- The new Street Fighter IV character is Harry Knowles. Just look at him and tell me he isn’t.

- The official Resident Evil 5 site is up, along with a brand new trailer. Sackcloth chainsaw guy is back, in a somewhat more svelte form. It also looks like these are going to be Resident Evil 4-style parasite zombies. If they’re not controlled by Las Plagas, it’s at least something very like it.

Finally, and perhaps most surprisingly, the game is no longer set in Haiti, the birthplace of zombism, but rather Africa. RE5 initially caught a lot of flack for its alleged racist overtones, what with the handsome white guy mowing down waves and waves of tattered-looking black guys. From the trailer, it seems perhaps this is a move to racial parity by letting us shoot some zombified Afrikaners.

I too hope that one day we can learn to loathe all varieties of the shambling undead equally, regardless of race or creed. Though really, their only creed is “Braaaaaains” so maybe that’s redundant.

- Several news sites, including Britain’s The Daily Mail tabloid, posted a picture of a devastated Washington, D.C., saying it was a terrorist’s rendering of a nuclear attack on the U.S.

U.S. analysts said a lot of effort had been put into the video - entitled Nuclear Jihad, The Ultimate Terror - with graphics, music, and clips of different leaders and groups.

The same expertise seems to have gone into creating this image of a devastated Washington.

The image is indeed a rendering of the aftermath of a nuclear attack on the United States. That’s because it’s a piece of promotional art for the post-apocalyptic Fallout 3.

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