It’s certainly sweet, sadly attached to a not-so-sweet price tag. This little bad boy will set you back $350 when it’s released early next year. It’s rather large though measuring 18 inches tall, 31 if you include the crazy scythe weapon he’s carrying.

The base is covered in artificial grass and features Ryu walking through a graveyard of swords from fallen warriors.
He comes equipped with his signature Dragon Sword, Eclipse Scythe, and a Falcon’s Talon. At 1/4 scale, Ryu stands at 18 inches tall and when you include his Eclipse Scythe, he stands at 31 inches tall (that’s over 2½ feet)!

First4Figures have made a habit of releasing high-quality high-price video game statues, so the quality of the statue is definitely high. It’s just the price that’ll stop 99.9% of us from buying one. But hey, if you’re interested in it… here’s the link!

One of the only sports I absolutely love to watch is tennis. This year’s Wimbledon final between Federer and Nadal was one for ages and probably the best match I’ve ever seen. This week I’ve been playing the ever loving hell out of Top Spin 3 since I have a review going up this afternoon. Luckily though it’s a game I would have played anyway since I spent a bunch of time with the first two in the series. No need to go on with my opinion of the game here.

There’s been some WoW sprinkled in there too, of course. Mainly I’ve been focusing on PvP and upping my Jewelcrafting skill. There’s some sweet equipment I’ve got my eye on and there’s a lot of honor to be had in order to get it.

That’s about the size of it for me, What’cha Been Playing?

As I mentioned Monday in my preview of Multiwinia there’s going to be online co-op included in the title that launches “this fall”. I contacted Introversion to clear up the details and here’s what they had to say:

We’re due to launch on September 19th. There will be a vast choice of competitive maps available to play across the 6 modes and co-op maps are available on three of the game modes. Maps will range from 2, 3 to 4-player – all the co-op maps will be 4 player.

That date is confirmed for the PC launch on Steam, UK retail and their own store. Darwinia+ will be hitting XBLA later this year and they’re still trying to nail down retail releases outside of the UK. We’ll check back in when we find out more.

I, how you say, liked Space Giraffe. A lot actually. I’ve mentioned it numerous times in the bitcast and a few other locations as well. Jeff Minter is obviously a weirdo and the games he makes more often than not aren’t even remotely accessible. It’s like he wants you to not like his games at first, he makes you work at it. And I mean that in a good way.

Anyways, Space Giraffe pretty much split the gamer sites out there with most people hating the shit out of it… which I understand I suppose. But Jeff’s next game is an update to Gridrunner and is now XBLA bound and the screenshots are sadly not going to change any Space Giraffe haters minds. It’s more of the same nonsense.

Which for me means it’s a must-buy.

There’s a few more shots over on Jeff Minter’s livejournal page.

Damn, I wish somebody would make me a video game theme cake for my birthday. Any takers?

[Ohmz.net via neatorama]

The same legendary rock magazine who featured the fucking Jonas Brothers on their latest cover have a nice article about the battle between Rock Band and Guitar Hero to nail down the big prize bands for their respective games. While most of the article is filled with stuff you probably already know there are a few interesting business-y bits like the following:

• Guitar Hero: Aerosmith outsold their last album in the first week by over 400,000 copies.
• Led Zeppelin have no plans to be licensed because of concerns about turning over their masters to outsiders
• Hendrix might not be exclusive to Guitar Hero for long, Janie Hendrix is working on a similar deal with Rock Band
• “Bands and labels each earn about 50 cents per [dlc] track, more than they get from iTunes and other standard download sites.”
• “[VH1] Rock Honors [The Who] was originally floated as an idea to help sell Rock Band,” Who guitarist Pete Townshend wrote in an e-mail to Rolling Stone.

Read the full story here.

Who has two thumbs, smiles, and loves playin’ him some Ticket to Ride? This guy!

So obviously I’m picking up this European expansion pack for the game, which is adding both a new map and some more pieces (like ferries and tunnels). It smacks of a rip-off, hell the game JUST launched a few weeks back. And this pack is $7.50 when the original game was $10.

Normally that would probably have me screaming from the rooftops about what’s wrong with DLC and how getting nickle and dimed sucks. But I’m too busy routing a train from NY to LA to care. Sue me. I play a mean game of Ticket to Ride.