It seems we can’t go one week without hearing something new about the Dead Rising franchise. Dead Rising 2 was released last week and Dead Rising 2: Case West was announced just before that. Now it’s the iPhone’s turn to get in on the madness. Capcom is bringing Dead Rising to the iPhone and iPod Touch in time for the holiday season.

Capcom, masters of the video game cameo appearance, are on pace to outdo itself with Lost Planet 2.

In January 2010, the publisher announced a cameo for the game that, at the time, looked like an early April Fool’s joke: Gears of War‘s Marcus Fenix and Dom Santiago.

Now pics from Famitsu reveal a Monster Hunter from that popular franchise and zombie killing photojournalist Frank West from Capcom’s Dead Rising. While Marcus and Dom are 360 exclusive characters, the Monster Hunter will only appear on PlayStation 3.

The wild and wacky collection of characters in Tatsunoko vs. Capcom: Ultimate All-Stars has added the power of the press. Frank West, the photojournalist at the center of the shopping mall zombie outbreak in Capcom’s Dead Rising, is throwing his Servbot hat into the ring.

Frank showed off his combat skills busting up the zombies of the Willamette Mall, so we know he can handle himself with baseball bats, shopping carts and whatever else is at hand. He joins a Capcom roster including Street Fighter faves Chun Li and Ryu, Viewtiful Joe, who starred in his own self-titled game, and Batsu from fighter Rival Schools. Revealed so far from the Tatsunoko stable of anime characters are luminaries such as Ken The Eagle and Tekkaman, the space knight who battles “for the very future of Earth itself.”