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Retron Xis a bit likeSpace Invades, except you move traps to capture the baddies who are sliding down the screen. So in essence, it’s not likeSpace Invadersall that much. What a waste of an intro. What you have to do is match the colored traps with correspondingly colored bad guys. It’s pretty simple, and if you play on Easy you’ll find it quite boring. Switching the game to “Tuff” difficulty, however, gives you more traps, more colors, and a far more compelling experience....

Its Friday, and I’m getting down on Friday. Even thought I don’t need a bowl of cereal, and I am pretty decisive about which seat I prefer sitting in (answer: the back), I can’t help but be entranced by the Rebecca Black phenomenon. It’s crazy how a simplesongcan become so viral, hitting 45 million views last I checked. As for the origin of this post’s header image and title, you need look no further than this dubbed version of the videohere....

“Merchandising, merchandising, where the real money from the movie is made.Spaceballs: The T-shirt,Spaceballs: The Coloring Book,Spaceballs: The Lunch Box,Spaceballs: the Breakfast Cereal,Spaceballs: the Flame Thrower.” – Yogurt. I have to agree with that famous movie quote fromSpaceballs: The Movie. Merchandising is where the money is made, but how far is too far when it comes to attaching a name to a product? Some people think that there are some products that shouldn’t bear the name of their favorite video game series or mascot....

As Jim is busy hobnobbing withfurriesandambulatory homeless sheltersat SGC 09, I am happy to take up the torch and deliver to you this week’s edition of Games of the Week — a task for which he didn’t even bother to thank me by the way, the rotten pr*ck. But that’s okay, because Adam Dork currently has a handlebar moustache. There he is, ladies and gentlemen.The Lovely Adam Dork, in all his curly JOURNALISM moustachioed glory....

Daniel Benmergui madeToday I Die. Messhof made allthis stuff. When these indies talk about game design, you’re able to probably bet they’ve got something interesting to say. Both designers organized an IGS talk entitled, “Control Inspiration” which, according to the official proposal, is about “their design processes, and why Jesus didn’t tap.” Essen opened by talking about his own personal history of game design – he started out making clones ofJoustandCrystal Questbefore moving onto more abstract games likeBoolandBooloid....

Up until yesterday, if you were to ask me about monkeys in videogames, I’d start off withDonkey Kongand then mentionSuper Monkey Ball,Samba de Amigo, and maybe those enemies in the Green Hill Zone inSonic the Hedgehog. I never would have thought of Toki, the titular character of Tun Corporation’s 1989 run and gun platformer, because I’d never heard of his game untilGolgoth Studiosdecided to remake it for Xbox Live Arcade and Games for Windows....

While the lot of you folks may still be in a tizzy concerning whether or notJessica Chobot‘svinyl derrièreis of legal, boneablé age or not, I will be saving my personal reserve of toy-induced saliva for these up and comingMetal Gear SolidKubricks. Tiny, poseable, and undeniably Kubrick-able, Medicom exposed theMGSKubrick set atComic Con 2007that delightfully headlines characters from the entireMSGseries. The ruggedly plastic fellows seen here can be identified as the following (in case you couldn’t already tell):...

It gets worse and worse! First, Ubisoft releasedan embarrassing trailerfor a sex-themed Wii game rated ages 12+. Next, it declared that the gamewould not release in the United States, and tried to distance itself from the game, before brushing offthe age rating. Now, it’s pulled the bloody thing from the UK. For a game calledWe Dare, it is ironic that Ubisoft seems to be chickening out. Now scheduled for — I guess — variousbits and piecesof Europe, the “spicy” Wii/PS3 party game looks like it’s being quietly snuck out under cover of darkness....

HanbitSoft, a Korean publisher, wants to bringHellgate: Londonback online in the US and Europe. One problem, though: Namco-Bandai needs to give up their publishing rights for the game in NA and PAL territories before that can happen. “There have been many inquiries from US and European Hellgate players surrounding the availability of the game in those respective territories,” wrote HanbitSoft’s CEO, Kee Young King ina recent blog post. “HanbitSoft does own the intellectual property ofHellgate: Londonand is interested in providing the game in the US and Europe, but is unable to do so at this time because Namco Bandai has the publishing rights for those regions...

Ashley Davis (ofOnce Upon a PixelandHeyAsh Watcha Playin’fame) and I got some quality time in withLilt Linea few months ago at PAX, but we thought it best to save our impressions until the game was actually released. The game finally came out today, so here you go! Lilt Lineis one of the most simple-yet-stimulating games that I’ve played in a while. It’s no wonder that it’s been published by the creators of theBit....

Good. I’m glad. Just skip theRock Bandbusiness. There’s enough of that everywhere else.[Don’t kill me, Nick] “Believe me, we’re looking at the iPhone,” Harmonix CEO Alex Rigopulos tellsArs Technicain an interview. “If we take a stop on that platform, we want to do it right, so we’re thinking about the specific attributes of the iPhone so we can make it the right step where we can make the product that’s the right product for that platform....

Harmonix has been such a tease lately, revealingTheBeatles: Rock Bandtracks to us in concentrated doses. Well, wait no longer — we now know every track that will be in the game except for one. The announcement after the jump lists nineteen more songs, bringing the announced total to 44. If you’ve missed any, you can go back and check out the previously announced trackshereandhere. I’ll admit I was more of a Beatles fan as a kid than I am now as an adult, due to an awesome uncle who made me listen toThe Magical Mystery Tourover and over during family barbeques....

Ah, PC gaming, so complicated and treacherous. THQ has released the minimum, recommended and optimum specifications for the PC version ofMetro 2033, the promising post-apocalyptic survival shooter that would be quite good provided they fix the ammo situation. The game has a lot of promise. A great atmosphere, interesting premise, and potentially great focus on survival as opposed to all-out combat. There are just a few aggravating issues,as my preview points out, getting in the way of all the fun....