Street Fighter x Megaman - The Blue Bomber takes on a new challenger - Download Video Previews

Capcom dropped a Christmas gift to the public today: the free release of Street Fighter X Megaman. It's still in all its 8-bit glory and makes my 6-year-old gamer spirit tingle with nostalgia.

SFxMM is a fan-made game cover of Megaman, an old 8-bit platformer that lived on the original Nintendo Entertaiment System since the late '80s/early '90s. The mechanics of the game are simple: run, shoot, jump and slide through each stage until you reach the boss at the end. Though the game is centered around the Blue Bomber himself, most of the fan service seems to be aimed at Street Fighter fans, as the world fighters are transformed into 8-bit sprites. Megaman hasn't fought Ryu since Marvel vs. Capcom 2, nor performed a hadoken since the X series (secret capsule in Armored Armadillo from Megaman X).

In fact, most of the in-game music is chiptune variations that span the Street Fighter series, from II to IV. Robot enemies are inspired by the special moves that characterize each fighter from the SF series, like Soul Strikes and Hadoukens. Boss... [Read more]

Once photos are in Everpix, the service uses image analysis to show highlights in a year's worth of "moments."

PARIS -- After a year doing its Apple-centric groundwork, start-up Everpix is ready to find a wider audience for its photo sync and organization service.

Today, the company announced version 1.0 of its Windows software, an out-of-the-way utility that slurps photos from people's hard drives and uploads them to company's servers. There, Everpix analyzes each photo mathematically for a variety of characteristics then synchronize the files with iPhones, iPads, and the Everpix Web site.

Everpix, though, isn't really about syncing files like Dropbox or Google Drive. It's also not about online photo communities such as Yahoo's Flickr, and it's not about social networking with a visual twist like Instagram. Chief Executive Pierre-Olivier Latour is careful to deflect suggestions that he's taking on incumbents.

Instead, the service aims to make people's photo collections manageable for themselves, said Latour in an interview here. Everpix, which costs $5 per month or $40 per year, dovetails with other services and software but doesn't seek to replace them.

"Don't worry about taking more photos. Don't worry about organizing," Latour said. "We want to give people more freedom" by plucking choice moments from the... [Read more]

Best Buy's deal on iTunes gift cards.

Best Buy is once again offering a deal on iTunes Gift Cards.

The brick-and-mortar retailer's Deal of the Day is a 15 percent discount on an iTunes gift card. For $85, Best Buy's online customers will receive a $100 iTunes gift card, which can be used for music, movies, television shows, apps, and other digital goods available in Apple's marketplace.

Best Buy offered a similar deal in June, offering a 15 percent discount on its full range of iTunes gift cards. The company did the same last month for holiday shoppers.

This time around, Best Buy's deal is available only on the $100 option. And because it's a Deal of the Day item, Best Buy is offering the special pricing until the end of the day and is limiting the offer to one card per order.