If this morning’s fan made films proved anything it’s that Bobby “Fatboy” Roberts hates joy. I imagine he spends his days surreptitiously plotting while reading the newspaper on a bench in Laurelhurst park, pausing occasionally to stand, stretch luxuriantly, then dash over to push a small child off the nearest swing set. Unlike this morning’s […]
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Speaking Of Fan Films …
Let’s just say “Fans Making Films About Capcom Games” is the theme for this weekend, ‘kay? No sooner do I post the Mega Man thing than I find yet another fan made film about another Capcom franchise that also deserves all the pimping my journalistic abilities can muster. Ladies and gents, I present to you […]
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Free Saturday Movie: Mega Man
Do you like Mega Man? Would you like to watch a movie for free? Do you have 93 minutes of free time? Then you are clearly the target demographic for Eddie Lebron’s fan made, live-action film based on Capcom’s never ending Mega Man franchise. I won’t review the film here — mostly because I haven’t […]
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The Mac Gets Steamed
Yeah, it’s a terrible pun, but you should have seen it coming. Looks pretty … generic Today marks the public debut of Valve’s online gaming/distribution platform Steam on the Mac. OS X users can download the program here, but be aware that not all of the games available on the PC version of the service […]
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Medium Review: Zeno Clash Ultimate Edition
Yup. “Medium review.” We’ve already got Mega Reviews that drone on for-fucking-ever and Mini Reviews that cover a bunch of games in paragraph form, so why not a Medium Review that covers a single game that, for whatever reason, couldn’t find a spot in the print edition of The Merc? Atlus USA What did the […]
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Who Do You Want To See In Marvel Vs. Capcom 3?
Remember Marvel Vs. Capcom 3? Capcom Design Works Art Book Rare Japanese Concept Art From Marvel Vs. Capcom We were all just happy to get Super Street Fighter IV when Capcom had to go burst another load over top our collective heads by announcing the most heavily anticipated fighting game that no one imagined would […]
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Mega Review: Pokemon: HeartGold and SoulSilver (A Verbose Sequel To A Mini Review)
The Only Review Pretentious Enough To Include A Foreword: Sometimes I write a Mini Review about a game that I feel deserves some coverage, but just isn’t pulling enough of my attention to warrant a full review either. Such was the case with Pokémon HeartGold and SoulSilver, games whose Mini Review landed on Blogtown last […]
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Geek Out
Street Fighter Is Dead! Long Live Street Fighter!
Street Fighter IV is dead! Long live Super Street Fighter IV!
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Mini Reviews: God of War III, Pokémon: HeartGold/SoulSilver, Heavy Rain
Since I have to play a fuckton of games on a daily basis and the Mercury has a limited amount of review space, a lot of games fall through the cracks. Consider this my attempt at covering as many of these titles as possible. I’ll mostly be choosing stuff that I’ve been enjoying recently, but […]
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R.I.P. Street Fighter IV
With the release of Super Street Fighter IV on Tuesday, the original version of Street Fighter IV is officially dead. Most Street Fighter fans are gleeful, more than happy to shovel dirt on the game’s corpse before it’s even in the ground, but hardcore Street Fighter devotee Jared Rea thought a more sensitive tribute was […]
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Save Ground Kontrol!
Is anyone going to be surprised if I say I love Ground Kontrol? Ground Kontrol You can almost taste the pickles pixels! Hell, I’m personally cited three separate times in Wikipedia’s entry for GK — twice for articles from Blogtown and once from an interview with Ground Kontrol co-owner/omnipresent figurehead Anthony Ramos I wrote in […]
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What’s Better Than Yesterday’s Marvel Vs Capcom 3 Announcement?
Today’s totally badass trailer! In case you’re blind — and if you are, what are you doing reading these words? — the footage shows an embattled cityscape full of Marvel and Capcom icons duking it out in that stylized, Street Fighter IV-esque art that I do so love. In the span of a minute and […]