Archive for July, 2009
Posted by Kent Ward on July 25th, 2009 under Features, Games
Tags: Day 1 Thoughts, fighting games, kof, SNK, SNK Boss Syndrome, the king of fighters XII, xbox360, Year of the Fighting Game •
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SNK Playmore’s biggest franchise, The King of Fighters, just had it’s twelfth entry into the main series break street date at GameStops around the country and I made sure that I was able to get myself a copy! I’ve put many hours into playing the game this afternoon before work, and then once again tonight [...]
Posted by Kent Ward on July 16th, 2009 under Conventions, Games
Tags: AFO, live action games, orlando, Swords of Orlandia •
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Anime Festival Orlando, the best anime convention in Florida, will be celebrating it’s tenth year in just two weeks! The convention takes place from July 30th to August 2nd in the Wyndham Orlando Resort on International Drive in Orlando, Florida. There will be lots of fun events, guests, karaoke, panels, and cosplay in addition to [...]
Posted by Kent Ward on July 14th, 2009 under Games, Geekin Out
Tags: fighting games, kof, SNK, Terry Bogard, the king of fighters XII •
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The King of Fighters XII has been announced by Ignition Entertainment for release in U.S. stores on July 28th! I can’t wait! I’m getting it for Xbox 360 and unfortunately it will lack the clan mode that the PS3 version will contain. I hate exclusives like that because that would have been cool to try [...]
Posted by Kent Ward on July 10th, 2009 under Conventions, Games
Tags: AFO, live action games, postmortem, Swords of Orlandia •
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For more than a few years now, I have been heavily involved with anime conventions in Central Florida. It started out with just attending as a fan, and then I started doing panels where I talked about whatever anime or videogame I liked at the time. The past couple years, my responsibilities with conventions have [...]
Posted by Kent Ward on July 9th, 2009 under Games
Tags: fighting games, full sail, Super Smash Bros: Brawl, Tournament, wii •
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2 Liter Bottle, creators of the upcoming Full Sail University Game Project game The Depths, will be holding a Super Smash Bros: Brawl tournament on Sunday, July 19th. I shall be assisting them in the tournament operations. The game will be played on the Nintendo Wii and players may bring their own controller.
There will be [...]
Posted by Kent Ward on July 7th, 2009 under Work
Tags: full sail, summer break •
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Well I got about half of my tasks of last week done. The existence of 4th of July weekend didn’t help matters but being an American comes first. There was also some company outing that I took one of my personal days for and went to with my friend Jared. Even though I didn’t get [...]