Enter the Cardboard Tube Samurai

Apparently, it’s a day for awesome and impressive acts of nerdery, and now we can add to the list that Penny Arcade‘s Cardboard Tube Samurai is apparently going to be a playable character in Tekken 6. However you feel about the immensely popular webcomic, it’s pretty goddamn amazing that one of the characters they created is going to be in a major videogame release like Tekken (and yes, I find this more impressive than their specific episodic online game). Think about it — the last guest stars in a Bandai Namco fighting game were Darth Vader and Yoda, for fuck’s sake, and before that, it was Link and Spawn (back closer to his heyday, at least). That’s some pretty impressive company to be keeping.

Plus, the CTS is appearing in Tekken, a game I can’t stand anyways. So I can sit back and be a huge douchebag and know that my beloved Soul Calibur franchise isn’t being pimped out and diluted with its goofiness. This time. For the moment. Because a guy wielding cardboard tubes really breaks the cold reality generated by a blind Italian leather S&M freak from the 15th century searching for a magic sword. (Via Kotaku)