Meat Bun

The future is mechanoids. The future is parasitic. The future is war and destruction. The future is female robots locked in a sensual embrace. The future is now. Meat Bun’s 20XX line is here.

The Year 20XX (black)

The Year 20XX (black)

Andross (black)

Andross (black)

Lost Worlds (jersey)

Lost Worlds (jersey)

Lost Worlds (jersey)

Lost Worlds (black)

Metoroido (natural)

Metoroido (natural) and Wily Inc (tri-black)

Metoroido (natural)

Metoroido (red)

Wily Inc (tri-black)

Wily Inc (tri-black)

Bonus round! While technically not part of the 20XX line, we figured we would do a little extra credit and include these gems.

Real Soviet Damage (red)

Shao Khalvin (white)

Beautiful Spring (red)

Emperor of Muay Thai (sunshine)

Emperor of Muay Thai (sunshine)

Photos by Tom Troutman.

We have one more tease. Below is a sneak peek at a few of the many, many things coming to the Meat Bun online store in the next two weeks. Don’t forget to follow on Twitter and/or Facebook–or subscribe to the newsletter!–to find exactly out when this all goes live and for details on some giveaways.

Was 2011 the best Evolution Championship Series ever? Maybe! It was certainly one of our favorites, hosting the world’s best Super Street Fighter IV Arcade Edition, Marvel vs. Capcom 3, Tekken 6 and Mortal Kombat players. Meat Bun was fortunate enough to be in attendance once again this year, watching an 8-year-old MvC3 phenom named Noah send fighting game vets three times his age home with his impressive Hulk skills. Latif and Fuudo dazzled the crowd with impressive runs in Street Fighter IV. It was so, as the kids say, hype.

Meat Bun was there, of course, representing with the official EVO 2011 tee and all-new gear, which quickly sold out, thanks to huge crowds of virtual fighters and spectators.

Jason and Mike were there, betting cash on fights and previewing some of the new Meat Bun line inspired by Street Fighter, Mortal Kombat, Mega Man and more.

Master Adon player GamerBee stopped by the booth, grabbing a new “Beautiful Spring Propaganda” tee.

The triple J–Jay Jay and Jared–stopped by in full cosplay glory, showing a little love.

Even Street Fighter IV producer Yoshinori Ono stopped by (pictured with his companion Blanka), showing some trademark excitement for “Emperor of Muay Thai.” Don’t be surprised if you see Ono-san sporting a new Street Fighter-inspired wardrobe in the coming weeks.

We even ran into Street Fighter player/model/Crimson Viper cosplayer Kayo Satoh! *AHEM!*

Thanks to everyone at EVO 2011 for making this another awesome year, with big shout outs to the Cannons, MrWizard, Seth Killian, Wes, Hector, Daigo, Shino and everyone else who made this year another one to remember. See you next year!

Thanks to Haunted Temple’s Skulls of the Shogun and Reverge Labs’ Skullgirls, Giant Robot’s Game Night 5 was a big old success. Our late June Game Night was one of the biggest yet, with folks swarming the game stations indoors and outdoors, helping us stay open and running way later than planned.

Credit to Adam Robezzoli of Attract Mode fame and the Angry Bananas Extra thanks to the big crowds of game enthusiasts, game developers and Meat Bun fans for coming out to show their support of indie games and local game events. Take a look at some of the snapshots from the night’s event, with way more over at the Giant Robot blog. (There are a few Meat Bun sneak peeks at the next couple lines in here, if you’re curious!)

Every weekly wrap up should start with a Freddie Wong video, right? Right! Here’s Freddie and crew bringing some Katamari Damacy into the real world.

If you’d prefer to look at the proper way to rip off some vampire clothing in Akihabara–from the game Akiba’s Strip (har har)–here’s a gallery of the art behind that very thing, courtesy of Kotaku.

Readers of the blog know we’re all very obviously excited about this fall’s Dark Souls. We really should have submitted something to the game’s design a shield contest, but we’re not that gluttonous for punishment. Because we’d lose.

Finally, friends of Meat Bun and co-stars of Giant Robot’s Game Night 5, Reverge Labs’ Skullgirls, was recently the subject of a Kotaku feature (put together by Mike) highlighting the in-jokes of fighter Peacock. Can you spot the Hsien-ko and Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure gags?

Tournament Legacy’s ReveLAtions tournament went down just after E3 2011 in Los Angeles, a chance for the best of the best (of the best) fighting game players to win big money, big prizes. Meat Bun was there to represent and offer a sneak peak at some of our future Street Fighter-inspired designs. (Coming soon. (Promise.))

There’s Daigo Umehara, holding up a fresh Meat Bun tee, training for the eventual holding of things that he’d have to do at the end of the Super Street Fighter IV Arcade Edition tourney.

The inexhaustible Jason was there, holding down the fort.

Just a few of the winners from ReveLAtions. Can you spot the new Meat Bun gear?

Daigo again, holding up the requisite giant novelty check.

Thanks to the Tournament Legacy crew, Mad Catz, Broken Tier and everyone else at RevLA for being great hosts and friends. Next time, we’ll see you at EVO 2K11.