This is the most genius thing I’ve heard all week. Apparently the end credits of Rogue Warrior gives you an ambient/house song complete with swear-filled Mickey Rourke-isms from the game.

Rogue  Warrior just came out today, so I hope its beginning and middle are as good as its end.

Let us know at Nerdist Industries what you think if you get your grubby mitts on it.

via @mourasmith

I came out to New York to enjoy Comic-Con, unseasonable warmth and an odd number of its citizens yelling at people on their cell phones. Seriously. I’ve seen this multiple times so far. I guess times are making people cranky and also unaware that their phones don’t provide a privacy bubble when in use. My favorite overheard thing so far:

[Mook in Trenchcoat Briskly Walking while Shouting]
“No I will NOT listen! I haven’t touched a woman in SIX MONTHS.”

While at the Con, I moderated a panel for a new Comedy Central show called “Krod Mandoon and the Flaming Sword of Fire” which is a delightful nerd-themed comedy in a D&D-type world setting. Sean Maguire (Meet the Spartans) and India De Beaufort (Run Fatboy Run) head the cast and were an absolute delight. Although not in attendance, I have to give a special salute to Matt Lucas (Little Britain) who rocks it as the show’s villain, Chancellor Dongalor. I enjoyed the episodes I watched and am pleased that Comedy Central is recognizing the massive nerd audience that needs entertainment to jam into their pulsating brains!

RE: Ghostbusters game. It looks completely rad. If you had told me in 1984 having watched the movie six times in the theater that such a thing could exist, I may have involuntarily evacuated my bowels on the spot in preparation for running to wherever I could exchange money for it. The only complaints I heard from some of the people playing was that the Wii Nunchuck controllers were a little challenging with regard to aiming the proton packs. Still, I hope this game comes out soon so I can form my own damn opinion (the line to play was too long). The only indication I saw of a realease date said “2009,” but if anyone else has any other info then please feel free to share.

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And for future reference, I have started the Nerdist Flickr page, which will slowly begin filling up with photographic goodness.

Only a few days after it was executed by Pontius Hasbro, Scrabulous has been resurrected as "Wordscraper." The scoring has changed a little and the tiles have shifted from the popular square shape to the stable and constant circle. Many office monkeys had begun tying up their affairs in preparation for mass suicides after the Hasbro company blocked the famous Facebook Application, threatening actual work to get done in the corporate cubicle combs of the U.S. and Canada, but this latest John Woo Face/Off switcheroo on the part of Jayant and Rajat Agarwalla will ensure lower productivity and diminished quality control in the American workplace until Phineas J. Hasbro finds a way to donkeypunch fun again.

Via [TechNewsWorld]

This is retardulous. In video gaming’s lifelong quest to deprive nerds the opportunity of reproduction comes a fatal blow to physical contact with the opposite sex: Dream Arcades’ Octane 120. This is the Doc Brown-type contraption that you tell your friends you’re going to build when you grow up and have money. In fact, I think that perspective is the best way to describe its Swiss Army Nerd feature set:

"So, when I’m eighteen and I can get out of this stupid house and away from my stupid mom and her stupid boyfriend Wayne, I’m totally gonna rent my own place and there won’t even be any furniture, man…I’m just gonna build like a video game racing cabinet that you can sit in and play XBox and PS3 and Wii—I’m gonna have all of those—and there’s gonna be a kegerator in the back with one tap for girls to watch me rock at Gran Turismo and another tap near the steering wheel—SEE, WAYNE!!! I can drink and drive TOO!!!—and a built-in projector that’s gonna throw up a ten-foot screen against the wall and it’s gonna sound killer cuz I’m gonna arm that bitch with Dolby 5.1…yeah man…life’s gonna be PRETTY sweet…(sobbing)"

The truth is, you would have to be motivated by a drunken father figure to go build one of these on your own because the Dream Arcades version is a pube shy of 7 grand.

Via [Coolest Gadgets]

Crafty Kiwi-turned-Spaniard Julian Oliver is so punk, you can’t even buy his game. He made it as a visual art project. The only accessories for the game are a small video camera and a series of plastic cubes. The video you see below is what you see on your screen while you play, including your grubby mitts. This was another game under the Indiecade umbrella (pronounce the double "l" like a "y" in honor of Julian’s home, Spain) that didn’t make it in the G4 video (these videos can only be so long, thanks to your feeder-fish attention spans).

Featured in the E3 coverage, here’s a more in-depth look at the game. I mean, c’mon! You can create time-loops of yourself to use as helpful props while pursuing delicious pie! WHAT MORE DO YOU NEED??? You can lace up your spats and Lindy Hop over to the Winterbottom website.

While there were many neato games at E3, most of them had the corporate feel of committee thinking. Indiecade is a Venice, CA based company that seems more like an indie record label than a video game company. They pool the most innovative games from around the world that are made by individuals who are more concerned with expressing their own unique visions rather than trying to sate the 18-34 year old demographic with predictable premises aimed through recognizable brands.

Darkgame was one of the most interesting, though not featured in the video below (but you see the octopus helmet worn in the game for a split second). Two players at different PCs play against each other, one being the hunter and the other the prey. The prey gets a view of the gameplay but the hunter’s screen is black…he must fire "in the dark" using sensory data picked up through haptic feedback from the helmet; in other words, the helmet vibrates on your head in relation to where the prey is located which gives you a sense of where to fire. It was a total techie Marco Polo kind of gaming experience.

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Whether or not you have a thing for classical mythology (four years of high school Latin taught to me by Jesuit priests with whom I had only platonic relationships) this game looked INSANE…

If you’re like me, you were kicked real hard in the nards by Ghostbusters II five years after being so deftly stroked by Ghostbusters I. If you’ve been trying to spit the taste of the second movie out of your mouth for 20 years, you may be able to wash it out with the minty freshness of Ghostbusters: The Video Game. The brilliance of this is that it’s a sequel but in game form and everyone is reprising their roles—all the way down to William Atherton (Walter "Dickless" Peck). The only names I didn’t see on the cast list were Rick Moranis and Sigourney Weaver (or Jean Kasem, if you want to be a real dork about it). G:TVG (I save time abbreviating titles so that I can waste it all back on parentheticals) will be available October 1st for PS2, PC, and Nintendos Wii & DS for a mere $59.99.

Crappier websites will think they’re being clever by positing,"Who you gonna call" in their reviews. They will be wrong.