Tecmo Bowl Throwback Now Available on Xbox Live Arcade

It’s Tecmo Bowl, but on your Xbox 360. And without the NFL-licensed players and teams. But with a 3D-style look and feel! You can go old-school and play in 2D mode, too. It’s actually the SNES version of Super Tecmo Bowl, redone for the present day and with some extras thrown in here and there.

Cryptids: Stephen Hawking’s Alien Invasion Theory

There was some scuttlebutt—not quite a brouhaha—this weekend when Stephen Hawking said the following during his new Into the Universe series on the Discovery Channel:

Cub Scouts Get Loops and Pins for Video Games

Finally! Tiger Scouts, Cub Scouts, and Webelos Scouts now have access to the prestigious Video Games Belt Loop and Video Games Academics Pin. Awards for playing video games? Sort of!

Apple World Wide Developer Conference 2010 Slated For June 7

Apple’s annual World Wide Developer Conference will begin June 7 and run through till June 11 in San Francisco. No word on Steve Jobs making an appearance, but attendees will have the opportunity to manhandle iPhone OS 4 and attend the first iPad dev sessions. Glorious. Only if we saw that new iPhone.

New episode of Ugly Americans airs on Comedy Central at 10:30 p.m.

Iron Man 2 star Robert Downey Jr. and OK Go on CBS’ Late Show With David Letterman

The Daily Dose

Tuesday, April 27, 2010

Screw Yoga, I’m With ZombieFit

Welcome to ‘Zombie of the Week,’ folks, where each week we’ll present you with a different brain-eating member of the undead that has captured our fancy. There is no methodology to our Zombie Awesomeness meter, just our own piqued interests. Got a zombie we should see? Comment below. No zombie is too small, too short-lived, [...]

Streamys E-mail Chain: Our Take On “Rebuild the Trust”

Yesterday, we got word of the rebuildthetrust.org – an attempt by the Streamy Award’s producers to repair the show after this year’s fiasco of glitchy streaming, incorrect or unplayable clips, crude jokes and –what else?– streakers. We were a little surprised the group is still pushing their problems into public light, but still, it got [...]

The Loadout for April 27, 2010: New Games to Attack the Week With

Welcome to the Loadout. Our philosophy is that the working week is a recurring boss battle that you’ll need the proper weapons to take down. The supplies at hand won’t always be pretty but you might just be able to hold out until the weekend. Green means add it to your arsenal, yellow leaves it [...]

This Mark Twain Ghost Story Might Be Bunk, But Does it Matter?

Last Wednesday marked the 100th anniversary of Mark Twain’s death and while many quoted Tom Sawyer, attendees of his centennial death day party were hoping he’d come back to celebrate along with them.