Death By T-Shirt?

I know, I know... we've been quiet for a while. Hell, I haven't logged in to X Box Live in at least two months. It's a sorry state of affairs.

So you knew it was going to take something really cool/funny/interesting to bring us out of hiding and get another entry fired up. And I think I've just found it.

Check out this story on the "upcoming" (read: "Please, God, when will it finally be here?") Gears of War 3 and how some of the major plot points are going to being decided. Good idea? Next Big Step forward in game development? Lame gimmick? Let the debate (and buying of avatar tees) begin...

Wait, Now Star Wars Doesn't Suck?

I mean, damn... if the first three movies had looked like this, I might have actually enjoyed them. Two new trailers from the ongoing E3 conference: The Old Republic and The Force Unleashed II.

Avatar Days

Fun piece shot and finished in only four days (four?? try it in two, baby!!) about MMORPG players living their everyday lives. I love the reveals at the end... click here to watch.

Circuit Breaker (Tribute to Zelda)

Thought this was fun in a retro/goofy kind of way... a tribute to Zelda and other 8-bit nostalgia. Enjoy!

Resident Evil 5 Print

Came across these on a design/marketing blog... fun series of overseas print ads for the Resident Evil 5 release that provides nutritional information for the people pictured. Nice.

Gears of War 3 Trailer!

The strange part? The trailer made its debut last night on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon as part of a visit from Epic Games guru Cliff Bleszinski. Jimmy Fallon? Really?

Release date is one year from now, but you sense the countdown has already started. I know I'm excited! If the step up from the first game to the second is any indication of what to expect, part three should be amazing. I like the fact that everyone just looks weary from the fight. I also like the use of the final title to confirm that this is, in fact, The End of the story.

The real big news, though, is this: 4 PLAYER STORY CO-OP. Hot diggity. Stay tuned for more, I'm sure!

iCade

I didn't really have an iPad on my radar. And then I saw this.

I still don't want one, but you gotta admit... this is a pretty great idea. And I love the fact that you can get Qbert and Dig Dug. Hipster watch, clever coffee mug and chubby fingers probably not included.

Pixels

This is one of the coolest clips I've seen in a while... so playful, and so well done. Pixels invade New York, and Old School mayhem ensues. Fantastic.

What? I Wanna Be Invisible!

The first of the Ghost Recon games that I played didn't grab me as much as the Rainbow Six: Vegas series, but that was admittedly a few years ago. And I don't remember anything about the ability to become invisible!

Check out the trailer for Ghost Recon: Future Soldier, due out this fall... looks like there could be some cool stuff to play with...

Man Plans Special Weekend To Reaffirm Commitment To Xbox 360

From the Onion...

Nintendo 3DS Coming...

I guess this is big news?

Nintendo has announced that they'll be rolling out a 3D handheld device in 2011 (along with Sony's new 3D console, it seems), and plan to have a model ready to demo at the E3 expo in June.

I enjoyed watching Avatar as much as the next guy (though not as much as some...), but I'm not sure there's a real revolution to be had here just yet... more of an industry buzz bandwagon at the moment. I think I'll wait until 3D merges with something like Project Natal before I get too excited. But maybe that's just me? There are plenty of folks who seem pretty jazzed about it...

Killer Spots: Brink

Found this snooping around on a design site this afternoon... pretty cool little collection of chaos for the upcoming Brink produced by AKQA. Enjoy!

Killer Spots: Bioshock 2 Teaser

This was posted to a motion graphics site I visit... forgot how cool it was.

I have a design book from the company that did the launch campaign for the first Bioshock game (I gave one to Brian, too), and some of the concept art is beautiful. Not sure if the same guys did this one, but the bar certainly didn't get lowered any for round two.

There were other spots that used gameplay footage and had more punch, but this was the one that stuck with me the most.

Killer Spots: Dante's Inferno Super Bowl

Already famous/notorious for getting rejected by CBS (the version that will air on Sunday actually ends with "Hell Awaits" instead), the Super Bowl Spot for Dante's Inferno is pretty tight. Great move getting the Bill Withers track... I dig it.

Killer Spots: Vanquish

Wow. Gorgeous new trailer for Sega's Vanquish produced by the gang at Logan.

The bad news is that this genre has so many games in it that all of them start to look like Halo after a while. And I'll admit that it's been entirely too long since I logged on to Live, so maybe I'm just the last guy to see this, but I'm really impressed with the spot regardless.

The surface textures, lighting and movement at the end remind me a lot of District 9, and I've always been a sucker for detail shots of power suits being assembled (Iron Man didn't do much to curb that enthusiasm. By the way, check out Danny Yount and Prologue's amazing schematic end titles from that movie if I never posted them before...).

Shades of the Gears of War 2 trailer at the top as well, although fans have apparently already been talking about the praying mantis moment in different terms than that (something to do with an alien invasion?). I'll have to look in to the story a little more to see whether or not the title is worth checking out, but it seems the promo has already done its job... here I am talking about it!

Turn Around...

Don't know how I missed this the first time around, but you've got to love the balls on this guy. I'm just impressed at the effort and the showmanship. Unless he staged the whole thing with a friend of his... in which case, screw 'em both!

Man, am I skeptical, or what? Happy new year, by the way...

The Art of the Mario

Frock Band

Love this... shots of grandparents playing Guitar Hero and Rock Band. And probably hurting themselves. Somehow.

Credit The Faster Times with the original idea, but List Of The Day added a few more shots that really took it to the next level...

A Blushing Virgin Groom

So... some guy in Japan married his video game sweetheart. And I don't mean that he married someone he met online playing video games; he married a character from a video game. She doesn't actually exist.

Insert honeymoon joke here. And by the way, check out some of the reaction videos over on the right... also pretty funny.

Holy Crap

Apparently, this is not a joke. Be sure to check out the controller.