There’s a misconception that there was a drought in the world of 2D fighting games. Street Fighter IV brought the genre back into the mainstream, and a bunch of games rode the coattails: Marvel vs. Capcom 3, BlazBlu, and more. But the King of Fighters series has always been there. Unfortunately, the series gets constantly overlooked, and this will be especially criminal in the case of KoF XIII, which is a particularly great game.
Creamy gameplay and controls, staggeringly huge and powerful combos, K’ and Mai are back, amazing true 2D graphics, SNK cameos
Delay at beginning of online matches, ‘98 Iori is on-disk paid DLC, filler story per the usual
A Little Bit On The “Do Whatever It Takes” Side: Not-so-fun Fact: each year in the U.S. and Canada over 2,000,000 kids wind up homeless. One out of eight kids are forced to leave their homes for whatever reason, and we’re of the sound opinion that this sucks.
To help raise money and awareness to combat youth homelessness, Virgin Mobile has launched DoWhateverItTakes.org where you can make an account and submit your own “whatever.” Your “whatever” is basically anything your friends/family/fans would really pay to see. You set a monetary goal, your peeps donate money towards that goal, and kabam! Youth homelessness: combatted.
Up top is YouTuber extraordinaire Wheezy Waiter pledging to build an igloo, stay in it overnight, and stream the whole grueling process over the internet. With only 12 days left, he’s already met over $7,000 of his $10,000 goal. Go support his shizz here.
Now, us being the awesome dudes that we are, we’d like to get in on this action and support a good cause. We’re always sharing links to cool games, toys, and other junk for you guys to buy, but there’s kids out there who don’t even have roofs over their heads. That’s whack, and we feel kind of like we should do something about it.
So…
What would you pay to see us do in the name of anti-youth-homelessness-ness? We could roam the streets giving away designer toys to strangers? I, your humble editor-at-large could shave a Tri-Force symbol into the back of my head? Play an entire season in a Madden NFL game (ugh!!!!)? Leave your suggestions in the comments section below.
As some of you may have noticed over the weekend, we change up the site layout. We’ve received several notices from you guys about problems with the previous theme’s loading issues, so we hope this new theme remedies the situation.
Along with the new look, we’re also changing up our posting style to deliver more bit-sized nuggets of awesome each day. Don’t worry, we’ll also be doing some lengthy editorial stuff as well which will be indicated by it’s bigness on the site’s front page - much like this very post.
We’re still having a problem with getting the Disqus comments to show up correctly, so if any web-savvy readers wanna’ help us out, we’re using the Stacky 5 theme and really have no clue how to properly tweak it. Email brownkidd@albotas.com if you feel like lending a hand.
Anywho, hope you all dig the site’s new layout and direction. We have some killer original content lined up for the future. In the meantime, stay tuned and stay awesome!
For the first time and history, two Albotas writers met in real life. Fittingly enough, Brownkidd and I (Marc) met for the first time under these giant Kidrobot x Swatch ads. If you told me five years ago that Dunnies would be plastered over Times Square I wouldn’t have believed you. Who wants to buy me the Kozik watch?
I wanted to have this up yesterday, but it took my computer exactly 756 minutes to render the complete video before I uploaded it to YouTube. Future videos will be way shorter since I got the general introduction out of the way.
This is basically a look into how I run the site, promote it, find news, etc. If anything, I’ll at least be able to look back on these videos and see how the site progresses.
Please leave comments, subscribe on YouTube, and leave video replies to be featured on a future episode!
In case you needed proof that we’re kind of a big deal, multi-fasquillion dollar corporate giant Virgin currently has our little blog listed as one of their Influencers of the Month on their Virgin Mobile Live Facebook page and we’re also one of their 25 Obsession Worthy Blogs! We finally made it, momma’! There’s also a brief interview with your fearless editor-at-large, yours truly. Check it out here.
Big thanks to all the loyal Albotians and the rest of the Albotas crew for keeping this site fresh to death on a Monday-thru-Friday basis!
The rad dudes over at 604 Republic brought us on board their partner store program and you can get Albotas t-shirts for just $19.95!!! And here’s a link to our new Albotas Shop where we’ll be adding more fresh gear in the future. Huge thanks to Sebastian from 604 Republic for hooking us up and making this all possible. Be sure to check them out for some geekily awesome tees and hoodies.
Sorry, I just had to put that up. Thanks to all of you wonderful followers. Hope you’ve been enjoying all the awesome stuff we’ve been posting. I continue to be surprised at how there’s no shortage of it in sight. That being said, I’m sure some of you have your own amazing work that you’d like to share. Feel free to send it our way and we’ll make sure to write a post about it.
[CONTEST] We’re Giving Away a FREE Pair of Tickets to Virgin Mobile FreeFest!
Like music? Like free things? Well, hey! Today might be your lucky day! The rad dudes over at Virgin Mobile have hooked us up with a pair of FreeFest tickets to give away to ONE lucky Albotian! This means one of you guys will get to see bands like Two Door Cinema Club, TV On The Radio, Cut Copy, and The Black Keys… FOR FREE!!! Oh, and I’ll be there too!
Although this is a free music festival, the entire batch of free tickets was gobbled up in just five minutes after going on sale. Good thing we got your back!
After liking BOTH pages, visit Virgin Mobile Live on Facebook and write this sentence on their wall, tagging the Albotas Facebook page “Albotas wants to take me to FreeFest!” MAKE SURE YOU TAG THE PAGE ON THE WALL TO BE ENTERED! You can tag a page by typing “@” into the text box followed by the pages name. Facebook will automatically pull up the page for you to select.
Contest will last 24 hours from the time of this post. One winner will be chosen at random and will be contacted by a Virgin Mobile representative via Facebook.
Tickets will be mailed to the address provided by the winner 1-2 weeks before the festival.
If any of our readers plan on attending the fest year and you see a brown dude with a mohawk, don’t be afraid to say hi! Just don’t make eye contact or I’ll punch you in the junk. Kidding! ::HUGS::
He’s made some of the most stylish art in recent memory. It’s been displayed all over the world. He’s worked for everyone from ESPN to The Deftones. Now James Jirat Patradoon takes some time to talk to Albotas. Hit the link for our interview.
Our Heroes & Villains Custom Toy Extravaganza Kicks Off Today at 1up!!!
We’ve revealed a few of the pieces on our Daily Geekstomization segment, and now the big day is finally here. Our first ever custom toy exhibit opens up at 1up Collectibles in West Reading today at 2pm. If you’re in Reading/Philly area, stop on by!
Stay tuned for future posts with pics and video footage from the show. And don’t forget to follow me @brownkidd on Twitter for pics and general hullabaloo.
Creamy gameplay and controls, staggeringly huge and powerful combos, K’ and Mai are back, amazing true 2D graphics, SNK cameos
Delay at beginning of online matches, ‘98 Iori is on-disk paid DLC, filler story per the usual 
![[CONTEST] We’re Giving Away a FREE Pair of Tickets to Virgin Mobile FreeFest!
Like music? Like free things? Well, hey! Today might be your lucky day! The rad dudes over at Virgin Mobile have hooked us up with a pair of FreeFest tickets to give away to ONE lucky Albotian! This means one of you guys will get to see bands like Two Door Cinema Club, TV On The Radio, Cut Copy, and The Black Keys… FOR FREE!!! Oh, and I’ll be there too!
Although this is a free music festival, the entire batch of free tickets was gobbled up in just five minutes after going on sale. Good thing we got your back!
Here’s the rules:
Like Albotas on Facebook at facebook.com/albotas and Virgin Mobile Live on Facebook at facebook.com/virginmobilelive.
After liking BOTH pages, visit Virgin Mobile Live on Facebook and write this sentence on their wall, tagging the Albotas Facebook page “Albotas wants to take me to FreeFest!” MAKE SURE YOU TAG THE PAGE ON THE WALL TO BE ENTERED! You can tag a page by typing “@” into the text box followed by the pages name. Facebook will automatically pull up the page for you to select.
Contest will last 24 hours from the time of this post. One winner will be chosen at random and will be contacted by a Virgin Mobile representative via Facebook.
Tickets will be mailed to the address provided by the winner 1-2 weeks before the festival.
FreeFest is being held at the Merriweather Post Pavilion in Columbia, MD on September 10th, 2011 from 11am-10pm. Click here for the full artist line-up.
If any of our readers plan on attending the fest year and you see a brown dude with a mohawk, don’t be afraid to say hi! Just don’t make eye contact or I’ll punch you in the junk. Kidding! ::HUGS::](http://30.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lq6xw1O5Wl1qbg80vo1_500.jpg)
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