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Rumors far and wide have been spread around concerning the mysterious “final” character…the fun loving oil tycoon “Hakan.”  Today both IGN and Famitsu spilled the guts and released various scans and videos of the long anticipated Hakan.  From what we’ve seen, Hakan looks like he uses profuse amounts of oil to slip and slide in order to deal damage to his opponents.

With special names like oil dive, oil sliding, oil rocket and oil shower, you can tell that we’ll be having one slippery time learning what this character has to offer.  His ultra is absolutely ridiculous, where he squeezes his opponent tightly to his oily body where the opponent eventually slips away from Hakan, hurling the opponent to the corner face first.  The ultra looks to be used as an anti air, but in all hoensty, I’m not even going to go into strategic aspects as of now…check out the video and watch how crazy this guy looks.

Many of you new Tekken players have likely seen or heard of “the Notebook” that myself and other T6 fanatics have been carrying around. Well, our good friend Jon Frost was kind enough to scan and upload the whole thing to his website. You can find it here.

WARNING: It’s a pretty big .pdf file, around 40 megs, so you might want to right click and “Save As” instead of opening it, depending on your computer.

Not all of the information is up to date, but enough is to make this a great starting point for learning any character. Once you memorize the basics, be sure to visit the Tekken Zaibatsu character forums for more in-depth strategy and combos .

This week’s Custom Stick Spotlight features one of the most unique arcade sticks that I’ve ever seen.  Known for his unorthodox modifications, community member “phreakazoid187” brings to us his dual modded Vsmile arcade stick.  Originally used as a children’s play toy, the stick comes full equipped with LED light ups and a dual mod in order to use on PS3 or Xbox360.  So take a look into the zany mind of Clayton Knight aka phreakazoid187, and see some of his most ridiculous works.

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Just last night, Seattle’s very own Josh “Messatsu Orochi” Taton and I had a discussion with me about the world famous samurai, Miyamoto Musashi.  Josh went on to explain that Musashi was most famous for his unrivaled swordsmanship in numerous duels with other Japanese swordsmen.  In his life, he went on to write “The Book of Five Rings” each titled respectively towards elements entitled: “Earth, Water, Fire, Wind and Nothing.”  The book goes on to talk about military strategy much like “The Art of War” by Sun Tzu.  So why does any of this belong here at SeattleVersus?  As Josh fired off quote after quote from Musashi, I could clearly see relevance from a fighting game perspective…the theory of combat directly correlated to a competitive fighting game player’s mentality.  The Book of Five Rings applied so much more than just martial arts.  Apparently business leaders have gone on to find that Musashi’s discussion of conflict seemed incredibly relevant to their own trials as entrepreneurs.

Musashi talks about the importance of positioning, adaptation, discipline and a variety of aspects concerning combat, all things that we as fighting game players strive to master.  In this column, check out how Josh and I break down quote after quote from Musashi’s “The Book of Five Rings.”  I introduce to you, “Seeing with the Mind’s Eye.”

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Okay, so the last picture I posted up was indeed fake.  But we got some REAL concrete information this time around regarding that big announcement that Seth Killian was talking about…NEW CHARACTERS!  So no more action figurine fakes here!  Three new characters from the Street Fighter Alpha series will be thrown into Super Street Fighter 4.  Adon, Guy and Cody have been officially announced in today’s Famitsu!

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Back by popular demand (thank you to all those who are voting in the poll), Frank brings to you part 2 in the “Seattle History Lessons” series. In part 2, Frank goes into detail about one of competitive fighting gaming’s most famous title: Marvel VS Capcom 2. From game mechanics to rivalries at the time (back in 2000), Frank exposes exactly what the game was like in it’s heyday. Aside from MvC2, Frank also goes on to talk about the people he met during the time. So without further delay, here it is, “Seattle History Lessons: Part 2!”

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I’ve personally learned that mobility in Tekken is one of the core aspects to playing at a higher level.  Unlike in Street Fighter 4, there’s no FADC’s to get you out of trouble when momentum isn’t going your way.  If you don’t know how to maneuver in Tekken, you might as well be dead on site.  Fortunately to teach us all about maneuvering in Tekken is SV’s very own Rob Plumber!  Rob has come out with his second installment in his “Tekken Strategies 101” series.  This time around, Rob goes over the importance of mobility and movement in Tekken.

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Not a lot of news has come out within the week.  It’s overall been fairly stagnate…interviews and talk about netcode and online features here and there but nothing too ground breaking.  So what better way to shake things up with some good ole’ gossip!?  This time around we actually get confirmation of a rumor that was thrown out into the open since last month!  All in all, whether your into it or not, here’s what’s going on this week.

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Bloody-Knuckles is a showcase that will display artwork inspired by the fighting game community in hopes of one major goal: To expose the world of art to fighting games, while at the same time expanding the fighting game community to the world of art.  Their tag line being: “Bloody-Knuckles, artwork inspired by the fighting game community in the Pacific Northwest.”  The event will be held at The Canoe Social Club at Theatre off Jackson during the month of February, officially opening on February 4th.

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An arcade stick stands for something so much more than just a controller device.  The stick you use represents YOU as a player!  For some people their arcade stick is their baby, it gets personal to an extent!  A lot of time and effort gets put into customizing a stick into perfection.  The great thing about customizing a stick is that you can really go as far as you want to take it.  Swapping out the buttons and stick is one thing, but for a lot of people it doesn’t just stop there.  Art work, dual modding, LED light ups…it never ceases to amaze me how people are always figuring out different ways to customize their stick!  With that, I bring to you SeattleVersus’ newest column “Custom Stick Spot Light” where we showcase arcade sticks that are a little more personal compared to “just being a stick.”

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