Korean Comedian For StarCraft (YouTube)
OK, so it's a stand-up comic doing all the sound samples from Starcraft. Which is not so amazing until you realize that the audience actually knows what he's talking about. That's how huge Starcraft is in Korea. Imagine some American dude showing up on the Tonight Show doing Smash Bros taunts. Riiiiiight.
After Dora uproar, Nick and Mattel soothe moms (Yahoo News)
I don't recall this needless drama when ten year old Ben 10 was aged to fifteen. Or when the Muppets became the Muppet Babies. This is all very reminiscent of every game console generational shift, when people start whining about the new stuff being too expensive, or lacking backwards compatibility, or being all flash over substance when compared to last year's games... hey, Mattel is not marching into your house and demanding you turn over all your existing Dora product, to be mulched and replaced with new Tween Dora dolls. They're not even canceling the "classic" Dora line. So chill.
Twitter FuckItList (Twitter)
Instead of posting sappy feelgood things-I-must-do-before-I-die, the FuckIt List is all about things people never want to do.
Wootini's Weekly Animal Crossing Diary (GayGamer.net)
Proof that Tom Nook will indeed remodel his store again and again based on your poll answers.
MouthOff (Cartoon Brew)
A funny $1 iPhone app that animates an onscreen mouth as you talk, and you then hold it up over your face and look like an idiot. Reminds me of how LIttleBigPlanet makes the lead sackboy's mouth animate if the PS3 senses microphone audio input.
Failure By Degrees (The New Gamer)
I've never played Dead Space, but I've read a lot of raves for it. This review is not a rave. It's an hilarious dissection that raises the issue of why we get so strung out about games being "realistic" and "mature" but still allow for ridiculous environmental puzzles and glaring inconsistencies between cutscene drama and actual gameplay.
WB Confirms "Superman/Batman: Public Enemies" (Toon Zone)
Next up, Green Lantern: First Flight... then Public Enemies! Counting Wonder Woman (which we still have not seen available on blu-ray), that makes three animated direct-to-video releases in 2009! Actually, four if you count Tales of the Black Freighter. Unbelievable. They are just slamming these things out. The good news is that they could do this for a very, very long time. I'd like to suggest WE3, Identity Crisis, and of course Captain Carrot.
The MouthOff app and the LittleBigPlanet feature actually remind me of a far older feature in a kids exploration game called "Spelunx". A game created by Robyn and Rand Miller several years after "Manhole" and "Cosmic Osmo", but just prior to Myst. Anyway, there was a puppet theatre that was part of one of the rooms and if you had a microphone hooked up to your computer you could click on one of the puppet heads and the mouth would move in a rather well animated Muppet-esque style when ever sound came into the computer's microphone (it would open different amounts depending on sound duration and volume). Click on the other puppet head and it would switch mouth movement to the other one.