Did you know that the gaming media’s artistic short bus makes content other than Zero Punctuation and whining that people are posting Zero Punctuation vids on Youtube and thus robbing them of ad dollars? Speaking of which, go to their website right now so that they can masturbate directly into your face. Remember when websites got by on just a single ad banner?

Zero Punctuation - Yahtzee uses a lot of editing to cram about forty “…not!” jokes into the space of six minutes and seems to be edging into that safety zone of vague snarkiness followed by lauding a shitty product so that he’s palatable to both advertisers and his fans in the internet fame phenomenon that causes talented people to peak at age 23. Then ads run.

Latest posts - The Escapist’s version of allowing the site to be “by gamers, for gamers” or whatever buzzphrase is popular now, somebody’s having trouble with his “computor” and fancypants user Armored Prayer wants suggestions on what the best exotic pet is. We hoped it was for a game, but he seems to mean in real life.

Endo’s Game – Tom Endo, with a ripped off article title, is worried that Han Solo’s archetype might be outdated and cliched. Yes, Endo has joined the collective yawns the rest of us felt… fourteen years ago, during Waterworld, when Kevin Costner played another amoral, nameless asshole who we were supposed to like. The comments section is so boring it hurts.

The Needles - A pale, bloated Andy Chalk spends over one thousand words complaining about age checks on gaming websites with mature content as ultimately useless frivolities, given that anybody can lie about their age. He accidentally sums it up when he uses the word “legal”, then plows back into another page and a quarter of inanity. You guys are threatening Youtube every time somebody uploads a fucking video from your site. See what’s happening here?

Publisher’s Note: Gaming’s Great Recession – At fucking last, something readable. In fact, I’ll even provide a link to this one. Hard numbers, links… aside from quoting somebody who calls Halo 3 a great game and not a fucking second mission pack sequel to Halo 1, it’s a pretty good read.

Wii Owners Play Console Least, Says Nielsen – Duh.