Just a couple of quick notes for those of us that like whacking around silver balls;

Alien Crush Returns hit WiiWare earlier this week. It’s 800 points, and with the original on the VC at 600 points it’s not that bad of a deal. We haven’t had a chance to get our hands on it yet but you can expect a full review when we do. If you can’t wait that long IGN has a review up. They gave it a 7.8. Sounds about right from everything we’ve seen, but who can really say until they’ve tried it for themselves? Don’t forget to check out our previous Alien Crush Returns coverage, featuring our interview with producer Peter Dassenko.

In other pinball news, Kotaku is reporting that a new Pinball FX table is set to release on November 12th. The theme? Super Street Fighter II Turbo. I’m a big fan of the licensed tables idea, even if the Rocky & Bullwinkle one was a little cluttered. No price has been set yet, but you can safely assume it’ll either be 200 points or free as a promotional tie-in to the upcoming Super Street Fighter II HD. Either way, it looks AWESOME. Kotaku has a gallery up, so you can check out the full set of images there.

Still don’t own Pinball FX? Maybe Dan’s review can turn you around.

I’m certainly excited about Street Fighter IV, but this wallpaper has nothing to do with that. It popped up as I trolled 4chan looking for some new desktops for my new netbook laptop. I dug the art style and though you all would enjoy it.

That’s it, no high minded reasoning just bringing the cool shit to the masses! Enjoy

God bless Facebook. A friend of a friend of a friend is in the photo. It scares me to think I’m three degrees from this madness.

Mama told me if you have to explain the joke, it ain’t funny… but she also told me chicks don’t like to be called broads so what does she know? Sorry mom, you know I’m only joking. Thanksgiving was excellent btw. Ahem, where was I?

Anyways, here’s some more gaming-related tattoo goodness, the one and only Ryu. Maybe he should get Ken on the other arm…