Ok so what makes the people at EA think that anyone who has a console could even be remotely interested in picking up an eighteen month old game…let alone one that doesn’t seem to be that user friendly without a mouse. That’s exactly what they’re doing, and that’s not all.

My wife and I have argued about this contrite subject more than once.  My son is now at the tender age of two and half, his mind is absorbing the world around him like some sort of sponge that liquefies his surroundings at whole and devours it all by breathing in.  While we as parents have been in easy agreement over most things, such as books, toys, TV shows / Movies, and general teaching in thoughtfulness.  We have been at an impasse of sorts when it comes down to the things involving the broad geek culture.

Today’s MCoM is brought to you courtesy of my childhood. I can remember going to see the Transformers: The Movie back when I was just a lad of six, I cried during the death of Optimus, cheered during the death of Starscream and laughed during the “Dare to be Stupid Scene”, it was magical.

Little did I know that the movie’s soundtrack from 24 years ago would come to provide me with so much entertainment at my boring-ass job. In the past year or so since I rekindled my love for the old Transformers series, I must have listened to both “The Touch” and today’s song “Dare” about once a day. If you too were a child of the 80s, then this one should have a special place in your heart. If not, you have no soul.

The creator of the Fable series and the guy who pretty much runs the Microsoft Xbox scene in Europe has come out saying that Natal will be akin to the computer mouse when it comes to innovation in games and how we interact with our computers. I happen to disagree with him.

I’ll be honest to you guys, I may have consumed too many alcoholic beverages before the game.  I meant to take as many notes as possible, but hey, I was drinking, eating snacks and BSing around.  As I try to decipher my reactions to the notes I kept on the commercials I can find two things.

1) I have horrible handwriting after I’ve been drinking
2) I think I stopped after the second quarter because there is a long line down the page from where I last wrote.

With that, here are the initial impressions of the commercials I can decipher from my notes.

Hmmm…Jude Law and Forrest Whittaker both playing heartless murdering bastards? Wait a second is that Liev Schreiber? Ok, that’s it…I’m sold. Now to wait the next 40 days until it hits the cinema. Oh, its a pretty NSFW trailer, so you’ve been warned and all that jazz.

American Amazon.com users, it’s your lucky day if you’ve been waiting to pick up a couple of legacy games for your Xbox 360. At their website, the company is offering a buy two get one free deal on all of the 360’s Platinum Hits games, though the 3rd free needs to be of equal or lesser value…it’s a great deal if you get all 3 at the same price.

In case you missed it yesterday during the Supers Bowl, here’s the Prince of Persia trailer that stars that dreamy Jake Gyllenhaal as the lead. I don’t have any expectations for this movie, but as far as video game movies are concerned, you could always do worse…always remember Super Mario Bros. The Movie.

That’s right bitches, we’re back! Thanks to that 5 month hiatus after PAX which nearly everyone on the panel got infected with convention SARS (Swine-flu to be exact), we’re all rested up and ready to bring the pain in what I’d like to think as a rebooting of the Red-Light Roundtable. On the episode we get into what each of us has been up to for the past 5 months and more!

Hey! Happy Monday! Welcome to 1980s Kids Movie week on Morning Cup o’ Music.

Today’s track is from the movie Labyrinth and was one of many of Jim Henson’s ‘movies for kids’ that featured really scary shit. Believe it or not, this scene still manages to disturb me to this very day. The song “Chilly Down” is a drastic departure from the rest of the Bowie laden soundtrack, and it features a whole mess of puppets that do all sorts of crazy shit in front of Jennifer Connelly right before she winds up in the bog of eternal stench. If you listen closely, you’ll hear Kevin Clash (Elmo from Sesame Street) as the first monster to jump in front of her. Damn I’m such a nerd.

All of you Retrotards out there that are worth your salt know and love Blaster Master on the NES/Genesis…well now we’re getting a completely overhauled and rendered looking version of the game from the NES…on the Wii as a WiiWare download, and it’ll be available tomorrow! Well I can’t say that I enjoy the music at all, but it does have a slight nostalgia attached to it. Good news is that it’s still being made by Sunsoft of all companies! This makes me wonder…will there be a Fester’s Quest sequel? How about a port of Gremlins 2? That’d be wicked.

You know, with a game that’s been in development as long as Final Fantasy XIII was. You would think that they would have the entirety of the game’s content available day one. Turns out even Square’s flagship title isn’t exempt from the DLC bug.

We’ve got details and trust me, you’ll want to hear them if you’re a fan of the Fallout series.

I’ll admit, this one snuck up on me. But it looks like it’ll be one hell of a game. There are already rumors abound about this game being a potential Fallout: New Vegas killer, but those people must obviously not ever paid any attention to any the Fallout format. Regardless of the rampant fanboy battles, this game is graphically impressive like no other.

Got beer? Got whiskey? Want to drink both at the same time without having to double fist it? Well you’re in luck because this week’s Strange Brews allows you to do just that.