Tired of constantly fighting with the Smoker? Has the Bloat's acid spray hit you one too many times? Maybe you just have a breakdown in communication. Run out to Spencer's and pick one of these up today. Made like a children's book complete with the sound chips - just push the buttons on the book to listen. Almost as good as Berlitz:

TF2 Dance

One of the best animations from TF2 I've seen. Check out the rest of this guys work on youtube. Eventually, he'll piece them all together.

TF2: Beat It

This is quite good:

beat it in tf2 @ Yahoo! Video

More grins

As we noted here almost a year ago, the now-defunct Swedish developer GRIN made three shitty games in a row, and consequently rolled over and died.  A few stragglers formed Outbreak Studios before the body of their former employer got cold, and it seems that the new development house is still (ostensibly) a going concern.  Outbreak's claim to fame so far is that its founder developed the network engine for a handful of games, though he apparently did all that a long time ago.

Today, a few remaining GRIN-ites announced the formation of Whiteout Studios, which according to Blue's News already has a game under development using Crytek's Cry Engine 3.  That's a hell of an expensive license, and it's somewhat remarkable that a team with Whiteout's track record managed to grab the start-up money it needed.

We won't see the game for a while, but it's never too early to say "caveat emptor."

ZOMG! A PC-only game tops the charts

No existing console controller has enough buttons - and no existing console gamer has enough thumbs - for StarCraft II.  And yet, that game currently sits atop the UK multi-format sales charts.  It's the first PC-only title to do that in recent memory, and the charts don't even include digital distribution sales figures.

Don't expect a slew of PC-first titles until some later stage of human evolution, but this is great news nevertheless.  The Personal Computer remains a viable format, and while the death of consoles is nowhere on the horizon, somebody out there can tell the difference between a Lexus and an El Camino.