Art Attack Friday is your weekly look at videogame fan art created by a talented artist. Prepare to have your heart broken as today’s Art Attack artist shows no mercy to your favorite Pokemons. Jublin created a series of portraits to show how Pokemon recuperate after a hard painful battle. We love to use Pokemon, but we never think of the horrible pain these poor creatures go through. Most of Jublin’s videogame artwork is violence against Pokemons, but he does have some nice Mario pieces as well....

The US economy may be in bad shape, but that hasn’t reflected on Microsoft’s Entertainment and Devices division,according to executiveRobbie Bach. The division currently looks after several computer peripherals, the Zune, Windows Mobile and of course the Xbox 360. While people struggle to afford gas, they’re not struggling to buy from Microsoft, apparently. “We have not seen, on the consumer side of our business, a slowdown,” claims Bach. He said that the videogame and computer business runs on a cycle determined by new releases, and not the economy....

A shedload of newBayonettascreens have arrived, and they look as sexy as everything else in this game. Thelatest galleryreveals some new attacks and sexy weaponry, as well as a fresh collection of enemies that our titular heroine Bayonetta (who ishotter than your girlfriend) shall face throughout this incredibly awesome game. Not that I’m excited for this or anything. I’m loving the enemy design, but then, I love pretty much damn near everything aboutBayonetta....

When Markus “Notch” Perrson received a notice that Bethesda was bringing legal action against Mojang for infringing on the Maryland company’s “The Elder Scrolls” trademark with their forthcoming game “Scrolls,” he seemed to meet it with a level of bemusement, hoping that this was the sort of posturing that would just blow over. “Lawyers being lawyers,” he called it. Seems like those lawyers are going to get plenty of opportunity to be themselves....

A gameplay video for the upcomingBionic Commandofound its way into my willing hands today. Here you can see the well-armed protagonist facing off against a machine with one of the stupidest monikers I’ve ever heard: The Polycraft. This dumb name refers to its versatility in military applications, which would lead me to suspect we’ll be fighting quite a few of them over the course of the game. I’m still on the fence about wantingBionic Commando....

Remeber theBioShockwidescreen dramafrom late August? Picky gamers were up in arms about some cropping and other technical babble that I didn’t care about as I was too busy avoiding Big Daddies to mind. Now it seems that this “non-problem” (CosbyTron’s C-blog entry does great job of explaining) will have a fix. The always awesomeArs Techniciahas spotted apost from a 2K Games representativethat points to an upcoming fix. The widescreen patch will be coming in the next title update, which is out soon, and i will update you guys as soon as it goes up!...

Wow, can’t say I saw this one coming: It seems the blame for the delay inHalo 2for Vista being released is a little thing called “partial nudity.” Talk about dedication. I guess those boys at Bungie just couldn’t help themselves and had to include that highly-requested Master Chief sex scene with Cortana. cue 70s porn music In an e-mail statement sent to Next-Gen, Microsoft said, “It has come to our attention that an unfortunate, obscure content error which includes partial nudity was included in our initial production of “Halo 2” for Windows Vista....

The fourth and final entry in Codemasters’ super serious look at its not-so-serious shooterBodycounthas made its way to the public. I don’t know what other incentive you need though; they’ve already used the phrase “kick the ass out of the world.” I’m not sure what else you need to hear. This time around, they highlight the newly released demo and offer some closing arguments. I know I’m excited for another shooter that doesn’t take itself too seriously — we don’t need anymore forced blockbuster action movies — so here’s hoping this one can hold its own....

While many of the film industry’s finest are honored with stars on the sidewalks of Hollywod and Vine, director Uwe Boll will be honored by a string of horse droppings in a Tijuana back alley. Still, that’s not stopping the director from making sure that heruinsAlone in the Dark 2. And why shouldn’t he? The originalAlone in the Dark, directed and produced by Boll, may have tanked at the box office, but the home video market is a very different animal....

I already told you how excited I amabout Square Enix’s upcoming 3DS RPG,Bravely Default. It’s a silly name, but I can get over that easily with art this beautiful. Even with thelittle bits we’ve learned, the bulk of what we have to go on is the art and graphics. Graphics whores! There’s a bit more to go on with this new batch of screens and art. I like that you can see a screenshot and then later check out the art that went into it in this gallery....

Splash Damage’sBrinkis a game I am very much interested in hearing more about, and from the look of it, I’m not alone. At PAX, not only did the demonstration booth for the game fill up, but the crowd of intrigued gamers even managed to spill over into other booths as well. Beyond just the unique look ofBrink, which, seriously, you need to see in motion, some of the game’s mechanics have also got me all hot and bothered....

Bungie is finally leaving theHalofranchise afterHalo Reach. They have been committed to the series for many years now andODSTsort of blew up into something bigger than they ever expected if you take their word for it. So what’s next from the studio that saved the Xbox and when will it get here? No one knows, but evidently the new IPis close to having a publsiher. The game, which isnt’ tied to any platform, has been in development for a while now, but very little is known about it....

Continuing the trend of not completely screwing over its customers, Criterion Games is looking to give PC players a taste of the excellentBurnout Paradise, and a mighty fine taste at that. The company will bereleasing a demoin February which will allow us to “play through the start of the full game for a limited period,” and includes the very same online multiplayer found in the retail version ofBurnout Paradise. After you have installed and played the trial, unlocking the full game will be as easy as entering in a product key from the in-gameBurnoutStore....