Play Magazine

What better way to remember the fallen than to give you the entire Girls of Gaming, volume 1? These really are excellent books, which you can buy right here.

This post is also to celebrate me finally getting off my butt and upgrading the site. Because if I hadn’t, I would have had to add all 105 images manually. Come in and enjoy the fruits of my labor.

If this is popular - and I think it will be - I’ll start uploading more complete art books (like the rest of Girls of Gaming). Anything in particular you’d like to see?

Namco Bandai

I am simply OUTRAGED! at the changes made for the US Soul Calibur IV website. Contrast and compare with the Japanese site.

I’m greatly amused at the double standard shown here. Can you imagine the meeting? “The violence is fine, the outfits in the game are fine, but by God, we won’t have underboob on our website!”

Valve

I’m desperately trying to find higher-res versions of these amazing chibi girl recreations of the Team Fortress 2 characters. All I have to go on is this site, which isn’t much help given my lack of moon language mastery. Please leave a comment if you know anything further!

Anyway, see them all inside, and again apologies for lack of hi-res pics.

What’s incredible about these designs is how closely they stick to the character profiles, even though they’ve switched gender and art direction. Truly a testament to the Valve character designers as well as this artist (whoever you are!)

Shunya Yamashita

If you know your artbooks, you should recognize Pocco as the delightful cover girl from Shunya Yamashita’s Sweet Dreams collection. If you’re poor like me, you don’t actually own the book, so if you’re not poor then maybe you should buy it for me.

Anyway, the nice thing about this figure is that it’s an actual action figure, which means it’s highly poseable and (relatively) cheap. Check all the pics inside.

It’s not shipping until April or May, and like everything else Shunya, it’ll probably sell quickly, so act fast if you want it - and you do.

Nintendo

You know I fell in love with you the moment we first met. Your cute Barbie-like exterior hiding nerves of steel, your intelligence offset by the adorable little beauty spot on your cheek.

But then things changed, didn’t they? In Black Hole Rising, you started to look different. A little Special Olympics. I’m sorry, that’s cruel, I know you were just trying to improve yourself. And by Dual Strike, you did recover, but it was a fake glamour. The fresh-faced innocence was gone.

I’ve moved on. There’s someone new. Her name is Lin.

Advance Wars: Days of Ruin takes a new direction for a series, both in tone and in presentation. While the game graphics themselves are not much changed (especially when zoomed out), the character artwork is now much more detailed and beautifully rendered. I was worried the game would lose its charm with this “mature” style, but my fears was put aside the minute I started playing. Alright, as soon as I saw the line-up of chicks.

Capcom

First post of the year, and it’s actual news! A poster over at NeoGAF uploaded scans of the latest copy of Famitsu, revealing a new character from Street Fighter 4.

As you’ll see inside, this new girl - who goes by the name Crimson Viper - looks like she walked straight out of SNK’s King of Fighters series. I’m not sure if that particular direction is where Street Fighter should go, but I definitely am pleased to see more females

Playguy

This came through during my downtime so I know it’s a bit late, but that magazine with “Play” and “Boy” in the title published their annual Girls of Gaming issue last month (December 2007 is the cover date), and as usual I’m disappointed that it’s just an excuse for a marketing push for random current games (Age of Conan: Hyborian Adventures, Kane & Lynch, Jericho, The Witcher, ANOTHER Conan game, and Tabula Rasa).

So save yourself the price of the dead tree version and see ALL the pics inside. Unless you really want some crappy pics of Kim Kardashian.

I guess what really irks me is that there’s an abundance of sexy women in games already, as evidenced by this site.

Nippon Ichi Software

I just bought a couple of these awesome Disgaea trading figures produced by Kotobukiya, seeing as I’ve been playing an awful lot of the game on the PSP.

Like anything else to do with Disgaea, they’re going to go quick, so snap them up now.

See all of them (except Laharl, because he’s not a hot chick) inside.

Capcom

Sorry for the lack of updates recently, it was unavoidable. But flipping through the latest EGM I was reading about Street Fighter IV, and feeling inspired, I knew I had to post.

Ladies and gentlemen, I give you the Girls of Street Fighter, from Chun-Li to.. Area?! Oh, and one dude. A really hot dude.

Enjoy more than 60 (mostly) high-res pics inside.

Thanks to Fighters Generation and Creative Uncut for many of the images.