Official High-def Cinematic Trailer

Starcraft 2 Game Demo part 1

Starcraft 2 Game Demo part 2

Starcraft 2 Game Demo part 3

Starcraft 2 Game Demo part 4

After watching these videos I’m getting a sluggish feeling, like all the extra 3D graphics they’ve added to Starcraft takes away the lightning rushes and fast-paced nature of the game, leaving a battleground where things sort of just glomp slowly around. It’s very pretty, but once all the elements get into position to fight, they just sort of stand in lines and poke at each other!!

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This is the truth behind Pokemon’s popularity. Pokemon “trainers” are really just pimps:

“I had a mother fucker ask me the other day, ‘Do you beat your Pokemon when they lose?’
I said, ‘Mother fucker, do I beat them when they lose? I beat them when they win.’
The logic here being that if they know Im gonna whoop their ass when they win, just think of how bad that ass-whooping is going to be if they lose.”

How terrible is that? Life would be so much more intesting if Pokemon Pimps existed!

Fed up with being bated into watching Flash videos, only to discover that it’s just a viral marketing ploy, or a means for the creator to express his vested interests?  If not, then check out this flash video, which thankfully waits till the end to prattle off its pacifistic propaganda.  Decent production and delivery through the Flash format, the only thing that upsets me is the blunt ultimate message.  There’s no need to be so direct and frank; it really does sacrifice a lot of the artistic integrity.  Allowing for many aesthetic and moral interpretations is much better than forcefully imploring one’s audience to a moral/political cause, in my humble opinion.  I’m not saying that I disagree with the sentiments of the video, but rather I disagree with the way that they are finally imparted.  With that single objection aside, I do rather like the Mario animation, and I think that, overall, it is a flash video well worth watching.

Mario: Back to the Start

Legend hits the Xbox, PS2, and PC on April 11, with PSP and 360 versions to follow.

In honor of The Legend of Zelda’s twentieth anniversary, here’s an evolutionary diagram of Link over the years, culminating with Twilight Princess’s Link on the right. This is just begging to be put on a t-shirt.

Bonus points* for anyone who can rattle ‘em all off. Double bonus points for anyone who can figure out which Link is (sort of) missing.

See also:
Old school Zelda rap commercial
Happy Birthday Zelda! 20 years old today

*current exchange rate: 1 Bonus Point� = $0.00

If you’ve ever wondered why the Nintendo Revolution will succeed in all markets, especially Japan, check out this video. It shows the universal appeal of the Revolution, as well as its innovative controller:

Yes, that’s right. In order, from left to right, they feature two old folks conducting a symphony, two chefs chopping away, a boy and his girlfriend playing what appears to be a version of pong, the sexy controller itself, a cute Japanese girl bopping to Mario, a Dentist working on drill technique, a grandson and grandfather fishing, a man trying to play major league baseball using the controller as a bat, and then a raunchy dummer. The xBox 360 is not this diverse.

Kameo (Part 1, Part 2, Part 3)
Condemned
PGR3
Perfect Dark: Zero

And this is a video perusing the new Xbox 360 experience:
www.gametrailers.com/player.php?id=8214&type=wmv