what in the hell is going on here i'm freakin out

Oh wait, it's just Street Fighter Online: Mouse Generation, an upcoming (and official) PC game with a fighting system based on Street Fighter Alpha and controlled using only the mouse. The game will also feature mixing and matching of character body parts such that "it's possible to get Chun Li's head and torso attached to Zangief's arms and Ryu's legs."

wait what in the hell is going on here i'm freakin out

Industry and multi-console news

• Along with the new game coming out, Japan will also be getting a 3D remake of the original Bionic Commando as a downloadable PSN/XBLA game.
• Valve has talked a little more about their plans to tweak the Team Fortress 2 classes. Pyros will now get points (or more likely fractions of a point) for igniting people, even if they don't make the kill.
• God of War II director Cory Barlog plans to do some work in Hollywood now that he's left Sony. He's also expressed interest in making a Wii game.
• FPS Brain is a.. *sigh* performance enhancing supplement for FPS players.
• GameTap and Turner Broadcasting are sponsoring this year's Dare to Be Digital, an annual UK-based competition for up-and-coming game creators.
• The Advertising Standards Authority has taken issue with a Stranglehold TV ad in the UK for "encouraging and condoning violence." They've declared "the ad must not be broadcast again in its current form."
• Elsewhere in the UK, the acquisition of Gamestation by Game (they're not big on clever titles over there) has been given the go-ahead by the Competition Commission.
• Gamasutra has a feature on how games engineer compulsion.
• John Romero has some things to say about Gamecock and it's founder Mike Wilson. "These are the kinds of jackass stunts he pulled at Ion Storm with Daikatana. Remember the bitch ad? Yeah."
• ESPN will be covering video games thanks to a multi-year agreement with Major League Gaming.
• Blueside has announced Kingdom Under Fire Dominion, a massively multiplayer online action real-time strategy purple monkey dishwasher. Is this the "traditional" sequel they refered to last month?
• A man in North Ayreshire (I think that's just north of Gondor) who sold counterfeit games to trawlermen for a box of crabs has been fined £3,000.
• GamePro talks to industry insiders about the practice of doctoring screenshots.
• PC Zone blows the lid off the plagiarism story of the year: The similarities between BioShock and RoboCop.
• A Saudi Arabian study finds that violent games have negative effects on kids. "The study… focused on a selected group of youngsters in a juvenile detention centre…" Hey, I think I found your problem.
• The first fight scene image from the Dragonball movie doesn't show anyone glowing or yelling.
• Yet another homebrew Genesis game will be released on cartridges later this year.
• Let it not be said that Error Macro isn't on top of all the latest celebrity gossip. Angelina Jolie recently bought Ghost Squad on the Wii for Brad Pitt's nephews for Christmas. This didn't sit well with Brad's sister Julie, who returned the game because "we don't promote violence in our home." For the record, Ghost Squad is rated T.
• Kotaku has a collage of photos of Japanese erotic game voice actresses. I don't know exactly what I would have expected, but it's a pretty normal group of folks. Some of them are even cute.

PC and mobile news

New content: iPhone / iPod Touch 1.13 firmware
New media: Mythos trailer

• 1up created a new list of 101 freeware games for 2008.
• Speaking of freeware games, here's Line Golfer, much like Line Rider except you make golf courses.
• And while we're on a roll, IndieGames.com lists the best freeware arcade games of 2007.
• The editor-in-chief of IGN PC, Dan Adams, is leaving IGN.
• Zero Punctuation's video review this week is for Crysis.
• Speaking of which, the Crysis dev team has put together a list of parts they say makes a $900 PC that can play Crysis on High settings.
• Amazon's deal of the day is Kane & Lynch for $29.99. They also have Guild Wars: Nightfall for $35.99.

Nintendo news

New media: Assassin's Creed: Altair's Chronicles screenshots, more Japanese Smash Bros. Brawl ads

• Super Smash Bros. Brawl has become the seventh game in history to get a perfect Famitsu score. You can see scans of Famitsu's coverage here.
• A man who stole a friend's Wii and sold it on Craiglist was eventually found by police, hiding in the closet.
• A Flash demo of Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney is now available.
• Chris Kohler writes about how casual games saved Majesco.
• The Smash Dojo blog has announced that Sheik is returning as a playable character.
• Myst on the DS is coming to America in March.
• Gamasutra talks to Sanzaru president Glen Egan about their game Ninja Reflex and Wii development.
• Goichi Suda laments that third party Wii games aren't selling in Japan.
• Racketboy lists the rarest and most valuable N64 games. How did Worms Armageddon manage to become rare and valuable?
• Terrify friends and family by converting an airsoft AK-47 into a Wii remote.
• Joystiq has an interview with that ex-Midway employee who claims he "made the Wii."
• The Wii version of Worms: A Space Oddity will not have online multiplayer. "Worms: A Space Oddity is a social gaming experience that is best enjoyed locally, in a party-game atmosphere with other players."
• A few more details have trickled out on Star Wars: The Force Unleashed's motion controls.
• Amazon has Manhunt 2 and Tomb Raider Anniversary both for $26.99.

Sony news

• Final Fantasy VII: Crisis Core has been confirmed for PAL territories.
• Box mock-ups for a PS2 port of Silent Hill Origins briefly showed up on both Amazon and Gamefly recently.
• Amazon has Castlevania: The Dracula X Chronicles for $19.99.

Microsoft news

New Live Arcade title: Boogie Bunnies
New content: Virtua Figher 5 patch

• Lost Odyssey has been given a February 7 release date in Australia, meaning they get it before the US does.
• A selection of 45 short films from the 2008 Sundance Film Festival will be available on the Live Video Marketplace starting Friday.
• Joystiq has an interview with Namco Bandai on the subject of Culdcept Saga.
• Bungie says that Master Chief will be a supporting cast member in the Halo movie because it's too hard to make a guy in a mask work emotionally as a lead character through an entire film. Or they could just take the helmet off and have Stallone inside.