console as well. Time will tell.