Boomstick!

Seriously. Whatever. Pseudo-cheesecake piece with Felicia and Psyme that I'll never finish.

It should be assumed by now that I'm a committed Darkstalkers fanatic. Anyway, if you're as hopeless as I am, you should go take a look at Udon Entertainment's Darkstalker Tribute. 300 pages of glorious Jon Talbain, Felicia, Morrigan, B.B. Hood, Demitri, and the rest of the cast in artwork collected from hundreds of dedicated artists around the globe. Maybe I'll get my shot at a piece in another five years.

On the western front, Kotaku's interview with Tim Schafer went well. It looks like we may be seeing more cameos in Brutal Legend than the already legendary Lemmy Kilmister, Rob Halford and Ozzy Osbourne.

"In Full Throttle we had, like, three licensed songs from one band. That was pretty easy. This has got a hundred or so. Maybe a million. Possibly a million songs. We ship it on an external hard drive. My own personal iPod ships with it."

I'm not totally sure he's not joking here.

Looks like yesterday was a dangerous one to spend in London. In the craziest (possibly best: hear me, Rockstar!?) PR stunt for a video game since John Romero told everyone he'd make them his bitch with Daikatana, THQ loaded a locked car with 100 copies of Red Faction: Guerrilla and chained a sledgehammer to it. One thing naturally led to another, and by the end of the day many satisfied and suddenly stressless Brits trotted home with free copies of the game and a spring in their step.

"Because Red Faction Guerrilla features the world's most realistic destruction engine, we thought that it would make for an interesting experiment to find out how many people, going about their everyday business, would stop in a busy city street to work out some stress by smashing their way into a car to earn a copy of the brand new game," says PR manager Simon Watts.

If I can learn anything from this experience, it is that there is no better incentive for getting new games than by smashing whatever's keeping you from them with a sledgehammer. GameStop, ye be warned.

So I drew stuff. Yep. It's all either reffed or copied since I'm practicing again, but hey, it's pencil on paper. GOGOGO

Cripes, this blog changes skins faster than FC. I've gone through not one, not two, but three blog skins that have all failed in one way or another and crippled themselves. I need to learn how to write CSS. On that note, does anyone have knowledge of coding that could help me make a blog template? That would be awesome.

Anyway! News for today: disturbing images from the far east!

Who in all of God's green Asia ordered this monstrosity to be drawn? Thanks to the helpful folks over at Kotaku, we can all bask in the terror that is an animated Big/Little Sister combo. Bioshock 2's main antagonist and her little demon spawn that harvest the blood of the dead have never looked cuter.

I blame Japan for many things in my life.

So! On with the show. Next we have Final Fantasy XIII's Shiva Summon, courtesy of Famitsu. This isn't really important or anything; I just thought that biker chicks leaping through the air and showering sleet and ice over everything while joining at the hips was a pretty cool thing.


Yep, bask in it. Final Fantasy ladies that aren't androgynous or rabbits. Square Enix may be onto something here...FFXIV still looks like crap, though. I hope it's better than XI.

I watched Space Ghost: Coast to Coast a lot yesterday. Here, have some.

Looks like the comment post form is finally fixed. Bully for me!

Whoo, started exercising again this morning. I'm definitely going to be feeling that tomorrow. Started drinking this thing called "water" and eating strange, exotic, potentially dangerous foods like "fruits" and "vegetables."

Also CLIF bars. I used to eat them all the time when I went mountain biking with my dad and our friends, and they are both delicious and a fantastic source of dietary fiber/protein. Great for your colon!

In other news, Tomonobu Itagaki recently stated (via Kotaku) that since he has left Tecmo and Team Ninja, he will no longer be making Dead or Alive games. While this may come as no surprise, he then announced that he was tired of making games starring women with large breasts fighting to Aerosmith music.