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The martial arts genre is one of the broadest genres in media history. In the same way that the combat sports definition of martial arts encompasses hundreds of different fighting styles, the martial arts genre contains many stories, from grand historical epics covering the rise and fall of kingdoms to gritty modern-day dramas focusing on personal tales of violence and revenge.

The anime medium is no different, as many series have featured martial arts. However, these series are often nothing alike, covering many genres, tones, and styles. Because of this, finding the best martial arts anime movie can be tricky, as no two films use martial arts exactly the same way.

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Legend of Raoh: Chapter of Death is the first installment in the five-part Fist of the North Star:...

Many films have been made that drew their inspiration and aesthetics from video games, manga and anime, but few as successfully, as exciting and as exhilarating as “Escape from the 21st Century”. Li Yang‘s madcap sci-fi adventure is a visual feast boasting excellent visual effects despite its low budget, a convincing mix of live footage and 2D animation and a rousing spectacle that can only honor its many inspirations.

Escape from the 21st Century is available from Signature Entertainment

It is almost impossible to describe the story while doing justice to the film’s nonsensical sense of fun. On distant planet K in 1999, a trio of teenagers are exposed to a toxic chemical that gives them the ability to travel through time to the year 2019 and back… by simply sneezing. In the future, they inhabit the bodies of their future selves and are soon confronted by the challenges, surprises...

Last Updated on February 3, 2025

For years, Awesome Art We’ve Found Around The Net has been about two things only – awesome art and the artists that create it. With that in mind, we thought why not take the first week of the month to showcase these awesome artists even more? Welcome to “Awesome Artist We’ve Found Around The Net.” In this column, we are focusing on one artist and the awesome art that they create, whether they be amateur, up and coming, or well established. The goal is to uncover these artists so even more people become familiar with them. We ask these artists a few questions to see their origins, influences, and more. If you are an awesome artist or know someone that should be featured, feel free to contact me at any time at theodorebond@joblo.com.This month we are very pleased to bring you the awesome art of…...

A new Street Fighter movie is in development, but the characters for the film have not yet been cast. In anticipation of the film, an AI-generated concept trailer imagines how some of the characters would appear with certain actors in the roles.

The trailer was shared to YouTube by Stryder HD. It includes some popular fantasy casting picks that have been imagined previously with fan art, including Alan Ritchson as Guile and Ryan Gosling as Ken. Other suggestions include acclaimed actor Mads Mikkelsen, known for his expertise in playing villainous characters, taking on the role of the dastardly M. Bison. The whole line-up can be seen by watching the concept trailer below.

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Along with the aforementioned names, the cast of characters also includes Andrew Koji as Ryu,...

The live-action Street Fighter movie that's in the works recently suffered a setback, but that hasn't stopped the film from getting a release date. It's now been set for a release in theaters in 2026, giving Sony and Legendary plenty of time to get the project back on track.

Per Deadline, the Street Fighter reboot has been dated for March 20, 2026. The news comes almost immediately after it was revealed that Danny and Michael Philippou, the filmmaking duo behind the acclaimed horror film Talk to Me, were no longer co-directing the movie. It was announced in April 2023 that Legendary had acquired the live-action film and TV rights to Street Fighter with plans for the Philippous to direct. Reportedly, the exit is due to the filmmakers looking to focus on their next A24 movie, Bring Her Back.

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Apart from governing one of the biggest tournaments of all time, FIFA World Cup, FIFA has also set its foot in the e-sports world, governing FIFAe tournaments. The 2023 FIFAe World Cup was the last edition involving EA’s FIFA football video game series and since EA and FIFA are no longer associated, the 2024 FIFAe World Cup would be a Rocket League tournament, featuring players from different countries around the world.

Psyonix’s Rocket League, which is a competitive vehicular soccer video game, has been a popular game for many years now. Many competitive tournaments have been held over the years and the game is also popular among streamers, so it makes sense why FIFAe decided to host a Rocket League tournament.

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The e-sports branch of FIFA, FIFAe, has announced an international Rocket League World Cup on its official X account.

Talk to Me directors Danny and Michael Philippou, who were attached to direct a live-action adaptation of Capcom's Street Fighter, will no longer helm the upcoming movie. The film losing its directors comes over a year after it was announced in April 2023.

According to The Hollywood Reporter, the Philippou brothers will no longer direct the Street Fighter adaptation due to scheduling conflicts. Instead, they are choosing to focus on their A24 film, Bring Her Back. That film will reportedly star Sally Hawkins, Billy Barratt, Jonah Wren Phillips, Sally-Anne Upton, Stephen Phillips, and Sora Wong. The film is produced by Samantha Jennings and Kristina Ceyton. Specific details concerning the plot for Bring Her Back have not officially been released yet.

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Street Fighter Duel offers free rewards through active codes, which have been updated with new phrases by the developers going into June 2024. With two distinct versions of the game, certain codes may only work if your account is connected to a specific one of the two available. Similarly to the many versions of Street Fighter 2 in the past, you have to pay attention to which edition you're using.

With Street Fighter 6 adding its most feared character in the franchise through Akuma, now might be the perfect time to revisit Street Fighter Duel for a mobile interpretation of the series' classic fights. Many past codes are still active now, allowing you to claim many older rewards even in June 2024. However,...

Though it’s easy to get caught up in fruitless debates over genre classifications, genres are a fascinating part of any medium’s evolution. Yes, they sometimes oversimplify complex works for the purposes of classification. However, a deeper look at the origins of those genres often reveals fascinating facts about the evolution of art and entertainment.

That’s especially true of gaming. Many of us have been alive for most of the notable history of video games. Yet, it’s still remarkably easy to forget how some of the more unique and prevalent video game genres actually began.

Today, we’re going to take a look at the birth of some of those genres. Some were clearly created by the release of a revolutionary new title, while others can trace their origins to games that took an existing concept in a new direction. Some are world-famous, while others have been...

Dragon’s Dogma 2 has finally hit the shelves and is enjoying a decent run so far. The sequel to 2012’s Dragon’s Dogma game, the latest installment was released on March 22, 2024, on PlayStation 5, Windows, and Xbox Series X and S.

A still from Dragon’s Dogma 2

The game is set in a fantasy-themed world parallel to that of its predecessor. The players get to control a customizable character known as “Arisen.” In the ongoing geopolitical conflict, players must complete quests and progress in the game with the help of their chosen allies known as “Pawns.”

Hideaki Itsuno shares his early gaming experiences

Game Director Hideaki Itsuno recently in an interview with IGN spilled the beans about his latest project. He was asked about what Dragon Dogma he liked and what enhancements or innovations he had added to the sequel when compared to the first game. To this he says,

“Well, that...

Springfield residents transform into Street Fighter characters in Thumbs' latest pixel art crossover creations on Instagram. The Simpsons and Street Fighter rarely reference each other in their long histories, but fun crossovers have appeared in expanded media. Thumbs' artwork merges iconic characters from both franchises, showcasing a perfect combination of modern pop culture icons.

Recognizable faces from across Springfield become fearsome fighters from across the globe, as members of The Simpsons cast crossover with iconic characters from the Street Fighter franchise. The long-running animated sitcom telling the misadventures of the titular family and other residents across the town of Springfield is currently in season 35. Meanwhile, Capcom's iconic fighting game franchise released its latest installment in 2023 with Street Fighter 6, reuniting players with fighters including Ryu, Chun-Li, Cammy, and Ken.

As The Simpsons season 35 returns to television, artist Thumbs has reimagined various figures from across Springfield as some of Street Fighter...

Reverse adaptations have historically not been successful in video games, but Infinity Strash: Dragon Quest - The Adventure of Dai could change that trend. Street Fighter movie-based games are infamous examples of reverse adaptations that failed to meet the standards of the original games. Infinity Strash has the potential to avoid previous issues by featuring familiar characters, combat styles, and iconic battles from the Dai manga and anime. However, the gameplay will ultimately determine if it succeeds or falls into the same pitfalls as other reverse adaptations.

Reverse adaptations, where a video game is adapted into another medium, which is then the basis for a video game, have not fared well in the past, but Infinity Strash: Dragon Quest - The Adventure of Dai could reverse that trend. Such games are a step beyond simple licensed products, since they take franchises that have their roots in gaming, but they carry...

The Amiga 500 Mini has been on the market for about a year. A price drop, that saw me able to pick one up for 75 euros finally sucked me in. Growing up, I was an Amiga kid, and a little A500-shaped plastic box is able to trigger some serious nostalgia for me. To me, the death of Commodore and Amiga was a corporate tragedy, up there with the cancelling of the TV series “Firefly”.

The A500 Mini is, for the money, a well-made piece of kit. Sadly the tiny buttons are just part of the case and cannot be pressed, but that is fine. It is scaled down and my early concerns about the quality of the gamepad were unfounded. The controller is also pleasingly shaped like the Amiga CD32 controller (more on the CD32 later) and a joystick is available to purchase separately (albeit I have not tested that...

At launch Street Fighter 6 features 18 unique characters, all of whom have an unlockable classic or alternative costume option. Although Street Fighter 6 introduces many new combatants, the latest game in the Street Fighter franchise also reenlists several veteran characters and series favorites - albeit with a revamped costume design. Once unlocked or purchased, the Street Fighter 6 classic outfit customization option allows players to return redesigned combatants to a more familiar appearance. Although the fresh takes on classic characters are, for the most part, excellent, some costume redesigns are not nearly as good as the alternative option - classic outfits.

To gain access to a character's classic apparel, players must progress a Street Fighter 6 Master's friendship level to 100 in the World Tour Mode. Alternatively, classic outfits can be purchased from the Goods Shop for 50 Fighter Coins per costume, or a total of 900 for every classic outfit in the game. Though these redesigns...

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Lily is a brand-new fighter appearing in Street Fighter 6. She is the third playable member of the Thunderfoot Tribe, being kin to Street Fighter 2’s Thunder Hawk and Street Fighter Alpha 3’s Juli. Lily’s playstyle is an amalgamation of the two, being an unorthodox grappler that has considerable speed.

While Lily has a faster approach than a traditional Street Fighter 6 grappler like Zangief, she still is going to be outpaced by true rush-down fighters. To make up for the greater range, Lily also has less overall damage per hit. Instead, she makes up for it by having fair to long linking combo strings.

Building Up and Using Windclad

Lily’s unique gimmick is Windclad, which empowers her moves to be stronger, have greater reach or have other special properties. She can hold...

Street Fighter 6 and Tekken 8 are set to battle once they release in the upcoming months. The latest entries in the fighting game juggernauts Street Fighter and Tekken have launch dates in June and Fall 2023, respectively, creating a duel between 2D and 3D fighters. But with the Street Fighter 6 and Tekken 8 being so different in their gameplay and storytelling, players will likely be more suited for one more than the other.

Despite their 2D/3D difference, Street Fighter 6 and Tekken 8 do share one thing: legacies of innovation. The Street Fighter series laid the foundation upon which all other 2D fighters are built when Street Fighter 2 birthed the fighting genre in 1991; three years later, Tekken did the same for 3D fighters. Since then, both series have become highly competitive for both players and franchises. Street Fighter and Tekken continue to innovate with the fighting game genre by introducing new mechanics and...

1974: a great year for many filmmakers. This was the year Francis Ford Coppola released both “The Godfather: Part II” and “The Conversation”. Mel Brooks hit a prolific streak too with “Young Frankenstein” and “Blazing Saddles”. Over in West Germany, Rainer Werner Fassbinder continued his hot streak by directing Four feature films, including his most beloved work, “Ali: Fear Eats the Soul”. However, it was perhaps Shinichi ‘Sonny' Chiba who had the most iconic and significant year out of that roster, with a career-defining bumper year that contained an impressive amount of diversity for an actor nominally known as a martial arts star. Surrounding himself with the posse from his expert team ‘Japan Action Club' and with the backing of the Toei Company, Ltd., Chiba completed a full trilogy, a two-part crime caper saga, a spin-off to the aforementioned trilogy And a powerful anti-war drama all in one year.

Carnaby International’s Rise of the Footsoldier: The Mobile Game has been developed in partnership with Soho Game Development, Platinum Pictures, Akupara Games, and Flowstate Xr – featuring familiar faces from the film franchise, reimaged in old-school Beat-Em-Up style with modern 3D graphics and updated gameplay mechanics.

Tiernan Hanby worked on Rise of the Footsoldier: The Mobile Game, and shares his insight on the rise in popularity of retro & mobile games this year…

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The Videogames industry has been bigger than the Film and Music industry combined for years now. It’s so big that even non-gamers have their favourite Twitch streamers. And Twitch streamers are the new rock stars. E-Sports stars are the new athletes. Gamers take it so seriously that South Korea had to set up its very own E-Crime force to tackle online crime, and in the...

Joblo’s lively blood may be in movies, but we love our video games too! Shameless plug be sure to check out Playing with Fear with Tyler over on our Horror Originals channel! Anyways, the topic of video game-based movies is always a touchy subject. Sure…. They usually have the reputation of being just so bad. However thanks to the recent success of The Last of Us on HBO Max and we saw some good box office returns with the two Sonic Movies, It feels nowadays Hollywood may have Finally cracked the blood code to making good video game adaptations.

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But today we are feeling nostalgic for some good solid guilty pleasures. In the early 90s in the peak of the 16 bit console wars, Nintendo was riding high of the success of the Super Mario franchise and decided to go into uncharted territory and bring the...

FromSoftware's wildly successful open world fantasy RPG Elden Ring has been out for nearly a year, giving its player-base lots of time to discover interesting exploits and combinations of character abilities that let them excel during PvE and PvP combat. Time since release has also given FromSoftware the chance to adjust and fine-tune the combat mechanics of Elden Ring with numerous patches, which have buffed and de-buffed certain weapons and spells, eliminated bugs, and even adjusted unintentional gameplay features such as spell combos. Elden Ring players waiting for the next Dlc should try mastering these powerful combat strategies before patches included in said Dlc change the game's meta once more.

When Street Fighter 2, which introduced combos to fighting games, was under development, developers working on the game's special moves accidentally created an exploit where players could chain certain attack inputs to trap their opponent in a string of...

2D fighters are my gaming bread and butter, having been weened on to them at an early age thanks to side-scrolling efforts such as Double Dragon and Streets of Rage and discovering the grand-daddy of 2D fighters, Street Fighter 2 at an arcade in Majorca back in the 90s. Since then I’ve played them all, from classics such as Final Fight and the King of Fighters series to more obscure fighters such as Spectral vs. Generation, Waku Waku 7 and Groove on Fight. So the release of any new 2D fighting game always gets me a little over-excited… even moreso when it comes from the current kings (Imho) of fighting games, Arc System Works.

Why Arc System Works? Well they’re the company behind the Guilty Gear and Blazblue franchises And they’ve had a hand in a myriad of other fighting franchises, either as developer or distributor since way...

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Tonight we’ve reached the halfway point and watched the most action packed and the shortest episode of the season. We’re on the path of blood and war and tonight’s episode demonstrated what happens when you “wake the dragon”. But hold on! Before we get any further into tonight’s review, have you watched Game of Thrones “The Spoils of War” episode 4 of season 7 yet? If you haven’t then look away GoT fans, because there will be spoilers. Alright, you’ve been warned. Come on in and let’s discuss.

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The Reaping of Highgarden

As expected the reaping of Highgarden is well underway and by the look on Jamie Lannister’s face I don’t think this is his favorite part of warmongering. Every penny of the Highgarden gold is going to the Iron Bank.

The wait is nearly over, Game of Thrones fans! In less than 9 days Game of Thrones Season 7 will be here and if I know anything, I know that we are in for the time of our lives. Yet before it’s time for the obligatory “Quiet in the Realm!” warning, let’s refresh our collective memories and take a quick look back at the previous 6 seasons. Come inside to refresh your memory!

If you’re a Game of Thrones fan like me then I know you are probably half way through a pre-season Game of Thrones seasons 1 through 6 binge watch. You’re busy catching up on seasons or episodes you’ve missed, or re-watching every single last episode of every single last season, dissecting it and looking for clues. You’re also probably nearly coming out of your skin impatiently anticipating the very long awaited seventh season to begin.

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Emilia Clarke has been heating up watercooler talk for five years now HBO’s monster hit adaptation of George R.R. Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire book series, Game of Thrones. Even as a veteran multiple re-reader of all of the books in the series that jumped on the lit before the turn of the century, I never thought that I’d see the day that “Khaleesi” would enter pop culture vernacular, a thought that died when I bought my 8 year old niece, who knows the series better than you, an “I’m not a Princess I’m a Khaleesi t-shirt). Move over Arthur C., Emilia is the Clarke of both speculative and reality affections.

I was introduced to the series hiding in a public library by my house, waiting for my mom to go to work, so my parents wouldn’t know I had been suspended (this...