That short, blurry, fan-made trailer for a live-action Pokémon movie didn't do the thing justice. So let's watch the thing, in full, in its original form.

While the blurry shots from the first trailer helped hide the cracks in the special effects, it also robbed this fan project - called Pokémon Apokélypse - of much of its hammy charm. And before you rain down internet criticism, hammy charm is the order of the day here, the entire thing a sly nod and wink in response to the more serious fan trailers we've seen this year.

That short, blurry, fan-made trailer for a live-action Pokémon movie didn't do the thing justice. So let's watch the thing, in full, in its original form.

While the blurry shots from the first trailer helped hide the cracks in the special effects, it also robbed this fan project - called Pokémon Apokélypse - of much of its hammy charm. And before you rain down internet criticism, hammy charm is the order of the day here, the entire thing a sly nod and wink in response to the more serious fan trailers we've seen this year.

Richard Marks has an impressive resume: He has created the EyeToy, the PlayStation Eye and the PlayStation Move. He also likes buttons.

"Buttons are irreplaceable as an input device," Marks tells Edge Magazine. "Too many buttons are overwhelming, but one single action button is very powerful feeling."

Continuing, Marks adds, "For core games you really do need a set of buttons to quickly choose things. Trying to replace buttons with gestures doesn't work very well."

This fall, the PlayStation Move is going head-to-head with Microsoft's Kinect. The Move has buttons. The Kinect does not.

Designing PlayStation Move [Edge via CVG]

Dean Fraser's Springfield Punx website - where the artist renders celebrities and famous characters as if they'd appeared in The Simpsons - has long been a favourite internet time-waster. Especially now there's game characters on it.

We're surprised it's taken Dean this long to start on the world of video games, but we're not complaining, especially when his first three offerings are World Warriors Ken, Ryu and Blanka.

I'd love to play a game using these models. Those tiny, stumpy legs would make things awkward.

And Dean, if you're taking requests, it'd be great to see you take on the crew of the TCS Victory. Thanks!

[Springfield Punx]

More Colorful Than Your Game Room
Comment by: Demonbird
Nominated by: kyoshizen

How dare you assume my game room is less colorful.
Let me paint the picture for you,
Every surface is covered in LED lights.
Each one a different hue of a different color.
The walls, floors, I have them sticking out of the gaps in this keyboard.
The chair I sit in right now?
Just a massive pile of LED lights.
Am I in pain? All the time.
My curtains are just 4 foot wide strips of fruit by the foot.
The window that they are attached to? You bet your ass that's stained glass.

It's so colorful, you have to strip naked and cover yourself in an assortment of paints that would make a rainbow vomit with jealousy just to gain admittance.

This room is the reason Wizard of Oz has color.
It is where the Technicolor Dream coat comes to die.

Amateurs.
Picture related, it's my gardener.

Kinect Gets Its Panzer Dragoon
Comment by: Luke MacDonald
Nominated by: Gyaruson 2.0

Motion based dragon game? That could NEVER go wrong!

Report: Apple Gaining Fast On Nintendo
Comment by: JGab
Nominated by: StubbornScorpio

JGab's test of a gaming console's legitimacy as a portable gaming console:

Question 1: Does your console play digital games? (A wad of paper and pencil are not digital.)

Question 2: Is it actually portable? (Systems that must be played while on a table in horrible red hues that may or may cause eye strain are not portable.)

Question 3: Is the game console actually created and sold to people? Do people actually purchase it? (Lookin' at you, N-Gage...)

Question 4: Does the console have any titles that do not solely fall into the following categories: made for children to learn and narrowcasted to them, rip-offs of other popular titles, hacks of other titles, games that are mostly produced in the time-span of a week?

Question 5: Is your console a gaming focused machine, or a machine that has gaming tacked on as an after-thought? If the latter, you are not legitimate.

Question 6: Does your console have any games that will have a legacy in 25 years enough for the company to make a video commercial about the character in the game turning 25 years old? Or, alternatively, a game that will be remembered in 10 years?

If you are able to pass this simple test, you are a legitimate portable gaming device. If you are unable to pass this test, you're likely kidding yourself if you think people are really using your device for gaming.

Bumper Stickers For Proud Gamer Parents
Comment by: cbarrentos
Nominated by: OctaneHugo: Airliner Pilot of DOOM

My Child Is A Bad Enough Dude To Rescue The President

Kratos Walks The Streets Of Atlanta
Comment by: wild homes loves you but chooses darkness!
Nominated by: Kobun

Kratos, take with you these Blades Of Athena, these Claws Of Hades, and these Calf Muscles Of Pre-Adolescence

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That delightful Japanese commercial celebrating Super Mario Bros' 25th anniversary has received a surprise extended cut. Only thing is, there's no new footage.

Above is the old trailer. Short, and cute! Below is the updated version. Longer, and less cute.

Wondering what's being said? Basically, DON'T BLOW ON CARTRIDGES. EVEN DS ONES. IF THEY NEED CLEANING, GET AN OFFICIAL NINTENDO CLEANING SET.

Way to spoil the fun, guys.

Nintendo warns against cassette fufu → [Tiny Cartridge]

With the final, actual release of Gran Turismo 5 less than two months away, it's time to start ramping up the promotion for the game. In Japan, that involves hundreds of cars careening down a slide.

It's cute, it's catchy, and between the song and the volume of vehicles on display pretty much sums up what Gran Turismo is about. Even the damage modelling looks spot-on!

Your PlayStation 3 has just graduated to version 3.50, adding 3D Blu-ray support, more Facebook integration and better griefing reporting. More details at the official PlayStation.blog.

The Tokyo Game Show is over. We're home. We're extremely sleepy. And we'd like for you to take this post by the reins and take it where you want to go. If that means, talking about TGS, so be it!

Seriously, the commute via Friendly Airport Limousine to Narita Airport to LAX to home has been an exhausting one, but there were big boxes of Cap'n Crunch waiting for me at home. All I need now is some rest. Tell us what you're up to in the comments.

If you're more of a lurker, take a lurk at these things.

• OK Go "White Knuckles" video - Who doesn't love dog agility?
• Insanely creepy Panda brand cheese commercials - As hilarious as they are disturbing.
• Keanu Reeves is interested in making another Bill & Ted's movie - Sounds like a great-bad idea.
• A small selection of awful Batman costumes - Surely there must be more!
• Boba Fett Star Wars X Adidas packaging - Just what sneakerheads need... collector grade packaging!

Computer hacking isn't really a spectator sport, so movies will embellish hacking scenes with funky visuals, inane jargon, and supercomputers that run on magic and prayer. Here are 10 of the most awesomely groanworthy hacking scenes.

Fortress (1992)
Fortress occurs in a dystopian future where Christopher Lambert and his wife are jailed for violating the regime's one-child policy. The movie has many classic bits, particularly the scene in which the cyborg warden spies on the inmates' sex dreams. Another great sequence is the film's final hacking sequence. John Brennick (Christopher Lambert) and D-Day (Jeffrey Combs) upload "D-DAY'S REVENGE VIRUS" just before John's wife gets an unanesthetized C-section. Also note the system's hamfisted password: "CRIME DOES NOT PAY."

Jurassic Park (1993)
As a gang of bloodthirsty velociraptors bear down on our heroes, a middle schooler finds the gumption to hack Jurassic Park's entire computer system. Hey, it was programmed by the mailman from Seinfeld. What did you expect?

Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann: Gurren-hen (2008)
In this anime film, the villainous Lord Genome accomplishes a "super hack" by becoming a sprinting 8-bit mescaline bender. It's so profoundly strange that you forget that Lord Genome is a head in a jar.

Lawnmower Man (1992)
The final sequence of Lawnmower Man was impressive for the 90s but looks remarkably hokey nowadays. Jobe (a.k.a. Jeff Fahey a.k.a. Lapidus from Lost) is a hyper-intelligent virtual being who gives up his flesh to become pure information (indeed, his physical body wastes away like a giant month-old meringue). Jobe becomes trapped in a mainframe and tries to hack his way out by punching polygons as if he was playing Starfox. James Bond hops in a gyroscopic carnival ride to distract Jobe from the bombs he's planted; Jobe overreacts and crucifies him. For more VR bloopers, check out Jobe's sex fiasco and this death scene from Lawnmower Man 2.

WarGames (1983)
Plucky Matthew Broderick hacks into a NORAD supercomputer, mistakes it for a videogame, and almost starts World War III. By telling the computer to play tic-tac-toe against itself, Ferris teaches the machine that global thermonuclear war is very bad. Nostalgia requires me to have a soft spot for this flick, but the whole premise makes Small Wonder look like a documentary.

Hackers (1995)
Hackers is so painfully dated it rules. This movie aspired to be the mainstream cyberpunk flick but instead comes off as Neuromancer 2: Electric Bugaloo. Just witness this Prodigy-fueled hacking battle between "Crash Override" (Johnny Lee Miller) and the enigmatic hacker "Acid Burn" — they're fighting with fonts and shitty homepage graphics! This major motion picture is so disingenuously anti-authoritarian that it may have well been directed by McGruff the Crime Dog. Also, real hackers vandalized the Hackers site to protest this film's overall silliness.

Independence Day (1996)
Jeff Goldblum and Will Smith fly into an alien vessel in a 50-year-old space junker, upload a computer virus in less than 5 minutes, and lo! Everything's compatible! You'd think a race of malevolent extraterrestrials would invest in a better firewall, but I bet that's the big twist in ID42. (On a side note, whenever I see a Roland Emmerich movie, I like to pretend they all take place in the same universe.)

The Core (2003)
In this scene, "Rat" (DJ Qualls) gives Aaron Eckhart free long-distance for life...using nothing but a Wrigley's wrapper, a cell phone, and a song in his heart.

Superman 3 (1983)
In Superman 3, Richard Pryor steals the rounded half-cents that don't go into employees paychecks — just like Office Space! In a movie where Superman gets totally shithoused and fights his subconscious in a garbage dump, it's saying a lot that the most implausible detail of the film is that a megacorporation's security override command is "OVERRIDE ALL SECURITY."

Swordfish (2001)
Hugh Jackman has 60 seconds to hack the Department of Defense while a nubile lady named Olga blows him. If Hugh fails, Vinnie Jones will blow his brains out. Incidentally, this is how any respectable computer science graduate program vets its PhD candidates.

Much thanks to Lindsay Wolfe for the awesome research.