The machinima team over at the Sims team have recreated the latest Twilight: New Moon trailer using The Sims 3. For machinima I’ve seen around the net, this looks really good. I mean, the lead actress has more different facial expressions and better acting skills than Kristen Stewart. (boom. face.)

Santa has finally got around to creating his own Twitter account. But, it seems as though he is truly micro-blogging all his most inner thoughts and feelings this season. Apparently, he doesn’t give a flying fuck if you get coal or nothing at all. If you’ve asked for anything nice this year and you’ve done your very best to be a good person, you’re still screwed because Santa could care less about the list.

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The creative LEGO minds over at Brickforge are auctioning off a full set of custom Halo LEGO minifigs for the Toys for Tots charity. These minifigs are custom made meaning LEGO doesn’t make these.  (But they should!) As of this posting, the auction the bidding is at $150 with 1 day and 4 hours left. If you want you own custom made full set of these bad boys, head on over to the auction page.

[via model building secrets via Bricklink]

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The Christian religion always seems to want to be part of the “in-crowd.” They want to be known as cool and hip.  But, every time I see a product like this, it feels like your parents went to go with you to that teen party and pretend they are teens too. Before Mass: We Pray the video game, I thought Guitar Praise was fake.  But then I found out it’s real. Now, I don’t know what to think about this video game trailer above.

Now, I’m not bashing on the Christian or Catholic religions. But I just think religious traditions should stick to non-video game worships. You’re already on the radio and TV. Leave this medium alone, please.

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This dog is now officially the coolest dog ever lived. I’d like to challenge any dog to try and play Tony Hawk’s Ride and top this dog’s score. If you’ve been living under an internet rock and don’t know who this dog is, go past the break to refresh your viral video memory.

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Movie making is professional business. This is until the camera stop “officially” rolling. Check out J.J.’s dance moves and the cut Irish accent scene in the Star Trek blooper reel above.

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The prize: Yumsters 2 on Steam
Quantity: Five (5) Steam Keys.  One (1) per winner.

About the prize: Not only are these Yumsters crazy for strawberries, they can rock the bongos. For the love of fruity music, help them earn money by cleaning gardens to promote their band. To really skyrocket, Yumsters need the best equipment to win the ultimate grand prize at the fairy town music showdown. Get fruitilicious in five vibrant locations of Yumsters 2, a sweet Match 3 puzzler.

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• Match 3, drag-n-drop
• Rhythm-based gameplay
• Adorable characters
• Win the grand prize!

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I’m all for 8-bit art.  It gets me in a nostalgic way. But something like the video past the break just keeps my jaw dropped and my head cocked to the side. WTF indeed. To see this WTF video, go past the break. I didn’t want to embed it just so you have proper warning for the NSFW-ish parts.

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Now, if you didn’t yell out WTF at your computer screen, then you have some weird fetishes.

In this episode, Bill reports live from the Twilight New Moon Premier Party.  He was very excited to get press passes to it and let us know live on the air. Oh, and we also talked about:

• All the new video games and movies that came out this week
• Modern Warfare 2 is not the second coming of Jesus
• 8bit Left 4 Dead
• Best Buy sucks
• 18 button mouse
• Game of the Year thoughts

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Don’t forget to help donate to the children on December 4th with the “Piece of Heart” gaming marathon going on over at our friends GamerLimit.com.

Dear Geekster2012,

I have no idea what the big deal is. I haven’t bought the game because I’m not a fan of the super hardcore FPS type games. I’m more of a spray and pray kinda guy, hence why I love Left 4 Dead, Left 4 Dead 2, and Team Fortress 2. Now let me find out what the whole hubbubaloo is actually about.

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Well damn. That is kinda crazy.  So, you’re asking what the big deal is about? Well, on one side you got people complaining that the video game is making people feel and act like a terrorist in the video game. Because of this, people might go on terrorist rampages because they might feel like its as easy as a video game.

And on the other side, you have smart people. The people who can tell virtual from reality. The people who understand that video games don’t kill people. Guns People do.  The people who, if they have children, would make sure they don’t play these types of games or teach them what the difference between virtual and reality.

The only big deal about this is that it is something new and something very graphic from an FPS game. Oh, and that it is easy bait for the media and those stupid parents that like to blame society and everything else in the world for their own bad parenting.

So, that’s about it. Yes, that mission is very shocking, but I doubt any terrorists will be born from this. Again, it’s just stupid parents and media over hyping this easy bait.

Thanks for the question Geekster2012.

If anyone else has a question, use the contact form on your right, send a tweet, or e-mail me directly at nelson ( at ) pixelatedgeek ( . dot . ) com.