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 […]
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Marvel Vs. Capcom 3 Announced
Like the headline says: Marvel Vs. Capcom 3 is real and is scheduled for release on the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 in Spring 2011. Capcom USA HULK GLOWER MENACINGLY! We know almost nothing about this sequel — see the full if uninformative press release past the jump — aside from its suitably Stan Lee-styled […]
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Gears Of War 3: Now With 20 Percent More Cooter!
After a recent Bieber-infused info leak, last night’s official announcement of Gears of War 3 on Late Night With Jimmy Fallon came as a shock to no one. Unable to comprehend a situation in which he isn’t the four-foot-tall center of attention, de facto series spokesman and Epic Games Design Director Cliff Blitzkrieg Blazkowicz Bleszinski […]
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World Of Warcraft Fans, This ‘Uns For You
Like the title says, this post is aimed squarely at the World of Warcraft geeks in the audience — and even more squarely at those who can barely contain the absolutely literal erection they get at the thought of the massively multiplayer online realm’s impending Cataclysm expansion. Those of you who break out in hives […]
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Mega Man Mosaic Trumps Everything You’ve Ever Made
It’s Friday, work will only have you in its skeletonic grip for a few more hours and the weekend holds endless promises of half-assed riots and police violence. With that in mind I thought I’d share something heartwarming. Something pleasant. Something proving yet again that there are people out there on the ‘net who have […]
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Surprising No One, New Pokémon Games Announced
Nintendo At this point the abortion would have been cheaper Less than half a month since Nintendo launched Pokémon Heart Gold and Soul Silver, the House of Mario has announced the next addition to its endless string of monster catch titles designed to prize every last dollar from the pockets of harried parents the world […]
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Pixels Will Rule the World
Hey, remember that time New York City was invaded by all of the best video games from the ’90s and then they decimated the city?! No? This new video remembers. It’s not a commercial or a music video. “Pixels” is just a brand new special effects short which doesn’t do anything but kick ass to […]
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UPDATED: Scrabble Rules Change?
From Kotaku: Word from the Scrabble makers at Mattel is that proper nouns will be fair game for Scrabble players as of this summer. The BBC reported the change of rules for the 72-year-old game with the following explanation from a spokesperson for Scrabble co-rights-holder Mattel: A spokeswoman for the company said the use of […]
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Kate Beaton Does Penny Arcade; Stumptown Announces Paul Pope.
First: Behold! My worlds are colliding in delightful and unexpected ways! Via Penny Arcade. ALSO: In addition to showing up on Penny Arcade, the fantastic Kate Beaton will also be at this year’s Stumptown Comics Fest. (Keep your eye on the Mercury for our blow-out Stumptown issue, coming soon!) In other Stumptown news, the fest […]
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BREAKING NEWS: Hillsboro Man Breaks 27-Year-Old Asteroids World Record
What, no “ASS?” Right this very moment, 42-year-old Hillsboro resident John McAllister is attempting to break the world record high score on Atari’s coin-op classic Asteroids. He’s been shattering space rocks and murdering passing aliens for roughly 54 hours, and McAllister’s online spectators estimate that, at the current rate, he’ll break the world record of […]