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Last time onThere Will Be Brawl, Luigi met with King Dedede to find some answers on the missing Princess. Unfortunately, Mario got crazy drunk and killed Donkey Kong. During that commotion, someone had managed to kill King Dedede. Now, the Mario Brothers, Samus and Pitt have teamed up to find out just what’s going on as they try to find Bowser and Princess Peach. The Kingdom is going down the sh*tter really fast as an all out war is about to break out....

Reliving painful gaming memories we’ve repressed is the norm for this gig. Upon seeingSplatterhouse‘s Rick in glorious custom toy formover at Tomopop, I was reminded how I never did beatSplatterhouse 2, and was forced to shamefully watch the final level’s conclusionon YouTube. For the record, Rick’s sprite was freaking huge. In fact, from this day forward, I’m blaming all of my mishaps on his freakishly large sprite. That goes for non-Splatterhousegames too....

With Father’s Day behind us, Nintendo has gone forth and released some manly-man classics the Virtual Console today:NES Open Tournament Golf(NES, 1-2 players, 500 Wii Points),World Sports Competition(TurboGrafx-16, 1-5 players, 600 Wii Points), andBloody Wolf(TurboGrafx-16, 1 player, 600 Wii Points). While a case can be made forNES Open Tournament GolfandWorld Sports Competitionbeing geared towards the stereotypical sports loving, golf playing father, the role ofBloody Wolfin this scenario is a bit cloudier....

Let’s get the obvious out of the way here: if you don’t know who Tim Gunn is, he’s the fashion guy fromProject Runway(that’s really doing a disservice to his many credits, but it’ll do). As such he knows a lot about fashion. For some reason he was hanging out with the guys from MTV Multiplayer, and during his time there he was asked to critique Mario’s overalls and work boots. You’ll have tohead over thereas Multiplayer has disabled embedding on the video....

WithRed Faction: Armageddonout next Tuesday, I was starting to worry about our collective initiative to download the game’s demo one million times. The prize ismore than worth it. THQ says Mr. Toots will be unlocked upon completion of the single-player campaign, which shouldn’t be too tough. That’s a hell of a lot easier than earning the ostrich weapon inRed Faction: Guerrilla‘s multiplayer, anyway. Didanyoneearn it?

It’s highly likely that you don’t know what the buggering bum we’re talking about here, so let’s remind you.Veneticais a German roleplaying game that was announced for the Xbox 360 way back in 2008. I was really eager to play the game, and caught a chance glimpse of it at E3 in 2009, but that was it. The game released in Europe ten thousand years ago with no word on a North American release date....

So why am I talking about the show on a videogame blog? Well, the upcoming third season DVD and Blu-Ray Discwas announced this past weekand the cover art for the box looks like an Atari 2600 game cartridge. Some of the shows major characters are on the cover, but it severely lacks Dr. Girlfriend in her Dr. Mrs. The Monarch outfit. Check out the box art in the gallery above....

The demo will have three events to compete in, allowing you to test drive a Ford Mustang GT-R in San Francisco, a Nissan S15 Silvia in Japan, and BMW 320si touring car in Jarama, Spain. This doesn’t necessarily appeal to me — I own two or three of each of those cars — but poor people might be interested in taking these virtual cars for a ride in places they’ll never go....

A few weeks ago, the cast of Podtoidgathered togetherto watch that iconic videogame movie,Street Fighter. After watching the film, we pretty much all agreed that it was the greatest cinematic achievement in the history of human art, and quite possibly the pinnacle of what we can achieve as a sentient species. Some of you may doubt the brilliance of the film, but do not fear, for you, too, shall come to terms with the unquestionable genius that is this movie....

Not a bad idea, I guess. I have this one Wii that I like to move around the house. I don’t have a second power adaptor or IR bar, so I have to move that with the Wii. I do have a second set of A/V cables, so that makes it a bit easier. It would be easier to just have two sets, I guess. That’s what the Wii Room Moving Pack is, essentially....

It seems the Playstation 3 is not the only console getting an unofficial price cut thrust upon it; as seen in this week’sShop Rite special offers, the Xbox 360 Premium is available for $50 off the normal price. This isn’t nearly as big as Best Buy and Circuit City trying to give awayPS3’s for freeto get the damned things off their shelves, but it’s always the ma and pas that end up letting something slip before a big official announcement....

The sad situation that is Xbox Live Indie Games has been a topic I’ve addressedbefore, and its marginalized position as the red-headed stepchild of Xbox Live has been frustrating for creators and consumers alike. It looks like Microsoft is in a festive mood, considering there is a rather large update to NXE around the corner, and it looks like it hasthrown a boneto all the indie kids in the XNA Creator’s Club....

The Xbox LIVE Marketplace updated early this morning, adding the 1.2gbStrangleholddemo to the lineup. Director John Woo teamed up with Midway to continue the story of Inspector Tequila from Woo’s 1992 film “Hard Boiled”. The single-player demo lets players pump bullets into just about everything in a fully destructable Hong Kong marketplace. The Xbox LIVE Arcade titleTrack and Fieldwas also added, letting up to four players (local or via Xbox LIVE) compete in events like the Javelin Throw, 100 meter Dash, and the ever popular Long Jump....