Happy Holidays from Marvel

Click here to see Marvel's cute Holiday greeting card.

Kanye West Parody

Kevin Pereira and some friends make a Kanye style song & video. Very funny. Found via KP's Twitter stream.

8 Bit Christmas Goodness

Classic Christmas Songs in the Style of Classic NES Games. This full release contains 18 tracks total.

And it's available as a a free download. Is there really anything more that needs to be said?

originally found on Destructoid

Majel Barret Roddenberry Passes Away

My heart broke a little bit with this news.

Majel Barret-Roddenberry, (widow of Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry) died Thursday Dec. 18 due to Leukemia.

Roddenberry was involved in the "Star Trek" universe for more than four decades.

Personally, I really enjoyed her role as in Star Trek: The Next Generation as the Betazoid Ambassador Lwaxana Troi, mother of ship's counselor Deanna Troi.

She will be missed.

expanded details and anecdotes here at Yahoo and here at Telegraph.co.uk William Shatner remembers her as well on his video blog.

Santa Penguins

oh gawd, they jingle! *_*

(originally found at Japan Probe)

Kuroshitsuji DS Game

Destructoid reports that the wonderful anime, Kuroshitsuji (Black Butler) is going to get it's own DS game.

Square Enix owns the rights to the show, so I have high hopes that it will be very cool, not that it will ever be released anywhere outside of Japan. However, I can always keep a dim hope of playing dish washing minigames.

Read the entire article here.

Wolverine Origins Trailer Out

So, if you are like me and didn't sit through The Day The Earth Stood Still, then you missed the Wolverine Origins trailer. Until today. Trailer is up and good quality. You can view it on myspace (and it looks like Facebook as well) if you add X-Men Origins as a friend. Tacky, but worth it, I'd say. Go to myspace.com/x-menorigins to take a peek.

The official W:O site will be http://www.x-menorigins.com/

(ps that is Emma Frost in there, I don't care what you say)

She Hulk : Cosmic Collision

In a strange twist of Marvel though processes, She Hulk got a one shot, double sized book after her regular ongoing series was announced to be canceled. It's called She Hulk : Cosmic Collision. It features the Lady Liberators and is full of awesome.

Oddly enough, it's written by Peter David who has previously put Shulkie on the emo train. This book takes her back to a more positive place (although it has sad bits). It's She Hulk as it should be and frankly, a bit of a slap in the face to fans. It's like PAD is saying 'I was always capable of writing in this style, I just chose not to'. Thanks PAD, show us how great it could have been before you dump us.

Muppets Christmas

Is that Jessica Alba? First Sue Storm now Muppets? Awesome.

Samurai Showdown Anthology Delay

Samurai Showdown Anthology was initially due to drop in stores in December. However, when I double checked today, it wasn't even on EB Games website. A quick Google search shows me that the date has been pushed back to either 2/24/2009 as seen here - or just a generic 2009. I was looking forward to playing all 7 games and not buying them individually on the Virtual Console. Now I get to wait. Again.