It's not some crazy mod; the Arkeg is a commercial product built to (presumably) a commercial quality, with temperature-control for the keg, external sound controls, a brushed aluminium finish, slide-out keyboard and even a trackball. A trackball!

It comes with 69 games pre-loaded on the system, and these are properly included, with legal rights and everything. Plus, it's PC-based, so if you want to upload more games, you can.

The 69 games are:

1942
1943
720°
A.P.B.
Arch Rivals
Asteroids
Asteroids Deluxe
Battlezone
Black Widow
Blaster
Bubbles
Centipede
Championship Sprint
Commando
Crystal Castles
Cyberball 2072
Defender
Defender II
Gauntlet
Gauntlet II
Gravitar
Gunsmoke
Hard Drivin'
Joust
Joust 2: Survival of the Fittest
Klax
Kozmik Krooz'r
Liberator
Lunar Lander
Major Havoc
Marble Madness
Millipede
Missile Command
Mortal Kombat
Mortal Kombat 3
Mortal Kombat II
NARC
Paperboy
Pit-Fighter
Pong
Primal Rage
Rampage
Rampage World Tour
Rampart
Red Baron
RoadBlasters
Robotron: 2084
Satan's Hollow
Sinistar
Smash T.V.
Space Duel
Splat!
Spy Hunter
Spy Hunter II
Street Fighter
Super Breakout
Super Sprint
Super Street Fighter II CE
Tapper
Tempest
Timber
Toobin'
Total Carnage
Vindicators
Wacko
Warlords!
Wizard of Wor
Xenophobe
Xybots

So, yeah, these guys are not kidding around. With their games selection or the price, with an Arkeg setting you back a cool, temperature-regulated $4000.

[Arkeg]

But it's one of seven extremely complex (and dramatically backlit) cocktails that Official Xbox Magazine commissioned "a leading cocktail bar" to develop. The names invoke imagery from Left 4 Dead to BioShock, and are definitely meant to savor, not suck down during an 8-hour long multiplayer marathon. Unless you can "Carve off a lemon skin in a spiral shape and wrap the skin around the inside of a glass, using ice cubes to prop up the skin to the inside of the glass," like you were making icewater.

All of these sound intriguing but use at least two ingredients you probably don't have in your standard bar. The Boomer Bile, since it involves cucumbers and worcestershire sauce, sounds the most vile.

Share your own gaming cocktails in the comments. If anyone wants to create one out of Early Times, feel free to send that along to me, too.

Gaming Cocktails [Official Xbox Magazine, thanks Jon]

While it appears to have both courage and power, courtesy of its combination of rum, banana liqueur and goldshlager, it may - for the same reasons - be a little short on wisdom.

Still, it looks nice! And that pic is great.

Gamer Drink: The Triforce [Domestic Scientist, via Wonderland]

Here you can find pictures and info of a Final Fantasy bar we hosted at Scrollbar in ITU of Copenhagen. We created some special cocktails for the event as well.

Robin and co. were able to pull their Final Fantasy and boozing knowledge together to create 15 FF themed drinks. Three most popular drinks? The Waltz on the Moon, the Summoner Yuna, and the Aerith.

Hit the jump for the recipes and pics:

Waltz on the Moon

For the Beautiful Couple

* 1 cl Bols Lychee
* 1 cl Bols Banana
* 3 cl Apple Juice
* 2 cl Orange Juice

Directions:
Shake with ice and strain into Cocktail glass.

Garnish:
One lime wedge

Notes:
Loosely inspired by the 'Melow Martini'. The Waltz on the Moon was so popular that we're adding it to our normal drink list!

Summoner Yuna

Divine Passion

* 2 cl Gin
* 1 cl Galliano
* Sprite
* 1 cl Passoã

Directions:
Pour gin and galliano in a Highballs Glass filled with ice cubes. Fill up with Sprite and top up with the Passoã.

Notes:
Loosely inspired by the 'South Pacific Breeze'. The Summoner Yuna was so popular that we're adding it to our normal drink list!

Aerith “Virgin”

Pure Innocence

* 3 cl Cranberry Juice
* 5 cl Apple Juice
* 1 cl Lime Juice
* 1½ cl Grenadine
* Ginger Ale

Directions:
Shake first 4 ingredients. Top up with ginger ale.

Garnish:
Three lime wedges put into drink

Final Fantasy Night [Scrollbar]

Screw Final Fantasy Potion. Adult Square-Enix fans drink booze. Cloud's private label booze. Spencer over at Siliconera explains:

This past weekend I was hanging out at a Kingdom Hearts themed Valentine's Day party (not Square-Enix sponsored!) and there was "Cloud Strife's Buster Brose" to drink. The label says "A Scottish SOLDIER tradition" and below it "Made with the finest blend of scotch, oats and Mako energy." There was also Maleficent Mimosas which was some kind of punch mixed with Champagne.

The difference between this and Final Fantasy Potion: Drink a bottle of "Buster Brose" and puke on somebody's shoes. Drink a bottle of Final Fantasy and see spots. Brian Ashcraft

Cloud's Liquor [Siliconera]

The extent to which Pokemon is branded in Japan and abroad never ceases to amaze. Neither does the extent to which my family buys that Pokemon branded crap! Here's a bottle of "Shan Meri—," short for "champagne" and "merry." During the holidays, adults in Japan like to knock back bottles of champagne. And not to make the kids feel left out, alcohol-free soda pop that is packaged in beer, wine, champagne-type bottles. We picked this up at the neighborhood liquor store, marked down after Cmas. Hit the jump for the exciting unwrapping as well as my taste test! Brian Ashcraft

Ah, it's Pokemon Diamond & Pearl Shan Meri—. New software tie-in. Clever!

That's the other side. Can you feel the excitement?

The back. Nothing to see here, move along.

Ooooooh, the top. With packaging this shiny and a top like that, this soda pop should have a killer label.

Nope. Nothing. And the drink tastes like green grapes.

Non-sequitur, but here is what I had for lunch, I shit thee not.

Mission #4: Speaking of counting, we had a shin dig. With booze. And retro games. How many cone hats were in appearance? Count carefully. (Tip, this pic pops up in two places. Find the one that is NOT in an embedded slide picture player.)

Atari founder Nolan Bushnell's latest restaurant uWink opened yesterday in Woodland Hills, California. Bushnell's previous restaurant Chuck E. Cheese was centered around arcade games, pizza and animatronic animals. His latest is geared more towards casual games and booze. There's food, too, but the key here is booze. The restaurant has a nice big bar, stocked with various types of alcohol. The drink menu comes via touch screen, so go ahead and order that 11th Tom Collins. You'll get no sass from the touch screen!

Kotaku reader Matthew was on hand at uWink's opening and sent us a review (after the jump) and a smattering of pictures (also after the jump). Brian Ashcraft

The restaurant was pretty neat very nice staff and atmosphere. It wasn't a terrible location (except it's in one the crappiest malls in the Valley). On the interactive and gaming side there's a touch screen where you order everything and play games while u wait.

The touch screen is pretty responsive except that some of the games require fast response time and it didn't really allow for that. Otherwise you can play something of the equivelant of fancy cell phone games with other members of your party such as the Amazing Trivia Game and a game called Shootout where you toss a basketball. Or you can play by yourself.

All the prices of food are clearly displayed as well as there nutritional value. The only real problem my friend and I had was that when we ordered a "build it yourself burger," the prices of the extra stuff such as bacon and cheese was not tallied, but did show up on the bill. So we disputed it saying that it [the touch screen] never told us, and we got a burger taken off the bill. Everything else went pretty smoothly.

Some stuff was non-operational such as certain games or incorrect pictures as it was there first day so I don't hold it against them. Oh, and they give you RFID cards to order your food with. You just swipe it on the side of your console, and it will split the bill for you. Also, the checkout function didn't work so we had to go up to the front desk and have human interaction that sort of ruined the whole experience. But other than that I would go back again.

Oh, and one more thing: They said they were gonna have something else outside. So I guess that wasn't finished either. The pics with those white orb things on the table—that's supposed to be for some sort of projection game like the ones on the floor in malls.

DoA's creator and youth role model Tomonobu Itagaki likes to hit the sauce. Does the leather jacket and sunglasses-wearing rockstar developer wait until after work to get his drink on? Oh, no. He waits until work. Itagaki states that all of the settings for Dead or Alive 4 were thought up on a binge. So how much does the dude drink? The hooch hound explains:

I am drinking pretty much full-time. Of course, there are ups and downs, waves, of how I drink in terms of the amount, but it's a long period of time. In the last ten years - not that you asked this question - I think I had better ideas when I was drinking whisky. When I am drinking shochu, that's a conservative drink, so the ideas are not that great. Beer is just like water to me, so it just helps me and everyone else loosen up a little bit, it doesn't really contribute to coming up with ideas.

Oddly, he says that he is so serious about photography that he doesn't like to take photos while he is drunk. That game designing gig is merely fucking around. Brian Ashcraft

More Here [Kikizo]

While American could give a snot, soccer football fans around the globe are gearing up for the World Cup. Heck, even Florian has purchased a very special ascot to wear down to the local pub. Too bad, he won't be able to hop over to London for the special Microsoft festivities. Alice over at Wonderland directs our attention to the "Xbox 360 Believe" World Cup screening, which kicks off (nice pun) this Saturday in London's fashionable East End at the Truman Brewery. England plays Paraguay, Londoners get shitfaced. Brian Ashcraft

More Here [Wonderland]

More Here [Wonderland]

Hope to see you there.