The 3 week long poll has finally come to an end! We asked what highly anticipated video game YOU were getting this Holiday season, and the votes are in! Guess who got the most votes? I'm telling you right now, it wasn't Just Dance 2.

Listen up folks! If you guys are on this website but have never even heard of YouMedia before, than this might get you interested in visiting!
As most of you people who go to YouMedia know, we have the full Rock Band set there, and we have games Rock Band 1 & 2, The Beatles & Green Day Rock Band, and soon to be getting Rock Band 3.
Now, we also have $20, and we want YOU (that's right, you!) to tell us how to spend it! Now, I have this list of DLC, and I want you to tell me which songs to buy!
With around $20, we can get around 10 songs, so vote wisely!

5. Mass Effect 2 is coming to the PS3

Microsoft exclusivity was struck a crushing blow on Tuesday when Bioware announced at Gamescom that Mass Effect 2 will be available for the PlayStation 3 in January 2011. Microsoft might be struck an even more crushing blow in the months to come as it was rumored that since you could transfer your character from one installment to the next, the heavily anticipated Mass Effect 3 might be on the PS3 as well.

4. Insomniac announces next two titles

Although singing a deal with EA to make multiplatform games, developer Insomniac announced 2 sequels to their PS3 exclusive franchises. Resistance 3 was announced for a 2011 release at Gamescom on Tuesday. A live action trailer revealed little except for possible game locations. St. Louis, Missouri and New York, New York. Ratchet and Clank: All 4 One was announced at Gamescom on Tuesday for a Q4 2011 release. New features include four player co-op and a new story for all those Ratchet and Clank fans out there.

So, for the first special of Independent Pixel, I have two games of extremely similar style to show you. The first game is BIT.TRIP RUNNER, a videogame made exclusively for WiiWare by Gaijin Games.

Hello to all of those gamers out there now! Possibly on this site! Maybe....

.....Hello, thin air!

Anyways, Here is a good question. What IS Independent Pixel? Well, instead of you hearing about the newest Nintendo, Sony or Microsoft release and all of its huge glory, you'll be hearing more about the back-aisle releases, ones you'll find to be much more unique and adventurous than what you'll usually see. The games that maybe only a few people worked hard on to entertain you, unafraid to make massive risks that no other game publisher would dare make. The software called an Independent Game.

5. Batman: Arkham City revealed

The sequel to British studio Rocksteady's surprise hit, Batman: Arkham Asylum was "announced" in the September issue of Game Informer (a trailer was shown at the Spike VGA's last December), but new details emerged this week including the cast confirmation of Two-Face, Joker, Harley Quinn and Catwoman, amped up Riddler challenges, rivaling gang factions for Batman to beat up and a bigger, darker and better environment for all those little Batnuts. The release date was set for Fall 2011.

4. Crysis 2 delayed

The sequel to the popular 2007 PC shooter was delayed this week in the continuing trend of delayed video games. The new release date has been confirmed as March 22nd, 2011 in North America and March 25th everywhere else.

We went to Navy Pier and got to get a hands-on experience of Kinect, the new motion control attachment from Microsoft for the Xbox 360 that you don’t need a controller for! We got to play Harmonix’s Dance Central and Kinect Sports’ Track and Field mini-game! Listen to what we think of it now!

Intro and Outro: "The Four of Us Are Dying" by Nine Inch Nails


Hosted by Stanley Ng, Kaillif Ammen, Matthew Byrd, and Taylor Bayless


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This is fantastic news! I might actually be brought to upload the podcasts now! I know absolutely NO ONE listens to the podcast because of how hard it is to just take a listen to it. I've been trying to remedy that by uploading to PodBean, but it never seemed to work out very well. Now, I realize that you have to upload the podcast first, then make the post about it later (Because if you try uploading while making the post, there is a high chance that the upload will fail).

WARNING: THIS ARTICLE IS FILLED WITH SPOILERS!!!!! IF YOU WANT TO PLAY LIMBO WITHOUT SPOILERS DO NOT READ!!!!!

LIMBO as LOG member Kaillif Ammen says if very vague with little description and back story. For this reason LIMBO is up for a lot of interpretation. The following is my interpretation of the story of LIMBO.

As I described at the beginning of my review, Limbo is in Catholic theology Purgatory. From the title I feel the boy is traveling through purgatory which composes of the two evils of Earth. The dark scary forest filled with dangerous life forms and the cold, solitary city filled with dangerous machines and no life. It is the two sides of Earth - Nature and City. Purgatory is representative of the evils of earth. Now why would a little boy and his sister be in purgatory? Well continuing with the Catholicism, a lot of Purgatory's residents are un-baptized babies and children. Children not baptized by the Catholic Church are doomed to Purgatory. So most likely the boy and his sister were raised in a non-Catholic household, most likely Protestants, Atheists, Jews, Muslims etc.

[UPDATE: Price corrected]

Microsoft has put everything behind Kinect, it's new motion control device releasing this fall. They've treated it like a new console launch with launch titles, super hype at E3 and Comic-Con and a ton of build up. However it is all in vain. Kinect is has been doomed from the moment it was debuted at E3 2009. Now before I sound like a cynic, let me outline three fundamental reasons why Kinect will never connect with gamers, casual and hardcore alike.

You see that huge white box at the right of the screen? That is probably the largest poll of all time.

Okay, probably not.

But still, that whole list took me about half an hour to compile, and I want EVERYONE you and I know to VOTE ON IT! Use this post to comment on what YOU are getting, or mention something I DIDN'T SOMEHOW PUT ON THE LIST! Here are the current choices...

This is another review of the XBLA game Limbo. To see the main review by Byrdie, click here.

Limbo is REALLY open to interpretation. So open that it would probably piss a lot of people off. The story telling in the game is so vague, that you would probably miss the fact that "you are looking for your sister" up until the very end of the game (halfway through if you REALLY pay attention) unless you read the game summary. The open end-edness of the game is one of the largest selling points of the game, so if you want a story that is concretely there, don't get this game (I'm pretty sure that the only word that ever appears in that game is HOTEL. No spoken dialogue. Heck, no vocal sound effects whatsoever).