So Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days comes out next week, and we’ll have a review up for you guys before it ships. But in the mean time I’ve got a couple videos to tide you over, and give you your mopey emo Roxas fix.

Hey gang! In our further steps to become a nearly legitimate website, we’ve gone and hired other writer types to bring you the kind of coverage one weasel can’t offer.

Lev Grossman’s book The Magicians may initially seem to be a cheap ripoff of the Harry Potter series: a young man who doesn’t quite fit in discovers he has a talent for sorcery, and is whisked out of the “real world” into a university that trains magicians. Grossman is not plagiarizing Harry Potter; he is responding to it. He is responding, as well, to Lewis’s Narnia series, and in a sense to all fantasy.

I always like to keep an eye on local authors, and when I heard that a local doctor from the University of California, San Francisco, wrote a comedy crime novel, I had to take a look. Now I hate Josh Bazell because he’s hilarious, engrossing and is a god damn doctor. No wait, I think I’m in love with him.

After a week’s break for the season finale of “Fat People Making Out” or whatever that reality show was called, the overly sensational “Hell’s Kitchen” is back. We got a double episode to make up for the Gordon Ramsay withdrawals. Finally the show has whittled down its cast of rejects and the remaining chefs got the coveted black jackets.

If you’re like me (and you’d better be!), the idea of a first person shooter with a sci-fi story starring Nathan Fillion, Adam Baldwin, Alan Tudyk, and Tricia Helfer is enough to pique your interest. Throw in Bungie as the developer and it’s shaping up to multiple levels of awesome. Really, the only thing that could ruin an experience like this would be a way too short story mode and a weak multiplayer. Oh wait, “Halo 3: ODST” has those too? Well, fuck.

I’m on to you Nintendo. See, the general public may be unaware, but I can tell you’ve got a team of the weirdest developers around. Take “Mario & Luigi: Bowser’s Inside Story” for example. Not only is this one of the funniest, and most entertaining RPGs on the Nintendo DS, the story also has more kinks than the alternative board on fChan.

I’ve been a fan of the “Jak and Daxter” series since it came out in 2001. I’ve played every game, including the spinoffs, and have loved them all (even that kart racer one). Later this year High Impact Games takes the reigns on one of my favorite series and continues the story on the Playstation Portable with “Jak and Daxter: The Lost Frontier” While I’m more than happy to have more Jak in my life, my excitement is currently restrained based on the short, but varied demos of the title.

Hey “The Beatles: Rock Band” is out. You don’t want to read 6,000 words telling you it’s fucking rad, so I’ll use less than 500. Because I’m a real goddamn journalist.

Look, I get it. You’re a hardcore gamer. You would never pull out Team Fortress 2 to stick in a game with Disney on the title. And for the most part, I understand. A lot of you probably got burned when you attempted to play “Bolt.” But you know, not all the games based on the movies you’re too old to like are terrible. In fact, some of them are downright decent.