Capcom VS Jin Yong

Ryu versus Linghu Chong(令狐沖 Reikochū)? Vega versus He Tieshou(何鐵手 Teiran)?? Ken versus Hu Fei (胡斐 Hiko)??? Eat yer heart out, Jin Yong just got "Capcomed" in the upcoming Online game that feature one bold step away from the Fighting Game Genre. Mouse. The action will be purely controlled via mouse, thus the namesake, Street Fighter Online: Mouse Generation. Talk about bizarre crossover. The preview ain't too warm, though. Check out more of the character design with all the close-up shots here.

R.I.P. 梁羽生 Liang Yusheng 5th April 1926 – 22nd January 2009

Liang Yusheng, a pioneer in Chinese martial arts novels, has died, news reports said. He was 85. Liang died at his home in Sydney, Australia on Jan. 22, the Australian edition of the Hong Kong newspaper Sing Tao Daily reported Monday. Luo Fu, the former editor of the now-defunct Sin Wan Bao newspaper, which hired Liang to write his first kung fu series, was quoted by Hong Kong's Ming Pao Daily News on Tuesday as saying that Liang had died. Liang, whose real name was Chen Wuntong, has been in poor health in recent years, diagnosed with bladder cancer in 2004 and suffering a stroke when he visited Hong Kong in 2007, Ming Pao said. The Veteran Scribe who bought to us "Romance of the White Haired Maiden (白髮魔女傳)", "Seven Swords of Mount Heaven (七劍下天山)" (both being adapted into considerably respectable film adaptations, respectively) etc, who is though relatively lesser-known as compared to Jin Yong in their respective iconic role in Chinese literacy, but nonetheless helped shaped the Wuxia Genre into its highly regarded status as a literature form has left the Building.

Who Watches The Watchmen? We Now Know The Japanese Will.

A truly interestingly alternate (in every sense of the word) take on the trailer for the upcoming "Watchmen", courtesy ofTrailerAddict, featuring many sequence that is unseen on the official trailers and teasers like, for starters, the death of Hollis Mason, the first Nite Owl, if I guessed/remembered correctly.