Awesome Videos

Many of you are too young to remember The Thing, but this short by experimental band Zombie Zombie uses GI Joe figures shot in hi-def to recreate the classic horror movie.

Time travel sounds like a good idea, unless your past self turns out to be a dick: this short with Paul Scheer will make you reconsider your plans to finally build that flux capacitor.

There are few things as annoying as infomercials, and this WTF Blanket video takes them to task; it’s a hilarious voiceover and parody of the Snuggie ad. Warning: profanity.

James Leng’s Glowing Cities video looks pretty enough, but our jaws really hit the floor when we realized each squiggle was an entire city; it spans from the Midwest to San Francisco.

Three years have passed since our favorite plumbers went on their last adventure, but Mario & Luigi RPG 3 will arrive in Japan on 2/11; there’s still no word on a US release date.

We can always count on glorious leader Kim Jong Il to save the day: he plans to tow The Moon to North Korea just for kicks–that, and to piss off those smug Yankee bastards.

First a fantasy football board game, then a 1995 MS-DOS port, Blood Bowl is coming to multiple platforms Q2; this Goblins vs. Orcs trailer actually shows off only two out of eight races.

It takes a little while to get going, but this latest Matt Hazard gameplay trailer had us in stitches by poking fun at Japanese RPGs; we never understood those damned ellipses either.

Fallout 3’s Operation: Anchorage is finally out for the Xbox 360 and PC; with cloaking units, epic historical battles and new technology, this add-on is what DLCs are all about.

Deafening, dangerous yet oh-so-colorful, Jason Mika and David Umlas’ fire art is a pyrotechnic wonder; they burn salt-laced propane because, in their words, “People cheer.”

Crank: High Voltage is the sequel to the original 2006 film; Jason Statham still stars as a hitman, this time with an artificial heart that he needs to periodically jump start to stay alive. Thanks, J!

Unlike yesterday’s Aliens Must Die, Space Pips is quite a bit more fun and frenetic, with responsive controls, plenty of upgrades and debris that sounds a bit like wind chimes.

It’s old news for music majors, but Axis of Awesome shows that it only takes four chords for a hit song; realizing Blink 182 and A-Ha are related = shivers down our spine.

If you’ve yet to score a copy of Burnout Paradise, Ultimate Box is a quick and dirty way to get caught up; it includes the Cagney update as well as the Bike, Big Surf Island and Party Packs.

Created by the wizards over at LICHTFAKTOR for a cinema ad, this lightwriting video is some of the slickest light art we’ve seen; look for the cool “bicycle” at about 40 seconds.

The trailer above for Star Ocean: The Last Hope is a bit like Final Fantasy meets Mass Effect; word is it’ll be more team-focused with a 4-party system when it drops 2/24 in North America.