Video Games and Pumpkins: Together at Last!

Happy Halloween! Here's pumpkins from some people who nerdliness makes me look like George Clooney:

Mario, Mega Man, Portal, the Red Ring of Death and more

Bowser, Castle Crashers, Final Fantasy's black mage and even more/

Obama vs. Palin: The Game

Mercenaries 2 just released some new DLC, and it seems that even gaming isn't safe from election fever. For a small sum, you can make Sarah Palin and Barack Obama playable characters in Mercenaries 2. It's a little late in the game to introduce this, but you gotta admit that the idea of shooting a terrorist with a bazooka point blank as the future leader of the free world is pretty damn tits. I best be hitting the sack, so here's a link to Kotaku since I can't get G4's vid to embed: http://kotaku.com/index.php?refId=5071531&prevPage=true

ALF Fuckin' Rocks

There is nothing else to say.

The Beatles: The Game: The Horror

It all started with The Wall Street Journal reporting the MTV and Harmonix have struck a deal with Apple Corps (the company that handles Beatles IP, not the people who make iPhones, dumass) to include Beatles songs in a future edition of Rock Band. It then turned that MTV, Harmonix and Apple Corps are actually developing a stand alone Beatles game outside of the franchise. WOW. Considering that Beatles tracks aren't even available on iTunes, this is a big, big coup for the gaming industry. Suck it, Steve Jobs!

Here's Kotaku's post:
http://kotaku.com/5070885/mtv-and-apple-corps-join-forces-for-beatles-music-game
And here's the WSJ story:
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122531701276881747.html

I love the Beatles, and I love video games. So it stands to reason that I should love this too, but I just get a bad feeling from this. Kinda like when I heard that The Who were going to jump on the Guitar Hero/Rock Band bandwagon. With half of both these bands dead, it just kind of seems like they're digging up the dearly departeds' corpses and giving them all a good humping. To quote John Lennon: "Imagine all the people...raping my rotting corpse."

Big Daddies, Samus and more - Awesome Game Costumes for H-ween

That's right, H-ween. I'm a busy man. Check out the video below first for an awesome father-daughter Bioshock costume, and then hit this link for some more inspiring masterpieces.

Louie Armstrong Sings 'Super Mario World'

Big thanks to fellow JibJabber Dan Milano for this one. If you're tracking Ghostbusters III, Dan's got just the blog for you.

See more funny videos and funny pictures at CollegeHumor.

Happy Fallout 3 day!!!

I just picked mine up just before work now I just have to wait 9 hours. Expect a post around 2AM eastern after I've gotten some play time in.

ANDY UPDATE:
I've just received mine at the JibJab offices and am considering faking AIDS so I can go home and play right now. But I've got more class than that - I'll just wait until shortly after 7 to race home, boot my girlfriend off the TV, hook up the 360 and just wail on irradiated zombies for hours on end. In the meantime, here's some tasty Fallout 3 links.

Fallout 3 Collector's Edition (Kotaku): http://kotaku.com/5069898/check-out-my-sweet-pip+boy-watch

Fallout 3 Reviews:
IGN: 9.3
1up.com: A
Sweedish PC Gamer mag: 81%
PC Jeux Magazine (French): 93%
Gametrailers.com: 9.4
Wired: No score, but seems like an 8 out of 10.
GameSpot: 9.0
AVERAGE: 89.5

I refuse to count that 10/10 OXM review. The smell of dirty money's all over that thing. Fallout 3's not gonna win game of the year, but shit - it's good enough for me to feel excited for tonight. Strangely, GameSpot's not featuring their review...maybe because it's plastered with Fallout 3 ads right now? Review to come!