I've noticed an odd thing about the traffic to the site ever since I started doing this daily lunchbreak link blog post - it's gone down considerably.  I had an impression that posting links usually increases a website's footprint on the interwebs, thereby increasing traffic throughput through search and relinks.  It's baffling.  I almost hate to bump Ryan's great post on Castle Crashers down (especially since it has over doubled hits to the site today, mostly through Behemoth's twitter - Thanks by the way, Ryan), but I haven't blogged at all this week, and my fingers are itching for these keys.

• Life imitates art in strange ways sometimes.  Especially when someone pulls a Metal Gear Solid and uses a cardboard box to escape prison!
• I've been desperate to play some Batman: Arkham Asylum since I had a brief hands-on with it at E3, but not desperate enough to pirate it.  For those who did, and complained about a strange gameplay bug - you just got PWNED by the greatest piracy trap of all time.
• I beta-tested Star Wars Galaxies and even played it for quite a while after its release, but eventually basic reasoning skills prevailed and I discontinued my subscription.  Will I ever go back?  No.  Does this latest STAR WARS ZOMBIES add-on make me want to.  Kind of, but still no.
• Here's an article from the Australian Newspaper, The Daily Telegraph about Charles Martinet - the voice of Mario - in which he recounts his experience auditioning for the part.  You know, kind of like he did for me at E3!
  
• Scribblenauts is out, reviewed, and still not owned by me.  I need to fix that soon.
• Have you purchased all of the Fallout 3 add-on packs like I have?  If so, you'll soon be able to download a pretty slick looking new premium theme for your Xbox Dashboard.  It will be released on October 1st.
• And finally, since I can't seem to make one of these posts without a video, check out this incredibly cool sculpting of a ridiculously lifelike Piranha Plant. 

I had the great pleasure of getting a quick interview with Charles "It's-a-Me, Mario!" Martinet.  He is an incredibly nice guy and offered far more than I could have asked for in my first "real" interview.  Check it out below:

Edit: And the internet is once again confounding me.  Somehow the sound got out of sync after getting uploaded to Youtube.  I'll work on fixing it later.