News Roundup: The Karate Ninja Street Fighter

by: Randy - posted: 2/28/2009 2:15:00 AM

In GamingNexus news:

• We talk to D3 producer Brian Etheridge about eating lead.
• Martial arts is the watchword, with International Karate and The Last Ninja hitting the Virtual Console this past week.
• ...Or see This Week in Defunct Games in its native environment.
• Skate It or die...it.  [Booo, I know.]
• What's one book that you want turned into a video game?
• GTA Chinatown Wars -- an HD trailer for a DS game.
• SOE thinks $20,000 is Child's Play.

And in other news:

• Tetris -- Always a bridesmaid, never a bride.
• Destructoid's tightly-edited video recap of of the Community Vibes IV shindig.
• NZXT's latest fan controller, the Sentry LX.
• Street Fighter IV.  Now this is a fighting game.
• Scoot up close with the Pyramat Game Bag 2.1.
• The GeForce GTX 295 is based on two 55nm GT200b chips.
• Does the OCZ Apex 120GB SATA II SSD's higher performance justify the higher price?

Thanks to Defunct Games, Techgage, Gamertag Radio, ActionTrip, TechwareLabs, iXBT and Legit Reviews for today's news roundup.