Monty Oum’s Dead Fantasy was a fanboy’s fantasy come true; chicks duking in a well choreographed fashion. It’s been awhile, but here’s part two of Dead Fantasy.

I thought it was well done despite the lack of reality. It was just silly entertainment.

P.S - Tifa rocks so much.

It hasn’t been very long since God of War 2 arrived for the PlayStation 2, but here we are, 12 months later with another epic anger filled adventure with our pale friend, Kratos. Developed by the talented folks at Ready at Dawn, this PlayStation Portable title hopes to capture what we all love in God of War and cram it into a handheld. Was the task too much for them? No, I’m very pleased to say they succeeded. And more.

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Another Sonic game will be gracing (or mocking) us soon. Sonic fans desperately want their blue hedgehog to succeed and Sonic Unleashed looks like it it could pull it off. Maybe? We have screenshots courteousy of Gamersyde and even a leaked Youtube gameplay video complete with shoddy quality.

It looks very promising, but I will reserve any judgement until I get to try it for myself. At least we haven’t seen any of Sonic’s extraneous friends yet.

Update: GameTrailers has a slightly better version of the “trailer“. Video still stutters, though.

It looks great in motion and as evidenced by Famitsu’s latest screenshots: in stills as well. Arcade testing will be underway next month in Japan where fans will finally get to try out this 100% hand drawn 2-D fighter for themselves.

I just can’t wait for a console release.

Thanks to sp0rsk of NeoGAF for posting this. The following videos is from a series which is showcasing all the Famicom (Japanese NES) games ever released. It’s being updated every Sunday (Japan time). There will be 26 episodes with each running for approximately 10 minutes each.

Since I started my gaming with the Super Nintendo, most of this is foreign to me. Some of the early games looked very impressive. Be warned some games have a ear piercing sounds. Ugh. Anyways, if you have time to kill: indulge in video game history!

P.S - For the lazy, I will try to update this post with each instalment.

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It’s a long weekend. A four day long weekend. We (four out of the five QSF5 crew) started the weekend early with our Smash get together. It was good, but we got smashed too quickly to play some serious Smash. We definitely need to do it again with less alcohol though.

I’m actually sitting here relaxing/recovering with podcasts. I didn’t listen to any of them this week; it’s been a busy week.

What to do this weekend? Smash Bros? Given. Going to wrap up the God of War: Chains of Olympus review and probably start Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII. I’m dropping down a few hours of Call of Duty 4 as well. I’m quite terrible these days.

I’m going to keep this short since I want to play some more Smash.

Capcom’s newest female character in Street Fighter IV, Crimsom Viper, is beginning to grow on me. Especially after this video from GameTrailers which reveal some of her special moves. Pretty good.

Update: GameTrailers also has an Abel Expose out.

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There are hardcore and talented game fans that can create some remarkable stuff. The most recent fan created project I ran into is a remake of Metroid II for the original Game Boy. There is a playable tech demo, but if you’re lazy there are plenty screenshots and videos.

I’ve never played Metroid II, but I know this remake isn’t staying very true to its source. Is that a bad thing? No. I’m pleased with the re-imagining – it’s like Metroid: Zero Mission. I tried the tech demo and it was brilliantly smooth, controlled great and captured the Metroid spirit well. There were tiny imperfections here and there, but it’s a tech demo.

I hope the developer can finish this game. I really do. Hopefully the Nintendo lawyers will lay off.

As an testament of the flexibility and evolving nature of the PS3, Sony will be releasing a firmware update and bringing the PS3’s Blu-ray compatibility up to BD-Live (Profile 2.0).

Other changes in the upcoming firmware include:

• “Resume play” will enable PS3 system to start playing a Blu-ray disc and DVD at the point it was stopped, even if the disc had been removed.
• “Audio Output Device” will be a new Remote Play setting, enabling PSP to serve as a remote control for music played through PS3.
• PS3 system’s Internet browser will be enhanced: Video files directly linked from a Web page will be able to be streamed, and the browser’s view speed will be improved.
• DivX and WMV format videos that are larger than 2GB will be playable.
• “Mosquito Noise Reduction” will be added as an AV setting in the control panel of the DVD/BD player for improved movie playback.

I’m very pleased by this upcoming firmware. The improved DivX and Internet browser update are most welcome.

It’s just too bad that Sony can’t patch their way out of the latest BD+ cracking.

Got bandwidth to burn? Want some visually stimulus? Head over to GamerSyde’s Wipeout HD section for some succulent videos rendered/encoded at 720p and 60 FPS.

I noticed minor tearing and framerate inconsistencies, but this is a preview build. The final release is expected to arrive in the summer.