Wizorb, as we've shown you before, is an upcoming game in which Breakout meets 16-bit Zelda / Final Fantasy. It looked hot in screens, and looks hotter than hot in motion.

The game will (hopefully) be out later this year on PC and the Xbox Live Indie Games Channel.

There's a new Gundam series, penned by Professor Layton designer Akihiro Hino. It's dubbed Gundam Age. New Gundam means new Gundam toys.

There are also pics of the in-store Gundam toy scanner, the Gage-ing Battle Base. The Gundam Age plastic models are chipped, so they can be scanned in, which produces a battle simulation.

Website Gigazine was on hand to snap photos. Some Gundam fans like the Age designs, and some hate them. You?

ガンダムAGEの大作RPGをレベルファイブが制作、ICチップ搭載ガンプラを買うと無料で遊べる店頭ゲームなどガンダムAGEの新展開いろいろまとめ [GIGAZINE]

This is Bob Dylan. And not just any Bob Dylan. Nutty 1970's Bob Dylan. And he's...singing a song about Gears of War.

OK, so it's not actually Dylan. It's comedian Liam Lynch. But that's a mean Dylan impersonation, and also about the most unique Gears of War tribute we're ever likely to hear.

Dylan of Wars [Boing Boing]

After Spanish cops arrested a trio of suspected Anonymous members, the Turkish police now say it has arrested 32 suspected Anonymous members, including eight minors. No word yet if they were involved in the PSN hacks. [The Guardian]

As promised, Late Night host Jimmy Fallon has kicked off his video game week with footage of Modern Warfare 3.

Sadly, at least for the first part of the clip, there's not much to see. Much of the singleplayer footage has been seen before, and the audio has been totally washed out by Activision and Fallon giving a sales pitch of infomercial standards.

At least the multiplayer part is a little more interesting, if only because Simon Pegg is involved.

Lensman Kert Gartner filmed this depressing, yet beautiful short at Allied Coin, one of Winnipeg's larger "arcade graveyards". Haunting, stunning, and sad.

The short is a promotional piece for the Winnitron 1000, which aims to encourage and inspire indie game developers. Read more about it here.

The original Metal Gear may have been most famous on the Nintendo Entertainment System, but that's not the platform it was designed for.

It was instead developed first for the MSX, and the fact it had to be ported over to the NES is something that makes the series' creator, Hideo Kojima, very unhappy.

In an interview with Nintendo Power, Kojima goes to town on the game and the team responsible:

I had absolutely no participation in the development of the NES version. The NES version was a pitiful title developed cheaply and simply by a small team in Tokyo. That was during the bubble economy where anything and everything that was released would sell. I came across the game in a bargain bin and tried play it, but the game design is pretty bad. There is some gameplay that includes infiltrating a base that didn't exist in the original. However, even I, the developer of the original game, was unable to infiltrate the base even once.

Furthermore, being Metal Gear, it goes without saying that Metal Gear should make an appearance at the end. However, from what I've heard, due to the technically difficulties in displaying the sprite on the screen, they swapped Metal Gear out for a gigantic monitor. That made me see that whoever created the game had no sliver of appreciation for the players. However, even thought it was an abomination, it was during the bubble economy and it sold millions overseas. That title has only soiled my reputation.

He's no doubt just upset the NES version couldn't include the 39 hours of confusing chit-chat he originally had planned for the game.

Nintendo Power [Official Site via GameSetWatch]

For years, gamers have developed feelings for characters that don't exist in the traditionally tangible world. They might look real, but the characters are a composition of art and reality. They are virtual.

But what if a virtual person was passed off as real? Or what if a real person was thought to be virtual? That's exactly what is happening in Japan.

Located in Japan's geek heaven Akihabara, AKB48 is the country's most popular female pop group. With give-or-take 48 members, you'd think AKB48 would have enough idols to appeal to all fans. Its latest member is Aimi Eguchi, who has rocketed from obscurity to become the poster girl for a Japanese ice candy, Ice no Mi.

What's caused such a stir is just how quickly Eguchi has ascended up the idol ranks. AKB48 fans follow the idols very closely, and the diehards can rattle off their names, hobbies, and vital statics. This is why one bundle for AKB48 PSP game came with photos and battery covers for all 48 girls.

Even with such scrutiny, Eguchi has debuted. She apparently tried out for the Osaka-based version of AKB48, NMB48, but is joining AKB48 as a research student (think, idol-in-training). Following the announcement of this news on June 11, Eguchi appeared in the Weekly Playboy (no relation to the "entertainment for men" Playboy) cover spread and a nationwide ad campaign for Aisu no Mi—both of which are unheard of for an AKB48 research student. Aisu no Mi is from candy maker Glico, based in Osaka.

The popularity of AKB48 members is voted on by fans; only the popular girls appear in commercials.

In the Weekly Playboy spread, Eguchi is referred to as the "ultimate"—the ultimate pretty girl living out the ultimate fairytale.

Cynical as ever, Japanese netizens have been quick to pounce, noting that Eguchi's photos appear to be doctored. Photoshop isn't new to magazine layouts in Japan (and the West for that matter), but Eguchi's photos look so doctored that netizens are drawing comparisons between them and photos that appear on bait-and-switch Korean massage parlors.

Netizens believe that Eguchi's appearance is a composite of the most popular AKB48 girls—real girls that appear in the Aisu no Mi ad.

Eguchi does appear to be somewhat stiff in the commercial, and her mouth movements appear off. But maybe she's nervous. Or maybe it's because she was created in a hard drive to sell this snack. As one Netizen notes, her first name "Aimi" (愛実) could be a wordplay on "Aisu no Mi" (アイスの実). The name of the song AKB48 sing in the snack commercial is "Aisu no Kuchizuke" or "Ice Kiss".

Her magazine and candy commercial are the only times Eguchi's apparently appeared in public, leading to further questions if she really exists.

Believers say Eguchi is real, pointing to her profile listing on the official AKB48 site, and bat away cynical notions that she was created simply to drum up publicity. "Hollywood can't even create CG this good," wrote one individual. However, one AKB48 member, Ayaka Kikuchi, blogged that Eguchi was a composite of various members' physical features, alluding to the fact, yes, she was a virtual creation. Kikuchi's post has since been removed.

Japan has created virtual idols in the past, such as Kyoko Date in the late 1990s and, more recently, Miku Hatsune. With Kyoto Date, there was an effort to pass her off as "real"—though everybody knew she was a computer creation. Uncanny Valley territory, it wasn't. With Aimi Eguchi, those clear distinctions are being blurred.

Is Aimi Eguchi real? Or is this seemingly perfect idol just too good to be real?

Time is one of the most storied magazines the world has ever seen, and while its relevance may have dipped somewhat during the internet era, it's still seen as a respectable publication. So its first ever video game tie-in is a bit of a disappointment.

As a marketing stunt for the upcoming Modern Warfare 3, Time allowed publishers Activision to not just use the magazine's trademark cover design in the game, but to market the cover as a promotional poster which will go out to people pre-ordering the game.

If you think the stunt has anything to do with money, well, you're right.

"This is where the boys are," Kim Kelleher, Time's publisher, told the New York Times. "This is a great way to connect with millions of people we might not have otherwise connected with."

And who will never read another issue of Time in their lives, but hey, magazine publishers in the 21st century have got to try something!

Time Lends Cover for Apocalyptic Image [New York Times]

Based on everything we saw at E3, Nintendo's new Wii U console didn't look any more powerful than an Xbox 360 or PlayStation 3. Now, though, some developers are apparently saying that's not the case!

Speaking with IndustryGamers earlier today, Sterne Agee analyst Arvind Bhatia said "Some of the developers we spoke to indicated to us that the console will have 50% more processing power compared to the PlayStation 3 or Xbox 360. This is yet to be confirmed by Nintendo."

Now, this isn't an analyst guessing, or making a prediction like they normally do. This is an analyst directly passing on information they say they've heard from people working on the console.

Such a vague term could mean anything, of course, especially without more technical information in support of it, but for those hoping games could look a little better than what was shown at E3, it's cause for optimism.

Wii U Is Actually 50% More Powerful Than PS3 - Report [IG]