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Imagine that you’re a diehard fighting game enthusiast who’s cursed with a love of a conventional controller’s directional pad, but also an arcade stick’s clicky, satisfying buttons. No controller has ever met your odd, bipolar needs — until now, that is. Behold: The Frankensteinian peripheral seen above, crafted by modder “rtdzign” from a Sega Saturn control pad and some homemade arcade buttons. You can check out a few more pictures of the mashed-up controller ...

Yo dawg, we made a sequel to your sequel so you could sequel while you sequeled — ahem, sorry, we couldn’t help ourselves. Andriasang reports that Aksys Games has announced the next entry in the BlazBlue series for Japanese arcades, BlazBlue: Continuum Shift 2. The new arcade game will debut at the Amusement Machine Show on September 9.

The game will launch in Japanese ...