DEAD OR ALIVE DIMENSIONS 2011 TRAILER

The latest entry in the Dead or Alive fighting game series is coming for the brand new Nintendo 3DS! I'm not really a fan of the series and prefer other similar fighters such as Tekken and Soul Calibur, but I've played a few of the entries and find them decent at the least.

What I really found impressive from this trailer is how powerful the graphics engine of the 3DS seems to be. That's some seriously impressive animation coming from a handheld platform! Despite the fact that there is 3D involved somewhere here, the trailer doesn't really give you a clear indication of what the experience will be like. Anyway, check out the trailer below and judge for yourself!

NEW MARVEL VS CAPCOM 3 VIDEOS AND PICS FOR JANUARY 2011

Aside from the recent reveals of Phoenix and Mike Haggar as brand new inclusions in the game, there have been a bunch of new videos and pictures out for Marvel vs. Capcom 3:

ALTERNATE COLOR GALLERY

Destructoid has a gallery of alternative colors for almost all of the characters. Here's a sample:

YUN AND YANG ENDING FROM SUPER STREET FIGHTER IV AE WITH TRANSLATION

Here are Yun and Yang's fully animated endings from Super Street Fighter IV Arcade Edition. The video's in Japanese, but there's also a translation courtesy of Event Hubs:

PHOENIX AND MIKE HAGGAR REVEALED FOR MARVEL VS CAPCOM 3!

The latest characters to be added in Marvel vs. Capcom 3 are Mike Haggar from Final Fight and Phoenix / Jean Grey from X-Men. Below are their official reveal trailers, plus some hi-res art:

UFC 125 RESULTS

Pretty good card with lots of great finishes and an excellent main event (though it ended rather oddly):

MAIN CARD

1. Frankie Edgar vs. Gray Maynard for the Lightweight Championship - 
Draw (48-46, 46-48, 47-47)

UFC 125 MAIN EVENT REVIEW

I picked Maynard for this one. It's not that I was underestimating the champ, Frankie Edgar. It's just that, seeing Edgar's style and how he beat BJ Penn (especially in that extremely impressive second outing), I figured Maynard was the man to take him out. Edgar's style is to use his amazingly quick footwork and go in and out a hundred percent of the time and outpoint his opponent, and attempt to finish as quickly as possible if an opening arises, which is very similar to how UFC Bantamweight champion Dominick Cruz does battle.

WHAT TO LOOK FORWARD TO IN 2011 MARTIAL ARTS MEDIA

There's quite a bit to look forward to in terms of martial arts media in 2011, and here's a quick look at what the year has in store:

MIXED MARTIAL ARTS

MMA KOMBAT!

Okay, now this is just perfect! I love Mixed Martial Arts and I love Mortal Kombat, so mixing them together in a single video this well done is just amazing to me! Expertly put together and genuinely funny, this is a treat for any fan of MMA and Mortal Kombat. Thanks very much to lookoutawhale for this presentation! Check it out:

CHUCK LIDDELL RETIRES FOR REAL

It's official. After countless urgings by UFC President Dana White for him to hang up his gloves, Chuck Liddell finally made the decision he thought he'd never have to. A pure competitor by heart, if it weren't for his currently suspect chin, "The Iceman" would have never retired.

TRICKING THE STUNTS OF TRON LEGACY

I recently saw Tron Legacy in Imax 3D and enjoyed it very much. Critics, however, are very divided with it. It, for example, currently holds a 49% rating over at Rotten Tomatoes, yet top critic Roger Ebert gave it 3 out of 4 stars. Some even speculate that, in order to even like the film, you had to have loved the original. I personally do not believe this to be true. While I did see the original film as a child and liked it, I feel that I did not love it enough to make any significant emotions carry over into my enjoyment of the sequel. I simply enjoyed Tron Legacy for its own merits, no more no less. Here's the official trailer:

NEOGEO STATION AWAKENS FIGHTING GAME NOSTALGIA

The NEOGEO Station, featuring many classic SNK arcade games from the 90's, became available to the PSN this month. Being the martial arts media freak that I am, I immediately grabbed up all the fighting games it offered at launch. This includes Fatal Fury, Art of Fighting, Samurai Shodown, and King of Fighters '94. Check out the official trailer below:

TEKKEN TAG TOURNAMENT 2 TRAILER

The latest title in the popular game franchise, Tekken, Tekken Tag Tournament 2 is officially coming out for arcades in 2011! Here's the official trailer:

SUPER STREET FIGHTER 4 ARCADE EDITION VIDEOS!

The Arcade Edition of Super Street Fighter 4 came out a few days ago and there have a been a flood of gameplay videos coming out. Check out some of them below!

MARVEL VS. CAPCOM 3 DECEMBER 2010 TRAILER

There's a new Marvel vs. Capcom 3 trailer! While it's mostly clips from past trailers, there is some neat new gameplay footage near the end that shows off some cool, new alternate costumes for some of the characters. Check it out!

KRATOS CONFIRMED IN MORTAL KOMBAT!

I'm not a big God of War fan. I've never played any of the games outside of the PSN demo of God of War 3. That said, I think it's a great game series and the addition of its main character to the new Mortal Kombat game is absolutely cool. Check it out!

UFC 125 PICKS

MAIN CARD

1. Frankie Edgar vs. Gray Maynard - Gray Maynard
2. Chris Leben vs. Brian Stann - Leben
3. Brandon Vera vs. Thiago Silva - Vera
4. Nate Diaz vs. Dong Hyun Kim - Diaz
5. Clay Guida vs. Takanori Gomi - Guida

GOODBYE, WEC

The WEC has officially left the building, but not without a fond farewell. Its final minutes of life, The Last Extreme Cage Fight, was truly a spectacle to behold, unleashing upon the world not just one of the best fights of the year, but also one of the flashiest strikes in all MMA history:

THE LAST EXTREME CAGE FIGHT

On the evening of December 16, 2010 at the Jobing.com Arena at Glendale Arizona, the Last Extreme Cage Fight occurred. In it, two lightweight fighters entered the cage in order to compete for the chance to be included in the history books, as the last ever WEC lightweight champion. Both fighters knew what was on the line, and they went for it, all out.

UFC 124: JABBING HIS WAY TO VICTORY

Aaaand STILL Welterweight champion of the world! That's right, folks, GSP comes out smiling again, at UFC 124, as I predicted. The fight went the distance and he wins it via unanimous decision.

GSP controlled the entire fight by utilizing his strikes extremely well, primarily his jab. GSP showed true mastery of the technique by controlling the distance the entire time, and landing almost a hundred percent of the time. By the third round, Koscheck's right eye had swollen so badly that, at one point, the fight doctor even seriously considered stopping the match because Kos couldn't see anymore. Herb Dean, thankfully, let the fight go on. Kos is no Daredevil, though, so there was really no way he could have won that fight blind, unless a miracle would occur.

UFC 124 PREDICTIONS

MAIN CARD

1. Georges St-Pierre vs. Josh Koscheck - St-Pierre
2. Stefan Struve vs. Sean mcCorkle - Struve
3. Jim Miller vs. Charles Oliveira - Oliveira
4. Joe Stevenson vs. Mac Danzig - Stevenson
5. Thiago Alves vs. John Howard - Alves

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