A lonely Final Fantasy fan attempts to impress a female friend with his knowledge of Square Enix titles.

Grand Theft Auto has finally succeeded in converting the masses into mindless murdering machines and it’s up to one man to save the day: Jack Thompson.

Here is a game to go along with your $300 drum kit - with features like mini-campaigns, custom set lists, online world tour and a drum trainer, plus it’s compatible with the  DLC songs you already purchased for the original Rock Band.  Watch the latest trailer from Harmonix featuring gameplay for Rock Band 2 which is coming to the Xbox 360 this September with the PS2, PS3 and Wii versions to follow.

In this week’s Sessler’s Soapbox, Adam goes over some of the games that haven’t gotten the attention they deserve going into E3.

Watch the latest trailer for Brother in Arms: Hell’s Highway entitled “How much can one man take?” coming August 26th to PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and PC from Ubisoft.

In this episode of The Reboot, host Rio Pesino speaks with video game recruiters from Bungie, LucasArts, BioWare, Ubisoft, THQ and FullSail about the hiring process, what they look for in a candidate and some insiders’ advice on how to break into the industry.

I decided to do this run just before I finished my multi segment run. With all the time I put into doing each chapter quickly, the SS run was actually fairly easy to do. It serves as a nice distraction from the semi tedious nature of shaving seconds off of a nearly perfected segmented run. I took several attempts at completing this. This was my best completion time, but I know it could be faster. When I first recorded a multi segment run for submission to SDA, my time was 1:53:29. In just under two months I developed enough skill to nearly match that in one sitting. So I’m very pleased with this run, despite its flaws, and I hope it will be as enjoyable to watch as it was to make. Josh Mangini

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Take a trip down memory lane with the following video. The trip begins with some of the first Atari 2600 television advertisements and continues with almost 20 years of video game commercials. This great compilation of ads reminds us of our gaming past with legends like Mickey Mantle selling on demand intellivision, and Phil Hartman playing a wide range of characters for Philips CD-i. There is even a young Tobey Maguire cutting class to play the huge Atari Lynx in the boys room.

Some great early ads demonstrate families playing video games together, while classic GameBoy ads remind adults that your never to old to play games. The video comes to a end with Jaguar & Sega’s crass advertisements during the 90’s that I remember liking at the time, actually were really pretty awful.

In this week’s Sessler’s Soapbox, Adam previews the highly anticipated co-op FPS title ‘Left 4 Dead’ from Valve.

A Musical Rap tribute to Halo 3. “Oh No, where do we go?”
Written, directed, and performed by Mason Storm, Edited by Phill Ragland, Produced by Warped Corp.

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