Did you hear? Mega man is now selling cell phones! Ah the beauties of living in a country where intellectual property is so rarely enforced. I spotted this little treasure in a mall’s cell phone kiosk earlier this week, this cute little rip-off is calling himself kit-boy and would like to tell you about unlimited data cell phone plans. Dr. Light must be running short on money as he’s apparently pawned off Mega man’s I mean Kit-boy’s blaster.

You know, it was a bit awkward back when Halo came out and suddenly every jock and any other obnoxious non-gamer was talking about his 1337 pwning skillz, but we got through that. We learned to accept that games are not just for the hardcore. Now we snicker at how the extra casual gamer is getting their first taste of game addiction on FarmVille but there’s a safe distance there between FarmVille and real games, right?

Well I believe that distance’s about to get a lot shorter come March. 3G Studios is bringing an actual honest to goodness 3D first person shooter to Facebook. It’s called Brave Arms and it’s promising to be the very first “social shooter”. If you thought having Nick The Jock call you a n00b wait until your aunt Greta starts yelling BOOM, HEADSHOT at you.

[Joystiq]

After years of rumors and a constant cycle of disappointment Sega has finally gone ahead and done the right thing. No, not produce more Space Channel 5. We’re talking about making an honest to goodness 2D Sonic plataformer. Yes, you read that right. Sonic is back and this time it’s the real Sonic, not some crappy fetish-catering monstrosity.

Sonic the Hedgehog 4 will apparently be episodic and you can expect the first episode this summer on WiiWare, Xbox Live Arcade and PSN. It’s taken them 16 years to come up with this first episode, let’s just hope the next one comes out before that other long overdue episode. Yeah Valve, I’m looking at you! Where’s my episode 3, Valve?!

[HellForge]

Holy fucking shi… Ok, no. Before you get all excited and start making sweet love to your battered old Dreamcast let me tell you this is not what you think it is. Yes, it is a new Sega console, no it’s not really a Sega console.

This is the Sega Zone and it’s a hybrid halfway stuck between ‘crappy x-mas-gift from your aunt’ and ‘Must have retro device’. It’s a Sega licensed console preloaded with 50 classic Sega console games. It feels like a knockoff because the thing looks cheap and it comes with wireless controllers that look suspiciously similar to the Wiimote. It feels like a must have retro gadget because it has an actual cartridge slot, and you can pop in your old games.

[Pocket Lint]

It’s actually a pretty nice deal, though at over 50 pounds and only available in the UK, it starts too lose its shine. Perhaps your British aunt will give it to you this Christmas… then again their TVs are PAL. Oh god damn it, this has so many hurdles it really does feel like a Sega console.

Japan, in their never ending quest for cheap outrageous cinema, have decided to release a Dead Rising live action movie. That’s right, it will be distributed through the web and Xbox 360 owners will be able to watch it a bit early. The production values are abysmal, the plot flimsy and the gore as cheesy as it gets. Yet this movie looks a thousand times more entertaining and faithful to the source material than the last Street Fighter movie or the Tekken one. Take a hint, Hollywood.

[Joystiq]

Remember Muscle March? Namco’s little WiiWare title full of barely clothed bodybuilders? The one where you strike a pose trying to catch the bastard who stole your protein shake? The one with muscular bears and clowns and aliens as well? Well it hit US WiiWare today! Imagine that, a bizarre Japanese game actually seeing the light of day in the west. It’s a good day, and I dont think hulking muscle men had ever made me so happy!

[Offworld]

Remember the Mortal Kombat movies? Sure they were silly and overacted, but they carried a real resemblance to the game and it’s characters, it tried to be faithful even at the cost of looking cartoonish. Now here we have the trailer for the Tekken movie and it is clear that the more things change the more they stay the same.

Sure it’s still a videogame adaptation that sucks, but it’s like they’ve given up completely now. Straight to DVD release, completely unknown cast, abysmal production value. Hell, I’ve seen better looking B-films on cable TV at 3 am.

Infographics are all the rage this days and although there are a few good ones most frankly suck hard. They spew facts you already knew and just slap some Excel charts in there. This isn’t one of the really good ones, but it’s about games and having all those charts on screen will make it look like you’re doing something productive!

[OnlineEdication]

Here’s a quick and good one! Someone made one hundred gaming themed cupcakes for a party. Figure out what game they represent and you score a point. Now you can play at home thanks to the magic of the interwebs! Go forth and be amazed! Some of these are quite charming like the Zork one. Other ones… Like our ol’ pal Link up there… well, not so much.

Let us know how you do!

[100 Cupcake Quiz]

I’m having horrible flashbacks about my early teenage years… See, Nintendo is releasing remakes of Pokemon Gold & Silver, which brings it’s own issues, like making me feel old since Gold & Silver where the first Pokemon games I thought were ‘too much’, ‘just milking the franchise’ ‘for children’ and now they are so old they are getting remakes.

But no, the flashbacks I’m getting are because of a little freebie that came with the games’ release in Japan, a Pokewalker. Now this Pokewalker isnt anything fancy, just a little pokemon themed pedometer that lets you score points based on how much you walk, this device was also once known as the Pokemon Pikachu, a Tamagotchi-like device that enslaved me for a good year of my early teens. Both games are getting released in the US in March and if they come with this Pokewalker I’m afraid I’ll have a relapse.

Oh god, the guilt of not feeding my Pokemon Pikachu in over a decade is kicking in…

[Kotaku]