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John Roberts has been training in martial arts for 12 years, and is currently a 3rd degree black belt in American Karate. Through the years he has trained in Tae Kwan Do, CDT, Brazilian Ju-Jitsu, Krav Maga, and KFM. Most recently he has also had the chance to do training with Ricardo Liborio and his American Top Team. Along with his years in the martial arts, John also has a bachelor's degree with a major in fine arts and a minor in philosophy. He enjoys first-person shooters in his free time.
Multiplayergames’ Digital Dojo: Best of the Best Championship Karate
Welcome back to the Digital Dojo, Multiplayergames’ dissection of martial arts accuracy in video games. Today’s lesson reviews 1992’s Best of the Best Championship Karate, which has no relationship to the movie Best of the Best (1989), although the game does follow a similar story line about a fighter trying to battle to a fighting championship. Our fighter [...]
Continue reading...EA Shuts Down On-line Support for More Games
Tuesday, February 23, 2010
Starting in March Electronic Arts will be permanently shutting down on-line capabilities for a batch of their titles. Oddly a few of the titles like Mercenaries 2: World in Flames and Army of Two on the PS3 are platform and region specific kills. In April, Army of Two goes down in Asia and March hosts the [...]
Continue reading...1 VS. 100 Success Will Try To Be Expanded
Wednesday, February 17, 2010
Aaron Greenberg recently commented on Xbox Live’s 1 vs. 100 saying , “In many ways we are pioneering an entirely new category of entertainment and it has been very successful.” According to the director of product management, this has them thinking of new programming possibilities in this area. The news of possible expansion in this section of online [...]
Continue reading...Multiplayergames’ Digital Dojo: Karateka VS. International Karate+
Thursday, January 21, 2010
Welcome back to the Digital Dojo, Multiplayergames’ dissection of martial arts accuracy in video games. Today’s lesson pits digital karate up against well… digital karate. We will begin our examination with Karateka from 1984, which was originally designed for the Apple II (and ported to a number of consoles), but we will be referencing the NES edition which [...]
Continue reading...EA Gets Cung Le and Six More MMA Fighters
Tuesday, December 29, 2009
Cung Le has joined EA Sports MMA. According to the game’s website, him and six additional fighters have been added: Gilbert Melendez, Robbie Lawler, Ronaldo Souza, Matt Lindland, Scott Smith, and Josh Thomson are the the other six, but Le is by far the biggest name of this group. He has been a successful mixed martial arts for years and [...]
Continue reading...Multiplayergames’ Digital Dojo: Kung Fu vs Karate Champ
Monday, December 28, 2009
Welcome back to the Digital Dojo, Multiplayergames dissection of martial arts accuracy in video games. Today’s lesson will pit old school digital Kung Fu against old school digital Karate. Let’s begin with the NES port of Kung Fu from 1985. This is a game most video game fans remember. It was a great straightforward effort, with [...]
Continue reading...Multiplayergames’ Digital Dojo: Super Street Fighter IV
Thursday, December 17, 2009
Have you ever wondered if the fighting you see in video games is really possible? Are programmers really designing characters with the styles they say they are? Or, what if what is being showed on screen is technically accurate? Welcome to the Digital Dojo! While visiting us, it is our goal to educate you in the [...]
Continue reading...Activision Targets Call of Duty for Pay to Play
Monday, November 23, 2009
It is in the nature of business to try and find new ways to increase profit, and open new lines of revenue. I believe most people know this. However, shouldn’t it also be in the interest of companies to not alienate consumers? Not try to price gouge them at every chance they get? I ask these [...]
Continue reading...The Haloverse Goes On and On and On…
Monday, November 16, 2009
Is the Haloverse spreading itself too thin? One might not think so when you look at sales figures for the most recent Halo installment, Halo 3: ODST. According to Microsoft’s COO of interactive entertainment, Dennis Durkin, Halo 3: ODST has sold over 3 million copies to date since its release on September 22, 2009. This sounds great, [...]
Continue reading...Gears of War 2 Title Update 5 Fixes Problems Large and Small
Thursday, November 12, 2009
Rod Fergusson, executive producer for Gears of War 2, has posted what problems will be corrected with the most recent title update on the gears forum. After fixing some of the glitches for online gaming, the team will be able to go in and fix the leader boards, making sure the top listed players are the ones who [...]
Continue reading...Splinter Cell’s Sam Fisher Trains in Krav Maga
Monday, November 9, 2009
The new Splinter Cell is following a trend, found in recent movies, of more true to life violence. But, how does one go about “making it real” ? Simple, engrain feasible combative techniques into the fighting. By cutting loose the high flying, mid-air wire work made popular by films like The Matrix and Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, movies and games [...]
Continue reading...Playstation 3 Not the Better Playground for Console MMOs
Saturday, September 26, 2009
Who among us has not had a debate, at some point, with someone over which is the better system, the Xbox 360 or the PlayStation 3? Every gamer seems to have their favorite, from which they can not be swayed. So as the never ending debate rolls on, I offer more fuel for the fire… for [...]
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