Geekolinks: 8/15

Floating Head (ben dickinson) Karl Urban is Judge Dredd (blastr) Pokémon Black and White Battle Footage (Joystiq) Movie-Con Day 2 Wrap Up (Bleeding Cool) Google Wants to Save the World (Fortune) How to Use the PlayStation Move (Kotaku) Jabba the Pair of Sneakers (Fashionably Geek) (Playmobile Geisha via toycutter)

How Did Matthew Perry Get A Job Doing Fallout: New Vegas?

Apparently he did it by expressing his love for the franchise in the most unlikely of places: The Ellen DeGeneres Show and The View.

He was on the shows more than a year ago, promoting a movie, but while he was on Ellen he gifted his host with an Xbox and a copy of Fallout 3, saying:

I played this video game so often that I injured my hand so severely that I had to go to a hand doctor and get injections in my hand because I love this video game so much.

Apparently all that dedication (and subsequent publication of said dedication) paid off, because he'll be voicing Benny, the head of the Geckos family in Fallout: New Vegas.

Geekolinks: 7/23

LitteBigPlanet 2 Gets Release Date, Cool Extras (El33t Online) 5 Sci-Fi Actors Who Were War Heroes in Real Life (NeatoGeek) The Anatomy of a Sarlacc (forgetfoo) DS Dating Game, Now Has Arcade Version (Kotaku) Bizzare Taiwanese News CGI Thing About Sarah Palin (NMANews) Risk on the iPhone (Joystiq) Blizzard Puts the Kibosh on SC2 Reviews Before Launch Day (Rock, Paper, Shotgun) (image via Comic Book Resources.)

Geekolinks: 7/17

Space Invaders Now on the iPad (Joystiq)

StarCraft II One of the Most Expensive Games Ever Made (That VideoGame Blog)

Arrested Development Movie is Go (Bleeding Cool)

Tron Legacy Banners (ScreenRant)

How To Win At Rock Paper Scissors (BuzzFeed)

Static Shock is Back (Comic Book Resources)

Surprisingly Beautiful Red Dead Redemption Time Lapse Vistas (Digital Foundry)

(image via Toycutter.)

The Latest Thing To Succumb to the 3D Craze is… StarCraft 2?

IGN was on hand at a Korean Star Craft II Q&A session, and, while pursuing a answer as to whether or not the game will support anti-aliasing, got this response:

"No; but we will be releasing 3D in the first few months, for those Nvidia cards and screens that support it... we're optimising for all systems."

Oh, come on now. StarCraft is an RTS. The entire game takes place on a flat plane. Except for the cinematics, which, I'll grant, will probably be some of the best in the industry. I guess I wouldn't mind seeing those in 3D, right up until a zergling leaps out of the screen and I tear the (one of the two pairs of) glasses off my face.

Star Craft 2 Just May Have LAN Support After All

Blizzard outraged many gamers when it announced that Star Craft II would not support multiplayer gaming over local area networks. That is, gamers would no longer be able to get a bunch of desktops together in someone's house, or at a tournament, and play each other on a small network. All multiplayer would have to be routed through Battle.net, and thus require an internet connection, even if the two computers were right next to each other. The original Star Craft, and its little brother Warcraft III, were a large part of LAN party culture, and so the idea that the first sequel to the franchise in more than a decade wouldn't honor Star Craft's contributions to LAN culture was pretty unexpected. Big Download is now reporting that there may still be hope.

Biggest E3 News Evar: Giant Plush Baby Revealed

About a month ago, Majesco announced that the be-kerchiefed main character of their best selling Cooking Mama games would be getting another new avocation, other than gardening: babysitting. Which kind of goes without saying, doesn't it? Otherwise how did she get to be Cooking Mama? Anyway, the point of this is that E3 has finally yielded photos of the new peripheral for Babysitting Mama for the Wii: a plush baby to shove your Wiimote inside of. I mean, a baby to put on your Wiimote. I mean - goddammit, Nintendo. /facepalm

New The Force Unleashed II Trailer Is Badass

GameTrailers.com has LucasArts' E3 trailer for the Force Unleashed II up, and... Well. Strap in. And if there are any young droids in the room, you might not want to let them see it.

For the Horde (of Obsessed Children): SpongeBob MMO In Development

It appears that yet another random franchise is getting an MMO game. This time, it's SpongeBob SquarePants. MTV Asia and GigaMedia are teaming up to develop and publish the game, which will launch in 2011 for gamers in China, Korea, India, Japan, Taiwan, and Southeast Asia. The game will be free to play, but don't worry, it'll still sap your money with an online store from which you can buy all sorts of unnecessary accessories. It's a shame this isn't coming to (and from) the United States, because it might just be the boost our economy needs.

Rumors of a New GoldenEye Game Surface Again

The odds of a GoldenEye remake are looking better and better. A while back we reported that Activision had laid claim on the domain of goldeneyegame.com. Now Eurogamer is reporting that, according to their sources, it is totally happening. They say the game will be officially announced in a couple of weeks at E3, and will be released in November.