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AFAS: Arcade Flyer Art Saturday: Punk Shot
Punk Shot was produced by Konami in 1990 and gave arcade goers a different perspective on the average sports game. Up to four players could choose between two teams, The Ramblers and The Slammers with each team consisting of two members. Basher and Stallion represented The Ramblers while the aptly named Hair and Spike comprised The Slammers. Four different playing fields were available including an alley, a docking pier, a vacant lot and a park. The game was controlled with a joystick and three buttons allowing your team to either pass and shoot when your team has the ball or you could choose to punch and kick the opposing team when they were in control. Obstacles were placed throughout the game on each level to add some challenge like oil slicks, manholes, crates and people including children, bike riders and an old lady fond of hitting people with her broom.Despite being made in 1990, the game and in turn the flyer have a heavy 80s theme. From the gaudy leopard print top bar...

Clip: Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII Intro
Ah, where would we be without user uploaded movies. GameTrailers user Fly Guy has posted the opening cinematic for Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII the upcoming pre-quel to Final Fantasy VII. The footage looks pretty nice and I have to say the guys are not quite as girly as they usually seem. This new game utilizes the same urban grittiness that originally set Final Fantasy VII apart from other entries in the series. The game is set to release on Japanese PSPs September 3rd with the U.S. version expected sometime next year.

It's Waxy: Madame Tussauds Officially Unveils Master Chief Figure
It seems we finally have the full story on the Master Chief wax figure that was revealed today in an event at Madame Tussauds in Las Vegas. The official post-unveiling press release states that the figure was introduced by Fall Out Boy's Pete "I'll kiss anybody" Wentz in a ceremony held this afternoon. Pete had a somewhat wooden, obviously PR department written speech for the occasion:For me, the launch of Halo 3 will be the entertainment event of the year. It will be as big as or bigger than any of the summer's movie blockbusters," said Wentz. "Master Chief is as much of a hero today as characters like Spiderman, Frodo and Luke Skywalker were for previous generations.Pete Wentz? Really? I'll just move past that bizarre choice in celebrity and move on to the additional announcement that Madame Tussauds will also be carrying a whole "array of Halo licensed products" that museum visitors can purchase. Somehow, I think that will surprise absolutely no one. Unfortunately, the...

Best Sellers: Top Twenty Five Best Selling Video Games
Website Gunslot, besides being a site where you can talk about and look at lots of pictures of guns, apparently has at least a passing interest in video games seeing as they have put together a list of the top twenty five best selling games of all time. Now we are not talking a game website popularity contest list here, but actual copies sold. Nintendo dominates the list with twelve titles, four of them being in the top five. Of the Nintendo games, Pokemon (no surprise there) and Mario titles figure heavily in the mix. Other titles on the list include all three GTA titles, The Sims 1 & 2, The Gran Turismo series, Warcraft and Halo 2. It would interesting to compare this list with a list of "best games" titles as I'm sure it would be quite different especially seeing as no Zelda titles even made it to the top twenty five.Top Twenty Five Best Selling Video Games Of All Time [Gunslot][via Digg]

Fashion: Tanooki Suit Mario Tee on Threadless
It always disappoints me when I see a really great t-shirt on Threadless and then come to the realization that it probably won't get made due to copyright issues. Such is the case with this awesome Tanooki Suit Mario t-shirt that arrived on Threadless a few days ago and is currently up for voting. Extra points for Mario eating out of a garbage can with his fellow tanuki brothers. Super extra points for not including the frighteningly oversized testicles that tanuki's are traditionally drawn with.Vote for it here! [Threadless][via Aeropause]

Wired Vs Wireless: No Wireless Guitars for Rock Band 360 Retail Bundle
You read that right, the retail bundles for Rock Band on the 360 will include wired controllers, not wireless. Harmonix CEO Alex Rigopulos has confirmed this in the most recent OXM podcast but adds that included in the bundle will be a USB hub that will allow you to hook in all your various peripherals. Wireless guitars will be made available as separate purchases, but if you were hoping to go all wireless with your launch bundle, I'm afraid you are out of luck. This is really a shame and it will be interesting to see how this effects 360 vs. PS3 sales of the game seeing that I believe most people (myself included) will want to opt for the wireless package. Wired or wireless, how do you like to rock?Harmonix CEO confirms Rock Band's Xbox 360 bundle guitar is wired [Joystiq]

Army Of One Hundred Thousand: Gamespot Offers COD4 Beta Tokens
GameSpot is sitting on a whopping pile of one hundred thousand Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare multiplayer beta tokens and one of them could be yours. You must be a registered GameSpot forum member as well as having an Xbox Live Gold Account and be over the age of 17. The information on GameSpot is a little confusing as they say to come back on Monday when the Beta goes live but then don't actually say where you sign up. Then this paragraph appears below:How it works is quite simple: Our big stockpile of tokens will be broken up into five stashes. Each day we will release one of those stashes. If you get a beta token, great. If you don't, try again the next day. Once you sign up, you'll get a token code and a confirmation email. You'll use your Token Code to download the Beta from Xbox Live Marketplace.I'm assuming this to mean that you come back the day the beta goes live and it will be on a first come first serve basis, but I could be wrong. I suppose if you're really hardcore...

Wiki, Wiki Wiki: Warcraft Wiki Hits 40,000 Articles
Wikia Inc. is reporting that that it's World of Warcraft Wiki has reached a landmark 40,000 articles making it one of the largest resources of WoW information available online. That's a whole lot of articles about WoW, but with the huge amount of people playing it I guess it's no surprise that something like this would thrive. The site covers a wide variety of topics including characters, gameplay, guides and patches. So if you're into knowing everything there is to know about WoW check out the WoW Wiki and see how long it takes you to get through 40,000 articles.

Pushed Back: EA's Skate Delayed
Following in the footsteps of its demo, the launch of the full version of EA's SKATE for the 360 has been delayed by two days making the official date Friday, Sept. 14 instead of the former Wed. Sept 12. This news was posted yesterday to EA's Skate forums and over all, people don't seem to be terribly upset by the news. EA even posted a small apology to those who were anxiously awaiting the big day:If you were planning on staying home sick on the 12th to name your first gap or if (like us) you bought a bunch of guacamole that expires on the 12th for your Skate party we send our sincerest apologies! I think at this point we are starting to get pretty used to delays and as I and many others have said in the past (including the exalted Shigeru Miyamoto), I would rather wait a couple of extra days or even months for a fully functioning, awesome game than to get a rush job that will eventually have to be patched or in the worst case, replaced. Remember Bubble Bobble Revolution?Official...

Meet N' Greet: Hob Nob With Castlevania Producer Koji Igarashi
If you live in the Los Angleles area and are fan of the Castlevania series, there is golden opportunity for you to spend some quality time with Castlevania producer Koji Igarashi. To promote the launch of Castlevania X, on the PSP, Mr. Igarashi will be appearing at the Universal City Walk EB Games on Wednesday, Sept. 12, 2007from 6:00-8:00 P.M. He will be signing autographs and posing for photographs with fans and hopefully he'll be wearing the jaunty hat shown in the photo. [via The Asian Power Hour]

Clip: Heavenly Sword: Kai Gameplay
Wow, I didn't know you could play Heavenly Sword as diminutive Icelandic songstress, Bjork! Wait a minute, that's not Bjork, that's Kai, the crazy chick from the demo who talks to invisible things in her hands. Either way she's got a big ass gun for such a tiny little girl and she knows how to use it. I have a copy of Heavenly Sword in my hot little hands, I just need to carve out some time to check it out. Perhaps if I can plow my way through today's articles I'll get a chance. The more footage I see the more I like, I just hope the actual game lives up to the demo and the videos and turns out to be more than just (as someone so eloquently put it) "God of War with boobs." We shall see...

Halo 3: Post AGDC Slurpee Run
My love for all things Slurpee is a well documented fact. I've loved them since I was a small child, and when they took the 7-Eleven stores out of Georgia a few years after my family moved there, I was crushed. Since then it has been my mission to get a Slurpee any time I was in a town where the stores still existed, so after a post GDC dinner with Ziff Davis's Darren Gladstone and Kotaku contributor N. Evan Van Zelfden, a trip to a 7-Eleven was required. When the store we found was fully stocked with Halo 3 cups and Game Fuel flavored Slurpee goodness, I knew I had to document the occasion. There were three of us and three cups, so I bought, under the condition that I get to keep the souvenirs. My obsession with the Slurpee and my obsession with video games, together as one. *wipes away a tear* Thank you, Bungie. Thank you. galleryPost('haloslurpee', 4, 'Finish The Drink');

Originals: Kotaku Originals: From Zero Gravity to World in Conflict
Saturday morning and another week filled to the brim with Kotaku Originals. Fahey enlists in the Logos Academy and gets weightless, Crecente checks out the Project Blackbird 02 and we give out the last call for entries in our World in Conflict contest.A Really Nifty Pinball EmulatorShadow Monsters (Gameplay?) Is A Bit AmazingEnrolling At Logos AcademyIn The Beginning Of AGDCVideos From Beyond GravityFlight of Anti-GravityZero G SouvenirsMadame Tussauds' Master Chief Invades Las VegasLast Day For Globe EntriesGarriott's New PlayhouseStranglehold System Requirements May Not Require Second MortgageWii Tennis on a 103-Inch TVSweet Remote Controlled HDMI SwitchersGolfing for the Outdoors Averse and Super RichChecking Out CEDIALogos Academy Swag BagRiding The Vomit CometPAL PS3 Starter Packs Will Vary Between RegionsTabula Rasa DatedProject Blackbird 02 ImpressionsProject Blackbird 02 RundownProject Blackbird Lands at My HouseHeading Down Garriott's HouseKarraker on Blackballs, Blogging...