The filmmaker penned the Silent Hill script and was slated to make a big-screen version of Wolfenstein.

In January 2008, Avary was involved in a car accident which saw his wife hospitalised and his friend, 34-year-old Andreas Zini, killed. The director entered his plea in a Ventura, California court this past Tuesday.

He will be sentenced on September 29 and is currently free on bail.

Arts, Briefly - ‘Pulp Fiction' Writer Pleads Guilty in Crash [NYTimes.com]

The Demoman is pissed. He wants his briefcase back, along with the intelligence, or whatever is stashed in there. The end result is Pulp Fortress, an all too brief Pulp Fiction-meets-Team Fortress 2 mash-up.

This clever little machinima is full of the foul language Tarantino is famous for, so keep your speakers down low. But once you hear the Scout voice by "Brett" it's hard to look at him the same way. Summary: we want more, please.

Ben S. Decker isn't just playing video games at Harvard, he's studying them. His concentration is "the study of video games from both a technological and humanities perspective," AKA "ludology."

Ludology? 'Mkay.

He'll take a smattering of classes in computer science, economics and psychology at Harvard and cross-enroll at MIT for media studies. Ben adds,

I'm not nearly as hardcore a gamer as some—I'm certainly obsessed with a couple of games, but I have a lot of faith in the medium going forward.

That, and a pretty cool sounding major. Harvard isn't the first to offer ludology as a concentration, but rather, the University of California-Santa Cruz. Go Banana Slugs! Brian Ashcraft

Harvard Teaches Gaming [The Crimson, Thanks Joseph!]

The still at right is a cap from a Mario fan flash that protrays the ubiquitous plumber sucking cancer sticks and kicking ass to Dick Dale's Miserlou. It was sent in by the extremely enthusiastic tipper Barry, who says the "troll imps" might cry old meme.

But I've never seen it before, and a quick search for the creator's name yielded no related Kotaku archive.

I dig the art style in this quite a lot. It's sketchy and deranged without being overworked, overthought, or pretentious. It's just fun with a flipoff. Eliza Gauger

Mario Short Movie by Jeremie Duval [Extreme Funny Humor (worst site name ever?)]

For your delectation and revilement, here are two videos. The first is the Blood Elf male dance, which is a literal translation of the Napoleon Dynamite routine, and the Draenei male dance, which is yanked from the Captain Planet-flavored video for flash animation soundtrack favorite, "Tunak Tunak Tun" by Indian pop star Daler Mehndi.

The female racial dances aren't worth mentioning, as they are both hideously dull. As per usual.

As a hilarious aside, Daler was accused of human trafficking in 2003.
Eliza gauger

Pop Culture References in Warcraft [Wikipedia]