A Little KoF 12 gameplay

very nice, good play by both players. Match could have gone either way at the end. (although it kind of proves that a your best defense is a good offence.)

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.

Splooooosh

don't blink, this vid is pretty short!

Random News Bits

King of Fighters XI FINALLY gets an official release date! July 28, 1009!

source: KOF12 Twitter feed.

Sagat and Seth "overpowered"in SF4. Internet responds with a mighty "NO SH**!!"

source: Slasher's Twitter feed.

PopCap Games coming to the Wii & DSi. Good times! I would like some PvZ in WiiWare (or something)

source: Nintendo Life

Ryan Reynolds is Deadpool AND Hal Jordan. Meh. I would have preferred Jared Leto as Kyle Rayner.

Cool alt costume for Lars in Tekken 6. En Espanol.

Garou: Mark of the Wolves (Rock / B Jenet match)

Garou: Mark of the Wolves got released on Xbox Live Arcade last week. I got to play it today.

In the following video, Rock gets obliterated for the most part. Huge props to the B Jenet fighter for being able to pull of that Madmoiselle Ennui (B's Super Counter) in the last round. It's a pain.

• Tap A, then B, then C during Just Defend
• This is a P. Power super.
• You must tap the buttons very quickly when Jenet Just Defends.

Move info from Shoryuken Wiki

Oh snap, Garou!

Garou: Mark of the Wolves is coming to Xbox Live Arcade for a mere 800 M$ moonpoints! Awesome! (Lillien Knights represent!)
source: Kotaku

gnus drop

King of Fighters article up on Kotaku. The "news" is that Ash Crimson is a male crossdresser. In other obvious news, the sky is blue. Hey Kotaku, can we just get some info on the game play rather than a gender/sexuality discussion? Please?

Mognet Central found a cool article on the weapons of Bayonetta.

Japanator and Japan Probe found an unintentionally funny video of Lady Gaga visiting Japan. (holy crap, racoon eyes!)

New KoF pre E3 video

Sweet!

source: Destructoid

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.

New KoF videos!

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

a different type of KOF video

found at Cyberfanatix

KOF XII - so. pretty.

Kotaku reports that KOF XII is NOT cell shaded. All the sprites are hand drawn. Good grief.

from the Kotaku article:
The original character drawings were modeled into 3D. Those 3D models were then rendered back into 2D. That way the 2D characters could have a greater depth of motion. Since the 2D models were devoid of color and details, artists went through each character, background, image and painstakingly added colors and drew in details pixel-by-pixel on a tablet PC.
Read the rest here

edit: We have annoyed Brandon @ Insert Credit. I think we all hoped for 2D but it's just nice to hear it confirmed.

KOF XII Trailer that is CLEAR

I know a super blurry version of this trailer has been released, but here is one with English subtitles that is much clearer.



Found at FightersGeneration.com

KOF XI On the CHEAP!

Did your lazy family give you cash this holiday season? Well - here's a good way to spend it!

Amazon.com has King of Fighters XI up for 12.99! Good lawd, that's cheap. It retails at brick and mortar stores for 19.99. If you're feeling sassy, you can get this game AND NeoGeo Battle Coliseum for 27.98

30 bucks for some fantastic 2D goodness. Cheap and delicious.
(no, I have no amazon referral account so I get nothing out of referring you that way)

KOF XI Combo Video

A bit spammy at times (esp. Ash) but still very impressive!

blog dump: end of semester edition

Hi there. Wow, it's been a long semester, but now it's over. Holiday shopping looms. Don't know if that will be more or less stressful. Anyway, enjoy this blog dump. I enjoyed having time to parooze my rss feeds. <3

comics
Witchblade 112 preview up at CBR. First Born epilogue. I should probably get around to reading issue 3, huh?

File under: FINALLY. -
Udon Announces new Street Fighter books.
Initially reported by Majoria's News.
then Kotaku found it later.

NYT interviewed Gail Simone and I found it to be quite an interesting read.
source: VS-blog.com

games
King of Fighters Max Impact Regulation A combo videos (aka KOF:MIA) here.
source: Cyberfanatix.

Iron Man game footage @ Kotaku. It's pretty, but does it play well? Probably not.

Virtual Console games are region locked AND country locked, so your friends in Japan can't buy you that cool VC game you want. Sorry, bubba.

Also, hey look, a thwomp!
source: Wii Fanboy

Tekken 6 arcade intro dropped at SDTekken.com

figures
Buso Renkin figs @ Kid Nemo. Kazuki, Papillion & Tokiko. Reasonably priced too. I'm torn between Papillion & Tokiko.

Virtual Console Update...for Japan

Just so you know what you're missing if you're outside of Japan, Cyberfanatix reports that they'll be getting Garou Denestu (Fatal Fury) as well as World Heroes.

Garou can be obtained stateside on Fatal Fury Battle Archive 1 for the PS2 (good luck finding it) but World Heroes isn't available for any of the current gen consoles. You can get it through GameTap if you want to pay the monthly fee or wait for it to go free for a week. (no I don't get a kickback for linking to gametap, I wish I did though)

Old, but good.

Here's a KOF XI combo video. After watching this, I can safely say that my friends and I are "doin' it wrong"

KOF MI:A Intro Video

Don't watch it if you're prone to seizures. Flashy.

info from Cyberfanatix, image from Gpara.

Misc. Gaming News

Zepy @ Canned Dogs reports that Taiko Drum Master 10 will include songs from Lucky Star and Nodame Cantabile. Import Get!

King of Fighters Max Impact 2 Regulation A site updated with more of the same. New character info, story and movies *yay*
-via Cyberfanatix

Guilty Gear Accent core is coming to the PS2 & the Wii. How long till Wiimote injuries due to GG flailing?!

Perhaps the most notable changes are the re-recorded character voices, a first since Guilty Gear XX first debuted. Combined with new backgrounds and intro animations they'll certainly add a bit of freshness to a series that's been growing rather stale over the years.

The Wii version will also feature special waggle controls that allow you to use the Wii remote and nunchuck to pull off fighting moves, which will be novel for all of five minutes before the classic controllers get hooked up (via Kotaku)