It’s Black Friday the most deadly time of the year. Brian and Landon share our deals, steals, and tears from the busiest shopping day. And since it’s Thanksgiving weekend, what more appropriate subject than the video games we are thankful for. We look at those games that changed the industry, personal favorites, and influenced future generations of interactive entertainment.

Plus watch as our phone glitches and fails us miserably live on cast.

So what would happen if Monsters Inc. made hot sweet lovin’ with Tron? Well besides the awkward love scene between Mike Wazowski and Master Control, you’d get something very close to one of my new favorite web series ‘Level 20-Something’!

The series is about two guys who work at a place called the “Animosity Agency”. They spend their nine to five as the CPU. They are the characters who play against or with the human controlled players. It’s a downright dirty job with lots of pain and little pay. Along the way they meet up with a fiery bartender and get thrown into many of your favorite games in pixel form.

I found these guys through well, uhhhhhh honestly just screwing around on the web searching for new videos. But this is when screwing around on the web pays off. Though I was surprised to see how few subscribers these fine lads had. It’s funny, well produced, and doesn’t suck. So I’ve done my part and subbed and ask, nay demand you subscribe to them as well! Here’s the first episode for your viewing pleasure.

If you are a comic book fan, this isn’t new to you. You either are excited about this change or upset (fine, I guess you can be somewhere in the middle too). Some books are going away, some change drastically, and some things don’t really change at all. I am personally upset that the Red Robin book is ending. I have been a big fan of the 3rd Robin, Tim Drake, from the beginning. He isn’t quite going away though, he just won’t have his own book, I can still read him in Teen Titans #1.

Stepping back though, what things are changing?

First off, this is a great time for new readers to jump into the comic book world. If you have ever been on the fence about reading because these books have been around for generations and afraid you might be missing out, no need to feel that way anymore. There will be all new 52 issues, re-numbered to #1’s. Also if you don’t have a comic book store near you, or you prefer your fancy, expensive iPad, DC is making every issue available digitally day of (Yes, that is a BIG deal). And you know these stories will be good.

How can I say that, you might ask. My thought behind this is that if you are going to do something this huge, this drastic, you had better have the stories to back them up. They certainly have the right creative teams, some fabulous writers and artist like Geoff Johns, Grant Morrison, and Jim Lee are all leading this change. I’m only worried certain things will be a little rushed to get these characters started up, like all the introductions needed for the Justice League.

The DC Relaunch- patrickhwillems

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A few key changes in the DC Universe will be taking place. I will try to break these down as best as possible.

Batman – Not too much changes for Batman himself, but there are some tweaks in his entourage. Batman has been in operation for a few years already (before Superman makes a public debut). Batman Inc. still holds strong, although Dick Grayson and Damian Wayne are no longer partners. Bruce Wayne as Batman takes helm back in Gotham and his son Damian is now his Robin.

Dick Grayson seems to be leaving the cowl behind and going back to being Nightwing and gets his own series again! This is great as I was also upset that he lost his own series during the Battle for the Cowl story arc, but was relieved when he became Batman.

HOLY WHEELCHAIR, Batman! Err…Lack there-of I should say. Barbara Gordan is no longer Oracle and wheelchair bound as she regains her position as Batgirl! Take that Joker!

Superman – First major change is Clark Kent and Lois Lane are not married anymore. No, there wasn’t some crazy Kryptonian divorce, it just hasn’t happened yet. Maybe we will get to see another huge Superman wedding craze like in the 90’s.

He ditches the red underwear. Don’t worry though, his suit is relatively still the same, and don’t freak out if you are surfing the net and see one of the new reboot images of him in jeans and work boots, as that is just a transitional phase before he dawns the real deal.

Here is the biggest change for him in my opinion. I believe this go-around BOTH of his adoptive parents, Martha and Jonathan Kent, are long dead. This will certainly change and affect how Superman is this time around compared to last, we will just have to wait and see it.

Green Lantern – Welp…Sinestro is totally a Green Lantern again. So, there is that.

Wonder Woman, The Flash and Green Arrow – These all look to be staying similar to where they were, we will probably just get a new origin story for each. I’m sure there will be a few tweaks, iron out some things to suit them to today, but their basic timeline looks to stay the same.

Aquaman – Wait…They are keeping Aquaman? Shit… (I’m kidding, don’t hate me if you like Aquaman)

I am very excited about these changes and certainly hope this works out to DC’s favor. How does everyone else feel about the changes? Does this make you want to go out and start reading, or make you shift over to Marvel permanently? Leave us some comments and tells us how you really feel.

- Landon

This week has been jam-packed with great videos popping up, and in case you missed them we have you covered. Some are just plain entertaining and some so impressive my jaw dropped. Tron Guy is brilliant, that is all I can say. Check out all the videos on the jump.

Official Duck Tron- theduckbrand

I love advertising when it is good, and it rarely is. This one is so perfect, it is a wonder why we didn’t see it a few months ago when Tron was blowing everyone’s minds. Can’t complain, I get to enjoy it still. The only issue I find with this is that there is absolutely no way that Tron Guy would be able to snag that woman as his wife. Maybe she is his caretaker…I mean, he is wearing a helmet?

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New Razor Blade True Gaming Laptop with i7 Processor - mazterFreeman

Holy Ridiculous Laptop, Batman! This video might be too epic for its own good. With the music, all the accents, the way they display the machine, the Asian Steve Jobs. Skip to around 2:15 in the video and check out that sweet trackpad/lcd display. Reminds me of the Optimus Maximus keyboard from a few years back. The biggest issue here is the price tag on the damn thing, nearly $3,000! Good luck Razor, you need to find a way to drop that quite a bit. Is there really that big of a demand for high quality portable gaming?

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Jedi Kittens- finalcutking

These are the kittens you are looking for. I think the title speaks for itself, this is a brilliant only 16 second long video. This will make your day infinitely better.

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Portal: No Escape (Live Action Short Film by Dan Trachtenberg)- dantrachtenberg1

Wow. Just Wow. Saving the best for last. This has got to be expanded further, I need to see more, you need to see more. Please, someone fund the brilliant people behind this to expand!

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Seriously Konami if you don’t hire this guy, I will. If for nothing more than to provide my eyes more sweet visual candy.

But one creative fellow from Japan took the phrase “bigger is better” to heart.

That reminds me, I haven’t played Team Fortress 2 in forever. Loved that game. Though no updates for us consoles folks. *sad face*

For some reason unknown to me, I’ve had a fascination with the wild world of retro. Have you ever wondered what Stars Wars would look like in the simple beauty that is silent film? You’re right, neither have I. Now I know.

I’ve never seen a group of people so fearful of a 1-up in my life.

P.S. PatrickBoivin has some amazing stop motion videos and has been a favorite video creator of mine for some time now. Check out his YouTube page for more goodness.