hyperpower!

Apologies for the hiatus. Long work hours and all that.

-nohoho reports that gamersvision has updated with Super Street Fighter II X Tougeki 2008 qualifier matches.

-Lovelybridget updates with the first footage from the Blazblue 1st location test from Taito Hey in Akiba ( Rachel Alucard VS Ragna The Bloodedge )

-Neo Arcadia has a detailed report with screens and footage here ( http://www.neo-arcadia.com/News/voir_news.php?id_news=1 ) from the Blazblue location test.

-Akihabara Channel has a report here ( http://www.akiba-ch.com/?p=503 ) on the June 2008 issue of Arcadia Magazine, with shots of King Of Fighters XII, Blazblue, Street Fighter IV, Arcana Heart 2 and Sengoku Basara X.

-In preparation for the June 26th Japanese PS2 release of Sengoku Basara X, on the official website’s movie section you can view combos for each character. http://www.capcom.co.jp/basara-x/movie1.html

-Windy X Wisdom, by Success for the Nintendo DS, now has an official website ( http://www.success-corp.co.jp/software/ds/windy_windam/ )

-July 31st in Japan, Hudson Soft will be releasing PC Engine Best Collection for the PSP, featuring several of the Tengai Makyo: Far East Of Eden titles as well as a port of Kabuki Itouryodan, a little known fighter that serves as a predecessor to Kabuki Klash for the Neo Geo.

-If you’re fortunate enough to have access to the Japanese Virtual Console for the Nintendo Wii, as of May 13th you will be able to, for 800 Wii points, play the little known Konami fighter Martial Champion.

-Capcom Japan’s official Street Fighter IV developer blog, in case i hadn’t mentioned it earlier: http://www.capcom-fc.com/sf4/

-Super Smash Brothers Brawl recently took 5th place in the Famitsu Readers All Time Favorite Games list in Japan.

-Samurai Spirits: Rokuban Shoubu, the collection of every Samurai Spirits title ever released, is due for Wii and Playstation 2 release circa July 24th this year! Magic Box has screens here: http://the-magicbox.com/0805/game080508b.shtml

-Sirlin.net has new information regarding the changes to Guile in Super Street Fighter 2 Turbo HD Remix.

-I’m late on this one, but Arcade Heroes has an older post here about Namco’s decision against an arcade release of Tekken 6 for the fledgling UK and US arcade market: http://arcadeheroes.com/2008/03/22/namcos-tekken-6-debaucle/

-IGN has an interesting review about the Wii arcade stick designated “The Shaft” right here: http://gear.ign.com/articles/872/872793p1.html ( Spoiler Alert: you’re probably better off purchasing a Hori Fighting Stick Wii )

-geesendou updates with the 1302nd match of Arcana Heart 2 ( Heart VS Catherine ).

-JICKKY updates with the original Japanese commercial for The King Of Fighters ‘94.

-feichunwong updates with Tekken 6 match footage ( Xiaoyu VS Lili ).

-je4pgn updates with Virtua Fighter 5 ver.D match footage ( Akira VS Vanessa ).

-LUBULA updates with Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3 match footage ( Ermac VS Smoke ).

-keriugatsu updates with a peculiar occurence in a Melty Blood Act Cadenza ver.B match ( Kouma VS Red Arcuied - Last Arc air throw ).

-tianyuan2k4 updates with Sengoku Basara X matches ( Yukimura VS Hideyoshi ).

-bigooooooohh updates with Guilty Gear XX Accent Core matches ( Faust VS Slayer ).

-JaimeDL updates with Garou Mark Of The Wolves tournament footage from TRF ( apparently one player used Roulette throughout the whole tournament! )

-BoyUzi updates with Marvel VS Capcom 2 match footage (Spiral/Megaman/Tron VS Magneto/Storm/Psylocke (MSP) ).