It’s good to see gamers giving back, and on Feb 10th 2010 UW Gamers had a fundraising event for Haiti. UW Gamers are University of Waterloo’s Video-Gaming club. They’ve existed for 5 years, and this year they did a charity fundraising event in co-ordination with the University of Waterloo Turnkey Desk.

The event was a large success with a number of gamer coming out to play. There was free play for the day, along with a Tetris contest. The theme with the Tetris tournament was the rebuilding blocks helped rebuild the tattered society of Haiti.

Recently Haiti has suffered from one of the world’s largest earthquakes. Organizations all over the world are coming together to support the country with its efforts to rebuild. Many people are without home and medical attention in this devastated country. Yesterday UW Gamers did their part by hosting the tournament and collecting whatever they can for the cause. The money collected will be donated to doctors without borders.

After the fundraiser event the UW Gamers executives then hosted their second Game On event for the semester. This event encouraged club members to bring in console and encourage causal by standers to join in and play with them. This event also went well with well over 7 different TV. stations setup. Casual students entered the Great Hall of the Student Life Center and had a chance to play. Many different games were setup from racing, to fighting and even puzzle games. Campus Gamers was even able to setup a rail-shooters stage with House of the Dead: Overkill which was receipted well.

UW Gamers does plan to have a number of events in the future, including a Street Fighter Tournament and a LAN Party. Hope that all goes well and Campus Gamers likely be at the next one too.

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Street Fighter 4 was the amazing release and revival of the Street Fighter Series to the masses. Up until this point the Street Fighter franchise was dying off. The world of 3D graphics was taking over and Street Fighter was stuck in the second dimension. No matter how good the cartoon art was or how flashy the graphics, it was always surpassed by the nuances of the 3D graphics. On July 18th 2008 Capcom released the coin operated solution called Street Fighter 4. In just six month this game was packaged and release for the Xbox and PS3 around the world.

On April 27th 2010 Capcom will be releasing the sequel to the game, Super Street Fighter 4. So many fans anticipate it’s release, but when it was first announced many fans were displeased that couldn’t this new game be released as downloadable content. Capcom was notable for releasing downloadable content for its games. In this case Capcom state that Super Street Fighter 4 had so many changes to the game that it couldn’t be downloaded as additional content. They claim when the game is released it will be sold at a reduced cost (less than a new game) and people who have the original game will have additional downloadable content available for them.

Super Street Fighter 4 has approximately 8 new characters to be introduced into it. At this time only 6 characters have been announced. Characters like T-Hawk and DJ are returning from their Super Street Fighter 2 title released in the 90’s. Cody and Guy, both characters appeared in the Final Fight series and Street Fighter Alpha will make be available. Adon from the original Street Fighter series has also been announced. And a new character Juri will be entering the game as well. Juri will be a villain character also working for the S.I.N. organization as the main villain in Street Fighter 4, Seth. Who will be the new characters, little is known other than Capcom is strongly looking upon their fan base for answers.

I wouldn’t be surprised if they introduced another new character or brought in Ibuku a widely appreciated character in the Street Fighter scene from Street Fighter 3. At this time they have not introduced any characters from Street Fighter 3, and they have a large list of characters from that venture. Capcom has said they will bring back old character to appeal to their current fan base while introducing new characters to spice up the roster.

Super Street Fighter 4 is highly anticipated on the fighting gaming tournament scene. The EVO Championship Series hosted in Caesar’s Palace Las Vegas. EVO is the largest fighting game event in the world. Held every year in Las Vegas they have contenders from all over the world. This year they are headlining the event with Super Street Fighter 4. Along with the other popular games currently released, this will be a huge event.