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.

Street Fighter IV is OUT at Japan!!

Well at Japanese arcades.... Street Fighter IV is finally out as Japanese peeps mad dash to the many arcades that are left at Japan to play the hell out of it. Expect lots of footage of this final version throughout the weekend as I try to post as much as I can find. Here's some matches below from Japan and E3. If things go to plan, I might play this a lot at Comic-Con next weekend (maybe to a point I'm just going to play that all day plus there's tournaments too). The Capcom booth is going to be my favorite booth again this year especially with Bionic Commando / Re-Armed, SSFIIT HD Remix, and Mega Man 9 playable (No RE5 Playable - that's ok).

Watchmen Trailer...

The first trailer for Watchmen is out and it is going to be really good. Check it out here as it comes out next year (The folks that brought u 300 are doing this). Expect this to be shown also before watching The Dark Knight (maybe watching tomorrow) as well as Terminator: Salvation.

Clips of E3 2008 (Day 3)

Last day of E3 = Not much footage to put up I guess of my interest since they were all up previously....



I'll start with another clip of Guitar Hero: World Tour with Hot Teacher being played at the Activision conference two days ago. Crazy solo to start the song especially with the dude doing it all by those touch frets. It is probably a little too hardcore of the casual audience to soak up in their minds.



Rock Band 2, on the other hand, a different story. Here's "Chop Suey" being played and as expected, it is kind of hard at first on guitar and bass. Good thing they were playing "No Fail" Mode because they would fail right away. Harmonix also confirmed Hyperspeed too for the next game. A clip of "Give It Away" is below.





Quantum of Solace is looking good for now (some missing sounds in this E3 demo). The FPS and cover elements seem to work well too. Part 2 is above and Part 1 is below this text.





BioWare's new game, Dragon Age: Origins, is coming along according to this gameplay montage. Watching interviews with Dr. Greg, they definitely want to return to the Baldur's Gate days and also have a solid single player experience that BioWare always delivers on (no multiplayer planned).

More later maybe...

Botchmania 48 = More People Messing Up!!

Highlighted in this new Botchmania video is more announcing screwups (lots of them by Jim Ross), Goldberg doesn't like cars, and Cena's mic getting shut down.