Archive for June, 2009
Posted by Kent Ward on June 29th, 2009 under Work
Tags: full sail, lab assignments, summer break •
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So this week is Summer Break at Full Sail, and I am in the office at Matty-Matt’s desk. Matty-Matt is the course director for one of the classes here at Full Sail but he’s on vacation this week so I am borrowing his cubicle to try to get as much work done as possible. The [...]
Posted by Kent Ward on June 24th, 2009 under Features, Games
Tags: fandom killers, kof, Mai Shiranui, nerd rage, the king of fighters XII •
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I am so freaking sick of reading “No Mai, No Buy” when I read about The King of Fighters XII on Kotaku. Seriously? Really? Granted, she has a massive popularity amongst otaku and, who along with her Street Fighter counterpart Chun-Li, where the first legitimate sex symbols of videogames – beating Lara Croft to the [...]
Posted by Kent Ward on June 22nd, 2009 under Life
Tags: endorphin rush, hot sauce, manly, not serious post, Tampa, tijuana flats •
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I went to Tampa with Biceps Dave on Sunday to see some awesome friends and hang out at the beach. It took a while to get there but it was worth the adventure. Along the way, we went to Tijuana Flats to eat not-Mexican food. Jess challenged me to drinking hot sauce shots, and being [...]
Posted by Kent Ward on June 18th, 2009 under Features, Games
Tags: fighting games, Games that will Kick Your Ass, kof, SNK, the king of fighters XII •
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I’ve been wanting to talk about this game on the site for a very long time! Anyone who’s in my circle of friends knows that I have love The King of Fighters franchise and that I have been pretty pumped about The King of Fighters XII for the past couple years. It’s coming out in [...]
Posted by Kent Ward on June 16th, 2009 under Geekin Out
Tags: nerdcore, punch out, the adventures of duane and brandO, videogame rap •
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God damn I love The Adventures of Duane and BrandO! This has to be their best song yet, beating out their rendition Mega Man 2. There’s also an 8-bit remix of their Punch-Out! song. There are some hilarious lyrics in all of their songs and they pretty much rap about almost every videogame I loved [...]
Posted by Kent Ward on June 5th, 2009 under Games
Tags: A Boy and His Blob, E3, Platform Games, wii •
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The revival of A Boy and His Blob is looking amazing! I can’t believe this game is not being covered as much as it is. Spend less time on Kratos and more on this, gaming press! The new A Boy and His Blob takes some really great ideas from the original and adds a some [...]
Posted by Kent Ward on June 4th, 2009 under Games
Tags: 2.5D, action games, Capcom, Mega Man •
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I don’t see it happen often; nonetheless, I do get a little excited when 2D gameplay gets mixed in a 3D world. I’m not really talking about when 3D models are only moving exclusively on two axes, like in Street Fighter IV, but rather when 2D flat sprites on a billboard or plane are moving [...]