If you ever try to buy HDMI or Component cables from a retail store, they’ll show you a variety of cables that run from $40 to $100+. This is especially true for HDMI cables. These retail chains mark up the price insanely high.

For great deals on any kind of cable you can imagine, go to Monoprice.com. I’ve known about this site for quite a while and have ordered a few things from them in the past. Here’s a link for a great HDMI cable for under $5. HDMI cables are digital, which means the $5 cable is going to be just as good as the $100 overpriced monster cable.

Monoprice carries component and other audio/visual cables and adapters as well. They also carry a variety of lengths, so you can save money by not buying cables that are longer than needed.

I have been running the blog for a year now. It’s been fun but it’s time to step it up a notch.

The categories will be reorganized to better suit a wider variety of viewers. If you don’t care about videogame news, there’ll be an easy way to filter those posts out. If you don’t care about my work, there’ll be an easy way to filter that out.

I also plan to post more frequently, covering more news and hopefully posting more of my own work as well.

You can also look forward to an upcoming announcement, but I’m not sure exactly when that will happen.

EDIT: UPDATED INFO ON STREET FIGHTER IV CAN BE FOUND IN A NEW POST HERE: http://dfyb.wordpress.com/2008/06/09/street-fighter-iv-new-characters-screenshots-and-info/

The new EGM issue is out to subscribers and includes 10 pages of Street Fighter IV coverage. They go in depth into how the new Revenge Gauge will work, as well as discuss what other changes will come to the series.

Although Capcom has been releasing countless revisions and remakes of Street Fighter II since 1992, it looks like they are still not ready to really move forward. SFIV producer Yoshinori Ono’s goal is to make “the second coming of Street Fighter II.” As far as the story goes, SFIV takes place between SFII and SFIII. So maybe it would be more accurate to name SFIV “Street Fighter 2.5″ instead…

When you consider Street Fighter II has already had an abundance of “second comings,” the idea of getting yet another Street Fighter II remake is… dissapointing. To illustrate just how excessive another SFII remake is, take a look at this screenshot.

This is a screenshot from Super Street Fighter II Turbo HD Remix. This is a SFII remake for HD consoles. It features totally redone sprites and backgrounds as well as updated and rebalanced gameplay modes. When someone says “second coming of Street Fighter II,” I’d have something like HD Remix in my mind. HD Remix is not even out yet — it is still in development. So yeah, I wasn’t kidding when I said it was excessive. They are making a 2D rebalancing/update to SFII and a 3D rebalancing/update to SFII… at the same time… and on the same consoles.

Ono obviously won’t be calling it a SFII “remake” and to be fair, there are some additions that take SFIV a step away from the countless SFII games.
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Persona 3 is a japanese RPG for ps2. Since the game isn’t recently released, I won’t go into too much detail about it. Basically, it’s an awesome game and I’ll link you to a blog post of a friend who heard about the game from me and wrote about it. UnholyKnight’s Persona 3 post

What I’m posting about now is mainly to inform you that there’s a trailer for the Persona anime. The anime takes place 10 years after the events in Persona 3 and is titled PERSONA -trinity soul. You can find a link to that here: http://www.taleschannel.org/P3TS/p3tstrailer.wmv

[youtube=http://youtube.com/watch?v=lp173Si-XZM]
link: higher quality video

It’s always nice seeing fresh gameplay concepts make it to products. This game is named Patapon and is being developed by SCEJ and will be released on the PSP.

From what I can tell, each face button controls a different instrument/note and you seem to use it almost like a battle drum to control the army with button combos. It also looks like you can create different unit types and grow your army. So it looks like it’s mixing elements from strategy games with gameplay mechanics from the music game genre to create a very unique gameplay experience. I’m definitely looking forward to checking this one out. I’ll likely import it.

Last night I had started discussing the possibility of working on a regular podcast with a friend of mine. He’s been running a videoblog for quite a while and is involved with the podcasting community, both locally and globally. We came to an agreement that we wanted to do one, perhaps in video form, but hadn’t decided the topic. Fast forward to earlier tonight…

I tagged along to the first Podcasters of Dallas meeting with a friend of mine. It was held at Spike Grill in Dallas. Neal and Cali from geekbrief.tv gave a small presentation discussing their methods and advice for other podcasters. It was all very interesting and I got to meet some neat people.

As we were eating, I came up with a potential topic for our podcast. We continued to refine the ideas and topics and at this point it seems pretty solid. I don’t want to unviel specific details just yet, but you can expect an update relatively soon.

EDIT: MORE DETAILED INFO FROM EGM/1UP CAN BE FOUND HERE: http://dfyb.wordpress.com/2007/12/11/street-fighter-iv-more-details-from-egm/

The game is rendered in 3D but the gameplay is entirely 2D. The CG teaser trailer hinted at some really nice stylized effects, but this first screenshot doesn’t really have much flare to it. I imagine that will come when the characters are actually performing moves, but it would have been nice to see a more stylized art direction in general.

The standard 6 button layout is confirmed to return. Ryu, Ken, Chun-Li, and Dhalsim are confirmed but the rest of the roster is unknown. So far that’s about all we know, but through january we’ll be getting more Street Fighter IV info bit by bit.

source: 1up

Update 1: 12/6/07 7:31p: two new screenshots and some unconfirmed info found together

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