Truly Villainous.

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.

Warp Technology

see more dog and puppy pictures

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

Water Warfare

This is a new WiiWare title, and it's a FPS, with a watergun twist. I think with the Wii controls I could actually be less crap at this genre. It's only 800 points. Oh so tempting... I will probably cave in and pick it up soon.



video source: ArakniD

Beetle Sumo

Japan Probe found a cute article & video about Japanese Rhinoceros Beetle Sumo wrestling. Click the link for the video and how exactly one DQ's a beetle from the championship.

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.

SF4 Tourney Play

Sportsmanship, they lack it.
I'm calling this guy the next "Pringles" / "Curleh Mustache"
Good C Viper player if you can handle the vomit-cam.



source: Iplaywinner.com