We're looking for a few good Spyborgs wallpapers, and when it comes to creative, IMO nobody's better than you--the community.

With that in mind, we present to you, the Official Spyborgs Wallpaper Contest.  This is your chance to create not just any old wallpaper, but our officially official wallpaper. 

You are free to use whatever you like to make the wallpapers, but to aid you in your artistic endeavors, we have a few high-res layered pieces of Spyborgs art ready for your downloadification here. 

The contest runs from today, August 5th, through Friday, August 14th, 2009.  Send a message to THIS GUY with the details on where to find your entry, and you're good to go.

Oh right... what do you win?  Besides your place in Capcom history and internet fame (retail value $0.00), you'll also score:

--A free copy of the game

--A copy of the Spyborgs comic signed by the original UDON artists

--3000 Unity points

Now get wallpaperin'!

The always-impresive photoshop army over at NeoGaf has been creating some arty new covers for their favorite games, inspired by the fantastic DVD covers from the Criterion Collection (examples of their covers are here). 

Of course the collection features a ton of great takes on Capcom games--some really beautiful work, including some inspired by Unity's own RelentlessRolento.

The original gaf thread is here, and you can find most of the collected images in one easy-viewing location here.

As promised, here are the faceplate template PSDs for the award-winning Mad Catz joysticks:

FightStick Template

Tournament Edition FightStick Template

You can use the templates to size whatever art you'd like to the stick face, then print these babies out down at your local Kinkos (or wherever) and you can get em laminated to add what we call "a touch of class." 

Here are a couple of basic examples from MarkMan: 

It must be said:  Swapping out the standard art for whatever you put on these templates will require you to open up your joystick.  Opening up the stick, for any reason (yes, even if you got your beard stuck in there) will VOID YOUR WARRANTY, so we in no way encourage you to do that. These might be the easiest-to-mod sticks ever made, but modding is not for you unless (like me) you value being awesome more than having a warranty. 

Also, these are just example faceplates, since you probably do not own the rights to these images.  To be safe, you should only put pictures of, say, your cat or something on these joysticks :)

Finally, just in case you are new on this planet and haven't been already been completely saturated with how awesome these things are, check out this nice overview (complete with reviews) from MarkMan over at Shoryuken...

Ashy-grey skin: check

Torn clothes:  check

Arm stretched, yearning to satisfy bottomless, evil appetites:  check

Pained expression reflecting the torments of a living hell:  check

Cocked head:  check

Awkwardly bent ankle reflecting unholy, stumbling indifference to pain:  check

Definitely tough to tell them apart outside of the recording studio.  Keep your shotguns cocked just in case...

Thanks Kevin!

A lot of people ask me "Seth, where can I go to hear the best in Street Fighter piano arrangements, performed live?" 

My answer is always the same, and if I've said it once, I've said it a thousand times:  the Math Department Faculty concerts in Barcelona. 

Duh!