Prominent members of the FGC have drafted up the FGC code of conduct. The code of conduct is meant to bring most fighting game events in line with a centralized rule-set and methodology for enforcing those rules, at least in respect to player conduct.

The year 2020 was rough, man. Extreme times cause extreme changes, and 2020 definitely brought about some extreme changes. Everything got a little weird this year, and frankly, we are going to look very different when we come out the other side. Let's take a look back at some of the strange, exciting, and surprising developments that took place in 2020.

Tell Me Why is an uncomfortable game, and that's the point. It deals with issues that most media won't touch, let alone most games. Besides the fact that it stars a transgender protagonist, it also deals with the way law enforcement treats children, people of a lower class, and people of color. It touches on the traditions of Native Alaskan peoples and the way Christianity has become a force for good and/or bad in modern Alaskan culture.

There has been a lot of discussion about video game remakes recently. Final Fantasy VII Remake's release is one of the biggest video game events this year, but then people realized it might not be the remake they once thought it was. Then Trials of Mana came out, and it WAS the remake that people thought FFVIIR was going to be. Sakura Wars got a "Remake" but it was nearly unidentifiable from the original IP. Meanwhile, Resident Evil III got remade and was somehow completely updated while remaining faithful to the original.

Angelo and Casey return to discuss the new Fall anime, and Jaime tries to sell them on Seven Deadly Sins Season 3 (2). Plus Castlevania Season 2 and more!

In our companion article, we discussed MTG Salvation user Talcos's new experiment in getting deep recurrent neural networks (or RNNs) to generate Magic: The Gathering cards. In short, Talcos is using a computer A.I. to notice patterns in a spoiler of every Magic card ever created, and is then using those patterns to generate new and interesting cards. These cards range from the crazy and overpowered, when the network is trained poorly, to the interesting and playable, when the network is trained

E3 2014 allowed us to see Hack N Slash, a product of Double Fines Amnesia Fortnight Game Jam, grow up from a simple sprite based prototype into a fully realized game, and let me tell you it’s awesome. This game isn’t just an interesting action adventure title; it’s also a tutorial on the basics of coding and hacking other games. It’s funny, quirky, and broken, and it’s totally unapologetic about it.

The simple format of two guys standing on opposite sides of a screen and trying to punch each other to death has quickly become a professional gaming craze. The so titled “FGC” (fighting game community), holds major events all over the world that attract thousands of competitors, from the best in the world who treat fighting games as their job, to couch warriors who just want to sharpen their skills against the greatest. EVO, the world’s biggest fighting game tournament, broke Twitch.TV records