News Blips: EVO 2010, Sony on Dangers of 3D, King's Quest Fan Sequel Available, and More

World Cup, Shmorld Cup. EVO 2010 is where the real action was this past weekend.

News Blips:

Daigo "The Beast" Umehara wins the EVO 2010 Super Street Fighter 4 tournament. Playing as Ryu, returning champion Umehara successfully defended his title from EG Ricky Ortiz -- who plays as Rufus -- ending in a score of three points to one. Don't worry -- the footage of the match is considerably more exciting than this picture of the guys playing it would lead you to believe. [Kineda]

Sony updates their PlayStation and affiliated services' Terms of Service to reflect the dangers of viewing 3D media. Sony warns that "some people may experience discomfort, such as eye strain, eye fatigue, or nausea, while watching 3D video images or playing stereoscopic 3D games on 3D televisions." What they conveniently don't warn you about is the financial drain that consumers and their wallets experience when upgrading their TV sets.

The first episode of the fan-made sequel to King's Quest, The Silver Lining, is finally available for free. Download it from the game's website, where industry luminary Roberta Williams, game designer of the official King's Quest series, praises the work: "The game is very true to the original series...I found it beautiful and fun to play. I, too, like many other fans, would like to see how this story unfolds." To think, it only took the fan-staffed development team eight unpaid years to put this sequel together.

Search engine and advertising giant Google quietly invests $100-$200 million in Farmville/Mafia Wars developer Zynga. Techcrunch reports that Google actually completed the investment a month ago and plans to have Zynga be a central component to their upcoming Google Games service. I feel this means I should takes these social games that people obsess over a little more seriously now...but I still say no.

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Tags: King's Quest, News Blips, Pokemon Black & White, The Silver Lining, Super Street Fighter 4: 3D Edition

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Jason Wilson

July 12, 2010

Wait...those are the EVO champions? I expected they would be more...grizzled. These guys look like the kid I paid to mow my lawn last week.

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Alejandro Quan-Madrid

Apparently that kid you paid to mow your lawn also plays a mean Ryu.

Isaiah Taylor

Also...one of those kids...is almost 30 years old.

It also should be noted that Daigo won considering being ill and having his stick stolen from him with 24 hours.

Justin Wong wins the [presumably] last Marvel vs. Capcom 2 grand final at EVO over his friend/enemy Sanford.

And Melty Blood continues to baffle me as to how good it is considering its a couple years old PS2 release. Weird game.

Daryl Bunao

July 13, 2010

Actually Melty Blood: Actress Again came out to PS2 around this time last year. I played in that tournament and the community is fun to hang out with. I'm waiting on fools to upload the unstreamed Team Tournament that happened because there was definitely more drama going down in that one than the Grand Finals that was aired.