Friday Night Fights: Bubblegum

After talking up this video all week, there was simply no way I wasn’t going to find an excuse to get it on the front page. As you can see, excuse found! It combines some of the world’s greatest treasures — Street Fighter, John Carpenter, Keith David, and accidental laughter — into one magnificent creation.

Much to my disappointment, the video barely has any views. Let’s see if we can’t change that.

New to FNF? Read this: Each week, a bunch of Destructoid readers and usually an editor or two get together to play some videogames online. Basically, this is what Friday Night Fights are all about.

The planning for FNF takes place in the forums, where community members volunteer to host by posting their information (gamertag, time to meet up, game, etc.) in the forum post corresponding to the system they’re interested in playing on.

Then, every Friday, reminder posts for those who don’t read the forums regularly go up in the community blogs section all thanks to a dedicated group of cool individuals. And for everyone who wants their info all in one place, they have got my weekly recap posts to look forward to between 4:30 – 5:30 PM EST.

Now that you’re here, just scan the list below and find a game you want to play. All that’s left to do after that is to join the match by contacting the host below using any means necessary. For Wii, you might have to be a little creative, but for 360/PS3 a simple “invite me” message will be fine.

The names on the left are our Destructoid handles, while the ones on the right are our online handles (PSN IDs, for example). Don’t see a game you want to play? Feel free to post a comment offering to take up hosting duties yourself.

Movies ‘n’ stuff:

• Skype Film Night for Sunday, July 11

Tonight’s Hosts (more info from Tarvu):

• Platform: PC/Mac, Steam
  Game: Team Fortress 2
  Join the Steam group chat to find us!
  Time: 19.00 BST (GMT+1)

Dtoid UK TF2 server:

Connect here (warning: runs TF2).

• Platform: Xbox 360
  Game: Battlefield 1943
  Hirohito’s men: Tarvu (GT:The Kinky Ninja), the guy with the hat (GT:appolo 11 22 33)
  Time: 20.00 BST (GMT+1)

• Platform: Xbox 360
  Game: Super Street Fighter IV
  Super Saiyans: Subenu (GT:Neo Subenu)
  Time: 20.00 BST (GMT+1)

• Platform: PS3
  Game: MAG, maybe.
  Masters of Equestrocide: SexualChocolate (PSN:Foolishbean69)
  Time: ???

Tonight’s Hosts (more info from ScottyG):
• ScottyG – scottygrayskull (Castle Crashers @ 7:00 EDT, Red Dead Redemption @ about 9:00 EDT)
• CommanderZim – CommanderZim999 (Crackdown 2 co-op @ 7:00 EDT)
• Arch649 – Archers Voice (Bad Company 2 @ 8:00 EDT, Modern Warfare 2 / Left 4 Dead 2 later)
• casualweaponry – casualweaponry (Transformers: WfC Escalation @ 8:00 EDT)

Tonight’s Hosts (more info from Y0j1mb0):
• Jack of No Trades – JackofNoTrades85 (BlazBlue @ 8:00 EDT)
• Liam (Transformers: WfC @ 9:00 EDT)
• SantanaClaus89 – Moosehole (Bad Company 2 @ 9:00 EDT)
• Elsa – Elsa (MAG @ 11:00 EDT)
• Y0j1mb0 – k0wb0y-b33b0p (SSFIV @ 12:00 EDT)

Tonight’s Games (more info from SPNKr):

• The Ship
  IP: 72.233.56.10:27017
  Gametype: Elimination

• Team Fortress 2
  IP: 63.209.35.100:27015
  Map rotation: Stock only rotation with customs in Rock The Vote.

• IP (Europe): 85.234.148.9:27055
  Map Rotation: Stock Rotation.
  Admins: Dtoid | watermanx, Dtoid | Awesomeist

• Counter-Strike: Source
  IP: 64.69.39.176:27015
  Map rotation: de_dust2 and cs_office
  (Thanks to TewDee for the server)

• Bad Company 2 Server 32 Slot
  SAFL Bad Compay 2 -Hardcore and Ranked-
  -In the server browser on the right hand side, where it says server name, put SAFL and it will find the server for you, then add to favs!

• If you want to find people to play with, get your ass to mars Steam chat

Beyond FNF:
• The Steam group
• The WoW guild