Cho Chabudai Gaeshi

You've had another tough day in the office, your boss is still on your case for those TPS reports, they moved your desk again, the tube was rammed and all you want to do is get home and relax. You get back and sit down at the dinner table. You wife presents you with a questionable meal, your irritating daughter prattles on into her mobile phone and your son twiddles away with his Gameboy. This shit is ridiculous. You are about to FLIP THE MOTHERFUCKING TABLE!!



This happens to all of us some days, which is why Taito created Cho Chabudai Gaeshi -perhaps the only arcade game to feature a fully flippable table controller. Watch and be amazed at just how genius this is. Here's hoping that Activision get the western home distribution rights to this so that they can add it to their ever-growing games with ridiculous peripherals sub-genre. I'd buy one.

Street Fighter 4 gets sexy peripherals so you can suck less.

Admit it, when you heard the announcement for the console release of Street Fighter 4, your excitement was cut short by a shocking realisation. Whether you own a PS3, 360 or both, your joy will have been muted by the sad truth that your controller is useless for 2D beat-em-ups. Both controllers have shockingly awful d-pads making a game such as Street Fighter far more frustrating than usual.

Despite their reputation for shoddy and nasty looking peripherals, Mad Catz has landed the opportunity to produce licenced controllers for both console versions of Street Fighter 4. They are almost as sexy as Jamie Lynn-Sigler nude oil wrestling with Scarlett Johansson, with some superb artwork, interchangeable faceplates and what looks like solid construction. As always the proof will be in the pudding, but they look classy, expensive and built to last. I've already invested in my own Hori arcade stick, but I'm seriously thinking of picking up one of the control pads. It has a proper 8-way d-pad and six-button layout. It reminds me of the Saturn controller which was perfect for beat-em-ups as my man Bojack will happily tell you.

I'm going to get my ass handed to me anyway, but at least some decent hardware will force me to get better and stop using the "Crappy D-Pad Excuse".

FEBRUARY! WOO!

The Faux Bot