KoF fans?

Has anyone noticed yet how much I love The King of Fighters? Well, right now I'm a little pissed that the U.S. ports of KoF XI and NeoGeo Battle Coliseum each got delayed like an extra month. Here we go again. I think I'm starting to enjoy living in Japan again. Sure, I've already owned each of these games for a year, year-and-a-half here in Japanese and unlocked everything the day I got 'em, but I need something to keep me busy until KoF '98 Ultimate Match comes out here!

45 characters PLUS 19 EX versions = a total of 64 playable characters with unique movesets, 13 of which are completely new additions. That's gotta be some kinda record for a 2D fighter. The additions they've made in this remake include:

Geese, Krauser, Mr. Big,
Eiji, Kasumi, Goenitz, Orochi,
Orochi Iori, Orochi Leona,

and new EX versions of King, Mary, Yamazaki, and Geese.

Remember that time I cosplayed as Geese for Halloween back in like '03? So do you think I might be a little excited about the addition of 2 new Geese's to this remake!?!? I think so.

They're even adding new stages, color edit (where you can even color edit fireballs. Did I mention 8 colors per character plus 2 edits?), and new moves for some old characters. I guess Benimaru's supposed to be getting some lightning breakdance super. Nice!

Oh, and it looks like you can even unlock the very awesome anime intro from the DC remake.

Check this out:



Still no official release date. Maybe by the end of the year. I'm gonna go off on a little tangent now and complain about Mega Man ZX Advent for DS getting delayed again. I'm just as big a Mega Man fan as I am a KoF fan and I find this news just as frustrating. Probably all they're doing is TAKING OUT all the Japanese voice acting and probably not even bothering to redub (as they did with its predecessor). Weak.

Do I get Dragon Ball Z Budokai Tenkaichi 3 for PS2 or do I finally cave in and buy a Wii? If girlfriends weren't so expensive, this would be a much easier decision... but I know for sure that I WANNA do the latter. Of course that'd mean I'd have some catching up to do: Wario Ware, Zelda, Paper Mario, Mortal Kombat: Armageddon, and Smash Bros., among others.

But maybe I'll just wait it out. The last DBZ BT 2 already had 130 characters (and I bought it here cuz I just couldn't wait any longer) and it was good, but with like 150 guys reported in this sequel it really looks like they're just scraping the bottom of the barrel. Now I swear by these games, but I think maybe I'll just be a little patient and maybe wait this one out, for once; especially because I know this game'll never become that difficult to find and the price may even drop massively even by the time I come back to visit. Such are the laws of DBZ games.

And that's my rant for now. Had a lot pent up since I haven't really bought a game in maybe over half a year! That's scary, but in a matter of weeks I'll be playing Zelda: Phantom Hourglass and FF Tactics' PSP remake! Oh yeah, and I'll be in town from 12/20-30.

Lastly, a couple links:

Weekdays: http://www.smashbros.com/en_us/index.html
*new character announced almost every Friday!

Tuesdays or Wednesdays: http://dbzs.jp/meteor/
*10 new characters announced every week!

Mondays: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Virtual_Console_games_
%28North_America%29

TEAM FORTRESS FOREVER!!!!!!!!!!!!! FREE CLIENT

On Tuesday, I learned about a new Team Fortress Source called Team Fortress Forever. I have been a rabid TF since the conception as a Quake 1 mod. Team Fortress takes us back to the roots and appears to be an updated version of the Half Life mod. The graphics and textures are extremely impressive, with a lot of attention to detail. I told my friends if I would have made this mod with a team, it would not have these beautiful layers and textures.

The great news is the client mod was released today! TF-F was scheduled to go live on Sept. 17th, but Valve being the great business men they are decided they needed to take action to keep the cash flowing with Orange Box pre-orders. Valve decided to make an announcement hours after the release date of TF-F that Team Fortress 2 will be playable to pre-order Steam Customers on Sept. 17th. A direct move to remove the "Steam" from the release date of the free mod.

The development team of TF-F played a trump card and one-up'd Valve at their own game and released the game today. A valiant move imo, and I am excited to support them!

download the mod! 560ish megs

New iPods!

Pretty new iPods are going to available soon! Apple just released them. They look pretty sweet.

The iPod touch is the new iPod based off the iPhone. Largest capacity is 16gb and it can surf the web and download songs directly off the internet from iTunes. Starting at $299, the price is still pretty steep and I don't plan on getting one until the next generation comes out and they expand the capacity and lower the price (like they always do)

If you don't want the new iPod, there are remakes of the old classic. iPod classic now is available in a monster 160gb model! That's an estimated 40,000 songs! Also they ditched the plastic face and went with all metal. Also the interface has changed to add some of the new features that iTunes has such as the album flip and album artwork as you're flipping through the songs.

Want something a little smaller? Well there's the new iPod nano Video. This little guy is half the size of an original iPod and comes in two storage sizes. 4gb and 8gb. And they come in different colors!

Apple keeps on coming out with cool gadgets. You can see them all at www.apple.com

Free PC Games Download List!

i have been downloading some games all night on my corncast internet connection, and it is legal! These games have advertising in the game, allowing the publisher to release them free of charge. I am not sure how fishy the advertising is, but there is not supposed to be any spyware. I am going to check the install and post install for spyware anyways.

Far Cry US Only Ad Supported Full Game
Prince of Persia: Sands of Time US Only Ad Supported Full Game
Rayman Raving Rabbids US Only Ad Supported Full Game
Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon US Only Ad Supported Full Game

"This Free Game is Supported by In-Game Advertising You must be in the USA to use this files." Looks like no commander tom!.

EA Games is celebrating the Command & Conquer Franchise by giving out the game that started the franchise free. It is 2 discs. One for the good guys GDI and one for the bad guys NOD. I played through this on my pentium 120 gateway computer a long time ago and love the game. I can't remember how many times I played against my buddy KrazyIvan thru our 14.4kbs modems. Try it out and feel the nostalgia!

GDI disc
NOD disc

Make sure you read the install notes, b/c this game was built on 16 bit architecture and requires you to make a couple of easy changes to get it going right! There is also a patch to get it to run on XP.