Stephen Colbert preformed last night at the White House Correspondent’s Dinner. Part one, part two and part three. I don’t think I’d have the guts to cut jokes like that infront of the President and all those officials. Guy has cajones of steel.

Awesome! Speaking of Half-Life 2, you can now purchase awesome little Headcrabs from the Valve’s Online Store! They even have little plush fangs and a gaping maw, awww how cute!

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Originally uploaded by TheGreenBunny.

Yay! Made with the super popular Garry’s Mod for Half-Life 2.

Oh, and for those of you who are new to the whole Nintendo Wii /Revolution thing, 1Up has a great primer on all Wii know about the system so far.

I just realized how awesome Punch-Out would be on this system! Awww frack yeah!

If you’ve been following any source of videogame news you’ve probably already heard the new name for Nintendo’s next gaming system:

That’s Wii, sounds like “we”. It is a pretty big step away from it’s original code name of “Revolution”. Most response to the name has been negative, calling it childish, nonsense, and of course too open to “playing with your wii-wii” jokes. But amongst all the bitching and moaning there is a bit of insight.

Tycho from Penny Arcade points out that:

Nintendo clearly felt the name was so cryptic it required a Rosetta Stone alongside to contextualize it, which doesn’t really speak to its deep strength or intuitive character.

This pretty much sums up my initial response to it. Wii? Wii?! What kind of lame gimpy name is that? But after sleeping on it I’ve started to shift my view towards Mike’s analysis at Game Girl Advance.

The name is memorable. The fact that people hate it is great for Nintendo. It’s also a bit of a curve ball, a slight of hand if you will. Nintendo has grabbed the attention of gamers with a quick renaming of the console. No big game announcements. No weird hardware problems. They just said, “Hey, look at us, we’ve got a crazy name for our console,” and gamers everywhere paid attention immediately. If the responses show anything, very few commenters are saying “Eh, I don’t care.” People care, and they’re passionate.

Look at all that free news coverage Wii generated for them. So much so that the average non-gamer is going to take notice and get it stuck in their heads. After all isn’t that the whole idea behind the Revolution? Get those non-gamers gaming, and the first thing you have to do is get them to remember your name.

Pretty smart Nintendo, Wii applaud you.

Graig was telling me how much he loved the game Tetrisphere because it had a killer soundtrack. After a quick skim through my bookmarks I pointed him to Galbadia Hotel, a repository of video game and anime soundtracks all available for download. He quickly retreated to his PC to download and soak in all the techno Tetrisphere goodness.

Anyone else have any video game or anime soundtrack recommendations?

Almost in the spirit of Dr Tran this stand up comedian proves the movie trailer voice is always a funny gimick if done right.

Update: oh and here’s the guy’s webpage. Figured it out the 2nd time through the video.

I’m not sure exactly what Urawaza means, but if you look for that tag at YouTube you’ll get a list of Japanese instructional videos. All of them deal out handy little tips like How to refresh 5 hours old sour taste coffee or How to put on a Band Aid so it stay on all day.

Toast may be interested in the How to cook perfect Gyo-za video. There are plenty of other cooking and food preparation clips as well. I myself think their How to stop a baby crying video is out of this world! Does that really work?

Possibly another contender in the Video Clip Dance Off? Watch Russian bodybuilder Alexander Vishnevskiy do a bit of the robot for his posing routine. He’s quite good, better then me for sure.

wN pointed me to some clips of David Elsewhere in a recent post. I’ll return the favour by pointing him to some one legged DDR action. Almost as equally impressive in my humble opinion.

Anyone else wanna step up with a dance clip?