Someone over at The Guardian got to see and play a preview of Portal 2 and he is impressed. Colour me anxious! I can’t wait for April 21!!


At lunch today I downloaded the mega-pack of Atari’s Greatest Hits for the iPad. I got to zip through a few games including Tempest and a little nerd tear rolled down my 8-bit cheek. However, the Atari 2600 version of Tempest sucked ass. As it did back then. Controls are touchy (ha!) but oh the sweet Tron-like memories that flooded back into my gullet. Here’s a video! (Via BoingBoing)

Robots and Disney News (is there any other?): PeeWee’s Paul Rubens (as the Flight of the Navigatory REX) has been bumped out of the pilot seat on Star Tours 2, replaced by a far more competent Anthony Daniels/C3P0. Expect ‘3P0 give you the possibility odds of successfully navigating an asteroid field (approximately 3,720 to 1).

From the mailbag: Josh sends on this news story of the most successful hand model in history. MESMERIZING! It’s like Medusa’s head without the hissing! I had to watch it a couple times, thinking it was a parody. Nope. Real.

Eric Rubright sends me this video of Autobots getting their Thriller on. Why the Xmas tree?

Still on robots, Topless Robot pops up this video of everyone’s faaavorite Stormtrooper, TK-421, proclaiming the Death Star was his idea.