Soul Calibur IV

Oh, so that's why we got a new trailer today. Namco Bandai have announced that Soul Calibur IV will be released in North America on July 29, in both vanilla and metal-box-collectors edition varieties. Those throwing down the $80 for the premium edition will get the standard, afore-mentioned metal box, a comic book, a "tournament kit" (no idea what that actually is) and access to "extra customization content".


Out of the complete Soul Calibur 4 cast, 33 characters have been revealed like Ivy and Tira, but we thought it was time to list the Soul Calibur 4 characters below that have been confirmed for the upcoming July 29th, 2008, Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 fighting game.

Darth Vader and Yoda, characters from the Star Wars universe, are confirmed to be playable guest characters but exclusive to different platforms. Vader will be on the PS3 and Yoda will be on the Xbox 360, however it was stated in issue 179 of GameInformer magazine that “Namco was nice enough to concede that the second characters may be available for download on the respective consoles at a later date.”

When you click on each Soul Calibur 4 character’s name below, a window will pop up with a picture of him / her.

Returning characters:
1. Amy
2. Astaroth
3. Cassandra Alexandra
4. Cervantes de Leon
5. Ivy (Isabella Valentine)
6. Kilik
7. Lizardman (Aeon Calcos)
8. Maxi
9. Mitsurugi (Heishiro)
10. Nightmare
11. Raphael Sorel
12. Rock (Nathaniel Adams)
13. Seong Mi-na
14. Setsuka
15. Siegfried Schtauffen
16. Sophitia Alexandra
17. Taki
18. Talim
19. Tira
20. Voldo
21. Xianghua Chai
22. Yoshimitsu
23. Yun-seong
24. Zasalamel

New characters:
25. Angol Fear (bonus character designed by guest artist Mine Yoshizaki)
26. Ashlotte (bonus character designed by guest artist Oh! great)
27. Darth Vader (Star Wars guest character on the PlayStation 3 version)
28. Darth Vader’s Secret Apprentice (from Star Wars: The Force Unleashed)
29. Hilde(gard) von Krone
30. New Mystery Character (aliases might be Mars, Hades or Soul Edge reborn)
31. Scheherazade (bonus character designed by guest artist Yutaka Izubuchi)
32. Shura (bonus character designed by guest artist Hiroya Oku)
33. Yoda (Star Wars guest character on the Xbox 360 version)

On top of all these characters, Namco Bandai’s game director Katsutoshi Sasaki has said that Create-a-Character will return from Soul Calibur 3, and will allow customized and created characters to be playable in multiplayer mode (in Special VS online as well).

Missing characters (from previous games):
Abyss
Abelia
Arthur
Assassin
Aurelia
Berserker
Charade
Chester
Demuth
Edge Master
Girardot
Greed
Han-myeong
Hualin
Hwang
Inferno / SoulEdge
Li Long
Lizardman (Generic)
Luna
Lynette
Miser
Necrid
Night Terror
Olcadan
Revenant
Strife
Valeria

PS: I’ll keep this list updated as new characters are announced

Click this link below, the new site is pretty hot, and the Intro is pretty solid.Soul Cal
http://www.soulcalibur.com/

Feel Free Blog

If you really feel you got beef, shit talk, whatever concerning your city, state, or maybe even a particular person, feel free to post here, I don't give damn anymore, but we REALLy need to keep this shit off SRK man seriously, this shit is getting old and tired

Madden NFL 2009 Team Rankings

Well, I'm still here and a lot has happened since the last time I checked in. I won the Madden Community Tournament on 09 and that makes the first ever sweep as I won yesterday's NCAA 09 tournament. Madden Wars is back up so all the rest of my impressions will be over there along with a new video of a full game once I get it encoded. It's been a long day so stay tuned for stuff tomorrow night. Also check out the other sites for their impressions. Good night.

So, I know this is an early build but we have to look at some stats just to see where things are. I'm confident that this will adjust before release but it's never too early to talk about team ratings. So here we go:

Team	Overall
Bears	80
Bengals	80
Bills	82
Broncos	84
Browns	88
Bucs	91
Cardinals	78
Chargers	95
Chiefs	71
Colts	95
Cowboys	96
Dolphins	67
Eagles	91
Falcons	67
49ers	72
Giants	94
Jaguars	93
Jets	76
Lions	78
Packers	91
Panthers	86
Patriots	97
Oakland	71
Rams	77
Ravens	81
Redskins	88
Saints	87
Seahawks	87
Steelers	94
Texans	78
Titans	89

Madden NFL 2009

I have been writing this article for the last week or so but every time I get ready to publish it I receive more details about online play, online features, online leagues, and where EASW fits into all of this. As most of you know a couple of weeks ago I was able to attend EA’s Football Community Day where a handful of guys were able to play the new football titles (Madden, NCAA and Head Coach) for this fall. Although we did not get access to the game online we were able to talk to Ryan Ferwerda (EA’s Madden Online Guy) about online and what’s in store for us when Madden is released.

Not there ……at least not yet.

I’ve always been one of those guys who likes to get the bad news out of the way so I can end the conversation with good stuff. Before I start, please know that I’m an online guy and that I play online a lot so other than the gameplay; online features, online functions, and online stability, are right at the top of my list. So let’s get right to the disappointing stuff or lack of about online play. One of the most asked about online features that people asked me about when I told them I was going to play the game early was the ability to save depth charts online. Unfortunately this will not be available online this year. I talked to Ryan Ferwerda and Phil Frazier and they assured me that it would be in the game for 2010 (actually said they would take me to dinner if it wasn’t). I’m still disappointed about that feature not being in the game because depending on what team I play with, it takes a minute or two for me to make my adjustments and substitutions. The good thing about the game this year; that may help alleviate that, is that now you can make substitutions on the fly. Maybe that won’t be that bad, but still a bear that it’s not in this year.

Here are some other things that are not available online:

Ø Snapshots (Available in NCAA 09)

Ø Alternate Uniforms (Available in NCAA 09)

Ø No Fair Play

Ø No Selectable Weather

Ø No Selectable Stadiums

Ø No defensive assignments online (not offline either)

Ø No text chatting

Ø No weapon icons

No web component for Online Madden Leagues including NCAA Dynasty Leagues …… ouch!

I wasn’t going to include this piece of bad new but I felt it was necessary and if anything else to show how disappointed I am with this. This news just came out a couple of days ago but is a big blow to the online community. I still don’t understand why EA continues to put online features on the back burner. Once again the EA Haters are all over the place with “NFL 2K5 had online leagues with a web presence, this is what you get when you have a monopoly of the NFL License”. I can’t even argue with that because I truly feel that if 2K was in the mix that EA would have been had leagues, but it just seems that EA is more concerned with putting resources into “EA Rewind” and other things that cater to casual gamers. If you are reading this EA, “Stop trying to cater to people who haven't picked up your game in 20 years and give back to the guys who have been loyal throughout the years.”

I know that online only makes up about 10% of all Madden buyers but I’m just frustrated. This is a big blow to Madden leagues to say the least … sigh …. I mean what good is it to have leagues if you have to log in to your console every time you want to check the standings, schedule, or leading rushing stats. This is probably even worse for Online Dynasty which was supposed to track Heisman candidates and although you can probably sign on to your console and check, many won’t and many leagues will fold for lack of interest.

Ok, now on to the good stuff.

Online Leagues – YESSSSS!

Finally! Yesssss! About time!!! Those were the 3 things I said (not in that order) when I heard that EA was going to have online leagues this year. Now other than spectator mode this is probably one of the oldest wishlist items on every site. One of the problems with EA’s online leagues back in 2005 (I know you forgot about those) is that the commissioner didn’t have any kind of power. Well EA is giving the commish a lot of power.

Here are some online league features:

Ø Commish can set up a 2-32 team league

Ø Ability to have a flex schedule

Ø Commish can turn unique teams off or on. Meaning that you can have a league with all Dolphins if you choose or all AFC teams

Ø Commish can boot people

Ø Commish can award a trophy to Champion

Ø Commish can set the skill level of the league – all league members would have to play at that skill level

Ø Injuries do not carry over

Ø 1 for 1 trades

Ø Full player stats

Online League Q&A with Ryan Ferwerda (EA)

Q. Are the trophies customizable or just one generic trophy?

A. The trophies are actually the same ones from the front end. The commish sets the trophy from one of the 15 available. You can also have your own logo for the leaguee that is selected from a large set of logos.

Q. Does your online profile show how many trophies you won?

A. As of now, no, but we are still trying to get it in. Like I said, can’t commit to it now though.

Q. How much power does the commish have? Sim games? Reject trades?

A. Commish can Sim playoff games only, but they can kick someone who isn’t playing their regular season games. They can’t reject trades.

Q. As far stats, what exactly does that include? Defensive stats?

A. We basically use the full franchise stat db, so any stat you see in franchise, you’ll see in Online Leagues.

Q. Does the commish have to be a team in the league?

A. Yes.

Marvel live-action movies

Below is a list of films based on Marvel Comics characters and properties. Note that this does not include television movies that are related to a television series; for those, see List of television series based on Marvel Comics.

The Incredible Hulk

2008

Marvel Studios

Punisher: War Zone

December 5, 2008

Lionsgate / Marvel Studios

Post-Production

X-Men Origins: Wolverine

May 1, 2009

20th Century Fox / Marvel Studios

In Production

Thor

June 4 2010

Marvel Studios

In development

Spider-Man 4

May 20 2011

Columbia Pictures / Marvel Studios

In development

The First Avenger: Captain America

May 6, 2011

Marvel Studios

In development

The Avengers

July 2, 2011

Marvel Studios

In development

NOTE: The Marvel subsidiary Marvel Studios has two films planned for every year, starting in 2008 with Iron Man and The Incredible Hulk. They will all be distributed by Paramount Pictures with the exception of The Incredible Hulk, which, according to a prior arrangement due to Hulk, was distributed by Universal Studios.

Option films mentioned with no set release date.

• Ant-Man - In development
• Black Panther - In development
• Daredevil 2 - Announced
• Deathlok - Announced
• Doctor Strange - In development
• Ghost Rider 2 - Announced
• The Hands of Shang-Chi - Announced
• Luke Cage - In development
• Magneto - In development
• Nick Fury - In development
• Runaways - Announced
• Namor: The Sub-Mariner - Announced
• Silver Surfer - Announced
• Venom - In development

All animated films that have been released since 2005 or have been announced are produced by Lions Gate Entertainment and are released direct-to-video.

Film	Year
Dracula: Sovereign of the Damned	1980 (Japanese TV movie)
Ultimate Avengers	2005
Ultimate Avengers 2	2006
The Invincible Iron Man	2007
Doctor Strange: The Sorcerer Supreme	2007
Forthcoming
Next Avengers: Heroes of Tomorrow	September 2, 2008
Hulk Vs.	January 2009
Thor: Son of Asgard	September 2010
Planet Hulk	February 2010

Tekken DR #2

FRXI: wingzero (NIN) vs Spero Gin (EDD) MM 2of2



FRXI: wingzero (NIN) vs Spero Gin (EDD) MM 1of2



FRXI: Sim (EDDY) vs Spero Gin (TIGER) MM Part 1of2



FRXI: Sim (EDDY) vs Spero Gin (TIGER) MM Part 2of2



FRXI: ME_RED_ATL (KIN) vs Spero Gin (EDDY) MM Part 1of2



FRXI: ME_RED_ATL (KIN) vs Spero Gin (EDDY) MM Part 2of2



FRXI ME-RED_ATL(king)VsJustin Wong(Feng)

Tekken DR Final Round XI

IceColdEdge (KIN) vs CyusStrike (LIN)



FRXI: SIM (EDD) vs The Realyst (JUL)



FRXI: Jackie Tran (J-5 / GAN) vs SirSmoov (BRU)



FRXI: Trung (STV) vs wing_zero (NIN)



FRXI: wing_zero (NIN) vs Grimy Grizzly (BEAR!!!)

Match Videos (Final Round XI):

Launchpad aka Duantee vs Murdoc



Justin wong vs ATLCPU



50Morecentz vs AMIR aka SnakeShotPeople

MARVAL MIX TAPES:

Everyone likes to jam to there own favorite hits, and Im pretty sure you all know how to make your own marval mixes, but just in case your to damn lazy too do so, you can feel free too post here what you would like on your own Marval Mix and have someone from the GA scene gracious enough to creat a mix for you.
Week by week there will be a mix posted in this blog, included will be information about this mix.

EXAMPLE:

Marval Mix Vol.1 Pastor Troy's FACE OFF (GANGSTA RAP)
- The Pirate Ship Stage /Frame Me/
- Desert /My N****z's Is the Grind/
- Inside the factory /This The City/
- Carnival Stage /Move too Mars/
- Bridge stage /Throw Yo Flags up/
- Blue Underground Cave /No Mo' Play in GA/
- Clock Tower /I'm Made/
- Ice Boat Stage /Rhonda/
- Abyss 1 /The Prayer/
- Abyss 2 /Oh Father/
- Abyss 3 /Vica/Versa/
- Training /Eternal yard Dash/
- Here comes a new challenger /Come take me/
-/Oh Father/
Intro music to the Characters (Music that shows all the characters when you start the game)

So if you didn't understand, the Marval Mixes will always have a title, the Genre of music, the album name (If the songs are from an album), Song titles and what stages they are placed upon, all this posted for each and every mix created from this site.

EVO Championship Series 2008

I have posted below Flight information for this years EVOLUTION Tourny. There will be multiple dates posted below so PLEASE READ... THEN respond. I will attempt to make this as SIMPLE as possible.


(Site used:www.priceline.com)
Flight to Las Vegas, NV (LAS)

All flights below are NONSTOP Departing: Tue, Aug 5 - Returning: Mon, Aug 11 | 1 Adult

$353
Round-Trip Per Person
US Airways Flight 1763

Departing ···Wednesday, Aug 06, 2008 at 9:50pm
Arriving ···Wednesday, Aug 06, 2008 at 11:02pm
Trip Duration ···4h 12m

US Airways Flight 1764
Departing ···Sunday, Aug 10, 2008 at 11:59pm
Arriving ···Monday, Aug 11, 2008 at 7:03am
Trip Duration ···4h 4m (Overnight Flight)
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$364
Round-Trip Per Person
United Airlines
Flight 2473 & Flight 1705

1 Stop Connects in Philadelphia, PA (PHL)

Departing ···Wednesday, Aug 06, 2008 at 6:30am
Arriving ···Wednesday, Aug 06, 2008 at 1:32pm
Trip Duration ···10h 2m

US Airways Flight 1764
Departing ···Sunday, Aug 10, 2008 at 11:59pm
Arriving ···Monday, Aug 11, 2008 at 7:03am
Trip Duration ···4h 4m (Overnight Flight)
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$364
Round-Trip Per Person
Frontier Airlines
Flight 797 & Flight 789

1 Stop Connects in Denver, CO (DEN)

Departing ···Wednesday, Aug 06, 2008 at 7:29pm
Arriving ···Wednesday, Aug 06, 2008 at 10:29pm
Trip Duration ···6h 0m

US Airways Flight 1764
Departing ···Sunday, Aug 10, 2008 at 11:59pm
Arriving ···Monday, Aug 11, 2008 at 7:03am
Trip Duration ···4h 4m (Overnight Flight)
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$367
Round-Trip Per Person
Flight 3218 & Flight 787
1 Stop Connects in Charlotte, NC (CLT)

Departing ···Wednesday, Aug 06, 2008 at 5:45am
Arriving ···Wednesday, Aug 06, 2008 at 9:55am
Trip Duration ···7h 10m

US Airways Flight 1764
Departing ···Sunday, Aug 10, 2008 at 11:59pm
Arriving ···Monday, Aug 11, 2008 at 7:03am
Trip Duration ···4h 4m (Overnight Flight)
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$369
Round-Trip Per Person
US Airways
Flight 195 & Flight 137
1 Stop Connects in Phoenix, AZ (PHX)

Departing ···Wednesday, Aug 06, 2008 at 8:15am
Arriving ···Wednesday, Aug 06, 2008 at 11:15am
Trip Duration ···6h 0m

US Airways Flight 1764
Departing ···Sunday, Aug 10, 2008 at 11:59pm
Arriving ···Monday, Aug 11, 2008 at 7:03am
Trip Duration ···4h 4m (Overnight Flight)