SamuraiPanda was on an episode of Wut R U Playn? a few months ago to discuss several things, among them the news that he was working on a fighting game that took inspiration from a familiar franchise.

Today, Instaburst has revealed their free-to-play PC game!

The game is still early in development and they are currently recruiting members who are willing to help their team! That said, if you’re interested, join their team and follow them on…

Instaburst’s Website
Instaburst’s Facebook
Instaburst’s Twitter
Instaburst’s Subreddit

Are there any League of Legends fans in the community? What is your excitement level on this project?

With E3 2013’s conferences beginning tomorrow, I’m going to assume you’ve listened to Episode 136 of SMYN, where we had SMYNjas call in on Skype for our yearly pre-E3 special.

Wait, you haven’t listened to that yet? Well, go do so now!

Anyway, on that show, we had SMYNjas make predictions that were purposefully bold. We dub these as “Big Boss Predictions.” However, this year, we let these callers make an additional, even CRAZIER prediction. With the news that Kiefer Sutherland is supposedly the new voice of Big Boss, these wilder guesses were called “Kiefer Predictions.”

Now, as E3 is about to descend upon us all, here is a list of the Big Boss and Kiefer Predictions from our pre-E3 podcast (along with who make the prognostications), so that we can document them. Hopefully even one of them is correct. View them after the jump!

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With E3 2013 less than a month away and after re-watching last year’s press conferences (mostly to get them off my DVR), let’s recap the claims that were made by each of the Big Three companies (plus EA and Ubisoft) and see how they did almost one year later! Five conferences will be reviewed for not their content quality, but the truthfulness of the claims that were made, between now and Episode 135 of SMYN. Up next is Nintendo at E3 2012, after the break!

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With E3 2013 less than a month away and after re-watching last year’s press conferences (mostly to get them off my DVR), let’s recap the claims that were made by each of the Big Three companies (plus EA and Ubisoft) and see how they did almost one year later! Five conferences will be reviewed for not their content quality, but the truthfulness of the claims that were made, between now and Episode 135 of SMYN. Up next is Sony at E3 2012, after the break!

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With E3 2013 less than a month away and after re-watching last year’s press conferences (mostly to get them off my DVR), let’s recap the claims that were made by each of the Big Three companies (plus EA and Ubisoft) and see how they did almost one year later! Five conferences will be reviewed for not their content quality, but the truthfulness of the claims that were made, between now and Episode 135 of SMYN. Up next is Ubisoft at E3 2012, after the break!

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With E3 2013 less than a month away and after re-watching last year’s press conferences (mostly to get them off my DVR), let’s recap the claims that were made by each of the Big Three companies (plus EA and Ubisoft) and see how they did almost one year later! Five conferences will be reviewed for not their content quality, but the truthfulness of the claims that were made, between now and Episode 135 of SMYN. Up next is EA at E3 2012, after the break!

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With E3 2013 less than a month away and after re-watching last year’s press conferences (mostly to get them off my DVR), let’s recap the claims that were made by each of the Big Three companies (plus EA and Ubisoft) and see how they did almost one year later! Five conferences will be reviewed for not their content quality, but the truthfulness of the claims that were made, between now and Episode 135 of SMYN. Up first is MICROSOFT at E3 2012, after the break!

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I cannot say I’ve ever actually been heavily depressed. I mean there was one year in high school where I convinced myself I was super depressed over a girl, but that’s about as close as I’ve gotten. I have those random nights where I just can’t stop telling myself how lonely I am, how my life is going nowhere, but I wouldn’t really call that full depression, just thinking too much. I have friends who suffer from actual depression, so I sort of get it but at the same time I can’t say I fully relate. I’ve lost my point somewhere in this paragraph… If you wanna see where this is going (and I think you do) it continues after the break.

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I wanted to give Fire Emblem: Awakening a chance.

After all, I tried XCOM: Enemy Unknown and could not find myself remotely invested in the award-winning game after an hour of play. Maybe turn-based, grid-designed strategy games were just not for me. I even admitted this much on the most recent episode of Wut R U Playn.

But SMYNjas convinced me to give the latest Fire Emblem a try. This was one of their favorite Nintendo franchises. The game was getting amazing reviews. It was one of the best games on the 3DS to date. There were three difficulty levels and a Casual/Classic mode distinction. It was the ideal game to start with for beginners. These are all very compelling reasons to buy the game, so I did so digitally, with a lack of supply in stores at the time of purchase. What was my experience like? Find out after the break!

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We are less than 48 hours away from Sony’s teased “Future of PlayStation” press conference in New York City. A stream will be shown across the web live on Wednesday, February 20th at 6 PM ET (3 PM PT). Multiple sources are reporting that this will feature the reveal of Sony’s next home gaming console, to succeed the PlayStation 3. The anticipation is palpable. As a gamer, the more I use Sony’s PS3 and PlayStation Vita, the more I find myself excited for this event. While this was discussed on the latest episode of Show Me Your News, I figured it was a good idea to take a look in blog form at the things that should be unveiled for a SUCCESSFUL reveal of PlayStation’s future. Read these after the break!

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