While Medal of Honor seems to trying its hardest to unseat Black Ops comes this Fall, it doesn't look like they're doing all to great of a job. Especially when you consider how awesome this multiplayer teaser for CoD is.

StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty is a game that only comes around every ten years.  Literally.  When I was eleven years old, I asked my parents to get StarCraft for my birthday and the subsequent expansion, Brood War, for Christmas.  For just about a year, it was literally the only game I played.  Years later, despite my love for WarCraft III and The Frozen Throne, I would still jump back on StarCraft to reunite with those beloved Zerg rushes, Marine and Medic combos, and Carriers coming out of nowhere to tear apart my expansions.  In short, the original StarCraft is still one of my favorite games of all time.

So, you might be asking, what the hell is this post? Why is it about spam and not bacon? Where did my pants go? Well, I can answer at least two of those questions. Yes, no, and um, maybe?

Valve hired IceFrog, developer of the Warcraft III mod Defence of the Ancients, a while back. And since then, we really haven't heard anything solid on the game they're apparently working on. It's very likely it's in some way or another related to the original DotA, and that makes sense considering the recently released Alien Swarm remake. A tweet from voice actor Jon St. John may just confirm such speculation.

If you haven’t heard of Black Rock Shooter, she’s a character created by ryoheihuke, also known as Huke on pixiv, that gained a lot of popularity online through a music video he animated.  Since Huke's Black Rock Shooter bore a striking resemblance to Hatsune Miku, the avatar of the most common voice used in the singing synthesizer application Vocaloid, she's often been mistaken as the same character.

Yesterday, the music video for "Love the Way You Lie," by Eminem and featuring Rihanna, was released and it's pretty powerful.  But what really made it stand out was Megan Fox and Dominic Monaghan's performance in the video.

When you think of Manga, what comes to mind? Muscular mutant space ninja’s focusing hyper-chi? Overpowered shinigami with comically large gun-swords fighting hoards of tentacle demons? Spiked hair bigger than a dragon’s balls?

Well, this week, You May Be Missing Out focuses on a Mangaka famous for manga that doesn’t feature anything remotely like those clichés. This week isn’t about shonen junk, it’s about some seinen classics.

Klei Entertainment's upcoming XBLA and PSN release, Shank, is almost due for release. The game will be available on the 24th of August on PSN, and the 25th of August on XBLA. In our coverage of E3 I claimed that it was a missed gem, mainly due to it being a downloadable release. It may not have been able to generate as much buzz as the full console releases around. I figured it was high time I revisit Shank and see what's happened since E3.

Monday Night Combat is a class-based third-person shooter in the mold of Team Fortress 2. Some people have previously commented that Uber Entertainment's game looks a little too much like TF2, but this latest developer walkthrough shows there are a lot of differences. For example, the fact that TF2 is bacon-less, while Monday Night Combat has bacon high-fiving an ammo casing, awesome!

So, it's been a slow news day. To make it up to you guys, you get... blindness! Yay! If you haven't heard already, Nickelodeon has commissioned a live-action "sequel" of sorts to their hit animated series, The Fairly OddParents. If that didn't make you headdesk, then let me say this, Drake Bell will play a 23-year old Timmy Turner. ughhh... If you're still interested, read on for a plot description, Drake Bell in costume, and Cheryl Hines and Jason Alexander as the Fairy Godparents.

Our friends over at Bateesta (Oh, Omid) have come out with a pretty interesting smear campaign to advertise Fallout: New Vegas.  While it isn't uncommon to hear people argue about Western vs Japanese RPGs, it's surprising to see Bethesda use it in their ad.

Or: Yeah, just come back next week…

So, first a little insight into exactly how this column is written. Typically what happens is I’ll get an idea in my head or I’ll see something on the internet that I want to write about, or that I think would work well for the column. I then spend about a week or two researching the topic, and looking at it from different angles to make sure I’m fair and unbiased. Then, Thursday rolls around and I just scrap all that and throw something together really quick; because if I don’t post on time, then Genki makes me wear the Robin suit and “go on patrol” with him.

Yes we've had a trailer for the eagerly anticipated sequel for quite sometime, but we haven't had a name for the new game. Now the newest issue of Game Informer magazine, due out in September, has revealed the name of the next game on its front cover. It will be dubbed Batman: Arkham City.

Hey everybody, it's Matt's birthday today! Matt's been a part of this site since the beginning; and even if you're a new reader, I'm pretty sure you're familiar with his contributions to the 8th. Even if you're not, you should still wish him a very happy birthday!

But please, send any and all gifts to me for... inventory purposes...

Marvel's Hall H panel at Comic-Con this year featured, among other things, a very brief teaser for The Avengers film. It obviously doesn't have any footage (the screenplay is not even finished yet), just Samuel L. Jackson narrating over the Avengers logo coming together.