More like basic training!

Destructoid was kind enough to scan and upload a 39 page Street Fighter IV Training Manual for us all to see. Inside you’ll find: character profiles and movelists for all characters in the console version, an interview with Seth Killian, a history of Street Fighter featurette, plus some other bits of info. Those of you expecting a real training manual may be a little bit disappointed, but there’s always EventHubs.com and the SFIV feature in Q4 2008’s issue of Hardcore Gamer Magazine if you really want to level up (no console exclusive character strategies though).

Get it here, and be a better person for it.

See! Odin Sphere get an average review score!

Thrill! As The Red Star gets a whopping two page review!

Travel! To Japan, for the Squeenix Party 2007!

LOL! @ PS3! It's a good issue, you should check it out.

Download. Now.

June is just around the corner (ok, there’s two more weeks to go — can’t blame us for getting a little anxious) and Hardcore Gamer’s latest issue is available for digital distribution. In other words, you get to download the PDF edition for free. Gratis. On the house. The cover story talks about everyone’s favorite webcrawler who just recently broke box office records and made his latest multi-platform videogame appearance in Spider-man 3. It’s too early for me to pass judgment, but word on the street says the games don’t live up to the live-action summer flick. Bummer. There’s chockfull of other stuff to read, but the real important buzz for those of you keeping score, HGM turned 2. Yeah, believe it. Not bad eh? Congrats to Tim and the crew — you showed those naysayers what’s up!

Click here to download Issue 23