Since the alphabet is the building block of our language, the Powet Alphabet is the building block of what makes us geeks.

This series is in its 17th week and we’re finally addressing music. Its not that we didn’t have ideas for bands those other weeks, we just needed the first one to be special. Queen is that band.
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Dane Boe of Gagfilms.com knows how to mash. Sure theres a thousand Mugen videos on Youtube, and there’s no shortage of flash junk on Newgrounds either. But these simple and to the point videos are ridiculous fun and have better production values than you might expect.

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Zac and Zero return for the first co-op Keep Playing review. They became friends playing Halo 2 five years ago, will Halo 3 ODST continue the tradition?
Related Videos: Keep Playing Review: Halo Wars, Halo 3 Leftovers!

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The game play and visuals are too close to be coincidental, but then the music totally seals the deal: From Software’s latest is an homage of the highest order to the Legend of Zelda.
Some lesser blogs have fingered this PSN exclusive as a knock-off, but then it has such a distinct twist, I don’t think it could be qualified as such. Also its too deliberate, it would be like saying Weird Al knocks off Michael Jackson.

If anything its knocking off Super Paper Mario for taking the classic 2D gameplay into a bizarre interpretation of the 3rd dimension!

It launches November 5th on PS3 in Japan, hopefully a global release won’t be far behind.
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In addition to being the 25th anniversary of Transformers, Ghostbusters, and Terminator; 2009 is also the 25th anniversary of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. Wow, 1984 was awesome.

In celebration of TMNT’s continued success, Mirage Studios wanted to do something to please both old fans and new, by producing a new animated movie. And when I say please fans, I mean they’re going to include characters from every TMNT continuity. 1987 series Turtles get caught in an interdemensional warp in the Technodrome and must team up with the comics Turtles and the 2003 series Turtles! Yes, Crisis of Infinite Turtles.

This new movie will be released to theaters for one night only on October 25, and will air on CW on November 15. A DVD release is of course expected, but I couldn’t find a date for it yet. No trailer online either. We do however have an awesome poster…
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In possibly my final look at the gaming industry and culture in Wisconsin, I take on Raven Software’s new shooter and what it may mean for the studio.

Raven falls short with Wolfenstein , follows layoffs with high hopes for Singularity
Wolfenstein seems content to mimic rather than bust the genre it created, though there’s nothing wrong with that for a summer game. As an end-of-summer game with Halo and Call of Duty sequels on the horizon, though, it falls short. Then barely a week after releasing the game in late August, Raven laid off dozens of employees from its 180-person staff. This came at a time when the studio has been enjoying a higher profile thanks to its string of new releases.
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Noted for Dirty Dancing, Ghost, Roadhouse, and the above SNL clip, Patrick Swayze finally succumbed to Pancreatic Cancer today, at the age of 57. He was given only weeks to live, but toughed it out for over a year and a half.

Source: ‘Dirty Dancing’ star Patrick Swayze dies at 57 [AP]

More information on Soundwave’s minions can be found courtesy Crazy’s article Powet Alphabet: C is for Cassette Transformers

Auto Tune courtesy I Am T-Pain