Street Fighter V R. Mika Reveal Trailer

Here comes a New challenger! R. Mika from Street Fighter Alpha 3 takes the third slot for alpha characters....that last slot better be Karin Kanzuki!!!
I'm not gonna lie and say this casting is awesome, for some people it might be, but I don't see myself taking Mika to the lab for any significant amount of time. I played her a little in SFA3 for the laughs.
Anyway here's Mika....

Kudo's to Capcom Unity member NeoPyroXx for the updated Roster image.

Next character reveal should be aproximately 9/10 at Games 15 in Dubai.
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Star Wars Episode VII The Force Awakens Drew Struzan Poster Analysis

There was an abundance of news yesterday from the D23 expo! From Star Wars Land being built in Disney World and Land, to the cast announcement for Rogue One, to Colin Trevarrow directing Episode IX.
That stuff is very cool and exciting but this poster from Dew Struzan is what really caught my eye!
At first I was quite surprised seeing Fin (John Boyega) holding what might be Anakin's Lightsaber, but lets look beyond that.
How did that monologue go in the first trailer ???
There has been an awakening...
Have you felt it?
The Dark side and the Light...
Now lets look at Struzan's poster, there's the three main characters on the top.... Kylo Ren on the right who represents the Dark side with the cold darkness of space as his backdrop and our boy Fin on the left clearly repping the Light side with the warm light of the Jakku sun behind him and smack dab in the center is Rey....
So is Rey not the hero of the ST? Up until this poster I was under the impression Kylo was the primary antagonist of Episode VII and Kira Rey was the primary protagonist....now I don't know. Does Kira represent both the light and dark sides in perfect balance?
And then we have everyone's favorite scoundrel rocking his trusty blaster under Fin.....alone...no sign of Chewie, No Leia, No sign of Luke or Leia....very odd. No sign of the Falcon.
I gotta say this poster seems lacking.
So based on this poster and recent revelation that Han Solo had a wife....here's my crazy ass hypothesis!

Fin is the biological son of Sana and Hann Solo, Hann assumed for whatever reason is family was killed by either the Hutts (debts to the mob...) or the Empire (war).
He meets up with Ben, Luke and Leia and a new life presents itself...
Han and Leia adopt 2 war orphans Kira and Kylo after RotJ and here's how we land at the above poster...
I doubt this will come to fruition but hey how much do we know about Lando...we know Hann knows him, we know Lando is a scoundrel, but we know little to nothing about Lando's family from the films....maybe Lando had a sister...

Humans Season 1 Thoughts and Impressions

So the first season of Humans has just concluded and I for one really enjoyed the story so far!
Looking back some my favorite scenes involved Niska, when she leaves the brothel, her time with Dr. George Milican, her time with Sophie. Through Niska we've been able to witness the most interesting interactions between Humans and Synths, well there were other notable interactions isn't that right Joe?
I also found the scene where Max prays to God especially fascinating! In a society where technology is prevalent religion seems to be less of a priority and seeing a synthetic kneel and pray a very uniquely human thing to do.

Then there's Detective Sergeant Peter Drummond and his peculiar relationship with his "partner" Detective Inspector Karen Voss...awkward! Especially considering how his marriage ended!

Karen is an odd one...much like Leo, existing between the Human and Synth worlds. She see's the most probable conflict that will arise from rise of conscience synthetic's, but do the actions of the Hawkins family represent another possible outcome? Do the Hawkins have the only copy of the code? What's on the hard drive Niska has?

This was a well written and developed show, my wife enjoyed it as well which is a testament to the show's quality!

Street Fighter V New (old) character reveal trailer

Vega's back, Shadaloo's Narcissistic Spanish Ninja Returns and he looks just as fabulous as ever! I don't think Balrog will be in SFV initially but Sagat might. So we have 2 Shadaloo bosses and a lot hints at the Illuminati presence.

Street Fighter V New Character Reveal Necalli

Last night during the USFIV Evo finals the newest character for Street Fighter V was revealed!
Enter Necalli (Aztec for Battle) :






First off I love Necalli's design! The tatoo's, his boots, the tattered garb totally add to his character. His brutal game play reminds me of SFIV's Evil Ryu, and when his V trigger is active his hair reminds me of Gill!
We still don't know if Street Fighter V will take place before or after Street Fighter III chronologically but I have a theory that it is before. So a few weeks back there was some discussion floating around on certain FGC sites regarding a brand new character, Eisbahn, that utilized ice elemental attacks, Last night Necalli is revealed and clearly has an affinity to fire.
My current theory is that if we do get a character with an affinity to ice these two characters are the precursors to Gill. Their DNA may be used to create Gill by the Illuminati!

Check out the amazing images of the Newest Fighter to the Street Fighter franchise below!

UPDATE: An eagle eyed member of Capcom Unity, Ultimate Boss,  spotted something fascinating in Necalli's trailer at the 00:35 mark...

On the right side of the stage there's an entrance to a room inside the mountain! See the cracked rectangular block under the statue???

And as previously mentioned where have we seen those statues before???

Gill's SFIII Second Impact stage!

EVO 2015 Capcom Street Fighter V Panel

Check out the Street Fighter V panel at EVO 2015.
The direction Capcom is going with SFV is interesting to say the least!

• 1 physical copy of Street Fighter V will ever be made
• Additional characters will be added post launch on a regular basis
• additional in game content (characters, outfits etc) avail via in game money (Zenny) or real life currency.
• possibility of betting earned Zenny in matches
• Street Fighter V is being planned as a generational title (10+ yrs)
• Online integration of the Capcom Cup 
• Strong Focus on character balance and functionality
• Re iteration of learning how to play the game by playing the opponent with skill versus manipulating in game mechanics
• Strong Focus on making the game fun and accessible for new players and deep enough for vets of the FGC. 

Movie Review: Minions

Someone I work with gave me two movie passes for Furious 7 or any Universal movie....(reading is fundamental you miserable bitch at soundview theaters!)
So I took my son to see Minions, We had a great time!
There were actually some adults without kids and they were laughing as hard if not more so than the kids.
My son had a great time and I did as well.
If laughter is the best medicine, minions can cure the common cold!
If you haven't seen DM1 & 2 not to worry, and If you haven't seen DM1&2 before you'll probably want to now...They're very funny also!
All hail King Bob!

 

Street Fighter V: Ken Masters reveal trailer

 
LMAO and people believed Ken wasn't in the game!!! There aren't many certainties in life...Death, taxes are two and Ken and Ryu being in a Numbered Street Fighter game is another!
After watching the trailer Ken finally has cut the cord....he is 100% free from being a Shoto clone. My friend CJ and I had countless matches back in the early nineties with Ryu and Ken and he always taunted me saying Ryu had no mojo he was the most charismatic world warrior...33 years later Capcom has finally made Ken so much more appealing visually to play!

And who is the freak with the yellow eyes! Are those dreads?

Street Fighter V new stages revealed

Today Capcom posted further details regarding the Street Fighter V beta which begins July 25th and concludes July 30th.
Aside from the plans to release Cammy and Birdie 2 days in they also revealed a new stage, Forgotten Waterfall!

The stage is located in New Zealand ( the shire) and is the same location where Nash takes a swan dive at the end of SFA3.....

So I'm assuming this will be Nash's stage, I wonder who he'll be sharing it with?

So are there any clues in these pics? Perhaps, if memory serves me correctly didn't Gill fancy himself a type of Shepard leading a chosen few ( his flock) to a "promised land"?

UPDATE!

And here is the SFV Brazil Stage!

The three "clues" I can spot here are the mountain top in the center has a golden trophy with a ball...maybe a soccer ball or maybe a basketball coughseancough, then all those watermelons....could be a clue for Sean or Blanka , the third possible clue is Ryu is looking up, at what or who? He could be looking up at Oro sleeping in his burlap sack..... 

Humans S1 E 02

Last nights episode was full of suspense as Anita clearly lied to Laura about taking Sophie out during the night....but how does Anita not realize she's lying? Also is Anita purposely messing with Laura? There's definitely more to Anita than meets the eye!
Then we have Leo and Max on the run, trying to reunite with the other Synths we saw him with in last weeks episode, desperate times call for desperate measures and Leo decides to go to a shady "after market" dealer and things go south as Leo gets beat with in an inch of his life and MAx has to drag his critical condition human bro around as they evade their pursuers. And then there's that scene in the public bathroom....did max just make a DIY defibrillator???
The highlight for me was the scene with Niska and the sicko client, the scene totally reminded me of the scene in Blade Runner with Zhora. But Deckard wasn't there to put her down.
I get the impression the group of synths are gonna reunite and the show is gonna mimic TWD as the group travels around looking for sanctuary while avoiding walkers humans.
If you've failed to set your DVR's to stun record, fear not you can catch the first two episodes HERE.
And enjoy a preview of next Sunday's episode!