http://www.arlieth.com The definitive guide to crushing your enemies, seeing them driven before you, and hearing the... uhh... Thu, 14 Feb 2008 03:36:04 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en [youtube]1zF4ZKgk0wU[/youtube] I know I said no updates this week really (I'm still working on the project) but Magnetro sent this over to me and I figured it was worth a look for those of you wanting to know how to break the game with Urien's Charge-Partition techniques. The editing is flat-out ... http://www.arlieth.com/2008/02/07/videos/video-urien-tutorial-by-ramza/ These are scans sent to me by Shogo from a magazine, featuring more of the Old-School cast of Street Fighter 4! Chun-Li, Guile, Zangief and Blanka are each featured here, and they actually look pretty good. Since the original mirror for these is down, I'm hosting these for convenience. Just ... http://www.arlieth.com/2008/02/06/other/new-scans-of-street-fighter-4/ Hi everyone- this week (aside from school starting up), I'll be constructing a new tournament resource page to be up when I also write up a Feature on running your own tournaments. Features are major projects of mine, so this week's updates will be delayed. Thank you for your understanding. http://www.arlieth.com/2008/02/03/site-related/site-updates-new-section-in-the-works/ Sorry about the late update- first time I've missed one so far (excluding Feature articles, which are really quite intensive and require research). Anyways, we've got two treats so far, one from NCSX and the other from Play Asia. First are these cute little funyu-funyu keychains from Super Mario Galaxy- It's ... http://www.arlieth.com/2008/01/30/toys/toy-tuesday-persona-3-mario-galaxy/ [youtube]B78S8UvIljQ[/youtube] Slightly off-schedule: The player "Ken" is actually a friend of mine who I met at Family Fun Arcade a while back. Tall, black and handsome, he's originally from Boston, and now resides in Japan... where he ended up winning a fricking Street Fighter Zero(Alpha) 2 tournament at Mi-Ka-Do.  This tournament ... http://www.arlieth.com/2008/01/28/videos/video-street-fighter-alpha-2-hell-freezes-over/ [youtube]UPS1xXIxLfA[/youtube] This is a tournament video from A-Cho Game Center, one of the top competitive fighting game arenas in Western Japan. It's from a Guilty Gear XX: Accent Core tournament featuring a ridiculously insane performance by "Osaka B", a Faust player who manages to score an OCV... TWICE. This video features ... http://www.arlieth.com/2008/01/27/videos/video-a-cho-game-center-osaka-guilty-gear-xx-accent-core/ [youtube]9vosYot2DsE[/youtube] This is a Japanese Twinkle Star Sprites match between 503(Sprites) and Kattachiyo(Really Till). For those unawares, Twinkle Star Sprites is one of the first versus shooter games ever made. It might even be the first. And if nothing else, it's sickeningly cute. A quick primer on the rules: You get two ... http://www.arlieth.com/2008/01/24/videos/video-twinkle-star-sprites-match/ Today we've got a little treat from NCSX: Chocobo Rubber Duckies. I really, really don't need to say anything more about this, except that if you don't get one of these, you have no soul. As an aside, it appears that NCSX now has two storefronts with completely separate databases. You ... http://www.arlieth.com/2008/01/22/toys/toy-tuesday-rubber-chocoducky/ [youtube]R__CfOyYdYc[/youtube] YouTube legend TheShend has made a reputation for himself of posting the best in 3rd Strike videos on the internet. (He would normally put up our Denjin RanBat vids too but we had an in-house YouTube plan that ended up falling flat on its face. >_<) Today is a feature ... http://www.arlieth.com/2008/01/20/videos/video-super-battle-opera-2007-3rd-strike-semis/ [youtube]CPBgxWyXYKI[/youtube] So there's this indie game out there, a hardcore mashup of Megaman, Metroid, Castlevania and aRgH that's known as I Wanna Be The Guy. The rules: You die in one hit, but you get unlimited lives, save points, and the freedom to explore the entire labyrinth. It breaks more copyright ... http://www.arlieth.com/2008/01/17/videos/video-i-wanna-be-the-guy-indie-hell/