I’m sure this list is debatable, but it sure fires up some old, frustrating memories of sore thumbs and increased heart rate (not to mention agitated parents telling you for the 7th time that dinner was ready).

10 Hardest Video Games

Funny photoshops showing video games realistically (cracked.com)

12 greatest entertainment themed cereals (gunaxin.com)

I didn’t know this cartoon existed!  MARVEL ZOMBIES! (toplessrobot.com)

Modern takes on old comic book covers (coveredblog.com)

Attention nerds: caffeinated beef jerky (perkyjerky.com)

If He-Man were a hipster… (behance.net)

Superhero Facebook (comicsalliance.com)

Top 10 movie drinks.  You make a mean Caucasian, Jackie (askmen.com)

Possible the coolest t-shirt ever? (deezteez.com)

For the home brewers, 13 creative home brews (sloshspot.com)

In yet another awesome junk food/video game team-up (See KFC/Guitar Hero, Mountain Dew Game Fuel), Doritos is currently accepting submissions for their Unlock XBox contest. Basically, you video tape your two minute pitch for an XBox Live game, and if the judges like your idea, Doritos will help create the game, and internet voters will pick the grand prize winner. This is a super rad idea for a contest, and what’s great is that you don’t need to know anything about the technical side of game design to win. So if you have an idea for a video game (and who doesn’t), you have to check it out. So get cracking, because pitches are due Oct 4th. Also, no extra points will be awarded for cool ranch residue on submissions. Just so you know.

Get all the details here.

From IHeartChaos.com:

Holy crap this took a lot longer than I thought. A couple weeks ago, there was this Periodic Table of Cartoon Characters floating around on Digg and it got me thinking about a Periodic Table of Video Game Characters, but unfortunately, the periodic table of elements doesn’t always cooperate when it comes to video game character names. If you’re stumped on any, let me know and maaaybe I’ll give you the answer.

As far as my criteria for what went where, I tried to give room first to characters who are primarily and originally video game characters, but not always. Batman for example, is first a comic book character, but there were some pretty kickass Batman games, the one for NES in particular. Same with Homer Simpson– he’s primarily a cartoon character, but he’s appeared in more video games than most of the other characters on the table. For Hf, after not even finding a Pokemon or Star Wars character that had an H or an f in their name, I had to resort to Heifer from Rocko’s Modern Life, since there was a Rocko game for the SNES. Stupid Hf.

Oh, and you can buy a print of this as a poster at Redbubble. Just sayin’.

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Woo… This looks like the shiz!

From the Chicago Theatre Site:

Video Games Live is a multimedia concert experience featuring the best music and exclusive synchronized video clips from the most popular games from the beginning of video gaming to the present. Performed by top orchestras and choirs, the show combines exclusive video footage and music arrangements with synchronized lighting, solo performers, special FX, electronic percussionists and unique interactive segments.

Find out more at the Official Video Games Live Site Or at the Chicago Theatre Site