Street Fighter IV... Lookin' Good

Okay, so I'm unashamedly a fan of the fighter genre... Oh how many hours I used to spend getting owned when I first started playing them (Hey.. I was only like.. 4.. poor motor skills I say) but when Street Fighter II came around, I finally found my place, somewhere between Chun Li's spinning bird kick and her meaty thighs I had found my place...

So when Street Fighter IV was announced, I was a bit.. meh, really. SFII and SFII: Turbo were for me the peak of the series... 3D fighting games haven't really ever been able to capture (for me at least) the feel of a 2D fighter.. But street fighter... is making amends...

The above is a video of Chun-Li taking on new character Viper... They move beautifully, it's very fluid.. and it's very.. Street Fighter.

Save us, Gordon

Okay... So the Large Hadron Collider didn't result in Hawking radiation and spawn a micro black hole to kill us all or portal in a dimension of demons etc... And with integral parts like Alice, CMS and ATLAS, the names are perfect for your next objective...

But if the news had lead us to believe what was right... who was going to answer the call? Who would save the planet?

Indeed, blog.reddit enclosed to CERN, a package containing a crow-bar, some life advice, and a note...

"Get this to Gordon Freeman. He'll know what to do."

Source: Kotaku, Reddit

Great Sadness

A tide of great sadness washes over Eddy and I at the knowledge of Ensemble closing... We both have loved the Age series since making our little Romans run around all those years ago in Age of Empires back in 1997, and have played every game since.

Ensemble have had an impressive track record with Microsoft Game Studios, but are now being closed down at the end of their current Xbox 360 project, Halo Wars.

Apparently Microsoft will be moving employees into a new game studio (maybe a restructure away from RTS? But then why couldn't this have been achieved with Ensemble? Marketing maybe?), and those who do not make the move to the new MGS studio will be put into as many positions within Microsoft as they can fill...

Perhaps this is the end of an Age...

Source: IGN

Australian Release Schedules... are hot...

Wow... After so long, feeling like we're in a pit of despair, the wonders of spring, (and September) are now (or soon to be!) here! What is coming at this stage?

We can expect the likes of Spore (and it's collectors edition, pictured above), STALKER: Clear Sky and Infinite Undiscovery on September the 4th.

Titles like Star Wars: Force Unleashed on the 17th, and Crysis: Warhead follows on the 18th.

Warhammer Online graces our PCs on the 23rd, and Brothers In Arms: Road to Hells Highway will see release across the PC/PS3/360 on the 25th.

October brings Fable II for 360, Fallout 3 on all PC/PS3/360, as well as Dead Space.

Hot? Highly.