Literally or figuratively?

Actually we’re not sure, would we really rather a bunch of reader-contributed reviews and articles, or a huge steaming mountain range of uniquely customised multicultural excrement scraped from all four corners of the globe? While we’re pondering the issue in our specially-constructed faecal debate chambers, we’d just like to put the call out for reader submissions of the electronical variety.

We say yes please to all reviews of fighting games, fighting game paraphenalia and fighter-related articles. If you have an alternate take on a reviewed release or have located a content hole that desperately needs filling, and can articulate it to at least year 8 junior school-level - let us know, by email or wildly aggressive message board post. You will be fully credited, praised by the hardest of hard-bitten cynics the net has to offer, and earn a Ready-Brek glow of pure anti-mainstream-corporate-site smugness.

We’re well aware that we’ve missed lots of gaming news in our downtime - the release of three - about to be four new games machines (the Xbox 360, Nintendo DS, Sony PSP and PS3) and a surprising number of fighting games, games that really are our top priority content at the moment.

The list goes -

(hyperlinked titles were reviewed during the site downtime by devoted staff/readers, and are now part of the database proper, gawd bless ‘em)

Tekken 5 (PS2/Arcade) (thanks to BBCampbell) and it’s upgrade, Dark Resurrection (PSP)
Soul Calibur 3 (PS2) (thanks to Kaz)
Capcom Fighting Evolution (PS2)
Bleach DS: Souten ni Kakeru Unmei (NDS)
Virtua Fighter 4: Final Tuned (Arcade)
Dead or Alive Ultimate (Xbox)
Dead of Alive 4 (Xbox360)
Neo-Geo Battle Coliseum (PS2/Arcade)
King of Fighters XI (PS2/Arcade)
King of Fighters NEOWAVE (PS2/Xbox/Arcade)
King of Fighters Orochi Collection (PS2)
Street Fighter Anniversary Collection (Xbox/PS2) (thanks to Hayabusa)
Guilty Gear XX #Reload Slash (PSP)
Mortal Kombat Deception (PS2/Xbox)
Mortal Kombat Armageddon (PS2/Xbox)
Marvel Nemesis: Rise of the Imperfects (PSP/NDS)
Jump Superstars (NDS) (thanks to Onimaru)
Street Fighter Alpha 3 MAX/Double Upper (PSP)
Street Fighter Alpha Anthology (PS2)
Darkstalker’s Chronicles (PSP)
Guilty Gear XX #Reload (PSP)
Guilty Gear XX Slash (arcade/PS2)
Midway Arcade Treasures (all)
Capcom Classics Collections (all)
Battle Raper 2 (PC)
Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3 (Xbox Live)
Street Fighter 2: Turbo (Xbox Live)
PowerStone Collection (PSP)
Spectral vs. Generation (PS2)
SEGA AGES - Virtua Fighter 2 (PS2)
SEGA AGES - Fighting Vipers (PS2)

Who said fighters were dead? Apart from Capcom, that is. :(

If you can supply content for any of those, to supplement the inevitably slow staff efforts to do the same, we’ll love you.

How else can you help? You can keep the forums going, you can keep visiting the front page and you can send me pornography in crumpled brown paper envelopes. Most importantly you can play and love fighting games as if it was summer 1993 all over again. We certainly do. At least I do. :*