I was searching for some actual footage of the upcoming Wii exclusive Epic Mickey. But aside for some concept art, there doesn’t appear to be any actual game footage from Warren Spector’s Junction Point studio.  What we do know is very little, but sounds very cool, especially that insane steampunk, trippy, nightmarish vibe of the game.

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What do you get when you take six very talented footballers (Paul Wood, Paul Klein, Darryl Stewart, Tom Pett, Lewis Foster & Harry Adcroft) and create a giant game of Guitar Hero controlled with footballs?  The track is Kasabian’s “Underdogs,” which, um, could have been something better.

Well this is certainly a clever use for Microsoft’s Surface table computer.  I’ve only played D&D a few times in my life, but I’ve got to say that the game paired up with the Surface looks pretty fun.  [via]

Damn.  First there was Iggy Pop, then David Bowie, then Blur and now Queen?  Yes, I’ve been rocked indeedy.  [via]

British band Blur is joining Iggy Pop and David Bowie and getting the Legoized treatment for their Rock Band edition aimed at younger kids.  I love this in everyway possible.  Everything from Albarn’s green eyes and Parklife-era track shirt to Graham Coxon’s geek-glasses and Alex James’s bangs. 

With all the sets that Lego actually puts out, I’m a bit miffed now that they don’t have a “rock star” line when you can put together tour busses, stages, green rooms, practice spaces, drug dens, groupie closets, etc. [via]

Scott Bradlee and Ben Golder-Novick, better known as Eight Bit Jam, have teamed up to bring you this: classic video game music played jazzy-like with piano and saxophone.

Love 8-bit Nintendo games but not necessarily 8-bit musical instruments? Wish you could hear the soundtracks of those games rendered by live musicians as you play?

Eight Bits of Jam will come into your living room and provide real-time acoustic soundtracks to old school games such as Super Mario Bros., The Legend of Zelda, Mike Tyson’s Punch-out, and many more. All you have to do is put the television on ‘mute’ and Eight Bits of Jam will take care of the rest.

Ho. Ly. Shit. Why don’t I still have an 8-bit NES? [via]

Despite tepid reviews for Bungie’s latest Halo release, the brand still has legs selling two-million units during it’s first 24-hours. It’s obvious people are still excited about the franchise, even though recent sales ares down 30% from sales figures of Halo 3.  No one is complaining.

The sales figures were compiled from VGChartz.com and they point out that 1.5 million of the first day sales total came from America with the other 500,000 copies sold in Europe and elsewhere. [via]

There goes my morning.  “I highly recommend you use Google Chrome to play JSNES. Thanks to its high performance canvas element, and a clever optimisation by Connor Dunn, it runs at full speed on modern computers. Mac builds are also available. Otherwise, it just about runs on Firefox 3.5 or Safari 4, but it’s hardly playable.” 

Ben Firshman has created a javascript emulator for the 8-bit NES.  And if you don’t think I’m going to waste my day playing Contra now, then you didn’t know me as a seven-year-old.  [via]

Now there’s no reason to leave the house, well I guess there won’t be until you can order strippers and beer.

1) No thanks, you can keep your creepy zombie Kurt Cobain.

2) How cool is it that they designed his game appearance with the Daniel Johnston t-shirt?

3) Why can’t I remember the Nirvana song that starts, “Mom and Dad went to a show/dropped me off at Grandpa Joe’s”  Is it “Sliver?”  Someone throw me a bone here, I don’t feel like cruising my iTunes all morning.

Microsoft is cutting the price of the XBOX 360 Elite, the one with the 120 GB hard-drive, by $100.  Now it’ll retail for $299.  The move isn’t much of a surprise, given that Sony had priced the PS3 for $300.

Shocking!  According to a new survey from the Center for Disease Control and Prevention, the average video game player in America is 35, obese and has a higher proportion of “poor mental health days.” 

They also rely on the internet and P2p gaming for their social outlets.  This is the inevitable outcome from an entire generation of kids being raised on video games.  But with all averages, they tend to be skewed by the extreme outer-participants.  And with a sample size of only 552, the average could look much worse than the norm.

I’ve never played Guitar Hero, but if there was ever a moment when I’ve contemplated buying a video game system just to play a game it was after seeing this trailer, featuring The Man in Black. 

I heard the game was getting a few Cash tunes, so here’s hoping that a few of his unsavory ones are on the list, like “Cocaine Blues,” aside from the hits and Christian gospel ones.