Capcom has announced that Street Fighter IV’s release date will be February 17th.

Exactly twelve years after Street Fighter III was released in February of 1997, Street Fighter IV will be making it’s long awaited debut in February of 2009. We’ve all seen the screenshots, and one of our very own, Carlos Macias, went to the only US embargoed Street Fighter IV cabinet based in good ole California. So are we excited, hell yeah. After all the Street Fighter iterations, we deserve a part IV.

written by Juan Perez \\ tags: Awaited Debut, Capcom, Carlos Macias, release date, Street Fighter Iii, Twelve Years

RPG Talk and Castlevania Shenanigans

Boomp3.com (Run time: 7:53)

“All these resources are going to this?” we wonder today as Konami announces that there will be a new Castlevania game coming to the Xbox 360 and PS3. Also, Jeremy schools Carlos on some Star Ocean and they chat it up RPG-style.

written by Carlos Macias \\ tags: Carlos Macias, Castlevania, jeremy lowe, Kezcast, Konami, ocean, RPG, Star

Boomp3.com (Run time: 7:22)

In an effort to keep the ‘ish going on a semi-regular basis we invited (read: hassled) a Texas friend of the show, Jeremy Lowe, to talk some games with Carlos today. They dig into some LittleBigPlanet, Tekken 6, God of War “sacrifices” and bunch of other Tokyo Game Show related news. Also, notice how we disregard Jeremy’s daughter, Victoria, first podcast appearance in the background.

written by Carlos Macias \\ tags: bite, Carlos Macias, game, God, God of War, jeremey lowe, Kezcast, podcast, show, Size, Tokyo, War

Our partners in crime at R3Match just finished recording their podcast show #2 last night featuring our own Juan Perez and Carlos Macias. Carlos writes for R3Match in addition to his work here on Kezins. In this edition, C4 (the host) made things work despite the fact we were having audio issues.

If you want to find out what games the guys are currently playing, definitely give the podcast a listen. Feel free to leave comments or suggestions below as well and we’ll make things happen. If tournaments and ladders are your thing, definitely pay R3 a visit. You will not regret it. Click on the link for the podcast below!

Download the podcast here.

written by Will Snizek \\ tags: addition, Carlos, Carlos Macias, crime, Edition, fact, Feel, host, Juan, Kezins, match, night, Perez, podcast, radio, show, work

The Weekly R3match

The XBLA Clean-Up Plan

By Carlos Macias, R3match Editor-in-Chief

Posted May 28, 2008 8:19 AM EST

One of the biggest topics last week has been announcements on Microsoft’s end to combat some of the crap that hits XBLA. It’s a measure that shows that Microsoft is doing what they can and making sure the gamer gets a quality experience.

As far as downloadable games go, I tend to stay far and away from them. Most have little redeeming qualities to them, have little replay value, AND are usually riddled with crappy online code that makes taking strangers online a choppy mess.

Rez, Ikaruga, Tetris Splash, Geometry Wars, and Pac-Man: Championship Edition are but a few of the gems on Xbox Live Arcade but the rest of the XBLA library continues to grow in its own stench-infested waste.

The measure should be a good fit for gamers as we wont need to wade through “Shrek & Roll” any longer to get to the good stuff that much quicker. Don’t worry, it doesn’t get rid of all your guys’ guilty pleasures as the measure only includes games that have been up 6 months on the service, less than a 6% demo-to-full game purchase, and underrated at 65 or below on Metacritic.

Meaning, crappy games will stand a chance for at least 6 months from their initial release…its a start though.

The Weekly R3match Archive:

– 04-21-08
– 04-07-08
– 02-26-08
– 01-15-08
– 01-02-08
– 12-27-07
– 12-14-07
– 11-27-07
– 11-19-07
– 11-10-07

written by Will Snizek \\ tags: Carlos Macias, Chief Posted, Clean, crap, crappy, Don, Editor-in, end, EST, match, May, measure, Microsoft, Online, Plan, Tetris Splash, Week, Weekly, XBLA