My review of the new Xbox Live Arcade sequel to Pac-Man

From SD Tekken, we’ve got some details on the arcade version of Tekken 6. While a few configurations will be available, the one pictured above is the most awesome. It includes 4 monitors so that 2 matches can happen at once with each player getting their own screen. Cost? $36,000. Yeah, suddenly the $700 you’d have to blow to get PS3, the game, and an extra controller is pretty low.

There will be a new “rage” system where as a fighter’s health goes down, his/her ability to do damage goes up. They’re also bringing back the customization from Tekken 5 and adding items that affect your actual in game performance. Crazy!

There is a mountain of info on this page, including character lists, all the released flyers and more stuff than a casual player could possibly find interesting.

No sooner do we find that Batman Gets A New Suit For Dark Knight, but now we find he’s got new wheels!

Called “The Batpod” its in the same spirit as The Tumbler from Batman Begins. Its a specially design motorcycle equiped with twin machine guns, cannons, and grappling hooks. And like the 2005 Batmobile, its fully functional and rides at high speeds and will be filmed without the use of visual effects to distort the functionality of the vehicle, with 508 millimeter wheels and and two engines.

It doesn’t take a lot of imagination to think up what kind of chase scene this will play a part in, but I’m eager to see it all the same.

To see a video of Al Roker talking about it, click here.

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Scanned right out of the new Entertainment Weekly, this is Christian Bale’s new cape & cowl for The Dark Knight.

Thanks to Logan for passing along this link!

Newsweek’s N’Gai Croal dropped a bomb this week, that the next gen sequel to Katamari Damacy would be exclusive to Xbox 360. Gamespot ups the ante a bit more, announcing that it will hit Xbox Live Arcade. Namco announced nothing.

One look at the above video, and a download title makes sense. Katamari was never a graphically intensive game, since so much stuff had to be on screen at once, detail remainded low. A Xbox 360, PS3, or even Wii release would be more detailed. The first footage clearly looks no better than the PS2 is capable of, meaning the game is likely limited by size for a download. There will be 4 Player online multiplayer and new levels, which all anyone wanted anyway.

And to think only 6 short months ago, Xbox Live’s Ross Erickson called the rumor of Katamari on XBLA “total crap“

Last year, Joss Whedon’s follow-up to brilliant-but-cancelled Firefly was given a special global re-release to support the charity Equality Now. They raised over $65,000, and they had such a good time, they’re doing it again.

Starting June 23rd, 50 cities will hold special screenings of Serenity with the aim of raising $100,000! Tickets are already on sale, and a screening last night in Dublin has already pulled in over $4300. Check here for cities and to buy tickets.

Dirty secret: Though I’m a fan of Firefly, I’ve never seen this movie. But its playing this Saturday and for a good cause, so I have to go!

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This week’s 1up Show has probably one of the best clips I’ve ever seen them do. This DJ turned a set of Wii remotes into scratching tools for his sets. Absolutely awesome.

Unnecessary sequels, prequels, and threequels cannot match the raw uncalled for force of another Indiana Jones picture. George Lucas, not satisfied with a decade long gutting of Star Wars, apparently convinced star Harrison Ford and director Steven Spielberg that the “Last Crusade” needed a follow-up, now almost 20 years later.

Now next summer’s adventure has a name, Indiana Jones and The City Of Gods, and the persistent rumor is that Indy will fight aliens, and discover he has a son with his Raiders cohort Marion Ravenwood, played by Karen Allen.

I could go on a poop on this movie some more, but I’ll leave that to the comments section. I mean, I really hope it will be good, but opting out of the spiritual and religious stuff that made up Indy’s adventures in favor of aliens just seems odd to me. That and Harrison Ford will be 65 next month, making hold older than Sean Connery was in Last Crusade.