Always wondered how she put on the suit. Love the way it flashes on.

This ad for Metroid: Other M kind of makes me want a Wii. I never liked the first person shooter perspective of the Game Cube Metroids. But other M looks like it’s going to be a fun hybrid of third and first person. And who doesn’t like Samus stepping on the neck of an alien before she shoots it in the head.

The one question I have watching this, why hasn’t Samus ever been convicted of a crime against a species? It seems like every planet she goes to gets blown up. If the Shi’ar can convict the Dark Phoenix of a crime against the Universe, why hasn’t any group come after Samus? She’s totally a destroyer of worlds! Maybe they have and she distracts them with her hip shaking before she blows them up.

Anyway, this Team Ninja Metroid looks like a lot of damn fun.

Angry Zen Minion Nathan Yuen sent along this trailer for the Epic Win iPhone app, a to-do list that combines your daily tasks with an RPG. You gain experience points every time you complete a task, or quest as the app calls them, on your list. The more experience points you acquire, the more stuff you can unlock.

I like the idea, and I love the graphics. But the screwy thing is that you set the experience points for each task yourself. That seems like a major exploit. If you just want to unlock features, you can make your wimpy tasks worth infinite experience. I think it would be better to assign random experience values to tasks or make certain categories of tasks that are worth unique values. Still, it’s a fun way to keep track of all the shit you might have to do.

The app is $2.99. I think there are in-app purchases to get more characters or something like that. No idea if there’s a demo version. If you find it difficult to get through your to-do lists (if you’re a list type person), maybe Epic Win can help motivate you.

Source: Epic Win

If they haven’t already, I believe Boing Boing has won the internet with their Yakuza 3 review done by actual Yakuza. Three Yakuza sat down with a Boing Boing editor and a teenager to show them how to play the game. They evaluated the game based on environment, depiction of the Yakuza, fashion, fight scenes, and story.

This exchange is my favorite:

M: I like the fact that you power up by eating real food. Shio ramen gives you a lot of power — CC Lemon, not as much. It all makes sense.
S: The breaded pork cutlet bento box is like mega power. More than ramen. That’s accurate.
K: If they had shabu (crystal meth) as a power-up item, that would be realistic. It’s a yakuza game.
S: They have sake!
M: Kiryu is an executive, right? We all know the guys at the top don’t drink or do speed.
S: Yeah, not anymore.
M: Can you smoke in the game? I forget. That should be a power-up.
S: Cigarettes and shabu should be in every yakuza game.

Overall, the three Yakuza guest reviewers enjoyed the game. They felt that while it did kind of stereotype the Yakuza life style, it turns out that a lot of the stereotypes are true. The fighting bits are the least realistic part of the game, but overall, it seems like the developers really did some decent research. I love the fact that the three reviewers felt like they knew some of the characters in the game. So awesome.

Source: Boing Boing

Bollywood is awesome. The Guild is awesome. Let their powers combine!

I’m not sure which countries are allowed to see this so I apologize if nothing shows up. Someone needs to explain international digital rights to me in stupid language so I can understand why I can’t share nerdy goodness with the entire goddamn world.

Oh, and I totally forgot we had a Bollywood tag here!

Source: Bing

…it would look like this:

Friggin’ brilliant.

Oh god, Dan Hibiki is the creepiest!

This looks like so much fun. An epic Street Fighter Dance Off! It’s so brilliant!

So who would win in an ultimate musical creep-off, Dan Hibiki with his goddamn chapstick or Hakan with his Hakaness?

YES YES FUCK YES!!! The Scott Pilgrim game is full of yes! And no. It’s coming to PS3 first which means no Scott Pilgrim awesome 2D sprite side-scrolling awesomeness for me. At least for a while. Which makes me a sad panda. But this is still incredibly awesome with sauce on top!

I love me some Monkey King!

Journey to the West has been adapted, remixed, reinterpreted, reinvented, and repurposed so many times that I kind of feel that it’s no longer just a Chinese legend but a world wide phenomenon. Enslaved: Odyssey to the West is the latest incarnation that puts Monkey in a post-apocalyptic future where Skynet has decided to keep fighting long after The War^TM (there’s always The War^TM) has ended. Instead of a crusty old monk that slaps a magical head band on Monkey to keep him in check while they journey to the West, Monkey’s companion in the future is a Ginger with giant happy fun bags that magically defy gravity to distract Monkey. So the two of them go around fighting robots because as we all well know, someday the robots will end us. END. US.

Unless you have a game where Monkey fucks sheep all day, I’m pretty much an automatic fan of anything with the Monkey King. Yes, even that god awful made-for-who-the-fuck-knows movie starring Russell Wong. I like that Odyssey’s Monkey has the As-You-Will Cudgel and the nimbus cloud and that he fights giant robots. I hope the Ginger actually does something other than just yelling at Monkey for him to save her. I want my Gingers like Amy Pond, not April O’Neil.

Thanks to Angry Zen Minion Tyler Anderson for sending over this latest version of Monkey.

Thank you to everyone and their mother for sending me this. Seriously, every other message in my inbox is a link to this fucking fantastic Mortal Kombat short. That’s what this is. It’s not a mere trailer. It’s not a fan trailer. It’s a short film. It’s exactly what we’ve all wanted in a video game movie and it’s just short enough to not suck. See, here’s the thing. As much as I’d like to see this interpretation of Mortal Kombat realized in a full length feature, my fear is that everything that makes this awesome would be ruined by too much of too much. We get a little taste of what’s familiar to us from the franchise with a new twist and because it’s only seven minutes, it never feels like it overstays its welcome.

Still, the rabid fan in me can’t wait to see more of this Mortal Kombat world, whether its as an actual new Mature-rated game or a full on R-rated film.

Fuck yeah, Mortal Kombat. Fuck yeah.

This is 8-bit rock band Anamanaguchi performing the theme song for the… wait for it… SCOTT PILGRIM VIDEO GAME along with screen shots from the ACTUAL GODDAMN GAME!!!

That sound you hear? That explodingly crunchy sound? That’s the sound of every pair of pants I own exploding in crunchy glory! The game looks exactly like something I must play. Now. With all of its side-scrolly, punchy goodness.

It’s just so… beautiful… they should have sent a poet!