God updates Hell to accommodate video game cheaters

At a press conference, The Lord announced today that He has created three additional levels of Hell in order to accommodate those who cheat in video games. The Father said that Satan will remain The Dark Overseer of these new levels and will mete out punishment in accordance with the severity of the cheating.

The Supreme Creator of the Universe said:

I’ve been pondering cheating in video games for a few decades, and I’ve decided that it is a sin, punishable by eternal damnation. I didn’t reveal the Commandments concerning video games during the time the Bible was written because they didn’t have video games back then and it would’ve blown their minds to hear my Word about video games. Now, I can reveal my Will concerning video games to you.

Level 1 of Video Game Hell is reserved for Users of Cheat Codes and Game Genies. The Contra Code Users (up, up, down, down, left, right, left, right, etc.) will be assigned to this level  unless they beat Contra without the 30-man cheat prior to dying on Earth. Gamers who warped in any of the Super Mario games will also be placed here unless they beat the game…. etc. These sinners will be forced to play the longest RPG-like games, such as Final Fantasy and Fallout, with clothespins clamped on their nipples and smooth jazz playing in the background until they beat the game 100%–with all items and secret locations found. These sinners will be denied what they enjoyed most–shortcuts in video games. These sinners will receive a 30-second rest from punishment after completed games before they start the next game, due to the mild nature of their sins.

Level 2 of Video Game Hell  is assigned to Glitchers and Hackers–those who exploit faults in a game’s programming to obtain an advantage over their opponents or use a hardware modification to obtain same said advantage. Those who have recently used the Javelin exploit in Modern Warfare 2, for example, will be held here. These sinners will not be allowed to play video games ever again. They will simply line up shoulder to shoulder, and a soccer-style NFL kicker will punt each sinner right in the groin every five minutes, sempiternally. The kicker will loudly shout “YOU’VE BEEN MERKED!” after every kick to the sinner’s junk.

Level 3 will be reserved for Noob Toobers and Juggernauts. These gamers will be forced to endure their deepest, darkest nightmare for the rest of time. They will direct an unarmed video game character around in a wide-open, endless, virtual field while invisible demonic snipers shoot at their characters.  Every time the character is shot or runs into a claymore, the gamer will be subject to an infinitely-hot lava enema from the Dark Lord of the Underworld–The Devil–himself. The Evil One will then fully regenerate the entrails of the sinner, in order to maximize the pain felt during the subsequent lava enema.

The All-Powerful Source of Existence then paused to take questions.

One reporter confronted The Lord about the last category of sinners, asking why use of the Noob Toob or Juggernaut qualified as cheating, especially because these aspects of video games are built into the games for all to use. While humans regard Noob Toobing and Juggernauts as annoying, humans do not regard the use of these features as cheating.

The Infinite Life Giver replied:

First of all, I make the rules. B of all, watch your tone, you turkey. Third of all, I make the rules. If I say Noob Toobers and Juggernauts are cheaters, they’re cheaters. Bottom line, end of story. Hot lava butt injection. I gotta roll.

Vampire Weekend Starting Now on Guitar Hero

This week’s Guitar Hero track pack features the indie pop band Vampire Weekend. The pack includes two songs “Cousins” and “Holiday” from the band’s newest album Contra and one track “The Kid Don’t Stand a Chance” from the group’s self-titled debut album Vampire Weekend.

The Vampire Weekend Track Pack is currently available on the Xbox Live Marketplace for 440 MS Points ($5.50), on Playstation Network for $5.49, and the Wii Shop Channel for 550 Wii Points. The songs are also available as single downloads on Xbox Live for 160 MS Points ($2.00), Playstation 3 for $1.99, and on Wii for 200 Wii Points.

Tom Petty Returns to Rock Band Next Week

Next week Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers will be back again on Rock Band with six songs from their Live Anthology album, and the French band Phoenix will make their debut on the music game. The Philadelphia group Silvertide will also be appearing on Rock Band.

Available on Xbox 360 and Wii (Jan. 19) and PlayStation 3 system (Jan. 21):

-Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers – “A Woman in Love (Live)” *

-Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers – “Breakdown (Live)” *

-Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers – “Century City (Live)” *

-Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers – “Jammin’ Me (Live)”

-Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers – “Nightwatchman (Live)”

-Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers – “The Waiting (Live)” *

-Phoenix – “1901”

-Phoenix – “Lisztomania”

-Silvertide – “Blue Jeans”

(All tracks are original master recordings)

The songs above will be part of the “Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers Live Anthology Pack 02″ and as individual tracks on Xbox 360 and Playstation 3, and only as individual tracks on the Wii. Those marked with a ‘*’ are available at the Lego Rock Band music store.

Price: $1.99 USD, £.99 UK, €1.49 EU (160 Microsoft Points for Xbox 360) per track

$9.99, £4.99 UK, €7.99 EU (800 Microsoft Points for Xbox 360) for “Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers Live Anthology Pack 02”

$2.00 USD (200 Wii Points) per track

Assassin’s Creed III and Others Arriving Sooner than Expected

Ubisoft has more news today, following the head-hanging news of a Splinter Cell delay yesterday. Today it’s quite a bit more upbeat and positively forward-looking- the publisher has confirmed that there will be another Assassin’s Creed and will arrive between April this year and March next year. Along with this announcement, Ubisoft stated that Assassin’s Creed II has moved over 6 million copies globally and hopes to reach 9 million by this March.

Next, an older series that has been around for over a decade will be getting a fresh start and this year as well. Some may remember back in 2006 that Ubisoft bought the rights to the Driver series from Atari. Well, they are finally bringing that deal to fruition and the series developer Reflections has been at work since 2008 and is planning for a release in the same timeframe as Assassin’s Creed III.

Other titles on the way are a new Ghost Recon (rumored to be called ‘Predator’), Raving Rabbids 4, and Prince of Persia: The Forgotten Sands. Ubisoft has not stated the current situation of Beyond Good & Evil 2.