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Topics today: Lady Gaga & the BlazBlue Continuum Shift leak!
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I know a lot of you guys out there are still playing on pads so I wanted to let you know about a special deal Mad Catz is having for this weekend only!
Round 1, Round 2 and the Femme Fatale TE Fight Sticks are all 20% off when you use coupon code: KEYCHAIN20 AND you get a kickass TE keychain. I have one myself, it’s awesome! The keychain I mean, you already know I think the Fight Sticks are awesome. Here’s a picture of the keychain that you may have seen being given away this past weekend on I Play Winner’s UCD 3v3 stream.
I personally have been using Mad Catz sticks when I play in tournaments since they were released and they’ve never let me down. We also use them at in our LA Riots tournament series and almost every single top player I know plays on one.
Special Street Fighter 4 Secrets Promo
I thought it would be cool to sweeten the deal a little bit in case you were on the fence about it. Since you’re making an investment into your game by getting a Fight Stick, if you forward me your confirmation email or screenshot and I’ll send you a copy of Street Fighter 4 Secrets Volume II featuring Arturo Sanchez for FREE. This bonus will expire 2/1/10 so hurry!
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UGTL is having another one of their kickass events on Saturday and WOW, it’s written about on the LA Times web site! Not quite sure when the last time competitive Street Fighter was written about on the LA Times (which means I don’t think it ever has), so high fives to them and Alex Valle for being quoted on the article as well as our friends at Get Your Tournament.
From the article:
The event, equal parts party and competition, starts at 2 p.m. with a three-hour open bar (there’s a $10 cover), a taco truck, DJs, artists and retailers, and it goes on until about 10 p.m., when a victor is crowned (and paid). There is also a separate $10 registration fee, from which the last UGTL winner was awarded $350. More people are expected to enter Saturday, and the pot will grow.
There’s a lot going on,” Marquez said. “There’s music, there’s art to look at — I did it to make sure I appealed to everyone and to everyone’s five senses.” There will even be a casual gaming lounge hosted by gaming site Get Your Tournament, where old-school games can be played on original Nintendo or Sega systems.
Please Digg the article if you’re a Digg user, thanks!
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Shoryuken announced the line-up for Evo 2010 yesterday and surprise surprise, all the games you expected are on the list. I Play Winner has a post with the list. But that’s not why I’m posting this because you probably already heard about the games.
They are adding an all-female tournament to the roster and so the controversy begins. You may remember that over the summer, Arcade Infinity hosted the first Ladies of SF tournament and that was all fun and good but ultimately, nothing really came of it after it was over.
Gaming industry expert Jared Rea has a really interesting blog post about the whole thing that pretty much sums up the way I see it. From the article:
While I can sort of understand the idea of nobility behind wanting to open the door to female Street Fighter players by giving them an accessible taste of what competitive play is all about, at the same time you’re essentially regulating them to a sideshow in the worse sense of the word. You’re saying that because they were born with a vagina, they’re clearly inferior and not competent enough to compete with the boys and this type of thinking — whether its intended or not — is bullshit and a slap to the face to all the women currently playing the game to even suggest this.
Head over to his site to read the full article:
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Also, Shoryuken and Evo co-founder inkblot has posted a thread on SRK about it.
UPDATE: After thinking about it, I have a suggestion and haven’t seen it mentioned anywhere else. It’s so obivous now in retrospect, I don’t know why I didn’t think about it sooner. But in my opinion, if you really want girls to enter, you have to treat them like any other target market you’re trying to cater to: you give them a discount to try your product. Maybe the solution is to have some sort of “ladies get in for half price” type of promotion like you would see at a nightclub. That way, they’re getting the same product and experience and they aren’t being put in the spotlight or objectified and they are competing with the same level of players as everyone else which solves the equality problem.
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New podcast! Quick background: Justin Wong has been doing Q&A on his web site for the past several months. Judging by the length of some of his past entries, it seemed like it took a lot of time, so I thought it would be easier if I just read him the questions and he answered them. Here are some of the topics that made it:
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