If you're in the Northern California Bay Area and looking for a fight this weekend, you should head on down to the San Jose Bar and Grill on Sunday, September 5th, at for the public debut of the formerly private fightclub known as Keystone II. 

Keystone II isn't a traditional tournament, or even the world's biggest gathering, but it's always been very special to me because it feels like the kind of place I grew up playing games--in sketchy arcades.  When I moved to California as a fresh-faced kid from the innocent meat-packing districts of Chicago to the mean streets of San Jose CA, "Keystone II" was the first place to make me feel like "Hrm, ok.  Maybe these guys are cool after all." 

Monster Hunter Tri has a few new event quests up for completing, but the one in particular worth noting is the High Rank Jhen Mohran quest is live again. If you haven't been paying attention, you're going to want to make time to try and get it tonight. This is the last few hours of the quest being available this time, so get on tonight to get those high rank Jhen parts. Remember, you're more than likely going to need a full team of four. He's tough. Work together, and carve like crazy! 

Good luck. 

Ever wondered what it would be like to use Dead Rising 2 weapons against the beasts of Monster Hunter? Well, wonder no more! Monster Hunter Frontier in Japan for PC and 360 is getting Dead Rising 2 exclusive items. Boxing gloves with duct taped knives, the moose head, the boomstick, and 4 colored variations on the "Terror is Reality" Racing suits are all available. Players who get a copy of either Dead Rising 2 for the Xbox 360 or PC in Japan will receive a special token to get these items in either the PC or Xbox 360 version of Monster Hunter Frontier. More screens, renders, and stats on the new items below.

With TGS nearing, the news for Monster Hunter Portable 3rd is ramping up. There's new info on the playable demo that will be at the Capcom booth at TGS, the merchandise you'll be able to get exclusively at TGS, a few new screens, and some more info about the game. 

First, let's look at that new demo for everyone lucky enough to make it to the Capcom booth and play it.

Gametrailers has another new Dead Rising 2 developer video blog up today.  The team talks about DR2's combination of humor, horror, competition, and coop, and how fans pushed them to make them to expand the game beyond the initially planned feature set.   

If you missed any of the previous 3 installments, you can check them all out here, and for those of you playing Case Zero, what do you think?  Are we having fun yet?  I played all the way through to four different endings (if you don't count "just getting torn apart and dying" as an ending), so I'd say I probably got my $5 worth of fun about 10x over.  What about you? 

I love me some combo videos, but the Combonauts have turned the idea on it's head--instead of going for lots of hits and big damage, they're showing off all the amazing stuff you can do that causes... zero damage.  Confused?  Just watch the video! 

It starts a wee bit slow, but gets into some pretty hilarious territory fast.  The video really has it all:  great knowledge, great ideas, great presentation, and a great love for the game.  Nice work guys!

Gamescom is over, and Team MVC3 is gearing up for Tokyo Game Show (where I'm scheduled to be beaten senseless on stage by the lead tester T_T), but producer Niitsuma-san has checked in with a Gamescom report full of the usual tease about what's coming next, as well as some interesting info about the voice options...

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Hey everyone!  This is Niitsuma, who is constantly being sent around the world.  

Unity user, BCR2 music entrant, and general electronic music extraordinaire Robotboot has shared a video of some early "sketching" that he did when making his entry to the BCR2 Remix contest.  Very cool if you ask me.  You can go here to tell him how awesome it was.

There's tons of amazing cosplay out there for Resident Evil, but it's rare you see any for Jill as she appears in RE5. One has popped up recently and it's among the best we've ever seen. Even the photography is topnotch. The costume itself is highly detailed, and the cosplayer looks remarkably close to Jill as ever. 

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Super Street Fighter II Turbo HD Remix is 50% off on the PlayStation Network! If for some reason you haven't picked up this gem, you're not going to find a better deal. Be sure to turn on your PS3 and snag it while the deal is still going on!

The PSN just got some more awesome Capcom Avatars to pretty yourself up with. The new avatars include Dhalsim, Hakan, Rose, Metool, Dr. Light, and Roll. They're available to download on the PlayStation Network for $0.49 each. I'm partial to the Roll sprite, but what one will you be using? 

Capcom Japan recently held a little Lost Planet 2 tournament in their offices. Although the tournament is all over, Hagiwara-san, Senior Manager of Public Relations at Capcom Japan recorded it all on Hagitoko (their Live Stream. It's like the one we do on Unity, but in Japanese) They just uploaded it to the Capcom Youtube account, and you can watch how the tournament goes down. It's all in Japanese of course, but if you happen to be lucky enough to understand it, you're in for some special interviews with Takeuchi-san, the Producer on LP2, and Oguro-san, the Director. 

But even if you don't understand Japanese, there's still lots of amazing LP2 gameplay. Check out the recorded tournament below.