div style="background-color: #B3B3B3; width: 160px; padding: 1px;">#cartoon In the early 1980s, there was a Pac-Man cartoon. In 2012, Namco Bandai now says, there will be a new one. More » [Link] [Cache]

div style="background-color: #B3B3B3; width: 160px; padding: 1px;">#clip Zangief proves once and for all that even goat-horned, laser-shooting dinosaurs are no match for the Red Cyclone. A compilation video takes a look at Zangief pile-driving foes into submission over the years. More » [Link] [Cache]

Just before this year's E3, Yoostar Entertainment -- a start-up selling software that allows users to edit themselves into movie clips -- announced that Greg Fischbach below left joined them to serve as president and CEO. If his name doesn't ring a bell, chances are you didn't spend the '90s reading game industry financial statements; Fischbach co-founded and then ran Acclaim for most of its life, seeing it balloon successfully starting in the late '80s and then come to a close selling its name to a free-to-play company in 2004. So with Acclaim or at least, Fischbach's Acclaim now in ... [Link] [Cache]

Lightflight is a mouse controlled, flash built version of Qix/Volfied. On the bright side, it looks and sounds fantastic. On the even brighter side, it’s not the abomination that is Jezzball – a plague be upon its head. On the not quite as bright side, I found myself a little uncomfortable with the mouse controls. It’s an interesting take but the removal of absolute direct control over what you’re doing takes away some of the urgency and danger of the source games. Thankfully, unlike latter day Qix/Volfied variants – it also has a distinct lack of nuddy. So, more plusses ... [Link] [Cache]