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any word on when? Last I heard was "early 2012" but I can't seem to find any more specific information than that. ;-/

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"thanks for your support for Akai Katana. Hmm... let's say Spring 2012 - can't be more specific at the mo." - https://twitter.com/#!/RisingStarGames

They said SF4 wasn't going to be arcade either, but then surprise loc-tests happened a couple of months later. I really doubt they wouldn't put this out in arcades, but if that were the case it would be a serious blow against SSF4. 
 
You might think that it doesn't affect you since you don't play these people and you don't play the people that play them either, but in truth the Japanese arcade scene has driven every SF game to 'be all it can be'. The resurgence in SF3 popularity wouldn't have happened if it wasn't for Japanese tapes making it's way over to America for instance. The hype generation and innovation that the Japanese arcade rats create is very much a part of how the game evolves. If you played Third Strike a lot you might remember how Makoto, after several years of obscurity, suddenly burst out and became one of the best characters in the game. Without the insanely hardcore arcade players we won't have that happen again. I can't stress the importance of the arcade scene as an innovator and hype machine enough, the majority of people who bought SF4 are casual players and will move on leaving the game dead, but the arcade scene might discover something new or release a video of a stupendous match that will get people excited for the game again and there will be a resurgence in players. 
 
Without the arcade we'll have a much smaller player base, but the level of competition will drop like a fucking rock because the best players are the ones we'll be losing. And it's not like Daigo, Mago and all the other "famous" players will move to consoles, nor will Japanese arcades modify consoles into arcade cabs or any other silliness like that. They will just play another arcade game, because they are arcade players before anything else. The reason the arcade scene fosters so many advances in the games is because they got a community in their arcades, it wouldn't transfer to consoles in the same way. People wouldn't just go back to playing ST, TS and the next hot arcade release and not worry about SSF4 at all.

" Most discusting name ever and no-one is going to understand it.  Sneaky.. "

Why you gotta hate on Norway? It's fucking cold up here bitch! Don't need this snark all up in my shit!

LET'S FIGHT LIKE GENTLEMEN! 
 
hopefully this spills tomorrow and locs go out fast as all hell and there are videos coming out of every orifice on the internet....

Didn't the japanese SF4 blog say they weren't doing anything for TGS?  All this hype fer nuthin'....  ;_;

" Out of curiosity, who are you? You seem to know some stuff and it sounds like you frequent other Street Fighter boards. "

The web is rife with rumor at the moment, it's all pretty much the same stuff too being confirmed left and right. 
 
Some other things I've heard: Every character will have two ultras (for the 3s characters this means all three SAs will be turned into two ultras and one super, meaning you'll have all of 'em at once); Some talk about a multi-hit Focus Attack, potentially  a sort of Ex version maybe; There are some names floating around regarding the names of the new ultras (Breathless for Abel, Yoga Shangri'la for Sim and Siberian Blizzard for Gief); Also one of the new characters is supposed to be a Turkish dude - most likely a grappler as there is a branch of wrestling called turkish wrestling. 
 
Other tidbits include Cody having his knife, Dudley having ten chains and air ultras being in the game. 
 
Most of this information is comming from people with no access to the game proper so we are unable to find out about gameplay systems, all we have are fed us from people most likely working on translation.   

I don't think it's a good idea, but not because it's creepy or you might be perceived as a sexual predator waiting to snatch some unsuspecting kid, rather because it has the potential to blur the relationship with your students between you as a teacher and you as a friend and it might affect the level of discipline you hold over them in class which would be very detrimental to your work and their learning. 
 
You, as a teacher, should always distance yourself, like a superior in any other field of work. It's very important to be respected in such a position and befriending your students could easily throw the status quo off balance.

You claimin' Bayonetta fits in with Dante's Inferno under 'God of War inspired action games'? Man, you buggin'. Bayonetta is the sequel to Devil May Cry, the O.G. of all this shit. GoW is nice and all, but the repetition of those games have highlighted how creatively bankrupt that series really is, making it fit nicely under the umbrella of games that basically just used Devil May Cry as a palimpsest.