The Boxing Torch has been Passed...

I just came back from watching Manny Pacquiao owning Oscar De La Hoya in a boxing "dream match" and let's just say the boxing torch has been passed. Right from the beginning you can tell who will win and Manny goes all off on Oscar throughout the whole fight. Clearly, Golden Boy looked like an old hag going at heavyweight speed compared to Pac-Man's quickness and evasive tactics. Oscar was flat outmatched and outclassed tonight as pretty much the changing of the guard has taken place with Manny proving in a big fight setting being the best pound-for-pound fighter in the boxing business today. The TKO win at Round 9 felt right as Manny was punching Oscar left and right for the previous eight rounds. I was disappointed there were no knockdowns as Golden Boy knew he was defeated and had to throw the towel. It was better for him to do that anyway rather than get knocked out, so he admitted defeat in a cowardly way I guess. The Philippines is probably still rioting and go crazy over this win, but Pac-Man fought a smart fight and decisively beat Golden Boy up tonight.

Anyone playing the Resident Evil 5 JP Demo?

The Japanese demo of Resident Evil 5 is out for 360 (a week or two later on PSN), which is basically a run-through (also playable for co-op) of the demo levels we have seen tons of times, but it is finally nice to have this out as a download. Even though I would love to play this now and desperately get a Japanese account, I can wait since this exact demo to be released next month in the States. For those that don't have it, here's what the demo provides in these clips.

Tekken 6 BR is out this month at Japan...

After nearly a year of vanilla Tekken 6, Bloodline Rebellion is coming to Japanese arcades in less than two weeks (the 18th). Hopefully, some arcades here at SoCal are willing to pony up for the new board a month or two after. While I'm still bummed that the console versions are coming out in Fall 2009 rather than the the summertime, it will be a feature-complete fighter like previous games. Then again, there are rumors that Namco might go the console exclusive character route again for Tekken just like Soul Calibur IV and honestly, there's enough characters (like 30+) in Tekken 6 BR, and why are they adding more just to get more sales (Well, this ploy worked for Soul Calibur IV). Anyway, here's the latest trailer from an Atari European event (they're publishing it at Europe) and what looks to be the new intro with Jin riding on the bike doing crazy things and then meeting up with Kazuya to maybe finish it all. It's just crazy that Street Fighter IV came out on arcades later than Tekken 6 and it is coming out for consoles before Tekken, which shows which company is handling their franchise right or wrong I guess. I just hope Namco doesn't screw up the Tekken franchise like they pretty much did with Soul Calibur personally (compare that to Capcom's handling of the Street Fighter machine these days with SSF2T HD Remix out and kicking ass and SF IV taking over my life soon).

The best week of Rock Band DLC comes out next week...

Okay, it is not really the best batch of songs as Rock Band DLC ever, but close enough to me since the highly anticipated No Doubt compilation (Basically their Greatest Hits album, The Singles 1992-2003,) comes out on Tuesday for 360 owners and Thursday on PSN. The 13 songs are indeed the best of the best from them.

• "Just A Girl"
• "Its My Life"
• "Hey Baby"
• "Bathwater"
• "Sunday Morning"
• "Hella Good"
• "Underneath It All"
• "Excuse Me Mr."
• "Running"
• "Spiderwebs"
• "Simple Kind of Life"
• "Don't Speak"
• "Ex-Girlfriend"

I'm really curious how the Rock Steady stuff will play out in Rock Band 2 since most of their singles are not really rock at first glance. For the females that are worried about the lack of songs catered to them, this is just perfect and will be amazing for parties. Now thanks to this pack of songs, I should have another big gathering soon to test these songs out.

Guitar Hero WT finally gets the right Pumpkins song...

Even though I prefer Rock Band 2 than Guitar Hero World Tour in terms of rhythm game to get this holiday season (Guitar Hero 5 already happening next year = Boo!!!), some of GHWT's DLC is actually pretty good songs-wise (chart-wise is a toss-up) like this Smashing Pumpkins Pack that came out today. "1979" headlines the pack and probably the other popular mainstream Pumpkins song that has not been available on these games (You can argue for other Pumpkins songs) till now. Now I won't mind "1979" in Rock Band 2 someday, but who knows when that will happen. At least next week for Rock Band DLC is the No Doubt compilation pack (Likely, not confirmed yet), which I will buy in a heartbeat.

Plus, my Halo 360 is back (Finally!!!) and working.

Numerous reasons MvC2 is broken...

This combo video contains numerous reasons why Marvel vs. Capcom 2 is a "broken" fighting game yet people like me still love it. This game just has too many combinations and possibilities, which is why videos like this can happen. Of course, MvC2 is a high-tier fest in tournament play. but coming up with crazy combos like here is just another tip of the iceberg for this eight-year old fighter.

More time trials for Mirror's Edge soon...

Nuevos mapas para Mirror´s Edge from Electronic Arts on Vimeo.

The first downloadable content for Mirror's Edge is shown in this clip which is more trials, but not in the city the game is set at. Instead, these time trials feel like MGS VR Missions style levels in some random spot. This DLC is expected to come out next month and who knows if it is PS3 exclusive or not since they were promised exclusive DLC.