Video game music cover bands are a dime a dozen. Regurgitating NES tunes with the standard guitar-bass-drums set up was cute when the Advantage and the Minibosses did it, but now, now it's just bordering on sad. That's why when someone writes rapid-fire lyrics and actually sings the melody from a Mega Man jam, it stands out. Sure, the singer may have a voice as good as mine (pure rubbish), but it's the enthusiasm that matters. If you really want the MP3, you can grab the song, a take on the Mega Man 2 theme titled Okkusen Man, here.

Props to the official Capcom blogs for the discovery. Michael McWhertor

Fair warning: Here's a Google video of the whole straight-to-video Dead or Alive film. Game site Destructoid has posted it, and now we will — Not really to share (we aren't that sick), but to see how long it takes before some lawyer tells us to take it down. It's already been up at Google for a month, so we doubt that anyone gives a flip. And to everyone involved in making this motion picture, we accept your apology. Sorta. Brian Ashcraft

The Whole DoA Movie [D-toid, Thanks Scazza!]

The above clip appeared on a blog called "All I Want for X-mas Is A PSP." From that site:

here's the deal::: i (charlie) have a psp. my friend jeremy does not. but he wants one this year for xmas.

so we started clowning with sum not-so-subtle hints to j's parents that a psp would be teh perfect gift. we created this site to spread the luv to those like j who want a psp!

consider us your own personal psp hype machine, here to help you wage a holiday assault on ur parents, girl, granny, boss — whoever — so they know what you really want.

we'll let you know how it works for us. pls return the favor.

more to come,
c&j.

Marketing 101: If you going to do viral marketing, please avoid clusterfucks like pretending to be consumers order to appeal to appeal to other consumers. A bigger faux paux is doing things like creating a hardcore fanboy website and registering it under a marketing company. Real smart there, fellas. Brian Ashcraft

PSP Fake Viral Site [Something Awful, Thanks Babylonian!]

Bit about myself: As a kid, while my friends gravitated towards Nintendo consoles, I was a Sega guy. The only Sega guy on my block, thank-you-very-much. Sonic was the shiznit, but somewhere along the line, I lost interest. Then Sega unveiled a new title for the Xbox 360 and the PS3. Hands-on at TGS showed wonk controls, but still, it's Sonic and flat gameplay's forgivable, right? Slightly, yes; however, not this. Check out the above video and ask: Why Sega? Seriously, why? Brian Ashcraft

Sonic Is Dead [Insert Credit]

Pikachu is not your friend. Doesn't matter if toy maker Tomy has dubbed this torture device "Tomodachi Pikachu" (Friend Pikachu), the yellow pocket monster is the enemy and must be destroyed. And the 150 plus Pika words this stuffed demon speaks, thereby encouraging small children like my son to repeat over and over again? Hogwash. Those red light-up cheeks are a mere foreshadow to the blinding rage the product will ultimately unleash. That being said, I'll probably buy it for my son's birthday. Brian Ashcraft

PikaToy [Game Watch Impress]

We hope this is not recent clip of Sonic walking the runway of a fashion show. Rather, we hope this is not a clip of Sonic. At all.

Sadly, it is.

Here's designer Carri Mundane, painfully bad patterns, worse even bicycle shorts and Sonic (and as GayGamer points out, something on his "hedge hog"). Sega, we might be able to overlook that other Sonic atrocities, but this is unforgivable. Brian Ashcraft

Make It Stop, Sega [UK:R via GayGamer]