<![CDATA[Kotaku: screwattack]]> http://tags.kotaku.com/assets/base/img/thumbs140x140/kotaku.com.png <![CDATA[Kotaku: screwattack]]> http://kotaku.com/tag/screwattack http://kotaku.com/tag/screwattack <![CDATA[Capcom Directing Arcades at Women and Families]]> Location, location, location. Capcom President Haruhiro Tsujimoto said that this financial year the company was going to close three Japanese arcades and open eight more in areas that would attract more women and families, instead of the traditional male demographic. Tsujimoto added:


It's all about the location.

While over half of Capcom's business is consoled based, increased arcade earnings could send profitibility to a seven year high. If Capcom is really seriously about attracting a more casual gaming audience, they should put all their coin operated games on DSes, Wiis and Pokémon cards. They sure have helped Nintendo!
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<![CDATA[The Iron Man of Gaming Competiton Crowns a Winner]]> This weekend marked the first ever Iron-Man Gaming Competition presented by Video Gamers League and creators Handsome Tom and Stuttering Craig of ScrewAttack.comin Dallas, Texas. Eighty contestants competed in six different games (Sonic the Hedgehog, Pac-Man: Championship Edition, Street Fighter 2: Hyper Fighting, Madden '08, Dead or Alive 4 and Halo 2) over three days, but ultimately only one would reign supreme as the Iron-Man of Gaming. The big winner was Chris "Kumachine" Delp who took home the massive Iron-Man belt and a thousand dollars cash and dedicated the victory to his hometown of New Orleans and the victims of Hurricane Katrina. Second place was taken by Louis "Big Lou" Hughes who took home a slightly less exciting prize; a women's tennis championship trophy wrapped in a broken third party PlayStation controller. Stay tuned for details on the next Iron-man of Gaming Competition coming next year.

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<![CDATA[Screw Attack's Top Ten Ninjas]]> I don't think any of the Ninja in Screw Attack's Top Ten Ninja(s) actually deserve to be on the list. Sure, they're all good at doing whatever it is that they do, but come on, top ninja? You can see them! Top be a top ninja you have to start your training early, slipping out of your mother's womb in the dead of night to avoid being detected by the doctor's special "look at the baby in your tummy" device. Amateurs.]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=294744&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[ScrewAttack Announces Iron-Man of Gaming Tournament]]> ScrewAttack.com founders and video moguls Handsome Tom and Stuttering Craig are spreading their wings and joining up with Video Gamers League to present The Iron-Man of Gaming Tournament. The competition will take place during the Summer 2007 CPL Championships which happens Thursday, August 30 to Sunday, September 2, 2007 (Labor Day Weekend) at the Hilton Anatole hotel in Dallas, Texas. Craig and Tom's take on gaming tournaments is a little different from the usual in that players will compete in a variety of games rather than just one.

Unlike other tournaments where a player is judged on his skills in a single game, the Iron-Man tests a player's skills across all eras and all genres. Player will be awarded points on six games- three classic and three current. Each game is weighted equally and the player with the most total points will be declared the Iron-Man winning $1000 cash and the Iron-Man championship belt.

The games being featured in the competition are:

• Sonic the Hedgehog
• Pac-Man Championship Edition
• Halo 2
• Madden 2008
• Dead or Alive 4
• Street Fighter 2 Championship Edition

All games will be played on Xbox 360's provided they don't fail during the tournament. To see a couple of videos on the event including a commercial and a breakdown of how the competition will be scored, head on over to ScrewAttack.com

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<![CDATA[Clip: 10 Worst Fighting Games]]>

Well, it was bound to happen. Back in the day, there used to be two fighting games for every boy, making the ratio of sucky ones to good ones quite high. Screw Attack's Top 10 Worst Fighting Games covers them all including ones I've tried long and hard to forget. Thanks for bringing back the memories, guys.

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<![CDATA[Screw Attack's Bad Boy Round Up]]>

The wags at ScrewAttack have a new video out chronicling the Ten Biggest Douchebags of Gaming. Wario is there as is my arch nemesis, the Burger King, but not all the douches are digital. Our favorite lawyer friend (who shall not be named lest he arive in a puff of sulfurous smoke) makes an appearance as well. Who's at number one? It might not be who you think, but I'll say it's a classic character who isn't human. Any guesses?

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<![CDATA[Screw Attack's Best and Worst Gaming Peripherals]]>

Screw Attack's Handsome Tom and Stuttering Craig, the kings of the top ten list, are back with a look at the best and worst gaming periopherals. The list is split in two this time with the first half devoted to the worst and the second half, the five best. Entries in to the worst category include Rob the Robot and the Power glove while the best list is filled with such goodies as the Guitar Hero controller and that highly suspicious, girl friendly peripheral, the Trance Vibrator.

Personally, I'm always a little wary of add ons that only work for one game and one game only. Samba de Amigo anyone?

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<![CDATA[Clip: Ten Games That Fell Off]]>

While I doubt that anyone will become misty-eyed at remembering Bubsy the Bobcat, I do kind of lament the death of Ecco the Dolphin. What's makes Ecco's franchise demise sadder is developer Appaloosa's follow up, the godawful Jaws Unleashed.

Screw Attack's latest vid highlights these nearly forgotten franchises, wondering what has become of games like Blaster Master, Chrono Chross and Vectorman. And what the hell happened to their #1? It's a shameful list.

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<![CDATA[Screw Attack's Top Ten "Super" Games]]>

Just because a game has "Super" in the title doesn't make it a super game. Screw Attack's handsome Tom and Stuttering Craig examine this phenomenon in their latest video, Top 10 "Super" Games. As they point out, the Super Nintendo was extremely fond of adding "super" into the title of a lot of their games. The list is rather staggering actually and I'm impressed the boys were able to narrow it down to just ten. Hopefully, they will follow this one up with a "Top 10 Worst Super Games" list. As much as I love watching clips from great games, I get much more satisfaction out of laughing and pointing at them.

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<![CDATA[The New Adventures of Captain S]]> I love ScrewAttack. They never cease to amaze, horrify and otherwise entertain me with their collection of some of the best fan based game videos from around the country. The Angry Nintendo Nerd, GameJew and Chet and Ace's Awesome Video Games Show are all part of the ScrewAttack stable of loveable oddballs headed up by impresarios Stuttering Craig and Handsome Tom.

The boys dropped me a line about the newest addition to their little family, The New Adventures of Captain S. Done in a style that reminds me of the old Saturday morning Krofft Supershows, Captain S features Chad Belmont, frat boy by day, video game superhero by night and his adventures in the land of Sega Genesis. In this first episode, Chad takes on his arch-nemesis, the evil NES , who challenges him to a round of Altered Beast that he'll never forget.

For the further adventures of Chad and his friends Becky and Lunk, check out Episode Two on ScrewAttack.com.

The New Adventures of Captain S: Episode 1 [ScrewAttack]

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<![CDATA[Angry Nintendo Nerd's Best Moments Of 2006]]> Over the last year, The Angry Nintendo Nerd has made us laugh, made us cry and probably offended even the most foul mouthed backwater sailor. Love him or hate him, you have to admire his ability to come out with a seemingly endless stream of expletives without missing a beat.

Here we have a compilation The Nerd's 20 Best Moments of 2006. Try making a drinking game out of it as you watch! Every time he curses, take a drink. I promise you that by about one minute thirty five, you'll be shit faced.

!!NSFW!!

The Angry Nintendo Nerd [Screw Attack]

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<![CDATA[The GameJew Music Video]]> The irrepressible Jonathan Mann A.K.A. GameJew has a seemingly endless number of adventures. He created the Mario Opera, traveled to Africa and even serenaded Nintendo Exec George Harrison at the Wii launch. And that's just scratching the surface of the traveling troubadour's quickly expanding career.

Now he's back with a new music video, Things Are Familiar" featuring all your favorite Mushroom Kingdom pals, although some of them may be hard to recognize. The absolutely terrifying puppets are tempered by a charming song and the earnestness of the performance. I don't know what GameJew's smoking, but whatever it is it must be really good.

The GameJew Video Treasury [Screwattack]

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<![CDATA[Angry Nintendo Nerd Salutes The Wii With Console Puppet Show]]> Everyone's favorite foul mouthed gamer, The Angry Nintendo Nerd, gives us his colorful interpretation of the early console wars in his latest video offering. His innovative puppeteering methods are really the hilight of the show and I think he must have trained with Jim Henson. He takes us from the Atari 2600 all the way to Nintendo 64 giving each system it's own distinct personality. Kermit the Frog, eat your heart out.

Then in a surprising show of calmness and non-cursing, he gives us his opinion on the current next-gen systems. As always, The Angry Nintendo Nerd is NSFW, so put on some headphones to avoid panicked phonecalls to HR.

The Angry Nintendo Nerd Oeuvre [ScrewAttack]

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<![CDATA[Top Ten Worst Ways to Die]]>





ScrewAttack's Craig just shot me their latest top ten list: The worst ways to die. The list includes classics like Battle Toads and Cubivore and even points out that Burger Time has some post death tea-bagging by those viscious hot dogs. While the list decides that having a sword slammed through your head after you see it coming is the worst way to die, I'd have to disagree. Back when I was a police reporter, I once covered a man being crushed to death by stack of marble floor slabs. These stacked slabs were each the size of a nice-sized room and quite think. The occupational safety inspector later told me there was no space between the slabs when they found the poor guy.

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<![CDATA[Video Games Awesome.]]>

If I understand correctly the endless phonemical repetitions spraying with spittle from his rubber-lipped word hole, Stuttering Craig over at Screw Attack wants me to call your attention to their newest series, Awesome Video Games. And I will, fully admitting my own lack of tolerance for doofuses — no matter how ironically portrayed — screaming in close-up into the camera for five minutes straight about the amazing megahertzal might of the NES.

But there's a lot of good here... in particular, the Awesome Video Games animation of a Marioesque doppelganger being chased around by a toothy iguana. I love that, and the way the electronic voice burbles, "AWESOME. VIDEO. GAMES. VIDEO. GAMES. AWESOME." And I get a kick out of the reverse anachronism of the series. Why is there a poster of Robert Matthew Van Winkle on the back wall on a show that purports to "preview" such hot new games as Super Mario Brothers? Who knows. But if this was really filmed in 1984, they'd be better off having a poster of Vanilla Ice's alcohol-saturated embryo on the back wall.

I kid, I kid. It's grating, but Awesome Video Games is funny.

Awesome Video Games [Screw Attack]

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<![CDATA[Madden 07 In The (Ware)House!]]>

At first glance, I mistook these pics for shots of something John Madden was having delivered to his warehouse. Were these thousands upon thousands of aerosol cans of itch relieving Tinactin? Tons and tons of savory Lunchables for John to snack upon while travelling on the Madden Bus? The shipment of crisp twenty dollar bills to pay off the exclusive NFL license?

Sadly, its just a bunch of copies of Madden NFL 07. It's an impressive display and the folks at Screw Attack have exclusive pics of the shipment. Before you can grunt out a "How is this news?", just check out the full pics for the impressive display of the cash cow that is EA's footballer. You will be in awe of the massive shipping capabilities!!

Madden '07- Ready To Ship!

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<![CDATA[Bleating Banshee Bombs Beauty Competition, Interrogates Entire Convention]]>

Unless the actual audition was the process of grossly irritating all these people, this may be the most stomach-churningly awkward example of Gamer Girl Syndrome I have ever seen. From the stumbling opening dialogue in which the more angular of the two Screwattack hosts refers to the contestants as "sexy bitches" with a straight face, to the barely-concealed vitriol spewing from the loser's mouth as she stiffly drapes her GAP-adorned appendages over some painfully hyukking teenager, this video is guaranteed to make you nearly as uncomfortable as "Ivy"'s victims.

But as the golden nugget in this otherwise revolting puddle of horseflop, a young man in a business suit explains to Ivy exactly why her chosen alias, "Switch", is not up to snuff in terms of the MySpace crowd. This nameless lad is the least self-conscious and most animated person in the whole, horrible two and a half minutes. A shining island of social competency and charming gestures even while Ivy croaks "yeah" and yanks up her sagging, squeezing jeans. Luckily, whoever edited this must have seen this, and stuck him in twice.

I'm guessing she took that white-shirted couple at the end back to her hotel room and walked up and down in front of them, crying, her coathanger tiara askew and "MISS WSVG ZOMG" toilet paper sash fluttering gently. Occasionally she'd thrust her microphone at one or the other and scream "TELL ME I'M PRETTY!"

Thanks, Screw Attack. The world needed to see that.

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