Twitter Friday

Hey all, (all 10 of you, hahah!) I finally got the Cannonball achievement a couple nights ago! Good times! Shaving that time from 6 min to 4 mins is going to be very difficult for me. I feel plenty fast now. Moving on, GIJoe: Rise of Cobra opens tonight, you going? I am :)




In comics news, seems Bill Willingham had some issues with his Fables panel at SDCC. I really appreciate what he tried to do for his fans. Fabletown vs San Diego

God's Garden Japanese #SF4 Tourney LIVE - Daigo (Ryu) vs Tetsu (ELF) - Live Stream: http://bit.ly/bfnBS
running now, don't know how long it will last. (215pm EST)
Source: Slasher's Twitter Stream

RT @schnuth: RT @lawmune: Asuka (from Evangelion) illustrated by Yoshitoshi ABe: http://bit.ly/103yAO
source: Benu's Twitter Stream

Cool Arcade

Poking around the intertubes and I've discoved the web site for an arcade that I'd love to visit. Too bad it's in California. (the last stand for arcades in the US, mainly because of the big fighting game scene) Check out the games list for Denjin Arcade. They even have Japanese style sit down cabinets. So swank.

Barring a couple around here and in Orlando, the arcade scene is properly dead in Florida.

Fightan Gaems

EVO was this weekend and I was mesmerized with the live stream. Well, the parts of it that were watchable. MvC2 was not one of those. But it's okay, I've seen Magneto, Storm, Capt Commando and Sentinel fight before.

Daigo "the Beast" Umehara won the Street Fighter 4 championships and was classy as usual. Justin Wong needlessly showboated as usual. Here's an interview with Daigo.
source: Slasher, Kotaku & Me watching the stream.

A French gentleman by the name of Malek (profile in French here with unflattering pic) won the Soul Calibur 4 tournament with Ivy. Generally, I am not a fan of Ivy but I was definitely rooting for him to win against the hoards of (broke ass combo) Hilde. Also, his mastery of the command throws was simply amazing. Well done, Malek!
profile source: Kotaku comments & Evo stream

I didn't get the details on the Blaz Blue winner, other than that they won with Noel and that they only play rushdown characters and girl characters. Well, me too. More details if I can dig them up.

KOF12's Twitter feed has finally linked to some high resolution KoF 12 footage! Yay! I love the flashing bulbs that twinkle in the BG of this stage.

Blaz Blue Launch Trailer

Got to play this last night at a friend's house and while I can't comment on the game play after only a few rounds, I can definitely say that it's a beautiful game with well done sprites and gorgeous backgrounds.



Litchi and Taokaka seem to be characters that call out to me.

Misc News & FFIV: TAY

Tekken.com has relaunched - we need our Tekken 6 news, ya know. It looks swank has has some great quality video.
source: SD Tekken

Weird Asia News reports yet another oddly flavored soda out of Japan - Green Tea Coke. (bleargh)

There's too much E3 news that you're probably drowning in, but in case you missed it, Final Fantasy IV : The After Years has finally been released.

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Video Games | Final Fantasy IV: The After Years | E3 09: Debut Trailer

XBox 360 | Playstation 3 | Nintendo Wii

WiiWare! Now! Go!

"High Level" SF4 play

You know, my bf was watching me play SF4 and he said "When King of Fighters gets released, I am never going to be able to get you to play this game again, am I?"
Me: "Probably not."

Enjoy this "high level" SF4 play. Just watch the word bubbles next to the button inputs, they really explain it all.




Also, Hadouken, Hadouken,Hadouken,
Hadouken,Hadouken,Hadouken,
Hadouken,Hadouken,Hadouken,
Hadouken,Hadouken, *gasp* Hadouken.

Street Fighter circa 1981

Block Tests 01 from Dylan Hayes on Vimeo.

source: Kotaku

Tekken 6 Preview

Video Games - E3 2009 - X-Play

source XPlay & SD Tekken

2 New KoF XII Characters Revealed!

Mognet Central reports that Elizabeth Brantorche (Blantorche) and Mature will be in home versions of KoF XII. Still no word on Mai.  Click here for the original Mognet Central post with a link to GPara and more pics.

Arcana Heart 2 - Lag video

Yeah, that's pretty bad... :(



Link originally found on Gaia in the official Arcana Heart thread.

Little Pile o' News

The internet is most bountiful today! Here are some things of interest

New Street Fighter IV rankings, for console versions. Lots of changes (except the top 2...stupid turret Sagat 0_0)
via Kotaku

More good Wii news from the Game Developer's Conference
Play Games Directly From Your SD Card.
also via Kotaku

Final Fantasy IV : The After Years - confirmed for WiiWare. Let the happy dance begin!
via Destructoid

More information on Oracle: The Cure
via IGN

2009 Spring Anime Preview at AnimeVice. 30 new shows to get involved with.
via...AnimeVice. (duh)

New KoF videos!

Kotaku has got a ton of new (and long) King of Fighters XII screens. Go check them out!

Samurai Showdown Anthology Delay

Samurai Showdown Anthology was initially due to drop in stores in December. However, when I double checked today, it wasn't even on EB Games website. A quick Google search shows me that the date has been pushed back to either 2/24/2009 as seen here - or just a generic 2009. I was looking forward to playing all 7 games and not buying them individually on the Virtual Console. Now I get to wait. Again.

Tatsunoko vs Capcom footage

Crikey!

Chun Li & Morrigan vs Gold Lightan



originally found at Wii Fanboy

Double Blind Character Selection

OMYGAH WHY DOESN'T SOUL CALIBUR 4 HAVE THIS?!

Okay I am done shouting now - Destructoid posted a link to Sirlin.net with all the new features implemented in Street Fighter HD Remix. It's a great list and there are things that all online fighters should have. (like double blind character selection, Soul Calibur!!)

Read it all here.

By the way, if you are wondering wth double blind character selection is, it's this (from the article)
7) Double-blind character selection online. When you’re playing online, don’t you hate it when your opponent refuses to pick a character until the last possible moment because he’s trying to make you pick first? He wants to see who you pick so he can pick the best character to beat yours. In HD Remix, all online play has double-blind character selection. That means that you cannot see who your opponent picked or even where his character selection box is until both of you finish picking your characters. Now there’s no reason to stall on this screen, you might as well just pick your character right away.

Misa Misa on the Brain? (Maria from Castlevania Judgement)

found on Destructoid.

Maria is jealous of all the other girls giant breasts. Maybe she turned a little stupid from looking so much like Misa Misa.



Also, her voice actress sounds SO familiar. I want to say it's the same voice actress from Soul Calibur 4, who voices Xianghua.

Castlevania Judgment Launch Trailer

Everyone is already proclaiming this game will stink. It's not likely to be the next Soul Calibur, however that does not mean it won't be fun. There are crummy fighting games that are quite fun (Bloody Roar, anyone?) I won't write this game off yet.

This trailer is beautiful. The music is wonderful. The character designs I am not sold on, but I'm biased because I'm not a fan of Death Note artist Takeshi Obata.



Click here if you'd prefer the higher res versions that G4 has to offer.

Quick Post - MK & Castlevania

Some good news about Mortal Kombat vs DC. Chew on that, haters :P
source: Kotaku

New trailer for Castlevania : Judgement. Seems a bit stiff but it's too early to call just yet. I so could have done without the Death Note creator for character design. Maria looks like Misa Misa ~_~;

Arcana Heart - Amazon Deal of the Day

Show your continued love for 2D fighters by picking up Arcana Heart for 20 bucks at Amazon. It's the deal of the day. Go, go, go ~




source: Atlus Faithful mailing list

New Mortal Kombat info -when Worlds Collide

Read about it at Games Radar

Give me :
Sindel vs Black Canary
Mileena vs Huntress
Shao Khan vs Lady Shiva
this doesn't have to leave Gotham

Thanks to Sharp for the tip!