There are probably only three of you that will know what I'm talking about, but...

It looks like the upstanding dude at Nicalis has picked up "Yata," aka Yatagarasu, the cool doujin 3S clone, for a Western release. http://vimeo.com/47897199 

You may remember Nicalis as the company that released a variety of hella-buggy ports of Cave Story on various platforms which included fan mods to the freeware version as "bonus features" without permission, and the company that jerked the La Mulana developers around for months about how the process of getting approved for WiiWare in the US was not proceeding. Update: aug 23 - Dang nabbit. This version of the game is a stinking 3DS port. The trailer was also a sloppily thrown together video of the PC version running in a 3DS frame! It's not even an accurate trailer!



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Kusoru! I was not familiar with what this man had done in the past in this scene, but when a man has the tenacity to travel from Japan all the way to Atlanta, GA to play videogames. I can't help but cheer for the man! It also helped that his name translates to "Sh*t Sol". This is a man who instantly called for my attention!

A friend told me that his usual moniker is Ahegao Joe and despite a strong showing here, he's the weakest of the 5 kusoge gods. It's like Fist of the North Star except instead of using different ways of killing dudes, they have different styles of elegantly trolling people at fighting games. This is a group of players, I can love! However, one of the most unappreciated moments in the recent FINAL ROUND tournament was this set from an oft-heard of, but not played game (in the US) called Gulty Gear. In what is one of the most hilarious sets I have had the pleasure in watching is starring Kusoru's Sol. Living up to his moniker this man performed the most ...

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Some little baby combo videos for Midnight Arena got posted. I'm sure they're completely non-optimal and showoffy and don't at all represent what the game will look like when played, but hey, let's watch some of them anyway!

Protagonist demonstrates gold-burst combos   Yukiko is all about zoning so her combos are really short.   Kanji super throw gimmicks!   Yosuke doing some sort of air attack into a fast-fall into his speed-up super into nonsense
  Chie does cr. A, A hitconfirms

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