Season 2 of1 vs. 100begins tonight, and I couldn’t be more thrilled. Why? Besides it being a genuinely fun trivia game, we have just been given word that “the Carlton” and “the Elaine” will be unlockable dances for your Avatar.Incredible. A few other tidbits were divulged as well. Ontop of Achievements, in-game badges will be awarded for various triumphs, such as getting your accuracy to be 90% or above. As if that wasn’t enough, players will also have levels — ranging from 1 through 50 — to display their trivia know-how....

All of these are great (of course they’re all great,Ifound them!) but if there is one you’re going to watch/listen too, it’s definitely gotta be the Counter-Strike > Sex one. Would you pass up sex to go play video games?Punch the keys for God’s sake!!Inspector Gadget made a cameo on the Super Mario Bros Super Show?!?!The German outro for the Super Mario Bros Super ShowThis is LOLtastic.P Diddy Kong, yoMario Racoon XP edition....

Crappy peripheral makerAreus Techhad already blown the world away when they revealed they were going to release a whopping 21-piece Wii Remote attachment collection, but they weren’t content with mediocrity. 21 is such a low number, it lacks the pride and prestige of, say, 38. Yes, 38 useless additions to the Wii Remote would really be the crowning achievement in the world of stuff that people don’t need. So they went ahead anddid it....

Screenwriter for Free Radical, Rob Yescombe, takes it to the streets of Nottingham to talk with kids, bums, and goths about the upcoming first-person shooter,Haze. Of the people he chats with, few of them have the slightest idea of whatHazeis and one man goes so far as to think that Rob is referring to smoking.Next up, we get a tour ofFree Radical Design, complete with a call to an unnamed member of theAssassin’s Creedteam and a quick look at the in-game animation for getting shot in the ass....

I’ve often said that while many publishers and developers whine about piracy and the PC market, there’s a little company called Valve which rarely seems to bitch about it. Valve’s Jason Holtman may provide a clue as to why that is, ashe’s revealedthe developer’s philosophy that pirates are just “underserved customers.” “There’s a big business feeling that there’s piracy,” explains Holt. “[But] pirates are underserved customers … When you think about it that way, you think, ‘Oh my gosh, I can do some interesting things and make some interesting money off of it....

When Hesiod sat down to write outTheogony, he probably didn’t think that his gods would be utilized in a Nintendo DS game. Then again, he probably didn’t think his brother would be so deceitful either. Today, Nintendo announcedAge of Empires: Mythologies, a spiritual successor of the popular PC RTS. Mythologieswill feature the Greeks, Norse, and Egyptian armies in a tiny showdown of military and economic superiority. Players will have the opportunity to choose a set of specific gods to gain powers that will directly impact the result of battles in both single player and multiplayer modes....

You can expectRed Dead Redemptionto be at the top of nearly every “game of the year” list over the next few weeks, but it would seem thatTIMEmagazine, of all places, is going against the grain. The revered publication has placedAlan Wakeatop its top ten games of 2010. Other surprising (but welcome) hits inTIME‘s top ten list wereAngry Birds,LimboandSuper Meat Boy, all of which deserve praise. The rest of the picks were the games you would expect, but here’s the top ten list anyway if you’d like to argue about it:...

Angry Birds. Hours have been lost to it on three platforms for me — my iPod, the high definition version on the iPad, and (most recently) the Android edition for my phone. Now there’s a Halloween edition, calledAngry Birds Halloween. Yikes! Angry Birds Halloweenis available exclusively for the iPhone/iPod touch and iPad, and it’s just what it sounds like —Angry Birdswith some Halloween crap in it. Pumpkins, ghosts, and what have you....

With so much talk of Western vs. Eastern games and Japanese developers trying to “appeal” to the West,Blazbluecreator Arc System Works prefers to see the world as one big ball, and we gamers as a single mass rather than two distinct halves. “Personally, I don’t view users according to their nationality, but rather as gamers,” explains director Takeshi Yamanaka I make games for people who like them. “If there are people who like fighting games with Japanese-animation-style motions and a fantasy setting, I’m making the game for them....

This week’s featured Art Attack Friday artist is マサオ,otherwise known as Masao. Who is Masao? It’s hard to say, as his profile page has no concrete info. Plus,his self-portraitdoesn’t help matters much. But you’re not here to Matlock! No, you’re here for amazing art, and Masao’s art is simply amazing. Where as most fan artists like to re-imagine their favorite videogame icons in a heroic manner, Masao takes cherished gaming icons and adds a giant layer of WTF to them....

The revealing ofAssassin’s Creed: Revelationswasaccidentally put online before, but the officialFacebook pagehas now gone live properly. It teases us to unlock something after enough people “like” it. It currently doesn’t show much, although you can see a medieval style fortress in the background and “some assassin” appears to have the hidden blade at Altair’s ring finger location. Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood‘s “ending” contained some glyphs that could be viewed as a hint for the next big title, including one that displayed the Phrygian Cap — a symbol for the French Revolution and American and Latin American revolutions....

At first glance,Retro/Gradelooks to be a very ordinary and uninteresting shooter, and I admittedly let out a small groan upon watching the first few seconds of its trailer, thinking we had anotherAegis Wingon our hands. That was, until, they said we’d be playing it backward. With rhythm-based movement. To a chiptune-inspired soundtrack. With a guitar controller, if that’s your cup of tea. Now you have my pensive attention. The first effort by developer24 Caret Games,Retro/Gradehas just been announced for release on PSN....

[Dtoider Anus Mcphanus was on hand to hear Gearbox head Randy Pitchford reveal some awesome and bizarre details about Duke Nukem Forever at a BAFTA event in London. Want to see your own writing on the front page? Write something awesome andput it in the C Blogs. — Kauza] The British Academy of Film and Television Arts, or BAFTA as they’re more commonly known, have always championed the British video games industry....