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If you like video games and drinking and live in the greater New York City area, then you owe it to yourself to check out Barcade.  This gaming hot spot is located at 388 Union Avenue in Brooklyn.  It's difficult to put into words the feeling of drinking a fine libation in one hand while having your butt kicked by those terrible little blobs in Pengo.  You'll just have to take my word that it's something pretty special. 

The bar features a wide slection of beer, lots of open space to stand and drink, and a couple dozen classic arcade cabinets.  The best part? Each game still costs just 25 cents.

Honestly, if you're reading this, stop, leave your studio apartment, basement, or dungeon, and go pick up Starcraft II.  It's only the biggest game release since WoW's Wrath of the Lich King.

Go ahead, we'll wait - We promise.

Come on people, go Zerg rush something already!!

It happens to everyone, even the best of us:  You and your marine buddies are out on another bughunt and everything is going well, when suddenly a facehugger parasite jumps out of nowhere and clamps onto someone’s face.  Now the victim is going to die painfully over the next several seconds, and it’s up to his comrades to answer one critical question to save his life: How do you cure infestation?

The IAF wishes to remind its soldiers that professional healing or a specialized v45 Electric Charged Armor unit are the only ways to cure infestation.  Proven healing practices include deploying an official IAF Heal Beacon or applying an IAF Medical Gun to the parasite victim, as well as the use of a personal healing kit.  And while the IAF applauds the innovative thinking of our armed forces, we wish to discourage any attempts at “improvised healing” that soldiers often resort to.  The following tactics have been proven...

Hey WoW players!  All those annoying keys and buttons just too much for you to handle?  Well, now you can spam heals, trigger macros, or let everyone know that despite wiping your entire raid, you at least have chicken - all without lifting a finger!  It's the Word of Warcraft Tap Chat!

You see it's a pedal, and you... well, you step on it... and it does stuff! Cool stuff!  Really cool stuff!  Stuff your hands are too busy to do!

Well, that's the idea anyway.  Whether or not I actually have enough fingers to open my chat channel the old fashioned way, I don't know.  What I do know is that I want to be able to trigger my mic with my feet, and, really, that might be all the incentive I need to pick up this little peripheral.

Rush's 2112 Album which featured epic Progressive Rock tracks such as the six-part 20 minute song "2112" and "The Twilight Zone" will be available to play on the newest iteration of Guitar Hero: Warriors of Rock. A video interview trailer with the band can be seen after the break.

The video also focuses on how the single-player campaign will be fleshed out more so than any other Guitar Hero game (possibly more-so than any other game in the music genre actually). Personally, the single-player story line really does not affect me as I loved the Guitar Hero series for it's multiplayer experience.

I say "loved" in the past tense because the song list in recent games has strayed away from metal, and more importantly for me, progressive metal. Having Rush prominently featured in the game did make me curious about the set list. I was...

Somewhere in the world Celstrians have fallen from their invisible castle in the sky. Now mortal, it is up to you to and your recruits to protect the humans in place of your now missing guardian angel race and discover why their sky city was destroyed.

Being new to the 24-year-old Dragon Quest series, I had no trouble jumping into Dragon Quest IX: Sentinels of the Starry Skies. The newest portable iteration seems built for all ages and any type of RPG gamer, from the gamer who enjoys speaking to every villager in existence to those who simply want to grind and battle over and over again until they overpower each area. Dragon Quest IX does a great job of appealing to both the casual and hardcore, as the story takes the player through an hour of exploration and exposition with only one battle in between before throwing your custom-made character into the world. From there, you can choose to help the townsfolk or battle it out and raise your level. It...

Video games may or may not be capable of being art, but the Game Play Festival currently running at the Brick Theater in Williamsburg, Brooklyn is making some great art out of video games.  Reimagine Donkey Kong as an abusive boyfriend, watch Mario and Luigi hallucinate giant turtles and evil plants while high on shrooms, and witness the spectacle that is "Grand Theft Ovid."  Four different transmedial pieces are running at the theater through July 25th.

Read the NY Times article here and get tickets here.

OH MY GOD, OH MY GOD!!

If you haven't seen it yet, then do yourself a favor, log out of WoW, and take a peek.  You'll be glad you did, and you'll know what the heck your friends are talking about.  Maybe if you watch real close, you'll even be able to figure out "what does this mean??"

IT'S STARTING TO LOOK LIKE A TRIPLE RAINBOW!!

OH MY GOD, IT'S FULL ON!!