Here it is – the first Japanese trailer for the Street Fighter movie nobody wanted, The Legend of Chun Li. It’s hard to discern much from this footage, besides the fact that M. Bison is sporting a beard and Balrog is armed with a rocket launcher to make up for his limited repertoire of punches. As for plot details, we see Chun Li learning her patented “Kikouken” fireball and running away from dudes decked out in SWAT gear. Besides that, I’m not seeing much here that would justify the planned theatrical release on February 27^th, 2009 (as opposed to a quiet, direct-to-DVD launch).

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Okay, you’re probably wondering what a teeny-bopper movie review is doing on a gaming blog. It’s because the Twilight books are, for one, immensely popular among a number of demographics and, for two, Stephanie Meyer’s interpretation of modern day vampires is surprisingly compelling. If you haven’t read it yet but enjoy a good vampire story, I’d highly suggest picking up a copy of the book; just make sure to stay the hell away from the movie.

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Video game movies: a taboo subject for any gamer. Merely utter the possibility of an upcoming cross-medium production, and you may find yourself bombarded with groans, satiric speculations, and hands reaching to the heavens yelling, “Why?!” All because of the shadowy stigma that has haunted the video game film genre: they’re garbage. While one name has become almost synonymous with bad VG-film adaptations, Uwe Boll is not responsible for all of them.

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