Black Belt's Quest for Honor: Video Games

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Thursday, 24 May 2012

Street Fighter 25th Anniversary

The days have finally come that Street Fighter 25th Anniversary is here! and Capcom have revealed a treat for Street Fighter fans!

Long-time fans have been hoping for something as incredible as this bundle with their anniversaries, that being large, expensive commemorative editions of games.

For $150, you'll be able to pick up this giant box set that includes (deep breath):

Games

-Street Fighter X Tekken (including all character and Swap Costume DLC)

-Super Street Fighter IV Arcade Edition (with all costume DLC)

-Super Street Fighter II Turbo HD Remix

-Street Fighter III: Third Strike Online Edition

Video

-New documentary Blu-ray that highlights the lifelong love affair fans have had with Street Fighter, and how their dedication has affected the game.

-Street Fighter IV, Super SFIV anime movies

-All episodes of the Street Fighter animated series (DELICIOUS!)

-Street Fighter II: The Animated Movie

Light-up Ryu statue

-Brand new statue with light up base. Eight inches tall and frozen in mid Shoryuken.

11 disc soundtrack

-Game music from the past 25 years, including remixes and fan-created music.

64 page hardcover art book

-Containing pieces from fans all over the world.

Ryu's belt

-Full size martial arts black belt for the aspiring World Warrior. Includes Ryu's "Furinkazan" in kanji.

Certificate of Authenticity

-Like any good collector's set, this comes with a lovely piece of paper telling you how limited and special it is. They're all individually numbered, so get one before they disappear!

This baby will be out in September.

Say what you will about some of Capcom's other business decisions of late, for fans this is an extremely sweet deal.

For those unwilling may still check on other links related to 25th Anniversary of Street Fighter! Ranging from Fan films, choreograph moves & even Martial Memes

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Tuesday, 10 April 2012

Street Fighter X Tekken VS Tekken X Street Fighter! - Martial Video Game

Street Fighter x Tekken came out recently and it was more than awesome! It received widespread acclaim for its good reviews of flawless fighting mechanic and seamlessly blending both fighting games strength and inspiration into one complete package in the Capcom world at least. My dreams even came through when they revealed the one and only .........

Ugly Boxart Megaman!

Now time have passed, nothing new have been revealed in regards of DLC content, all eyes and ears are on the Namco front. When Capcom's Yoshihiro Ono, was interviewed about their rival counterpart he has no idea when Tekken x Street Fighter will come out.

"Honestly, I haven't seen a single thing about it! Namco's Katsuhiro Harada is notoriously slow at making games, so it might be 2018 before that comes out!"

Clearly it was a joke when he made the remark.......

Or was it....????

Only the kremlins working in Namco would know what is going on with the production of Tekken x Street Fighter's development progress, but one thing is for sure we won't be getting the game sometime this year. So lets enjoy ourself with the news (lack of) screenshots and some fanmade stuff.

Lets hope we get to see the light of day for this game.

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Tuesday, 28 February 2012

Epic Martial Memes - What i do #2

The first 3 columns is exactly what I thought when I first saw a video clip of MMA fighting for the first time. It made me question the authenticity of a sport where man hugs one another all the time.

As time goes by I grew wiser and beginning to understand what MMA is all about and how is that compare to traditional full contact sports. It also makes me a fan of some funny legendary fighter

From the brutality of MMA fighting, tend to makes an enthusiast like myself wonder, how much punishing can one take and what sorts of training they do to take such hard blows. Sometimes watching these made me realize that although brutal - it paints the real life situation on street fights.

Puts you into perspective that this ISN'T a video game

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Wednesday, 8 February 2012

Russian Martial Arts

Don't you just love the Quote?

I've been writing blogs about Martial Arts for about 4 months now, as my readers begins to grow more and more I realized there is an interesting patterns of people coming over to read about Martial Arts. Blogspot allows me to track where the readers are from. Aside from the usual English speaking countries like US, UK, Australia and some parts of Europe & Asia, I noticed there is a large numbers of readers from Russia.

Now I'm not saying Russians don't speak English nor don't do Martial Arts, but it is a pleasant surprise to me, it actually fascinates me because I know absolutely nothing about the Martial Arts scene in Russia. Partly to blame that I've been ignorant to think Russian only do Wrestling.

So I went to dig a bit about how Russians associates themselves to Martial Arts.

Couretesy of Wikipedia, (my rough summary)

There was a traditional Russian Fist Fighting that was outlawed by the Russian Empire in 1832. It was supposedly a tradition of soldiers fighting hand to hand against each other. After the break-up of the Soviet Union the Russians began to honor the military traditions by celebrating a festival call "Maslenitsa."(translate to Pancake Festival......what?)

Ordinary people are gathered during the Pancake Festival and participate one of the many activities....

And punch the living daylight out of each other whilst smiling.

However during the Soviet Era, the government wanted to create hand-to-hand combat systems which probably evolved into the modern day, Systema & Sambo. (I will explore more into those later) This is just assumptions, but fighting system/martial arts like Sambo & Systema is what makes Spetznas the best at what they do in a hand to hand situations.

Movies & Video Games loves to include these Russian Military Martial Artist as a great new wave to the Martial Arts world.

I will post more Russian related Martial Arts in the near future. There is so much to learn and its fascinating how Military Training fused with Martial arts that creates one of the most deadliest warriors known to man.

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