When I was a kid, I played a game called Super Mario Bros. In this game, the objective was to save a princess using carefully timed jumps, a few helpful power-ups, and the occasional warp pipe.

What I remember most about Super Mario Bros is the fire flower. Once you picked that thing up, the rest of the game was a breeze. You could storm through castles without a care in the world, vomiting flames all over helpless opponents all the while. Hell, fighting Bowser at the end of every castle was downgraded from “Oh shit” to “LAWL” if you still had the fire flower on you when you got there.

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If you haven’t been following MMO news, you may have missed a minor story a few weeks ago in which Mythic Entertainment suffered a small hiccup with their billing system – causing many players to be billed several times in rapid succession. I say the hiccup was small simply because that is the nature of code and computers, and whatever it was that caused the problem likely was some tiny detail as opposed to a multi-tiered conspiracy to cash in on unwary subscribers.

That being said, the issues this little hiccup created were far more concerning than its origin. Reports of bank accounts cleaned out, overdraft fees stacking up, and general financial chaos swarmed the boards over at Mythic’s customer service forum, and those seem to be the lucky folks. Other users reported more dire consequences: interest hikes thanks to bounced mortgage checks, insurance being cancelled when auto-withdraw was denied, or being stranded with no available balance and an empty tank of gas.

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If you haven’t seen this yet, you clearly don’t visit any other website but this one.

Thanks!

Anyway, the video shows what would happen if some classic games invaded what is apparently -the- city to invade, New York.  It is pretty amazing, if you ask me.  Check it out after the jump.

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In the last couple of months, one story has reigned supreme in the world of video game news – the rancorous battle of words and legal hearsay between Activision and former employees of its subsidiary studio, Infinity Ward.  What began as rumors of a hostile-takeover-like ousting of two top employees has escalated into a full-on media blitz of stories involving unpaid royalties, secret trips to other studios, and enough lawyer-speak to write the next three seasons of Law and Order.

As with any public argument involving an incredibly successful piece of creative property, the blogs and ‘news’ sites of the world have been quick to jump in on who they think is in the right.  But the real question here is simple:  How can anyone really be sure?

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If you didn’t already have a reason to dislike Justin Bieber (besides the fact that he’s cuter than you), here comes some source information for your first hate-filled forum post.

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