Friday Night Fights: Reach edition

Not to take the spring out of Super Street Fighter IV‘s step or anything, but jeez, everyone is freaking out over this whole Halo: Reach beta thing. Funny, considering how not-excited a good portion of the Internet at large seemed to be a matter of weeks ago.

Such is the way of the marketing cycle, I suppose. For those that got early beta access to Reach, congrats and enjoy spending this magnificent Friday evening with jetpacks and whatnot. For the rest of us, there’s the aforementioned Capcom-fueled fighting to look forward to, or, uh, maybe Bad Company 2?

See what your fellow Dtoiders are up to if all else fails. You know how this works by now.

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.

Tonight’s Hosts (more info from Subenu):
• Subenu – Neo Subenu (360: Left 4 Dead or Halo 3 @ 8:00 GMT)

Tonight’s Hosts (more info from InfraredChimera):
• Nova Prime – Sen0r Diabl0 (Super SFIV or Castle Crashers/Modern Warfare 2 @ 6:00 EDT)
• ClownBaby – TwoToneMurder (Super SFIV @ 7:00 EDT)
• de BLOO – BLOORATARD (Super SFIV @ 8:00 EDT)
• KD Alpha – MichelleMata85 (Super SFIV @ 9:00 EDT)

Tonight’s Hosts (more info from Y0j1mb0):
• SantanaClaus89 – Moosehole (Super SFIV @ 8:00 EDT)
• IronPikeman – IronPikeman (Super SFIV @ 9:00 EDT)
• Y0j1mb0 – k0wb0y-b33b0p (Super SFIV @ 11:00 EDT)

Tonight’s Games:

• 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.
• 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, hop on the steamtoid group chat and just ask, we will probably join up with you!

Beyond FNF:
• The Steam group
• The WoW guild