Street Fighter X Tekken screenshots and trailers bring the ruckus

Capcom have unveiled a whole host of trailers and screenshots for their upcoming fighting match-up Street Fighter X Tekken, as well as confirming some of the characters who will feature.

Street Fighter X Tekken: Fight! Fight!


The long-awaited clash between Capcom and Namco's classic fighting titles was first announced back at Comic-Con in 2010, but this is the first proper look we've got at the game.

It sees characters from Capcom's Street Fighter taking on those from Namco Bandai's Tekken, in a 2D fight environment which promises to blend the fighting styles (and controls) of both series so that fans of either will feel at home, although predominantly retaining the look and feel of Street Fighter - it uses the same engine as Street Fighter IV.

The new screenshots and trailers, released by Capcom yesterday, give a flavour of the gameplay ad show off some of the environments - including, quite prominently, a Dino Crisis-inspired stage filled with onlooking T Rexes.

Must get quite distracting having those dinosaurs staring at you all the time

Confirmed characters include Ryu, Ken, Guile, Abel, and Chun-Li from Street Fighter and Kazuya, Nina, King, Marduk, and Bob from Tekken.

The game is due out in 2012 on PS3, Xbox 360 and PC.

Also in development is Namco's 3D take on the same match-up, naturally named Tekken X Street Fighter - with the two companies merrily talking up the rivalry between the two firms.

New Street Fighter X Tekken Trailer

Based on the Street Fighter IV fighting engine, Capcom’s Street Figher X Tekken will pit a team of Street Fighter veterans such as Ryu, Guile, and Able against Namco’s Tekken stars like Kazuya, Nina, and Bob. The game will be a tag-team fighter which will let you switch out your characters as you play or link their combos together for massive damage. Capcom also promises a more robust online mode with “upgraded functionality and some new surprises.” The game is expected to be released sometime in 2012 and will be available for Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, and PC.

Check out the new cinematic trailer for the game below that showcases Ryu and Ken fighting off Kazuya and Nina.

Going Green in Heart and Mind: Seagate Barracuda 2TB

Going Green in Heart and Mind: Seagate Barracuda 2TB







Following our review of two of the fastest notebook hard drives on the market, we're going to review a very interesting product for the desktop - a green hard drive. For many people, most hard drives have attained a size that is enough to hold the majority of their data. This has been primarily achieved by the introduction of 1TB and 2TB HDD. The 2TB drive is safe to say the most prevalent data drive to date. Many users find themselves buying 2TB drives as data drives and in some cases, even operating system drives. As the market saturated itself with 2TB drives last year, a second generation of those drives began to roll out with improvements upon the original designs. This leads us to the development that Seagate has come out with, the Seagate Barracuda Green also known as the Seagate Barracuda LP (for low power). This drive is intended to not only be considered a "green" drive but also one that is generally considered to be cooler and quieter as well. Today we will see how Seagate’s 2TB Green drive stacks up against the competition as well as other Seagate offerings.

Specs and Background Data
One of the key factors about the Barracuda Green is that the drive is not a 7200rpm "desktop speed" drive, nor is it a 5400rpm "notebook speed" drive. Instead, it is actually a 5900RPM drive which means that it in theory will not quite operate as slowly as the majority of other 5400 rpm "green" low power drives, but at the same time will not likely be as fast as some 7200RPM drives of the same size. This is achieved through doubling the available cache memory. Seagate Barracuda Green features 64MB of cache unlike 32MB in its predecessor. Furthermore, this drive is capable of utilizing SATA 6Gb/s which should further make it a quicker drive. Also, like our previously reviewed WD Scorpio Black, Barracuda Green also comes with the new Advanced Format 4K sector standard, which the company calls Seagate SmartAlign. We will see how much of an effect this really does have on performance, though.


As you can see from above, 2TB capacity is packed in a typical 3.5" housing with nothing to write home about. Turning the hard drive upside down changes the story, though.

Notice that Seagate also opted to go for a smaller than usual PCB (Printed Circuit Board) on the drive as well. Recently, we spoke with Seagate on their new strategy towards the enterprise segment and it was disclosed that the company is shifting focus from mature 3.5" form factor to 2.5" and that the R&D focus will be tuned to building as fast performing 2.5" drives as possible. Thus, seeing a PCB that could almost fit on a 2.5" one is no surprise at all.

Winning: "Epic Meal Time" crew make some epic Indian food

(CBS) - When you go out to a nice meal, are you looking for something tasty and refined? Or do you want something EPIC? Personally, I'm a fan of the latter, which is why I love the "Epic Meal Time" crew, and especially love their latest video creation: "Epic Indian Experience."

I've been following the "Epic Meal Time" gang since the beginning and really love their use of comedy and cooking to make some of the most amazing, horrifying, incredible, heart-attack inducing creations you've ever witnessed. If you haven't seen their work before and like their style, you can check out more of their stuff here.

New Pirates Of The Caribbean: On Stranger Tides Theatrical Poster!

The theatrical poster for the highly anticipated sequel has just hit the web. Check it out after the jump!



Remember those character posters released in promotion of Pirates Of The Caribbean: On Stranger Tides? Well, we now have all those posters in one group shot. Your viewing pleasure directly below...





Pirates Of The Caribbean: On Stranger Tides hits theaters May 20th!

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Despite injury troubles for Orioles’ rotation, team runs out to 4-0 start

 

 

Starting pitcher Jake Arrieta pitches in the first inning of the Baltimore Orioles’ home opener against the Detroit Tigers at Camden Yards in Baltimore Monday.

BALTIMORE -- As pitching ailments have piled up, the Orioles have done a bit more than shrug aside the adversity. It's been more of an all-out shove.
Brian Matusz, Justin Duchscherer and Jeremy Guthrie have all been sidelined, forcing the club to turn to options deeper on the depth chart less than a week into the season.
And entering Brad Bergesen's unexpected season debut tonight, Baltimore has handled the misfortune with aplomb.
The Orioles have opened 4-0 for the first time since 1997 and can match the best start in franchise history (5-0 in 1970) with a win tonight. The team's starters have been the key to that, combining to allow just two runs in 26 innings for a spectacular 0.69 ERA. They've also permitted just 12 hits, fanned 20 and walked nine through four contests.
They are just the second team in American League history to begin a season 4-0 while allowing no more than one run in any game, according to the Elias Sports Bureau.
Baltimore manager Buck Showalter acknowledged Monday that he couldn't expect anything more than that.
"No you couldn't, especially with some of the challenges we've faced with Matusz and Duchscherer, and a couple of line drives off pitching arms towards the end of spring, and now Bergy's going to have to pick up the slack for Guthrie," Showalter said. "The starting pitching, obviously, this year's been everything you can ask for. They've kind of fed off each other a little bit."
Duchscherer was limited to one spring start spanning two innings before hip and back issues landed him on the 15-day disabled list to open the season.
The Orioles scratched Matusz from his start Saturday and placed him on the DL because of an intercostal strain - small muscles between the ribs. The left-hander is expected to miss anywhere from three to six weeks.
Guthrie became the latest fallen starter, as he was hospitalized Monday with a form of pneumonia. The timing couldn't have been much worse for a couple of reasons. First, Guthrie was coming off a sparkling season debut when he held Tampa Bay to three hits in eight scoreless innings. Second, he missed the Orioles' home-opening festivities. Guthrie is expected to miss five to seven days, but hasn't yet been ruled out to start April 10.
Because of Duchscherer's injuries, both right-handers Chris Tillman and Bergesen made the team out of spring training with Bergesen starting the year in the bullpen. In response to Matusz's injury, Tillman's first start was pushed up from Sunday to Saturday and top prospect Zach Britton was brought up to make his major-league debut at least three weeks before anyone expected.
And because of Guthrie's illness, Bergesen is also starting earlier than expected. Bergesen was originally slated to make his first start Sunday.
"I'm comfortable with it," Bergesen said of starting tonight. "I knew all along that I was here to fill in if needed, so when we got the bad news that Jeremy wasn't going to be able to make the start, I figured that I was going to get the call. It's upsetting that we've had [three] of our starters go down, so hopefully Jeremy will be back with us soon."
So far, the response to all the shuffling has been positive.
Tillman tossed six hitless, scoreless innings in his first start Saturday and Britton gave up one run in six innings in his initial big-league start Sunday.
Bergesen, who hopes to follow suit tonight, believes it says something about the quality of the team that the rotation has excelled despite early adversity.
"I think that the depth is the answer," Bergesen said. "We've seen that already in the first four games of the year. Hopefully we get them back, but guys are able to step up and hopefully will continue to do so."
That hot start on the mound has allowed the offense to ease into April, as everyone but Brian Roberts, Nick Markakis, Matt Wieters and J.J. Hardy have scuffled to some degree early on.
"I feel like what we've done so far is we've been able to take pressure off the hitters and it seems like they're relaxed," right-hander Jake Arrieta said. "It's fun to be a part of this team right now and I'm just real excited about the direction we're going."