Botchmania 49 to end the day...

More messed up wrestling - Highlighted in this one is Tornoto's crazy crowd at Summerslam 2004, Vince screwing up in an old-school program, why the last years of WCW sucked, and some other recent stuff.

Street Fighter IV (ARC) Blowout Part 3

More Street Fighter IV footage = Yay!!!



Awesome finish at the end of this clip....



Nice El Fuerte in this clip.... (Dhalsim = bottom tier??)



Good Guile / E-Honda match in this one.



I like Sagat's Tiger Knee now....

That's it for the SF4 Blowout.. Maybe some hands-on impressions next weekend, but it doesn't seem likely at this point.

The Dark Knight = Truly a Masterpiece....

(WARNING = Possible spoilers ahead)

The Dark Knight is truly an amazing film from beginning to end. There were so many OMG and Oh **** moments in the movie I was engaged and entertained throughout. Christian Bale once again delivers as Batman / Bruce Wayne despite busting out the raspy voice when in Cape Crusader mode (that could have been better a little bit). Truly, the star of the film is indeed The Joker, played by the late Heath Ledger. He is such an amazing villain with his personality and mind-games, it is nuts.



This is also not your typical superhero movie of hero meets villain, villain kidnaps love interest, hero defeats villain, and hero saves love interest. The director, Christopher Nolan, has definitely created a masterpiece in his hands from Batman Begins and The Dark Knight with his visceral visions of Gotham City, Batman questioning his hero-like motives, and The Joker being that torturous. It is truly a case of heroes actually being tested and willing to accept that you can't save everyone from danger, but still provide a safe environment for the civilians. Even though there are crazy action scenes, this film might be too much for kids even though it is the Batman I'm talking about due to the dark nature that Nolan is trying to tell. The movie was beautifully paced at two and a half hours with so many memorable scenes. Even Two-Face wasn't that bad for the time he was in.

This is arguably the best movie I have seen in a while and also the best movie ever involving a famous superhero (Out of the Marvel and DC heroes). Ledger should deserve an Oscar nomination for his crazy performance as The Joker. It already broke so many box office records, which is also crazy (155 million in the opening weekend). In NeoGAF terms, it might be the movie of the forever because it is that damn good. I don't know if Nolan can even top this one if they plan for another Batman movie (assuming what happened at the end), but maybe they should stop it here. Out of all the summer movies this year, The Dark Knight is easily the best one of them all.

I should download the amazing soundtrack too....

Street Fighter IV Blowout Part 2

Oh hey, another Street Fighter IV post - more videos from Japan and the "secret" Capcom event at Downtown Los Angeles (I should of went there....)



Here's a good C. Viper player in this clip.



Capcom's own Seth Killian demonstrates high-tier Rufus and how he is really one of the best characters of the game (other than his looks). Watch out for the MvC2 Magneto reference when Rufus does his dive kicks.



More high-tier Rufus action at Japan...



High-tier Zangief goes on a SPD (Spinning Pile Driver) rampage against this Ryu player who keeps getting caught.

More later...

Sleeper Hit of E3 2008 = Fat Princess!!!!

In many gamers' minds at E3, the sleeper hit or perhaps some peeps' game of show is the PSN game Fat Princess. The name may be silly which makes up for being totally amazing in concept. This video above kind of tells why it will be awesome.

Street Fighter IV (ARC at Japan) Blowout Part 1

Some more Street Fighter IV matches from the first days of official release at Japan (Gosh... I love this game!!). Also to note: Capcom has confirmed Dan and Fei-Long for the console versions = Yay??



Rufus already high-tier?? There are stories of 25-win and 50-win streaks over at the Shoryuken forums and they seem true.







More throughout the weekend...

ABDC Season 2 Episode 5 Recap

ABDC got all steamy this week with the Janet Jackson themed performances. Add along a shocking elimination and we got ourselves a competition.

The episode started off with all crews performing together a "Rhythm Nation" like routine, which was pretty dope. It was definitely a great way to start the show.



Fanny Pak started the steaminess off with their performance of "All Nite, Don't Stop." As JC or Shane said, it definitely felt like an orgy of sorts when two girls kissed each other, which was nuts. They were continuing off their momentum from that awesome performance last week and this week was pretty good. I expect them to be safe next week.



Supreme Soul were next and it was another disappointing performance for them doing "Nasty." Like JC and Shane, it definitely had some good moments, but it was never consistently good throughout. Shane and Lil Mama were almost going to a shouting fight again with their disagreements. I expect to be bottom 2 again next week.



Boogie Bots, riding off their disappointing performance last week, were saved by the votes this week (lucky them) and sort of redeem themselves with their Janet performance. Even though it wasn't memorable, they did ok as I expect them to be bottom 2 next week with Supreme Soul.



Oh man at So Real Cru's performance of "I Get Lonely" (video above). It was definitely the performance of the night as the ladies stepped it up to go all out living up to Janet (accurate with the outfits). Clearly, the girls got all the attention with the MTV cameras as expected with a performance like this (the guys at the background basically). If So Real had their OMG moment of the show, this is the one so far. Also, lol at the So Real heads at the crowd.



SuperCrew and A.S.I.I.D. were in the bottom 2 this week, which was pretty shocking, but my prediction came true with one of the crews that did well last week getting screwed by the votes. As for SuperCrew, they did "Black Cat" and it was a return to form for the b-boys from the "lay low" performance last week. The judges were impressed of the guys nailing Janet-like choreography along with their usual sick moves.



Even though A.S.I.I.D. were eliminated this week, their performance of "If" was their getting out with a bang moment. It was a good performance, but I didn't expect them to be out this week since I thought they would stick around for another week or two.

With that, here's my rankings heading towards next week's challenge (whatever that is).

1. So Real Cru
2. Fanny Pak
3. SuperCrew
4. Boogie Bots
5. Supreme Soul

Looks like all of the East Coast is voting for Boogie Bots now as all of the West Coast teams are still in as expected with split up votes.