Final Fantasy XIII: Now With Rediculous Looking Black Man

"Oh You Mad Cuz I'm Stylin' On Ya?"

According to weekly Famitsu and thanks to Majed Athab (ps3fanboy), we have finally done it SquareEnix! I thought ridiculous looking black men created by japanese art designers reached their apex with Barrett Wallace. Tetsuya Nomura is known in the JRPG world for creating ridiculous looking white, asian and I guess even a Samoan character with funny looking hairdos. Meet Sazh Kalzroy...according to Majed:

So far, we know a few things about Sazh. He likes the color green, wields two pistol-like weapons and has a soft spot for Chocobos.

Hey...i know its video game, let alone an RPG, but shouldn't we have a games industry version of a Sidney Poitier? Someone to let designers know: "Hey...this isn't racist or anything it's just really ridiculous looking.  Why not give him a normal hairstyle and a big ass chain so us blacks can support a character we relate to more."

Yeah...I'm pretty sure Sidney Poitier would say it just like that...

word for word.

Beyond Good & Evil [PS2]

Dripping with epic-icity

 This review has been almost half a year in the making. I started playing BG&E in August before school started here on campus. I completed the game for the first time a couple days ago and I'm still taken aback by how super-awesomely-cool this game is. Not-so-secretly, I'm super jazzed about the sequel next year even though I don't personally own any of the next gen systems [and I refuse to buy Wii!].

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Cresente & Hsu On G4 giving the straight dope

Seconding the LBP let down. I just thought it was going to be more than it was.  But thanks to DLC...hopefully the damn thing will grow some legs and become interesting [cough*PS Home*cough].

Video: Voldo Dance

Thanks to the wonderful guys @ soulsingapore and Shawn Elliot's twitter...because without that...life really isn't worth living.

Play Left 4 Dead w/ Tourettes Guy Soundpack

Reason No. 48 Left For Dead is one of the best games of the year.

Uwe Boll News: "Visiting Uwe"

"Visiting Uwe" is free and streaming as I type this on WS-Avant Garde.  I haven't watched it yet, but I plan to before the weekend is out.  It is a 50 minute documentary [not a mockumentary] of the man who has brought us such gems as:  Far Cry, Blood Rayne I & II, Postal and...ah...well if you're still reading this you are familiar with this mans work and obsession of producing some of the worst movies [let alone movies based off of video games] in this day and age. If I don't get to it in time, I expect you guys to tell me what you think.

Uncharted 2: Among Theives teaser

I don't know much about a SPIKE Video Game awards, but apparently the new Uncharted game will be getting premiered there.  Will it be just a trailer [probably]? Will there be in-game gameplay [probably not].  Uncharted was one of only a handful of nextgen titles that I was a huge fan of.  It was an original IP.  Had a likeable character and a pretty 'okay' story.

Palin/Obama playable characters in Mercs 2

Well...I'm not exactly sure if this will bet us kids in the States to vote or not, but if anything else...this is weird and cool enough for people to download and give these to classy dressed characters a couple plays. Right?

Finally Odin Sphere Is In The Fold!

I have no idea of what is going on here...

Ridiculous amounts of joy are pinching the outer edges of my cheeks [face].  Finally, rounding out my already epic PS2 collection in a more nerdy way [see...its more nerdy when you just purchase a PS2 a year ago].  I'm looking to do the same with the PS3 when I:

A) Sony realizes they have COMPLETELY gaffed a perfect console [PS3] by confusing customers by placing four...that's right, 4 PS3 SKU's in their faces and a good majority of which overpriced and/or lacking key features that make the PS3...well...the PS3.  Anywhoo...either Sony quits and I can go down to my local shop [or ebay] and cop a PS3 for a fraction of the price they are currently asking for.

B) I win a PS3 in some sort of awesome Redball sweepstakes. In which, case I can stop borrowing my friends and subsequently start RockBand Monday's in order to make up for all the time wasted/spent/leaching when using theirs

C) I hit the lottery and get a solid gold house for my mom. Buy the LHC for my little sister because she likes the pictures i e-mail of it. And THEN...get the proper flat screen in order for games & Blu-Ray's to look awesome then...and only then...that is when I'll purchase a PS3.

Season's Beatings III Photo Gallery Up!

Yup...it was legendary

Thanks guys...it was a blast being there and learning a whole lot from playing and watching.  VDO's Rogue is ridiculous and Justin's Strider is insane! Got a new found interest in playing Guilty Gear [it really is difficult figuring out which version to invest a serious amount of time in if you're a noob].  Didn't get a chance to see the ends of Smash/CvS2/MvsC2 and all the rest! It really was a lot to cover, but it was fun doing it.  Hopefully next year I'll enter...

Edit: Due to the tons of e-mail I've been getting about these photos...after the jump is a photobucket link to all the rest of the shots of SBIII [they are low-res and some...if not most of them...suck]

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