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Great job Gametrailers....one hell of an effort in making this documentary.

Just saw this on Kotaku today: http://kotaku.com/5147660/biggest-street-fighter-tourney-ever http://www.gamestop.com/gs/tournaments/sf4/default.aspx Biggest Street Fighter Tourney EVER By Brian Ashcraft, 10:00 PM on Thu Feb 5 2009, 4,393 views There are tons of SF fighting tournaments. So what makes the Street Fighter IV National Tournament special? It's the biggest live fighting game event ever, that's what. Capcom USA has joined forces with retailer GameStop and fighter tourney EVO Championship Series for this nationwide tournament, which kicks off February 21st at literally gajillions of GameStops across America. The second round gets underway February 28th at regional GameStop stores, and the winners advance to the March 14th semi-finals. The sixteen finalists that emerge will be flown to the finals in San Francisco on April 18th for some SF in SF action. Finalists will also get Mad Catz SFIV sticks and pads, limited edition tourney belts and a spot in the semi-final bracke...

http://www.wcg.com/6th/fun/news/news_view.asp?keyno=C09020610002&page=1 World Cyber Games Announces First Five of WCG 2009 Official Game Titles. Feb-06-2009 Counter-Strike 1.6 and Guitar Hero®: World Tour Headline List of Diverse PC and Xbox 360 Titles That Will Satisfy Every Type of Gamer Remaining Titles To Be Announced This March NEW YORK, NY, February 5, 2009 -- World Cyber Games (WCG / www.wcg.com), the premier international video game competition, has announced the first five Official Game Titles for the WCG 2009 season. The lineup includes Counter-Strike™ 1.6 (PC), Starcraft®: Brood War™ (PC), WarCraft® III: The Frozen Throne™ (PC), and Guitar Hero®: World Tour (Xbox 360), and Virtua Fighter® 5 (Xbox 360). All five games have been a staple at past WCG competitions. Counter-Strike 1.6™ and Starcraft®: Brood War™ have been Official Tournament Games since 2001 while WarCraft® III: The Frozen Throne™ has been part of the WCG since 2003. Guitar Hero®, which marked WCG's first...

Just finished playing the Killzone 2 demo - first impressions: - Graphics are very well done; lots of stuff happening in the background, lots of explosions, particle effects, smoke, etc. 'Cinematic' is the best word to describe it. It's the first word in my mind the moment you step off into the world of the game. - Gameplay seems okay; perhaps it would be better if I had a Dual shock controller. I'm still using the Sixaxis controller that came with my PS3. - If I had one thing to complain about, it would have to be the cover system: Press L2 to cover, then... Press UP on the stick to look around (or left or right if you have to look on the left or right wall) Now, note that you CAN'T let go of L2 unless you want to leave cover. If you let go of L2, your character removes himself from cover and you're exposed again. L2 is also the CROUCH button so it gets slightly confusing for me. Now, to aim while in cover, you press L2, UP/LEFT/RIGHT, AND click the right thumb...

Tatazu.com is reporting the first five selected games for the upcoming World Cyber Games 2009. http://www.gotfrag.com/portal/story/43803/ All Games: WCG 2009 GamesBy: Matt DiVito - Published Today at 9:42 AM EST - Writer Archive Chinese website, Tatazu.com is reporting the first five games for WCG 2009. The World Cyber Games, Inc., recently renamed from International Cyber Marketing, was founded in the year 2000 and have been the global organizer of the World Cyber Games for nine years. Last year's tournament was located Cologne, Germany and saw competitors compete in ten PC games, including StarCraft, CS 1.6, and WarCraft 3: TFC. The tournament also featured four Xbox 360 games. With the WCG 2009 event slated to take place later this year in Chengdu, China, the Chinese website Tatazu.com is reporting the first five games to be played at the tournament. Counter Strike 1.6 (PC) StarCraft (PC) WarCraft 3: The Frozen Throne (PC) Virtua Fighter 5 (XBOX360) Guitar Hero: World Tour (XBOX...

The Killzone 2 Demo is up on the UK PSN store; it's 1207MB. It will be up officially for North America and Europe on February 26. What is Sony thinking??? They should get this game available to as many people as possible, right now. I don't think should have just limited its release to Europe only. They need a lot of buzz for their game, and it isn't helping that they had to have some weird release schedule for their demo like this. From what I've read, there doesn't seem to be anything stopping anyone from making a European PSN account to download the demo.... hmm....

These were made by the posters on NEOGAF as 'magazine ads' for Street Fighter IV. Some of the ads are pretty well done: http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=349539&page=32

These videos are a series of rematches between the two finalists from the WCG Philippines 2008 Tournament for Virtua Fighter 5. These games were played over XBOX LIVE. I'm using Jacky while Ismael is using Akira. In these set of rematches, Ismael won a *LOT* more matches than me :( So I suppose you could say that Ismael got his revenge hahaha! I did have a lot of fun because the matches weren't so laggy (we were both on PLDT) compared to my usual experience on XBL playing against opponents from other countries. I was able to record only 4 replays of our rematches; two of the matches were wins from me, while the other two were his wins. I'll be uploading some more in the days to come. NOTE: Fully retiring myself from the world of competitive gaming; no longer planning on joining any international competitions. I am interested in helping find future champions, though :) Never retiring from playing VF just for fun; more and more, it's becoming my favorite fighting game of ...

http://www.famitsu.com/game/news/1221345_1124.html

Here's another prime example of game journalism at its very finest... If you don't pay too much attention, you would think that the extra characters Sakura, Cammy, etc., and the Training/Challenge mode, are exclusive to the Playstation 3 version. They're NOT. The article is carefully worded so that, technically, they're right. The additional features mentioned in the article are console-exclusive , meaning that they're not in the Arcade version of Street Fighter IV. But because it's a Playstation magazine, they can say that these features are 'Playstation 3 Exclusive'. So, technically, they aren't lying....but it's clear that there's a hidden agenda with the headline; obviously to make the upcoming Xbox 360 version seem like it's not going to come with the same features as the Playstation 3 version. To set the record straight, here are several articles/screens/videos which prove that the Xbox 360 version and the Playstation 3 version are...

For more (which may come later), watch this NEOGAF thread: http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=350906 Transformers 2: Revenge of the Fallen Star Trek G.I.Joe The Rise of Cobra Fast and Furious 4 Disney/Pixar's UP Land of the Lost

It's still hard to believe that Final Fantasy XIII is Xbox-bound, but it is.... the trailer is up on the US Xbox Live Marketplace now. From this point on, there can be no doubt....Final Fantasy XIII is truly arriving on the Xbox 360 platform.

Now with 30% real-time footage (Somewhere near the end of the vid)

And some other facts and figures, too. http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=350442 Top 50 software to date (Based on sales/units sold): 1. Blue Dragon 203,740 2. Tales of Vesperia 161,070 3. The Last Remnant 134,611 4. Infinite Undiscovery 112,444 5. Lost Odyssey 109,517 6. Dead or Alive 4 108,618 7. Viva Pinata (Platinum) 101,552 8. Forza 2 (Platinum) 100,591 9. Ace Combat 6 95,002 10. Halo 3 83,696 11. Idolm@ster Live 4 U 75,272 12. Ridge Racer 6 73,501 13. Oblivion 72,274 14. Eternal Sonata 70,435 15. Gears of War 68,270 16. Dead Rising 68,078 17. Lost Planet 61,555 18. Dead or Alive Xtreme 2 60,544 19. Grand Theft Auto IV 59,893 20. Assassin's Creed 55,261 21. Devil May Cry 4 55,259 22. Call of Duty 4 54,742 23. Soul Calibur IV 53,403 24. Fallout 3 49,543 25. Ninja Gaiden 2 48,945 26. Dynasty Warriors 6 48,796 27. Idolm@ster 48,695 28. Idolm@ster (Platinum) 47,344 29. Fable II 43,682 30. Ace Combat 6 (Platinum) 41,880 31. Beautiful Katamari (Platinum) 41,492 32. Armored...

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=350394 Famitsu 360 Reviews Ninja Blade 8997 Midnight Club 8888 Street Fighter IV 9988 Skate 2 7887 Shooting Love 7767 Star Ocean 4 9988 Sonic 8889 Chaos Head Noah 8879 Regular Famitsu scores Chibimarukochan 8777 Destiny Links 9889 Tantei Conan and Kaneda Shounen no Jikenhaku 7876 Midnight Club PSP 7888 Enkakusousa 9888 Shaun White Snowboarding PSP 6777 Demon's Souls 7967 Shaun White Snowboarding PS3 6866 Midnight Club PS3 8988 Midnight Club 360 8988 ************ MS - didn't expect the hardware sales to grow as much as they did - gears 2 is in the process of being properly localized for JP, some stuff must be cut - not considering BD version of 360. they slyly dodge the question of a slim 360, but seems something will happen Bandai Namco - surprised how well ToV sold. Gundam Musou 2 also did well - Naruto Narutimate Storm (sp?) showed Japan's ability to put out a "super anime" game, or something - plan to release 5-6 gam...

With Street Fighter IV and Tekken 6 Bloodline Rebellion around the corner for both the Xbox 360 and the Playstation 3, it's surprising to me that SEGA has not yet made any announcements regarding the latest in their very own premiere fighting series, Virtua Fighter 5R. The game has been out for a long while now in Japan, yet has not received any sort of announcement for home consoles. As a player who has enjoyed Virtua Fighter 5 for the Xbox 360, I think that the game initially didn't do well because it was made exclusive by Sega for the Playstation 3 first. Had they went with a simultaneous multiplatform release, they may have gotten more hype and more sales for their game. Also, it would have actually helped the game if the improvements for the Xbox 360 version, such as online play and more intelligent Expert A.I., were also given to the Playstation 3 version. Lastly, SEGA could have gotten more sales for the game if it had a few other elements to make it more popular; in p...

Namco / Bandai loves the Philippines....or maybe, Timezone loves Namco. Because they've already gotten Tekken 6 Bloodline Rebellion machines in. Me and my wife spotted them at SM Megamall Timezone, Basement Level. Most likely T6BR is also already playable in most other local Timezone arcades. I think these T6BR machines just arrived today, considering most people were being greeted by a 'DATA TRANSFER' screen (which let you upgrade your older T6 data). Thanks Namco-Bandai for knowing where the Philippines is on the world map :) Unlike some other game companies......... ***** Little tidbit....I also spotted a VF5 machine in World of Fun, which was just next door to Timezone. No, it didn't have any of those fancy Data Card readers where you could dress up your character. It was a really plain machine where you could just play VF5. Apparently nobody has touched the game considering the scoreboard was empty. So I completed one run through the game and added my initials to t...