So, Blizzcon 2008 starts this Friday. What can you expect from one of the biggest brands in games since their June convention in Paris?

Don’t look for any big World of Warcraft news. The Wrath of the Lich King beta is barely a month from release, and there’s not going to be any big bombshells this late in the game. Sites like Wowinsider have pretty much cracked the beta open for anyone who wants to see.

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The Japanese video game sales charts this week are topped by the strategy game Super Robot Taisen Z, part of the long-running Super Robot Wars series. In a nutshell, it’s a bunch of different giant robots from anime all strung together in a single plot.

Which anime robots? All of them. I mean, ALL of them, from every cartoon you could posibly name and more from ones you probably couldn’t. The copyright list for these games is as long as your arm. Gundam versus Evangelion versus Macross versus Big O versus Mazinger Z versus GaoGaiGar versus whatever, at least until they resolve whatever misunderstanding led them to fight in the first place and they team up to fight the villain du jour.

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Love him or hate him, Dr. Drew Pinsky is on a constant mission to help people. (Whether they want it or not.) His latest T.V. effort is named, provocatively, “Sex…With Mom and Dad.” On the show, he plans to help parents talk with their kids about sex, thereby (hopefully) promoting healthy relationships. Or whatever.

A lot of rumors get tossed around when Drew finds himself in the news for saying something controversial, but here are the facts: he is a board-certified internist, a type of physician that specializes in difficult-to-diagnose diseases. (Kind of like Dr. House, but in real life). In addition to his medical practice, Drew supervises a rehab clinic in Pasadena and hosts two radio shows. The guy just can’t stay busy enough.

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Welcome back to the second part of a four-part series as I yammer on about Saw for four posts.

We now come to my favorite part of the Saw series, Saw II, or as the movie poster’s numerical system calls it, Saw Two Fingers.  The Saw Blood Drive was in full if controversial swing, and I was the better part of a year into a new job that I was actually both enjoying and was good at.  Strange how that works, isn’t it? If you would have told me when I walked into Saw that I would be both employed and loving it within just a couple months I would’ve laughed in your face.

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It was inevitable that the nomadic Peter Bishop on “Fringe” should eventually demand to leave Boston. It’s the first wrench that’s been thrown into the smooth formula of the show since the beginning, which is nice - I’ve been complaining since the pilot that they don’t have enough obstacles.

“The Arrival” deals with the, well, arrival of what appears to be a giant, vibrating bullet that comes from under the ground for no apparent reason. A creepy bald guy who loves spicy foods seems to either anticipate or cause the arrival somehow, but our protagonists don’t know that right away.

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You know…until just recently, I hadn’t thought celebrities were much dumber than ordinary people.  I thought that occasional idiocy like Russell Crowe’s “let’s destroy the economy by giving EVERYBODY a million bucks!” plan for saving the economy were just the result of occasional lapses brought on by perhaps the fatigue of a shooting schedule.  But considering what celebrities had come up with this week, man…I’m starting to wonder if there’s something in the water.

So join me for a festival of whining, pompousity and stupidity as only celebrities can do it!

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Pretty much everyone was expecting some sort of spectacle at the VP debate. Sarah Palin is the most controversial vice presidential candidate in recent memory, and her gaffes in interviews have kept people entertained for the past few weeks. How would she do in a debate, during which her rehearsed talking points could only take her so far? Would Joe Biden, a renowned political bulldog, take her down and make her cry?

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Ever since The Dark Knight, people have been speculating whether or not there is room for Robin in Christopher Nolan’s Gotham. Back in July, I wrote this:

So far, it doesn’t look as if Robin will appear in Nolan’s Gotham anytime soon. Can he modify the brightly colored costume to fit into a world of grays and blacks? Will the vigilante crimefighter ever work with a partner?

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From swapnil, a review of the Hindi movie Jaane tu ya Jaane na…, translated by Wikipedia as Whether You Know… Or Not.

From Madeleine Begun Kane, a reprint of a column titled “My Close Encounter (I Think) With Paul Newman.”

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Mercury Meltdown: Revolution is a puzzle game for the Wii based on the original Archer Maclean’s Mercury for the PSP. The game is very unique as the player tilts the entire level to move the blob of mercury to the finish. The motion controls of the Wii-mote work beautifully with this game and are very intuitive.

The graphics of the game are bit lacking, but it is a puzzle game after all. The camera can make it incredible hard to see all the pieces of mercury at one time, and will frequently focus on the piece you don’t want it to. (more…)

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