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So Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li has performed absimal at the box office so far. Along with it’s poor performance, critics have (not surprisingly) bashed the hell out of it. That isn’t going to stop Capcom though! Not only are they going to be more heavily involved in making movies, in fact they’ve got Onimusha, Clock Tower, and Lost Planet movies in production as well as a few others that are being talked about.

As far as Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li is concerned, they are putting on the public face that the poor performance and panning by critics isn’t necessarily bad news. In fact, they argue that the first Street Fighter film that is about as close to cinematic crap as you can get is still making them a ton of money. As long as the money keeps flowing, they really don’t care what people thing. Good for them! I guess?

So I downloaded the Resident Evil 5 demo the other night on the 360 and I have to say I was very impressed. It takes a lot for me to be impressed in a Resident Evil game, because I’ve never really cared for them. I’m not sure why, but I’ve never really gotten into that type of game play.

This demo was great based simply on the co-op. I didn’t really find a whole lot that hasn’t been done before, but what what is there works. You each start with a pistol and a different second weapon. Both players then take on the odd non-zombie, zombies. At certain points one player can assist another like hoisting the other up to a ladder or helping the other player jump further. You can also share items, which comes in extremely handy if you are playing with someone who isn’t super greedy. I ended up passing my grenades to my buddy since I was having a tougher time getting into and out of the item management screen, whereas he’s been playing Resident Evil forever.

All in all, I’d say that based upon this demo the game is going to be worth a purchase. Even if you don’t like the Resident Evil series that much, if you’re a fan of co-op gaming you’ll want to check this one out.

And don’t worry PS3 fans, you won’t be left out of the Resident Evil demo goodness forever. It will hit Sony’s system next week.

Thank God for the interenet. Where would we be without it? We wouldn’t get to see any awesome fan movies based on video games, that’s for sure. This little video is a teaser for a movie based on Final Fight, which so far is not real, unless Chris R. Notarile of Blinky Productions gets his way.

I’ve got to say that a movie based on a mustachioed, wrestler Mayor sounds like gold. Throw in two buddies and have them slowly walk from left to write punching, kicking, and body slamming hundreds of opponents with the occasional break of fighting a mini-boss until they eventually take down the main villain, then you have a Oscar contender on your hands. I know what you’re say, doesn’t this sound like The Curious Case of Benjamin Button? Okay, you’re right but Final Fight came out in arcades way before the film version of Benjamin Button was released. The novelization was written prior to Final Fight, yes, but in the novel they walked from left to right. Clearly that’s an entirely different story right there.

By the way, Notarile has also filmed fan film type stuff for Powergirl and if he were to make any film based upon an established property, I’d kill to see a live action Powergirl film over any film based on a video game. I’m sure this will never happen as the amount of nudity that I’d demand in a Powergirl film would never allow it to be shown in theaters.

Thanks to: Binge Gamer

I like Street Fighter and I have been looking forward to someday playing it when it hits consoles, but now I’m a lot more invested in owning the game when it does come out for one reason only, the addition of Cammy to the ranks of the World Warriors.

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One thing that evil gaming blog Kotaku does exceedingly well is have updates showing off game related babes. I’ve seen two different posts that covered two main areas of the female anatomy quite well. The first is a post talking about the top fifty cosplay cleavage shots. (The Kotaku post was inspired by the top fifty cleavage shots found on Kezins.com, but that was crushed by what I’m assuming was a gigantic crush of horny traffic)

Here’s one pic from one of the chicks from the post.

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Mega Man 9 recently came out and I thought I’d give the demo a spin. How could I not? The game was made to look, sound, and play just like a classic NES game! I downloaded the demo on my PS3 to spite my crappy Xbox 360. Speaking of which, I need to complain for a moment that downloading and playing demos on the PS3 is needlessly difficult. Why do I have to download it and then install it again?

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The newest character in the Resident Evil franchise was revealed this week along with a returning character. Both characters will be seen in Resident Evil 5: Super Racist Propaganda Zombie Fun Time.

The returning character is Albert Wesker. I don’t know much about him except that he’s evil and once ate a kitten. Seriously folks, he’s really bad news. The new character entering the Resident Evil mythos is Titties McBoobenstien. Titties is a… I don’t know… I can’t read Japanese. I’m sure that she’s a fully developed character though, and not some sort of caricature of a woman that the Japanese are known for in their fiction.

Look for Resident Evil 5 in stores on March 13, 2009, unless you are a shut in.

Thanks to the evil Kotaku for the info.