Article from 1up:

Microsoft continues pushing forward with their Xbox Live Arcade releases, and while the world scrambles to download their free copies of Texas Hold ‘Em before they have to fork over real-world cash, Microsoft’s already planning some more interesting releases that aren’t HD-filtered versions of old school classics.

In a press release covering the Leipzig Games Convention, Microsoft revealed that European board games Settlers of Catan, Carcassonne and Alhambra would all be appearing on Xbox Live. There’s no word on pricing or release dates, but chance are they’ll show up before the end of the year.

Nice stop-action, live-action space invaders video – quite novel. Check it.

Curmudgeon Gamer shows video game console prices over time adjusted for inflation.

This kid is going to asplode.

Videogame Theater presents, Pac Man: The Insatiable Hunger. It’s like VH1’s tragic Behind the Music… but for video games… as told by puppets.

This was found on the front of a mail flyer in Phoenix. Some church in AZ co-opted the XBox 360 brand to sell Jesus. The initial inducement is obviously the gamer angle, but if you look at the text on the back, they’re also offering Krispy Kremes and Starbucks. Come for the donuts and tenuous video game analogies, stay for the salvation.

If this was local, I would totally go.

An artist, named Coop, has been blogging the progress of his latest painting (NSFW). It succinctly captures my interpretation of “both favorites”.

An indie band has a music video about what happened to all the E.T. cartridges for Atari.