A little late on the jump here, but just in case you haven’t seen it – the Scott Pilgrim vs the World video game, I mean… you’re missing out. It captures all the feelings and emotions of when you were younger, spending your days in the arcade.

Check it out:

Our pal FreddieW is at it again, but this time he’s using some video game logic to destroy the enemy. The 8-bit thought bubble is probably the greatest part of the video, but the effects are bloody fantastic!

A classic take on Mario, here we have a stop motion film dedicated to the life and times of our beloved plumber. From NICONICO Douga.

Also, if you’re a fan of Mario games, you should check out our flash arcade and play Enough Plumbers.

We’ve all seen Microsoft’s new X-Box Kinect motion control system play sports and family games, but how will a hardcore action game like Star Wars work? This video explains everything.

The ’80s featured the rise of two major cultural forces: video games and the World Wildlife Fund World Wrestling Federation, later to start being honest about the stuntwork in their shows by calling themselves World Wrestling Entertainment (there was also that lawsuit, but let’s not talk about that.) And it was pretty much inevitable that they’d combine forces, just like every pop culture robot from the ’80s, to dominate the minds of grade-school boys everywhere and later create awkward moments in college when it was pointed out it was all about sweaty men touching each other.

But lately, wrestling games have been facing a hardcore challenge: namely, UFC. Just like UFC is starting to make wrestling submit in the TV arena, it’s increasingly taking over video games as well. So what happened? We’ve got a few theories about that…and a few pitfalls the UFC games can avoid or the wrestling games can crawl out of:

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