It looks like later this week GT TV will be premiering the new trailer for what is turning out to be one of the most controversial upcoming games, "Resident Evil 5." While no footage was included in the teaser for the show, it has yet to be seen whether or not this trailer will stir the pot a bit more, or clear the air. I have a feeling that it's most likely going to be the former, and not the latter.

Wednesday's Picks:

Jason's Pick:

The Gameshunary: It's kind of like a dictionary, but with more video game terms than you can shake a controller at.

Patrick's Pick:

Catching Up On "Tecmo Bowl": I didn't remember much about the series befoe seeing the new DS one.

Stephen's Pick:

Rhythm Tengoku Sequel Announced: Thie NeoGAF thread reveals that a sequel to one of my favorite games ever -- a rhythm game from the designers of "WarioWare" -- will be released on the DS in July. The game is Japan-only for now, just like the first one.

Tracey's Pick:

Wii Fit: Innovation in Gaming or Marketing? Kotaku's Brian Crecente ponders this question after his parents and wife, all non-gamers, suddenly become interested in "Wii Fit." But does that mean they're interested in gaming?

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One week of "Wii Fit," and either it's not living up to my expectations or I'm not living up to my own expectations of myself. What I was hoping would be a life-changing game has only been played twice. In the past week I have played more "Call of Duty 4," "The World Ends With You," "Speed Racer" and even "Critter Round-Up" than I have "Wii Fit." It's not that it's a bad game; I just never think that "Wii Fit" is what I want to play when I have time to play games. At the same time, I did one series of lunges yesterday morning, and my legs hurt all day. Maybe it's really about time I started to rethink what I want to play when I can.

Tuesday's Links:

Jason's Pick:

The RPG Syllabus: The Brainy Gamer is trying to put together a class about the history of RPG games. I wish college classes were this interesting when I was in school.

Tracey's Pick:

The World of Warcraft Fine Art Portrait Series: Just love your [insert MMO here] character so much? Then perhaps an oil-based painting is in order... [via GameLife]

Stephen's Pick:

It's Like Going To The Eye Doctor: GameSpot posts what my be the world's most screenshot-heavy comparison of XBox 360 and PlayStation 3 graphics. Stare at it for a while and see what you can figure out.

Patrick's Pick:

Movie Trailer for "The Rocker": Can you spot "Rock Band"?

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The Memorial Day holiday is upon us, and all of this spring's big releases out; it's a dangerous combination. Does one spend the whole weekend basking in the glow of the cancer-inducing giant ball of gas in the sky or do you stay inside with their games, and consoles that have always been there for you? The choice is pretty simple.

Friday's Links:

Jason's Pick:

Box Art That Got It All Wrong: You'd think that artists from Marvel might have gotten the cover of "Ultimate Alliance" right, but guess again.

Patrick's Pick:

Customized Guitar Hero Guitar: Why doesn't Activision start offering something like this?

Stephen's Pick:

Xbox Live Arcade Games Face De-Listing: Unexceptional reviews plus low conversion rates will subtract games from XBLA.

I was able to pick up a copy of "Wii Fit" finally yesterday, and I got my first workout in last night. However, by welcoming the Balance Board into my home, the peripheral count for this generation has skyrocketed to the point that I can't handle it any more.

I was once opposed to "Guitar Hero" based almost solely on the fact that it had to be played with a proprietary peripheral (the other reason is an overall lack of rhythm); one giant piece of plastic, for just one game. I eventually broke down on that one, but still, peripherals take up space, and I don’t have a lot of it.

My last generation peripheral count was three ("Mario DDR" mat, "Guitar Hero" controller, and a Gamecube Microphone). However, this generation I have already exceeded 20. "Rock Band," "Guitar Hero," "Link's Crossbow Training," "Wii Fit," "Aquatopia," the list goes on and on, and it's getting out of hand. I'm all for more and more innovation in video games, but can someone please innovate without forcing me to buy a new peripheral ever three weeks.

Jason's Pick:

New Arcade Fighting Game: "Tatsunoko vs. Capcom": It's no "Marvel vs. Capcom 3" but I'll take what I can get. The potential for Chim Chim to take on Blanka is really all I need to get by.

Stephen's Pick:

And The Programmer Should Make How Much? The New York Times interviews the man who played "Grand Theft Auto IV"'s Niko Bellic and ponders the relatively low pay such a job netted.

Tracey's Pick:

Jake Gyllenhaal crowned 'Prince of Persia': From gay cowboy to Persian prince... think he can pull it off?

Patrick's Pick:

Cooking Mama Homemade Apron: The funny thing is, my girlfriend would probably think this was an awesome gift. Currently, she makes food with a robot apron.

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It's been two weeks since Nintendo's WiiWare launched, but there is still no sign of the one first-party game I was most looking forward to -- the remake of a classic, "Dr. Mario Online RX." Updated graphics, Mii integration, and online multiplayer have got me really excited to play the remade version of a game that I haven't touched in years. In lieu of being able to play the game, I thought of a few things Dr. Mario might be up to that could be the cause of his tardiness.

A) Golfing
B) In the middle of a fight with Yoshi and Princess Peach
C) In surgery
D) Hanging out at the Treehouse, waiting to be localized
E) Training his brain
F) Swapping jobs with Wario

Hopefully he'll have everything taken care of by this time next week so that everyone can enjoy busting viruses online.

Today's Links:

Jason's Pick:

"Wii Fit" vs. Big Mac: Game Daily compares two very unlikely candidates; the latest video game craze, and a delicious cheeseburger.

Tracey's Pick:

Xbox Live "Gay" Crackdown MIGHT Be Getting A Little Out Of Hand: After the "theGAYERgamer" tag was banned last week, a Kotaku reader says that his tag "RichardGaywood" is banned. The thing is, that's his real name.

Stephen's Pick:

Amateur Xbox 360 Development's New Kick-Off: Next-Gen reports that the XNA Community Games beta is underway and links to everything budding designers need to know to get involved.

Patrick's Pick:

Game Outfits Sighted In San Francisco: How the heck did I miss this?

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Over the last few years some of the greatest forms of video game entertainment have been re-released for my nostalgic viewing pleasure. I'm talking about great cartoons like "Capatin N," "The Legend of Zelda," and "Super Mario Bros."

Back in the late 80's and early 90's someone had the foresight to weave together two of the most important forms of entertainment to boys and girls (but mostly boys) my age, video games and cartoons. The product of which was often cartoons loosely based on the video games that we spent so many hours playing, when we weren't watching cartoons. Much like the game based movies of today, these cartoons weren't nessecerily "good," but they sure were entertaining. Since these shows have began being re-released on DVD (mostly courtesy of Shout! Factory) I have purchased almost all of them and given them another shot. While nostalgia rules most of my opinions of the shows now, it's still a lot of fun to go back watch some of the cartoons that helped shape my youth. Is there anyone else that has taken the plunge into "classic" video game based cartoons?

Tuesday Multiplayer Links:

Jason's Pick:

"Super Mario World" Like You've Never Seen It Before: This had to take someone a really long time to do.

Stephen's Pick:

The $5 Million E3 Bill: Brian Crecente of Kotaku does the digging and finds out just how much it cost the E3 organizers to not show up at the Los Angeles Convention Center last year.

Tracey's Pick:

5 Million-Piece LEGO Boulder Chases Indy, Crashes Into Car: I'm pretty excited for "LEGO Indiana Jones," but this takes it to a whole new level.

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I finished "Ninja Gaiden: Dragon Sword" on Sunday. While it is only mildly noteworthy that I finished the game (I sometimes get distracted) it's more interesting where I finished the game; at home, on my couch. Very rarely do I actually play a handheld game in the comfort of my own home; that's where I play my console games.

Living in New York City, gaming daily on public transportation is easily one of the biggest advantages, as Multiplayer's own Stephen Totilo likes to highlight almost daily. However, my favorite place to play my DS isn't on the subway, it's on the train. Metro-North commuter trains have one of the best environments to play games; they're quiet, have comfy seating, and have very few distractions. Where's your favorite place to play handheld games?

Monday's Links:

Stephen's Pick:

"Bionic Commando" The Comic Book Announced: Plus some info on a "Lost Planet" comic, all part of a Newsarama interview that, in the comments, turns into a discussion of one of the few old games I'm still nostalgic for: "Strider."

Jason's Pick:

DS Games The U.S. Won't Get: Gamertell takes a look at some of the great DS games that have been released outside the U.S. that won't ever see a stateside release.

Patrick's Pick:

Cory Barlog Interviewed By Mega64: Clearly, the most intense puppet-based interview Barlog's ever experienced.

 Tracey's Pick: 

"Postal" Movie Release Cut To Four Screens: Millions of movie-goers will be disappointed to learn that this coming weekend, Uwe Boll's "Postal" will only be on four screens. Guess you'll have to see "Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull" instead.
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It may seem a bit weird for someone working on a video game blog to say that there was too much news this week, but really, there was. My mind can only process this number of announcements this week during E3. At all other times my brain can only handle three to four announcements each week. For example, the "MadWorld" (which looks amazing) announcement, coupled with Konami's "Rock Revolution" news would have been enough for me to handle this week, but everything else on top of that? It's just too much. Either way, it begs the question, what's the biggest gaming news for you this week?

Friday's choice links:

Jason's Pick:

Super Mario Lincoln: Who knew defacing legal tender could be turned into video game art? Also available - Pac-Man, Blinky, Inky, Pinky, and Clyde.

Tracey's Pick:

MadWorld Trailer Is Mad Bloody, Mad Cool: As Cip said, "MadWorld" looks amazing -- it's my top pick of the week. Here's the trailer. (Warning: Lots of blood.)

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People went crazy. I'm not kidding. Walking around the MTV.com floor with Tracey's copy of "Wii Fit" caused a commotion like I've never seen before for a video game. The thing is, this wasn't your normal advance-copy-of-a-game-insanity from the gamers on the floor. No. This ruckus came from the people who I thought could care less about games. They came running out of the woodwork, asking if they could see it, try it, and even borrow it. The answers were yes, maybe, and no respectively. [Tracey's note: Definitely "no" to the last one.]

If there were any doubts about how big this game is going to be all you would have needed to do was see the audience I attracted just to calibrate the board. "Wii Fit" is going to be huge.

Jason's Pick:

Game Boy Musicians Talk Shop: Some of the most well know chip tunes artist talk about their beloved hobby.

Tracey's Pick:

"Lego Star Wars" Creator: 'Children Are Badly Served By Games': TT Games producer Jonathan Smith says that young gamers give "the most valuable feedback TT can receive" and that traditional focus testing makes him "reach for my revolver."

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It seems that a lot of the commotion that is came out of the Microsoft press event yesterday was, understandably, surrounding "Banjo Kazooie," but what about some of the other, more immediate big news that broke? A week from today we will be able to plunge deeply into the minds of Gabe and Tycho from Penny Arcade, as the first episode of "Penny Arcade Adventures: On the Rain-Slick Precipice of Darkness" will be available. Hopefully it will offer a fresh take on gaming, and really push the episodic and comedic areas of gaming forward. We'll have to wait until next week to see. Until then, check out today's links:

Jason's Pick:

The 10 Most Terrifying Video Game Enemies of All Time: Straying from typical "scary" games like "Silent Hill" and "Resident Evil" this list from Cracked highlights some of the more frightening characters to ever grace a video game.

Tracey's Pick:

Uwe Boll Explains Why He's the Perfect Director to Make a 'Grand Theft Auto' Movie: Even though he told me last year that it's "old-fashioned" and wondered "what would you gain if you made a movie out of it."

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