A NEW new age of heroes!

It's coming. IT'S COMING!

http://www.tu4ar.com/

Capcom linked site counting down to... something. It's got a big 2 behind the countdown. The site name is "tu4ar", which as my esteemed colleague Rag` points out, stands for "Take you for a ride". As in the crazy character select music from MARVEL VS CAPCOM 2! w00t! Looks like it will be ending at midnight on 29th of April too, so not long to go!

Right now I'll take a straight XBLA port with online play. I'd also LOVE it to be HD remixed, but given that it took Udon forever to jazz up 12 characters with fairly limited frames of animation, and MvC2 has over 50 more intricately animated fighters, I think that's probably unlikely.

While I'm dreaming, I'd REALLY like to see an announcement for a 3rd game in the series, using the SF4 engine. With Dante, Viewtiful Joe, and Samonosuke filling out the Capcom side, and Daredevil, The Thing, Human Torch, Silver Surfer etc added to the Marvel line-up. PLEASE Capcom?

Still, whatever it is, I'm jazzed. Time to dust off the old team-ups on DC in preparation methinks.

GONNA TAKE YOU FOR A RIDE! *TRUMPETS*
GONNA TAKE YOU FOR A RIDE! *TRUMPETS*
GONNA TAKE YOU FOR A RIDE! *TRUMPETS*
GONNA TAKE YOU FOR A RIDE! *TRUMPETS*
*repeat to fade*

Shit New Wii Fitness Peripheral Shocker

Do you live in a sterile environment? No carpets, no wall hangings, no lighting, no coffee table?

Does your family all stride around barefoot, despite the freezing floor?

Is your wife an automoton? (she's wearing socks to cover her android toes)

Have you spawned Joe Fucking Pasquale?

Do you all want to make playing games more difficult, less fun, and feel the need to waste 25 quid on something you'll use once and never again?

Congratulations, jOG (jesus christ...) is for you. The latest pointless add-on for the Wii, jOG (man, that's sooo annoying) allows you to control your on screen movements by jogging! Yup, Wii Fit mania has finally turned the nation's shitty peripherals purveyors completely mad.

Who the fuck wants to play Madworld by running on the spot? No-one does. Not even that little shit in the jOG (AAAAAAARGH) promotional imagery. Or his slightly demented looking sister.

Wii games are already a hassle to play with their floaty imprecise controls, so why on earth would you want to remove the one part that generally worked - ie, the directional stick controlled movement - and replace it with something else imprecise and aggravating?

Surely not many of us sane gamers would. Unfortunately however, as proven by Wii Fit's incredibly tenacious grip on the top of the UK's gaming charts, there's plenty of casual gaming lunatics who like anything remotely capable of attaching to their Wii so they have an excuse to dust the bloody thing off once every three months, so I fully expect jOG (KILL KILL KILL DIE DIE DIE) to do horribly well. And then sit wretchedly unused and unloved alongside the Balance Board and the console itself until Christmas, when the advent of Wii Babyz Party Fun Dance Petz Sports-a-thon: FIT! gets the console out again so everyone can laugh at Aunt Maude falling over the couch after two sherries.

*sad face*

Girls Generation Allowed

For my sins, I can't get enough of cheesy girly j-pop. Morning Musume and Mini Moni started it, but seeing as Momusu are a shadow of their former glory and Mini Moni are no more, I've got to look elsewhere for my "more oriental girls than you could shake a stick at dancing in unison and singing in cute voices" action. And Perfume can't do it all on their own, even with songs as good as Polyrhythm, Ceramic Girl, and Electro World. Enter Girls Generation...

Or SNSD as they're sometimes called, they're a Korean bunch, so I suppose K-pop is a more accurate description. They all appear to have been cloned in some kind of leggy, slim, perfect hair girl making machine, which is something I need to get myself. They also seem to share a hive mind, such is the unity of movement on display. I fear for the world if they ever get military upgrades.

Regardless of anything though, they're a fuckton better than Girls Aloud. There's no Geordie Pop Princess Racists for a start. Not one of them looks like a lesbian Vulcan. And there's not a single pasty white and ginger Paul o'Grady look-alike. Thank god.

Anyway, I'm currently on about my millionth listen, and I think I may have affected my cognitive processes. My brain may well be leaking.

GEE GEE GEE GEE!