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New trailer with music from Faith No More.

You can’t take it with you, at least when it comes to your social graph.

Yahoo Messenger’s icon, a frighteningly happy face, reflects the fact that people have a whole section of their brains just for processing facial information. Yahoo is tapping into that visual cortex a little more directly with the new beta, which uses larger emoticons.

GamePolitics writes:

An airman assigned to guard a North Dakota base for US nuclear bombers was found to be playing a video game on his mobile phone, according to a recent inspection.

As reported by the Associated Press, the guard’s inattention to duty was one of just a number of violations which caused Minot AFB to receive sub-par marks on the inspection, which must now be repeated in 90 days…

There can only be one king of the action game genre and in the last few weeks, words have been traded between rival game developers, Tomonobu Itagaki and Hideki Kamiya. In the latest publication of Edge magazine, Kamiya states that since his last game the action genre has become stale and that his upcoming title, Bayonetta, will deliver the type of action only his team, PlatinumGames can provide. In the other corner, Itagaki-san states that Ninja Gaiden 2 is the definitive action game, that only Team Ninja can develope. So the question is, who makes the best action games? Itagaki or Kamiya?

A videos From Famitsu,1 hours of total length.Enjoy it

Wired writes:

Apple store employees caught four teenagers doing the unthinkable — downloading a third-party application onto a demo iPhone — which prompted their immediate banishment from Apple stores "for life."

Two Palo Alto High School students — Daniel Fukuba (left), 17, and Eric Vicenti (right), 16 — met up with two recent Paly grads, Noah Rogers and Anjay Patel, at the Apple Store in downtown Palo Alto, where they made the mistake of downloading third-party car-racing game "Raging Thunder" onto the store’s iPhone…

GAX writes:

Canada, your government has a message for you: stop being so damn lazy. Turn off your game consoles and go outside for a change. ParticiPACTION, an organization funded by the Canadian government to help educate people on being active, shares a similar message to that of Presidential candidate, Senator Barack Obama. He’s said several times (and I’m paraphrasing) to ‘turn off the game system and go outside.’

Here’s one of ParticiPACTION’s recent ads dealing with inactive, video-game-playing, kids.

Over the past two years, Microsoft and Sony have engaged in the most brutal product conflict in recent memory. VHS versus Betamax. DVD versus LaserDisc. These petty feuds cannot hold a candle to the gruesome nature of modern-day console warfare. It’s the kind of battle that makes Ali vs. Frazier look like two chubbigans fighting over the last Twizzler, and it shows no sign of slowing in the near future. Though Microsoft Corporate VP Shane Kim has issued a fair amount of criticism at the Playstation 3 over the past week, Sony continues to emphasize their infamous “10 Year Plan” and superior hardware edge without rest. The truth is, while these industry behemoths throw hollow jabs, Nintendo has taken stride with the Wii and stands alone in their pursuit for worldwide market share.

-Brian Paterson, ReelGamers.com

This article contains enormous MGS2 spoilers, just so you know.

Joystiq’s The B[ack]log:

"Playing Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty again, after all these years, has had an interesting effect on my opinion of it. Which is to say, I actually like it now. I’m tempted to compare it to a maturing, fine wine, a substance I’m sure was heavily consumed during the game’s development, but the truth is that Sons of Liberty remains every bit the unhinged and convoluted mess I remember it to be. A mess that, with patience and even the slightest idea of what you’re getting yourself into, becomes considerably easier to navigate. Wait … does that make me the wine?"

Jim Sterling writes:

"An Ubisoft rep has responded to criticism that its Wii lineup contains nothing for "normal" gamers by essentially saying that nobody cares about their best games, so screw it."