Vacation Post

Sorry for the long wait for updates. I didn't have time to post that I was on vacation. But I'm back now, and with E3 starting, expect things to return to full swing!

Here's a couple updates I had waiting in the wings, but didn't have time to complete and "publish" as well as some new stuff.

-New Tatsunoko vs Capcom trailer! Beautiful flashy supers abound!

-Nester's nostalgic return to Nintendo Power. Older Nintendo fans will understand.

-New Final Fantasy: Dissidia trailer reveals new characters and Japanese voices.

-A translated interview with Game Musician Sensation, Hyadain.

-Here's something neat. One Piece is listed as the #1 TV Show download, even beating out Lost.

-Another video involving the weird Smash Bros turned Pokemon hack.

-Top it all of with an AMAZING MAD featuring the FFVI cast parodying the FMA Opening and Ending. The YT link also carries a HQ download.

The Return of DeviantArt Saturday: Shino Aburame

So this week, I actually had a grand double artwork update planned , but then my little brother asked me if I could do Shino Aburame from Naruto. Since that's what his friends are into and they're doing the whole "Name your friends after you favorite characters" thing that all the big Anime cliques do. So no problem! Even though I'm not a big Naruto fan myself, let's see what I can find!

Colored Shino by Daruma123

Shino by darkfong

Insect Wrangler AHINO by atanbz

Naruto__Shino Cosplay by Jellie

I would say this is an awesome cosplay, except the artists mentions the bugs are photoshopped. Still I think it would've worked quite well if you got tiny specks and glued them on your costume or something.

Final Thoughts: Commenting on the artwork as a whole, these artworks were the only ones that stood out to me. Everything else is pretty standard fare. A lot of it is simply sketches and traces from the Anime. Searches also came out pretty clean, so nothing to worry about there either.

Delays

Sorry for the delay, it's been a bit of a hectic week. There hasn't been a whole lot of news either.

-Batsu (from Rival Schools, YES!) and Tekkaman confirmed for Tatsunoko vs Capcom

-Well here's an allegedly "Insider" leaked pic of Megaman 9. The link also has new rumored details. My thoughts? Probably just a 'shop. I'm sure MM9 DOES exist and will be at E3, but it's all too common for people to take advantage of rumored titles to make their own fake leaks.

And now some Nico Video findings:

-Cool One Piece fanmade iPod commercial.

-My first Danjo video based on FFVI, subbed by me. Expect more from me in the future.

-A PotC MAD using One Piece's We Are. Also, my own version using the English We Are.

The fox is on fire!

Most important news in a while, Firefox 3.0 is out! If you're wondering what's so new and great about it, Lifehacker's got ya covered.

-New Rabbids Soccer promo video and artwork here.

-New scan and and screens from One Piece Unlimited Cruise. Features a new, original character designed by Oda himself.

-New official news regarding the latest PS3 firmware, featuring trophies and an in-game XMB.

-Oh and added at the last moment: New Impressive Sonic Unleashed trailer.

Music Monday

-Found some new musical videos over the weekend including a couple violin pieces from TAM: Final Fantasy Battle Medley, Nico Video Medley (on Violin while blindfolded), and finally, one of the songs from the Fatal Fury Pachislot: JOY JOY JOY!

-New Megaman 9 rumors here.

Behind the Kingdom

-New Bowser's Kingdom after a long time of spinoffs.

-Apparently, Megaman 9 is in development according to a rating of the OLFC (Australia's Rating Board, like America's ESRB), no official announcement yet (maybe for E3?). In any case my only gripes with this are A)It's not Legends 3 and B)Where are the Powered Up Remakes for 2-8 (or at least 2-6).

Retro Find

-Forgot to mention yesterday. Tidus and Jecht officially revealed for Dissidia as the FFX Hero/Villain reps.

-Kind of a "retro find". ScrewAttack's Captain N commentary. Really enjoyable, especially considering this was before the two big founders of ScrewAttack had their big fallout and hasn't been as good since.

-Be sure to check out Amazon's Movie+TV section, as they're having some good sales right now in lieu of Father's Day and.. Gay Pride month. Seriously a ton of movies have that as the reason it's on sale. Don't let it bother you, it's still a good time to buy DVDs.

-Some of my recent Nico Video findings include a MAD parodying FMA's First Ending done One Piece Style, an interesting twist on the caramelldansen with Mario, Okkusenman done by Japanese Internet Violinist TAM, and Transformers Caramelldansen. Oh and not found by me, but there's a really awesome, fan made Haruhi-style Lucky Star Opening. It uses CG and looks just as official as the Hare Hare Yukai used in the PS2 Haruhi Game.

I'm back!

Yep, I've finally, just about gotten over my cold, so I'm back to updatin'

-New Screens and video footage of the new Strong Bad game for Wiiware. Sharp and witty humor abounds!

-Interesting new Wario platformer coming out for Wii. What's so interesting about it? Well it's 2D, NOT Wiiware, and it'll have Anime cutscenes (maybe just the intro and or ending?) done by Production IG. That last bit is extremely interesting as this is probably the first ever 1st Party Nintendo to FEATURE original Anime material in the game itself

-New Angry Video Game Nerd does Star Trek. I actually have fond memories playing the 25th Anniversary game for the NES.

Dead Monday

Sorry for the lack of DAS, I've been sick and busy. Besides no one ever voted in my poll. So no art for you!

-Capcom has set up a poll regarding what classic game you'd like to see on PSN/XBox Live. So far Marvel vs Capcom 2 is winning by a landslide.

-Really awesome Naked Gun parody using the GTIV engine.

-A couple of Nico Video finds including a Pikachu Leekspin and a Phoenix Wright Caramelldansen.

-Check out a hilarious Fanboys Comic with Winnie the Pooh spoofing Team Fortress 2. You don't even have to be a fan or even have to play the game to get it (such is the case with me)

Not so secret...

-The Main Protagonist from Lucasart's upcoming Force Unleashed Star Wars game, will be in Soul Calibur 4.

-Hyadain has a new song out, based off the Dragon Quest IV Casino theme. As always catchy song, we just need subtitled lyrics. Remember, that's him doing ALL the voices, even the girl's (he uses a fancy piece of voice changing software).

-Tenchu IV trailer here for those interested.

-Really extensive interview with SNK here. The big highlights are a Spring 09 Release for KoF XII and the possibilities of a Last Blade 3! The real bad news is they seem to reaffirm that they're "done" with Capcom in the way of crossovers. Maybe like Tatsunoko vs Capcom they can come up with their own, fresh crossover.

OMG HAX!

Nothing much today besides a few cool videos:

-Someone took Zelda's 3D model from Twilight Princess and transplanted it into Half Life 2. It actually looks pretty cool.

-Someone else took their Roomba Cleaning robot, and added LED lights and sounds to resemble Pac-Man. I would totally pay for that.

-Solicitations for Funimation's September schedule are up. Definitely getting One Piece S1V2. Oh and another related OP note. Movie 9 is hitting Japanese DVD July 21st, found this little TV special interviewing a few of the voice actors and showing clips from the movie. The people who have seen this movie have said it very well could be THE best One Piece movie by far. The ultimate "Hook your friends" material. I'm really REALLY hoping Funimation does it next.

Mirror, Mirror

-For the Trekkies out there, there's a new fan collective coming out, this time dealing with Alternate Universes. TVshowsonDVD.com has the scoop.

-New Zero Punctuation covering Oblivion. Clever, witty analogies as usual.

-Download Squad reports of Youtube's new Annotations feature. I actually played around with it in one of my recent uploads (you can see it here) It's pretty neat , useful if you just want to make an extra note in your videos (since 99% of Youtubers don't read the description). I hope they can develop it into something resembling Nico Video where viewers can add their own annotations, because even if I don't understand Japanese it's kinda cool to see what people find funny in say one part over the other, and there wouldn't be a need to reference. Really gives you the feeling you're watching it with several other people.

-Tenchu 4 has been announced via Famitsu as a Wii Exclusive.

-Interesting read here regarding one passionate Sonic fan's recently failed attempt at making an Animated movie. It was apparently going to cater to more of the "classic" Sonic crowd with the unanimously favored SatAM/Comic Book universe, but being stopped dead in its tracks by an overprotective Sega of Japan with a weak "we're using someone else with something else in mind" excuse. Allegedly anyway.

Hey Hey Street Fighter!

New Street Fighter IV trailer here. Also, news that the home versions will get Anime cutscenes. They won't say which studio is doing it, but it looks like Madhouse to me (makes sense considering they worked with Capcom for the Devil May Cry Anime).

-Check out the story page for SNK's new Samurai Spirits/Shodown game on their Hong Kong site. It's in hilariously bad translated Engrish, but at least you can get a good idea of what's going on. Also according to ShadowSonic at S-C, there's apparently a fictional country in the game called "Lesphia" hence the unintentionally hilarious "Lesphian". I wonder if this will be changed for the US version when they realize what that sounds like.

-Capcom just had a gamer day called "Captivate08" Nothing major. Spyborgs looks promising, with its humor. Apparently it's supposed to be a parody of good ol' Saturday Morning cartoons, with the commercials being mini games.

-Latest Nico Video findings include Smashèmon, Final Fantasy Lucky Star, A Haruhi+Last Blade parody, and a really slick Ghost in the Shell Second Gig Opening MAD featuring Haruhi. Even if you don't care about Haruhi (I don't care much for it believe it or not), it's still worthwhile for the music. Rise by Yoko Kanno is pure bliss!

-Oh and wrapping it up with more Haruhi. Here's a sublime Haruhi AMV featuring some catchy Eurobeat. AMV.org download link here. I thought I said I didn't care for Haruhi...whatever.

Starting the Week With a Flash!

Found a bunch of great fan flash including: A hilarious classic Pokemon opening parody: Falcon Punch. Another installment of the Great moments of Yotsuba. And finally, a sequel to Kirbopher's Brawl Taunts, an SSB parody. Honestly, I think it's way better than the first, which was just very WTF-inducing. He also mentions he's working on a sequel to Nin10doh.

-DoA Mastermind Itagaki is leaving Tecmo AND suing them. More info (and statement) here. Personally, I never cared much for the guy, he always seemed so full of himself like Tommy Tallarico, but I still wish him the best.

-A Dragon Quest IV song by Hyadain here. It's been on his Nico Video account for a good long while, but he hasn't posted it on Youtube yet. Strange, because it's quite good.