I love fighting games. These games may have a high skill ceiling, practicing and training being constantly required for any kind of constant success, but if you really think about it, that same learning and training methodology is necessary for real life combat training. Just as every real-life fighter, whether in televised professional wrestling, recognized boxing circuits, the grappling-focused UFC, or any other fighting tournament you can think of; so too do the various characters in fighting games have their own fighting style and way to operate them. One given shotokan karateka might play entirely different than another though they may look and play similarly.  In the most famous fighting game of them all, Street Fighter, there are no less than seven individuals who practice the same style of martial arts, the fictional Ansatsuken, or assassin's fist, and each of them play very differently from another. Ryu is a traditional, one might say archetypical shoto - honest and straig...

Hi there. My name is Arialys "Aria" Stewart. This gaming blog is not like one you have seen before. This intro page will get you started into the premise and general universe makeup of this blog, which is part video game expression blog, part game criticism work, part fictional universe. If you wish to learn more, read on after the jump. What is the Radiaforce? What is this fictional universe? The Radiaforce is a fictional temporal investigation and defense corps founded by Meridian Ward in the year 2190 AH - After Humanity. In this universe, the human race has all but vanished, and the Earth is instead populated with three successor races: the synthetically generated Drones; the mechanical humanoids known as Androids; and the mysterious replica race, the Dataloids. All three work together in harmony to keep the Earth safe and unmolested by the ravages of time. Whether Humanity had set out for the stars while leaving the Earth behind, or simply all went extinct is a debated t...