And off to work I go...

     Back to work today for the ever dreaded 4-banger work week, and I'm already missing my beloved Effie!! Lord, I hope this week goes quick for us!! We have a bit of free time coming, as the 4th of July holiday will mean we both have off together and have some time to celebrate with the family. Moving on...

• Call of Duty: Black Ops 'Annihilation' map pack hits Xbox Live.
• Call of Duty: Black Ops is officially the best selling game ever in the UK.

• [IGN Feature] Terrible ideas from great developers.
• [1Up Video Feature] Fracking Halo Kinect: How does it work? Lol. 
• [Video] Can you hunt animals in the 'Uncanny Valley'? For reference, here's a wiki article on the 'uncanny valley' of robotics and computer graphics.
• [Cracked] The seven biggest dick moves in gaming history. 
• Plastic gun roleplay leads to call fo video game ban. Wait... What? O RLY?
• US Supreme Court strikes down California gaming censorship law.
• [Image] Steam graphic says it all: Video games are protected speech.

 

Zelda Fan Art: 'I can still hold my sword...'

(Credit: xXSheepyXx on Reddit Gaming)

 

• Astronomy Picture of the Day: Stardust and Betelgeuse.
• Beyond the Big Bang to the universe that existed aeons before our own. 
• 'Frankenstein' spacecraft seeks geological ghosts of Mars.
• Scientists use custom nucleases to correct hemophilia in mice.
• [Ars Technica feature] Firefox update policy: The enterprise is wrong, not Mozilla.
• UK hackers being radicalized by government policy. 
• US Supreme Court will decide the constitutionality of warrantless GPS monitoring.
• Related for US users: EFF releases 'Know your digital rights' document.

 

I am not a number, I am a free man!