From Telltale games:

We have just released chapter two of “Behind the Bad,” a documentary series that pulls back the curtain on our working relationship with the star of Strong Bad’s Cool Game for Attractive People. In this episode, Strong Bad gets fed up when his design demands are not met and goes a little nuts. Hilarity ensues.

Well, surfing the beloved internet I stumbled across the most amazingly cool jack-o-lantern site that also proves that not only do I have too much free time, but pumpkin carvers do as well…

All we need now is a Arnold pumpkin…

MTV has reported that Daniel Craig has turned down the starring role in Kenneth Branagh’s Thor. This doesn’t come as a surprise as who wants to deal with the pressure of being both James Bond and the Norse God of Thunder? But, one has to think how fucking cool he would be as Thor. And he never once came to any of our minds.

Which leaves me to ask the question: who should play Thor?

(Swank, Thomas Jane can’t both be your ideal Captain America and choice for Thor)

So, there’s these guys that put together an entire 13-month calendar of un-dead sexy chicks.  Here is the website you can check out to buy one and see all 13 months.  Some of them are oddly arousing for the amount of disgusting gore and death that are in them.

In any case, they’re really cool looking and its worth a few minutes of your time to check this stuff out.

Entertainment Weekly was bad-ass enough to send us an advance look at their Star Trek cover…

From the Press Release:

After 10 often dismal movies, Star Trek had turned into a pop culture punchline. Even people who’d built their entire careers around Trek could see the writing on the wall. “Star Trek,” says Leonard Nimoy, “had run its course.” But director J.J. Abrams believes he can make the franchise cool again. This week’s issue of Entertainment Weekly has the inside scoop on Abrams’ surprising, idealistic odyssey, which could become next summer’s multiplex juggernaut.

“I don’t think people even understand what Star Trek means anymore,” says Abrams, who saw the first Star Trek film in 1979 with his father at a theater on the Paramount lot. But he feels no warm-fuzzy nostalgia about it. In fact, Abrams can sum up his regard for Trek in two words: Galaxy Quest, the 1999 hit starring Tim Allen that satirized Trek with painful precision. “It’s so ridiculous, so accurate, so sophisticated, it spoils the Star Trek universe,” he says. Plus, at heart, Abrams is still more of a Star Wars guy. “All my smart friends liked Star Trek,” he says. “I preferred a more visceral experience.” Which is exactly why he accepted Paramount’s offer in 2005 to develop a new Trek flick; creative ly, he was engaged by the possibility of a Star Trek movie “that grabbed me the way Star Wars did.”

Abrams says he was also drawn to the project because he believed in—and wanted to evangelize—Trek’s unabashed ideal ism. “I think a movie that shows people of various races working together and surviving hundreds of years from now is not a bad message to put out right now,” says Abrams. That ethos may seem cornball to an America darkened by a decade’s worth of catastrophe, but after an election season that has seen both presidential nomi nees run on “hope” and “change,” Star Trek just may find itself on the leading wave of a zeitgeist shift—away from bleak, brood ing blockbusters and toward the light. “In a world where a movie as incredibly produced as The Dark Knight is raking in gazillions of dollars, Star Trek stands in stark contrast,” Abrams says. “It was important to me that optimism be cool again.”

Is the world ready again for Trek’s optimistic vision of the future? Some involved with the film suspect the presidential election may have a dramatic effect on how Star Trek will be perceived. “This is a franchise that offers hope for unity—and so does Barack Obama,” says Zachary Quinto, who plays Spock. “When this movie comes out, and Obama is presi dent, hopefully there will be some parallels.” Perhaps, but the elder Spock knows that moments of unity can be fleeting. “My only regret is that the movie can’t come out sooner,” Nimoy says. “I think the world could use it. Don’t you?”

While Nimoy will be putting on his ears to play a wizened Spock in the new Star Trek, don’t expect a cameo by William Shatner as Captain Kirk. Last month, the 77-year-old actor posted a video on YouTube, complaining about being left behind, and chastising Abrams, even though Shatner’s Kirk died in Star Trek Generations (1994). “I brought him back to life in one of my books, very easily,” Shatner tells Abrams in the video. “I’m just sorry that I’m not in your wonderful movie.”

Abrams has seen the video, of course. “I don’t know how my life has become a thing where William Shatner talks to me through YouTube,” Abrams tells EW. “I was such a huge fan of his, but we wrote a scene for him in the movie and it didn’t feel right. And he said to us—he said publicly—that doing a cameo didn’t interest him. Which I totally appreciate. But we did try.” EW tried to reach Shatner, but he declined to be interviewed. Through a spokesperson he said, “I don’t think it would be appropriate for me to be involved in the Star Trek universe at this point.”

UPDATE: Entertainment weekly sent me a link to their full photo gallery.  Click here to check it out.

The crew looks great.  Though all I see is Sylar now when I look at Spock.

Yes, you read right. Battle.net, source of infinite gamer joy, may cease to be what gave us a reason to us it: A free place to play great games with people all over the world.

Now, myself, I’ll never forget the sleepless nights spent leveling in the deepest depths of Diablo II, or getting overrun by some Korean kid’s twenty carriers before I had a single Barracks in Starcraft. That will possibly all change in the near future according to Blizzard’s Jay Wilson, who spoke at a Diablo III panel a few days ago. “We are looking to monetize Battle.Net so that we get to keep making these games and updating features,” Wilson announced, then continued: “We kind of have to.”

Nuh-uh. Not good enough. They’re telling us, with five year old or more games still flying off the shelves, (Starcraft STILL has strong sales) and the incomprehensible amount of revenue generated through WoW, they can’t keep Battle.net free? I call bullshit.

In Blizzard’s defense, however, I don’t think they are directly responsible for this move. With the Activision-Blizzard merger, all sorts of weird, non-sensical things have been happening. Starcraft II is now slated as a trilogy, (WTF?) and I have a feeling Activision is big in pushing these greedy techniques. After all, Wilson continued to say that Blizzard itself does not have a strong desire to make it a paid service.

So what will happen? Only time will tell… But it will be a side day for both human and robot gamers if this actually happens.

R.I.P.

Wondering just what Eisner & Emmy winning superstar writer Jeph Loeb & red-hot artist David Finch are planning for the blockbuster event known as Ultimatum? Well here’s your chance to find out the fate of the Ultimate Universe! UGO.com has your exclusive first look at the new trailer to Ultimatum—just click over to http://www.ugo.com/comics/marvel-ultimatum-trailer/! Featuring never before seen, eye popping art by Finch, this trailer will have fans’ jaws on the floor!

Then maybe these couple of new videos will raise your spirits and get that bad taste out of your mouth… Well, at least if you like Spider-Man and video games…