Wow. I’ve not updated for ages. No real reason, just life getting in the way of the internet.

A big update will be here in the coming weeks, I’m going to try and bring the whole site together more rather than the blog feeling separate. There’ll be a bit of a new look, too.

Anyway, in the meantime Marvel Versus Capcom 3 has come out, it’s ridiculous and it’s very fun indeed. Street Fighter IV Arcade Edition is just over a week ..read more

Ahead of their insanely long upcoming tour and their upcoming album, “Hardcore Will Never Die, But You Will.” Mogwai have released a new track in order to get me hype. You can get hype too. Listen to it below.

Rano Pano by jeemer

Download the track by right clicking here and choosing Save Link As / Save Target As.

Mogwai’s upcoming tour dates follow, I’ll be at the Grand Ole Opry gig as well as the Edinburgh one;

01-26 Stirling, Scotland – Tolbooth 01-27 ..read more

SoCal Regionals just took place at the weekend. Anyone who is a big fan of Akuma is about to want to make little baby Tokidos.

Not only did Tokido come from Japan to enter SCR, not only did he enter under the handle “Tokido Murder Face”, but he did the most awesomely awesome thing in the history of awesome.

I’m not even going to try and explain it. Check out the video below:

So hype. I’m not going to get into ..read more

On Facebook this afternoon I found out that Kronenberg 1664 have started working on a new advertising campaign about how they produce a “slow” beer with a “slow” taste.

Load of pish really, but the plus side is what their marketing folk alledgedly got up to;

On October 4th 2010, we took Lemmy and his band Motörhead to a French bar. Here, inspired by the laid back atmosphere and a slow, cold ..read more

I rarely watch tv nowadays, but when when I was cooking dinner last night an advert came on that caught my eye.

Normally if I’m watching tv I’ll go out of my way to mute the telly or change channels when the adverts come on, but this was one I was glad that I caught.

I know a bunch of my friends don’t watch tv at all, so I thought I’d share this.

Pretty well done indeed. The only thing I dread is ..read more

I’d like to begin by stating that all I’ve been taking is my antibiotics, ibuprofen and paracetamol. I promise!

Ok, so at the start i was on this big galleon sailing the seas and there was lots of fog and ocean spray. I was out on the deck staring out at the sea with someone who I was once on work experience with, years ago. Can’t even remember his name.

Soon enough we got to the shore, and apparently the ..read more

So Due Date is coming out.

South African actor Sharlto Copley (he plays Wikus, the “fokkin prawns” guy in district 9 and is also an inspired bit of casting as Murdoch in the new A-Team movie) briefly mentioned Street Fighter 2 in a recent interview with Empire Magazine.

Check it out:

Click the image below for a scan of the full page - It’s a bit blurry cause I took it with my phone.

Copleys imdb link is - http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1663205/

Season’s Beatings went ahead last weekend, October 15th to 17th. Teamspooky streamed the event, and it was bloody brilliant.

Aside from the quality of the stream itself, there were some incredibly hype matches, and the level of play was very high.

Spooky has now uploaded a ton of the matches from the stream to a new youtube account that was created especially for the event. Check it out at http://www.youtube.com/user/SeasonsBeatingsGDLK and feel the hype!

In the end Taiwan’s Gamerbee took 1st place for ..read more

Replay, an arcade/retro/video game expo is coming to Blackpool on the 6th/7th of November. And to top it off the organisers have been spreading the word that they’re going to be running a SSFIV tournament on the Saturday, and a Tekken tourney on the Sunday!

Apparently lots of the manc heads from neoempire are going to come along, so I’m going to head down and have a pop as well.

On top of that, the creator of IK+ is going to be ..read more

splice

First up is Splice. Splice is a little creature feature from the director of Cypher and x.

The idea is that a team of scientists, headed by Adrien Brody and x are working on creating new breeds of animal by mashing together the DNA of existing creatures.

Eventually curiosity gets the better of x and she decides to splice in some human DNA. This is where the story really begins and their creation, Dren is born. Things go from good ..read more

Super Versus Battle 2010 just took place in London this week, with over 8 different fighting games being played in tournament style over the full weekend. Unfortunately it doesn’t look like SVB have managed to come up with a stream, so we’re going to have to hope that most of it was recorded and will be uploaded in the coming days.

The big surprise of the weekend however seems to have been that Prodigal Son aka Ryan Hart managed to put ..read more

Let’s get straight to the point; Valve, makers of the Half Life series, Counterstrike, Team Fortress 2 and Portal have released a new game. The name of the game is Alien Swarm. It’s really good, and what’s more; it’s absolutely free.

Alien Swarm was originally a fan made mod for Unreal Tournament, and is now a standalone Steam-based game. It’s an almost-top-down 3D shooter with up to 4 players working in cooperation.

Each player gets to choose from 4 classes; Officer, Weapons ..read more

Just saw an advert for Knight and Day, the new Tom Cruise/Cameron Diaz flick. What the hell is going on? The tone of this trailer is all over the place and leaves it feeling like an ad for a awful tv show nevermind a bad movie.

Is it meant to be funny? It’s not very funny but it seems to want to be funny. The action looks like the cheesy unnecessary overuse of cgi we’ve seen for years. It tells us ..read more

The first run of the European Console League happens next week in Liverpool.

The tournament runs from July 30th to August 1st. Games featured include COD4, Halo 3, GoW, Fifa 2010 and a little game called Super Street Fighter IV.

The Super tourney runs on the Saturday only, runs all day and now only costs £10 to enter! This is not too shabby considering that the original price for entering for SSFIV was £50.

That was dropped to £25 and then finally they ..read more

I’m writing this to you now after having lost around $15 (Ten pounds and eleven pence to be exact) to IGN.

Did you sign up for IGNs coverage of EVO 2009 last year? Did you too wait around for ages for the videos to appear, then wait in vain for all the pools videos that they promised they’d bring?

Well get on your Paypal account immediately! Go to Profile, My Pre Approved Statements under Financial Information, and then click on IGN Entertainment ..read more

The arcade version of Super Street Fighter IV was recently confirmed by SF director Yoshinori Ono.

However, it was only yesterday that the very first Japanese location test of the arcade version was held. The following screenshot was taken at the loctest yesterday, and reveals that there are two new empty character slots at either side of the screen!

Click here to see the full photo!

All the buzz right now seems to mainly center on the new characters likely including Elena, R. ..read more

Would you like to know how to unlock personal actions and colours in Super Street Fighter 4?

Then you’ve come to the right place!

The short version is this; start a versus match, player vs cpu.

As soon as the fight starts press start and return to the character select screen. Rinse and repeat.

I’ve put this video together to explain how you go about it;