Abobo’s Big Adventure
Terrific homage to the NES in the form of Abobo’s Big Adventure (via Kotaku). Will try and source a NES USB adaptor in order to play it properly!
Bought an iCade
Bought myself an iCade (finally). Managed to get hold of one for £40 from PC World (great deal) and it works great with the iPad.
The Man Who Created Street Fighter
Really interesting interview with Takashi Nishiyama, the man who designed the original Street Fighter while at Capcom. Responsible for a lot of gaming goodness, it’s a very good read.
Top 5 accessibility tips for game developers
Nice accessibility tips checklist over on gamebase.info, although some awesome gamers such as Broly manage to get past lack of accessibility provision in games such as Super Street Fighter IV.
Capcom Fight Club
Attended the first Capcom Fight Club and enjoyed it. Reminded me of the arcade scene around the late 90s; lots of people gathered in the same room(s) just enjoying games. Vibe to the event was good, although it was way over-subscribed and queue-jumpers really took the piss out of anyone else who’d queued for hours (like I did). The queue was single or double-file around 6pm, but by 7pm it was easily 5-file in width throughout. Wish Capcom did pre-registration like they did when they threw their Marvel vs Capcom 3 session before Christmas in London last year.
Still, the event was enjoyable. Street Fighter x Tekken looks really good (didn’t get a chance to play unfortunately), and I’ll be getting Third Strike: Online Edition when it’s released next week. To cap a good evening off, I managed to get the producer of the Street Fighter IV series, Yoshinori Ono, to sign my joystick.
Street Fighter 3: Third Strike Online Edition trailer
Never put that much time into Third Strike but this trailer has me excited. Love the YouTube video sharing. Is this a first for console games (straight to YouTube highlights)?
Super Stickman Golf
Loving this game on iPad. Tried online multiplayer for the first time on iOS and the experience was great; matchmaking occured quickly, connection seemed steady and most importantly I won! 
Red Fight District trailer
Great homage to Super Street Fighter II Turbo with this trailer for a Dutch fighting game tournament.
Original trailer: Super Street Fighter II Turbo intro
Red Fight District trailer: Red Fight District
iCade SDK
When I first saw the iCade I immediately wanted one but then wondered what games might be compatible with the setup. Apple haven’t made it easy so far to link in external controls to the iPad and despite the way the games industry has fallen over themselves to offer touchscreen offering over the past few years I’ll always prefer using a traditional joystick/joypad. So imagine my delight when I read that the makers of iCade are offering to share their SDK, for free, with interested developers!
The second a major retro game is released with iCade support I’m likely to order one. Games like WWF Wrestlefest, Double Dragon, Street Fighter II, R-Type (to name a few) are all crying out for a good port with decent controls, so I’m praying the Capcom’s/Namco’s/Irem’s of this world are watching and listening.