Rampancy

Baby Chief tries to cope with the removal of the Bungie.net leaderboards in today's Halo Babies strip. Thanks mrsmiley.

Frankie's written a Bungie.net primer on the new Team Hardcore playlist, arranged with the input of Major League Gaming. To help Frankie stay alive more than two ten seconds in Team Hardcore, he enlisted the help of MLG's own director of communications, Dolbex.

GameSpot has only one beef with Stubbs the Zombie it seems-- the game is hilarious, satisfying-- and too short.

Also, Stubbs is an absolutely hilarious game. This is a particularly important achievement because, really, most games aren't funny. The games that attempt humor are usually the ones that fail the hardest. But Stubbs manages to work its concepts into a variety of fantastic situations. Watching a zombie give a military-style pep talk to a group of zombies in the style of Patton is especially hysterical, considering the only word zombies can say with any clarity is "brains."

Read the GameSpot review of Stubbs for details.

Tempus Fugit pointed out in the HBO forum a 1Up interview with Peter Jackson about the King Kong game coming out in connection with Jackson's latest film.

There are a few mentions of other games, among them Halo:

I also love the sense of scale and design in games like Halo 2. I found that art direction to be more impressive than most films I've seen. I like to explore and soak up the visual experience. [...] Can't wait for the Halo movie. I want to see Warthogs and Ghosts in the movies. And the Flood.

Jackson also says he has a "soft spot for shooting zombies". I wonder if he'd want to pick up a copy of Stubbs to see how the other half lives...