Boomstick!

It should be assumed by now that I'm a committed Darkstalkers fanatic. Anyway, if you're as hopeless as I am, you should go take a look at Udon Entertainment's Darkstalker Tribute. 300 pages of glorious Jon Talbain, Felicia, Morrigan, B.B. Hood, Demitri, and the rest of the cast in artwork collected from hundreds of dedicated artists around the globe. Maybe I'll get my shot at a piece in another five years.

On the western front, Kotaku's interview with Tim Schafer went well. It looks like we may be seeing more cameos in Brutal Legend than the already legendary Lemmy Kilmister, Rob Halford and Ozzy Osbourne.

"In Full Throttle we had, like, three licensed songs from one band. That was pretty easy. This has got a hundred or so. Maybe a million. Possibly a million songs. We ship it on an external hard drive. My own personal iPod ships with it."

I'm not totally sure he's not joking here.

Looks like yesterday was a dangerous one to spend in London. In the craziest (possibly best: hear me, Rockstar!?) PR stunt for a video game since John Romero told everyone he'd make them his bitch with Daikatana, THQ loaded a locked car with 100 copies of Red Faction: Guerrilla and chained a sledgehammer to it. One thing naturally led to another, and by the end of the day many satisfied and suddenly stressless Brits trotted home with free copies of the game and a spring in their step.

"Because Red Faction Guerrilla features the world's most realistic destruction engine, we thought that it would make for an interesting experiment to find out how many people, going about their everyday business, would stop in a busy city street to work out some stress by smashing their way into a car to earn a copy of the brand new game," says PR manager Simon Watts.

If I can learn anything from this experience, it is that there is no better incentive for getting new games than by smashing whatever's keeping you from them with a sledgehammer. GameStop, ye be warned.