One of my all-time favorite video games has to be One Must Fall: 2097. It's one of the most perfect, if not THE PERFECT, marriage of fighting games and RPGs. The game is also exceptionally deep, and still has a cult following to this day.

In honor of my love for the game in general, I decided to do a piece of artwork of my favorite 'bot from the game: The Jaguar.

You can see the full-sized version here if you want a better look.

I had a lot of fun doing this, and it ended up taking me somewhere between 150 and 200 minutes to complete from start to finish, not counting a short dinner break.

Please, tell me what you think?

I'm not going to spout off about Iron Man forever and ever, because, frankly, I can't put it into words...

Just...go see it! It has supplanted Spider-Man 2 as my favorite Superhero movie, and I'm a BIG Spider-Man fan! That should say something!

GO SEE IT!!!

I can't beat Don't Fear The Reaper on Expert drums in Rock Band, so I'm stuck.

Yesterday, I went 8 games straight in Rainbow Six Vegas 2 without getting a SINGLE kill.

Tonight, I went to play some UMK3 online, and could only find one competitor...who utterly destroyed me...9 times.

This whole week has been kicking my ass, and I am falling into a depression. What the **** is going on? *sigh*

When the hell is GTA IV going to get here...

I'm going to bed.

Well, after playing a rousing set on the drums with some fellow players online in Rock Band, I decided to give Green Grass and High Tides another whirl to see if I could boost my score again. This led to 4 plays in total, each with a higher score than the last... When I was finally done with pushing my score higher, I gathered the pictures I had taken, and ent to post them, though seeing as how only the top score is really relevant, I'm just going to post it and my leaderboard position:

This time I uploaded images of the maximum resolution on my camera if anyone feels the need to scrutinize them. All I can say is that I hope to push my scores into the top 100. That will be an accomplishment I will not soon forget, and I think I'm capable if I continue trying as hard as I am.

Maybe I'll get around to attempting the song while recording it on my vidcap equipment. We'll see.

On a side note, I feel sorry for the poor chaps who have to compete against me if I ever enter a competition any time soon.

It's not every day you hear some wild rumor from left field come true, but today, on the 18th of April, it happened: Mortal Kombat and DC Comics are crossing over. And you thought MK vs. Street Fighter was far-fetched.

But no, it's very true, and it has apparently incensed several people for a myriad of reasons. I'm not sure whether more people were infuriated that it was a crossover to begin with, that they were crossing with DC Comics, or that the game will in fact be releasing with a T-for-Teen rating in mind.

What about fatalities? They won't be there. There will still be finishing moves, and PLENTY of brutality, and even still some blood, but with Midway's particular rating goal in mind, these won't be buckets of blood. Still, it's poised to be one hell of a knock-down, drag out fight.

It's also a very tricky subject to balance, given that the Man of Steel is joining the roster. He can take a train head-on. If Mortal Kombat 3 were any indication, the Kombatants...not so much. That's where the writers come in.

Jimmy Palmiotti and Justin Gray have been hired from their usual comic-writing day jobs to help make sure all the pieces of the MK vs. DCU puzzle fit, and so far, they're done a servicable job explaining the reason behind a toe-to-toe matchup between Sub-Zero and Superman. Magic.

True to canon of Superman comics, some unexplained (so far) magic is enhancing the strength of the Kombatants and low-powered superheros, and at the same time, is weakening heroes like Superman, so that all fighters will be able to realistically (and I use that phrase in relatively here...we are discussing video games after all) lay the proverbial smack down on each other fairly.

While my initial reaction was that of typing uppercased obscenities with lots of unnecessary punctuation to my friend over MSN Messenger, the whole thing has settled in, and despite the series' dependence upon showers of blood and gore, I think that taking MK's memorable characters, and seeing them square off against the likes of the Justice League is going to be one fighting game that is not to be missed, so without further ado, I present some amusing match-ups I'd like to see:

• Sub-Zero vs. Batman (c'mon, BIG given there)
• Aquaman vs. Rain (Let's see which running joke has more punch)
• Green Lantern vs. Scorpion (I can't fight him...he's yellow!!)
• Nightwolf vs. Green Arrow (His magazine is hardcore enough that he could probably get away with having a fatality)
• Goro vs. Doomsday (He killed Superman...can Goro kill him?)
• EDIT (I forgot, silly me) Johnny Cage vs. Booster Gold (Funniest fight ever...)

It may be a radical departure from the typical MK mold, but I still think it has a significant potential to be a fun and intriguing game. Besides, what would Mortal Kombat be without Kontroversy, hm?

So, I've made it extensively clear that I have a 'band' to play with. I love playing with them. It's a lot of fun, but I wanted more...so I've decided to start playing on my own Xbox with my singer and guitarist.

I am playing Bass on Expert, and I'm singing on Medium because I'm still not totally familiar with all the songs, and I can't spend much time looking up at the lyrics, as I'm frantically jamming away on my bass guitar already.

It's not easy. I in fact lose my bass rhythm often, and sometimes trail off on vocals, too. Any less difficult on bass, and I'll just get bored. Besides, guitar is too tricky and demanding for vocals, too.

So, as difficult as it is, I just wanted to show you what I can do when I really know a song:

Interesting, eh? Wish me luck. I'm going to try and net a lot of fans along the way, see if I can't get my score up there with the big dogs all by my lonesome.