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Yay! Brutal Legend is actually coming out. For a second there we were scared a game company could stop another game company from releasing a product because of competition. How silly is that? Well, time to get back to drafting our law suit against 1UP, Kotaku, Joystiq, etc.

News Blips:

• Phoenix Wright would be proud: Silly Brutal Legend lawsuit over. The ridiculous lawsuit Activision Blizzard was filing over Brutal Legend to stop it from getting released has now been settled. We guess Activision Blizzard finally realized Brutal Legend is not a Guitar Hero game. Hard to believe, we know. [IndustryGamers]

• Konami revenue drops 50 percent without help of convoluted cut scenes. Poor Konami -- without Metal Gear Solid, the company can hardly make money. Thankfully, we'll be getting a ton more soon. And our brains just can't wait to decipher those. La Li Lu Le Lo... [Edge]

• Wii Sports Resort sells a lot in case you were wondering. 500,000 copies in eight day to be exact. Bet you didn't see that coming! [1UP]

• Get your wacky Modern Warfare 2 Prestige Edition before it's too late. In case you want to stalk your friends in the dark (or what we like to call "night bird watching") you better act fast as the pricey $150 Prestige Edition is actually really limited. So go waste your money. Make America proud, soldier! [IGN]

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Editor's note: Breaking news! Make sure to read what Luke has to say about all the bosses in the Street Fighter series. Hilarious stuff. -Shoe

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I've been dragon punching since you could say "Street Fighter" without being asked, "Which one?" -- and I've collected some vital data:

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Sagat's balls are beyond question: Go Hibiki gouged his eye out in a fight, and his only response was, "Try that again!" Someone punches half your ability to see clean out of your face, and you give him another shot? Lesser men wouldn't have the stones to do that, but Sagat kicked the dude's ass next time around. To mere mortals, he's un-punchable: Sagat is three meters tall and incoming fists can't reach escape velocity as they pass the gravitational zone of his enormous testicles.

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I'm heading off to a Guitar Hero 5 event in a few hours, but I need your help before I go. No, I don't need a ride -- I need you to tell me what you want to know about the game.

Curious about whether or not something you didn't like in the last game was fixed in this one? Is there a new addition that you're hoping for, but haven't yet heard mentioned? Post a comment with whatever it is that you'd like to know and I will do my absolute best to find out the answer.

The event starts in just two-and-a-half hours, so don't ponder your question for too long!

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Scientists have been trying to figure out for years how Sonic the Hedgehog went from an awesome video game series to a glut of bad furry art and fictitious marriages. But one artist figured it all out without mixing multi-colored liquids in test tubes. Take a look:

Click to make larger.

Next discovery waiting to happen: Toad's gender.

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You know what we just realized? The guys who are pumping out Guitar Hero sequels are the same guys who used to pump out Tony Hawk follow-ups. What whores!

Video Blips:

• Oh, another Guitar Hero game? Thanks? Here's the trailer for Guitar Hero: Van Halen. How long until we get Guitar Hero: Jonas Brothers? Don't answer that. Please god, don't. [GameTrailers]

Continue after the break for hardcore farming in Harvest Moon: Frantic Farming, character creation in Aion, and Nazis being evil in Wolfenstein.

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Editor's note: I had no idea that four-year-old girls even played games, so I really enjoyed this look into the gaming life of Toby's daughter. - Aaron

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Bitmob already has plenty of discussion about Fat Princess and "games as art," so I thought I’d touch on a slightly different topic. I’ve mentioned my daughter a few times in previous posts, but I want to share as gamer and a parent, how proud I am that she’s just four years old, yet already playing games (after she does at least one-page of her Pre-K workbook, of course) with no help from mom and dad.

“But Toby, what games could a four-year-old girl possibly play?” you might ask. I’ll show you.

First up is My Sims for the Wii. She’ll sit there and do everything by herself. Yes, this might be a simple sim-game, but she still completes the tasks at hand. She’s a natural, too. I haven’t really seen her look down at the controller while I’ve watched her play.

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Some people will take their gaming obsessions way too far...and we applaud them for it. An Idaho couple recently made Katamari Damacy (and thus, not each other) the focus of their happiest day ever, which made for some truly bizarre costumes, props, and decor.

See below for more photos of weird round things, and check out the original album from Kirsten Shultz Photography (thanks to Annette Cardwell for the tip).

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We recognize most popular game tunes, but there's some that only true fans will know. Like this ditty from Kirby Super Star Ultra. Why, we're sure you've heard this millions of times before! Or several. Couple? Once? OK, well, if you're like us and never heard this fun-time song, listen to it and then watch this video of infamously annoying NES game Takeshi's Challenge [via TinyCartridge]:

Continue after the break to hear the original tune if you're too lazy to click the link above.

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Get ready to have you childhood ruined! So you remember Toad from Super Mario Bros.? The little mushroom dude who happily informs you that you're wasting your goddamn time searching for that impossible-to-find princess? Well, he's secretly been giving you a double dose of finger FU's. Don't believe us? Check this photo here [via Geekologie]:

Looks innocent, huh? So you think! Continue after the break to see Toad's true nature.

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I just wanted to have fun with Ghostbusters.

Instead, Ghostbusters nearly gave me a stroke.

I was having a great time ridding New York City of ghouls. It was good fun running through the museum, indiscriminately blowing up priceless artifacts with my proton pack. Wrangling ghosts wasn't terribly challenging, but the mechanic for doing so was simple and immensely satisfying. There really was a lot to like about the Ghostbusters.

Sure, the story should have been much better. Yes, the cutscenes were sometimes awkward and in desperate need of a director's touch. I won't argue that the game as a whole could have used the ambiguous, review-friendly-crutch known as "polish."

I didn't really care about any of the game's issues because bustin' made me feel good.

And then I got to the end.

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Welcome to the Bitmob Reviews Spotlight, which we're considering renaming the Matthew Erazo and Brian Shirk Reviews Spotlight Bromantic Brouhaha, because those guys write about a million good reviews a week, each. Not that we're complaining! Of course, some of you out there not named Erazo or Shirk also wrote some excellent reviews lately, and they're here too.

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The Secret of Monkey Island: Special Edition

By Brian Petro-Roy
Brian tries out his new, proprietary Love/Like/Dislike/Hate review system on Secret of Monkey Island, and ends up with a well-argued Liked It.

Damnation
By Rob Thomas
I love this review. It's well-written, and also peppered with actual, unintentionally (I think) hilarious quotes from the game. "It's time to try the gift my brother gave us. Rourke, try the gift my brother gave us." Yeah, Rourke. Try the gift her brother gave us. You know the one.

XBLI Trial Rundown(s)
By Joe Donato
Man, there are some crazy 'games' coming out on that Xbox Live Indie Games thing. Luckily, Joe's here to tell us how most of them are not so great. He's actually posted two installments of this series lately -- highlights from the first include Space Math, the sequel to Math Gardener, and Periodic Table, which does indeed appear to be about the Periodic Table of the Elements. The second includes impressions of such hits as Extreme Rock, Paper, Scissors Online, and that's one of the better sounding ones.

Splosion Man
By Conor Hughes
I really need to play this game. I don't fully understand Conor's rating system (three scores for 'hardcore,' 'core,' and 'casual'), but he gave it 10s across the board so I think he liked it.

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Just in case you missed any of these, the following contests and giveaways are still active on Bitmob...but not for much longer:

Shadow Complex T-Shirts: We're giving away two t-shirts by the end of Wednesday so enter now! (UPDATE: You're too late.)

Tropico Reloaded: Five free copies are going out to lucky winners -- contest ends this Friday.

Your Next-Door Neighbor is a Dragon: By Monday, we'll be selecting 10 people to win a copy of this hilarious book by Something Awful's Zack Parsons.

Mobcast intro: We're looking for a community member to make us a new intro for our fabulous podcast. We just put this up today, so you still have time.

Let's wrap these contests up, folks...because we have a big one coming up next week!

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