Goyuken - Reason Alone to Get SF IV

Some of us old timers may remember Sheng Long, whom EGM cruelly teased as being a secret playable character in SF II as an April Fool's joke in 1992. Disillusionment with the magazine, and the world as a whole, served to crush the fragile souls of many children when they learned the truth. But Capcom has offered us salvation! I'm already psyched as all hell for Street Fighter 4, but the fact that you can finally play as Ryu and Ken's master, Gouken, is amping this my anticipation for SF 4 from "Hard on" to "Ultra Stiffy" on the boner index. Watch!

Street Fighter 4 'Gouken' trailer HD

The JibJab Fanbase

We just released our ElfYourself content this past week (http://www.elfyourself.com/) and it's had quite an effect on one fan. Wait, does he count as a fan of JIbJab if he thinks we're actually a cadre of wizards who project movies onto the back of his eyeballs? Just watch.

Jibjab should be a Facebook app

Street Fighter Four release date announced

Capcom has finally announced a release date for the long awaited fourth (or is that four hundredth?) Street Fighter game. It will reach US shores on February the 17th (hitting the UK a little after Feb 20th). If you have not seen or heard about the next installment of the series you'll be surprised to hear that the usually hand drawn esthetic is being replaced with 3D modeling. The action is still pretty linear though. Don't know about the rest of you, but I'll be tearing shit up with Ken Masters come February.

Eat, drink and play multiplayer with the touch of a button!

... or maybe not. Uwink is Atari co-founder Nolan Bushnell's new interactive restaurant that all you Hollywood socialites can visit at the Highland center. The premise is pretty straight forward: with uwink you are able to order your food and drinks with the touch of a button on the flat panel monitors that adorn every table (This takes away all that awkward waitress talk). As an added bonus, each person can play multiplayer games with the other patrons on those screens. The games look fairly simple, almost like those trashy trivia/gambling games you see in your local dive, but the prospect of playing with other players is tantalizing. Unfortunately (according to correspondents of the MTV multiplayer blog) it doesn't exactly work. The service buttons don't exactly get you served and the games suck. Below is a link to the restaurants home page and a link to the blog all about it. I know a blog linking to another blog, it's lame. But what do you want for free?

http://multiplayerblog.mtv.com/2008/11/13/atari-founders-restaurant-debacle/#more-13544

http://www.uwink.com/restaurants

AWESOME

Actual Iron Man Suits

Those nutty Japanese have done it again. Apparently robotic help with picking up items is already available for Japanese consumers, but the tech is getting better. Below is a link to an article about a Japanese company, Cyberdyne(!!!), which has created robotic suit-ish things to help the elderly with all of those pesky stairs. The suit is called HAL (Hybrid Assisted Limb [hard to shake those 2001 vibes]) and it is an exoskeleton that supports its own weight and some of yours. Good news everyone. You can rent two legs for a cheap $2,200 a month (if you live in Japan)! So quit bitchin' about how 2008 eight isn't the future of flying cars and robots, and remember when you're watching most sci-fi movies from the 70s-80s that suggested our ultra future by 2005 (or 1997 in the case of escape from NY) that it's just around the corner. Pick one up today. I mean if this can help old people up stairs, imagine what it will be ale to do with young, vibrant people...

http://scitech.blogs.cnn.com/2008/10/24/real-life-tony-starks/

Crayon Physics

Crazy busy and don't have much time left on my lunch, so i'll just say that this game is incredibly ground breaking. To put it simply - it lets you draw gameplay elements (platforms and such) in order to get a ball from one side of the screen to the other. Only this video can do this amazing game justice:


Crayon Physics Deluxe from Petri Purho on Vimeo.