Introducing the PokéBra

Around a month ago, Bob’s House of Videogames displayed an image that was originally displayed on Halolz two and a half years ago. Now rather than giving credit to the source, they merely dropped the same exact text over the image with their url covering up Halolz’. This lead to Shawn, Mike and myself participating in one of the coolest chopfests around the ‘hood. Located after the bump are all the images in the thread including an animated gif that shows all the versions in one. Continued…

Even though the focus in the gaming universe this week will be on StarCraft II, there are still other noteworthy games coming out (ie. Arc Rise Fantasia and BlazBlue: Continuum Shift). Continued…

With a combined average review score of 89.43%, LIMBO is definitely the game I want to get my hands on most this week. Continued…

I don’t know if it has been done before. In my own personally experience I’ve never seen it. Nonetheless, when I saw that Nick Borkowicz did a live action trailer for his webcomic Oh, Perilous World I definitely felt it was worth mentioning. It’s these kinds of interesting, nontraditional approaches to the the ever changing expectations that the world wide web demands from us that make me proud to be part of the webcomic community. Good job, Nick.

Trailer after the fold… Continued…

While trekking though the interweb this morning I learned about a very interesting piece of marketing material for the new, upcoming film The Expendables: an 8-bit style, side-scrolling, action game version of the movie. It’s basically a Contra clone starring the main characters of the movie. But fortunately for us, it’s actually a decent Contra clone. Playing the game will require you to have a Facebook account and to “Like” the movie as well. But trust me, if you like Contra it’s totally worth it.

The Kartel [Expendables game makes retro gaming look macho]