Hey everyone,

Are you like me?  More specifically (don't want to open up a can of worms with that open ended question) did you pre-order Borderlands on Steam?  If so, start pre-loading now so you will be ready to gather a bazillion guns right away Monday!

Oh, also, if you are exactly like me, more so than pre-ordering Borderlands through Steam, please seek profesional help... seriously...

Joe here with the latest from the weekend..

Where the Wild Things Are, the new drama of childhood by Spike Jonze, debuted at number one at the Box Office this week, taking in $32.5 million.  Law Abidding Citizen opened in second place with $21.3 million in earnings.  Paranormal Activity, helped by a widening release, actually moved up from fourth last week to third this week, earning $20.2 million.  Couples Retreat fell from first to fourth with $17.9 million, and The Stepfather opened in fifth place with $12.3 million.

The New Yorker has a lengthy and quite interesting article about James Cameron, covering not only Avatar - his latest, maybe greatest - but also the man: his tumultuous marriages, his obsessions, his God complex.

Jackie Earle Haley - the best part of The Watchmen - is up for the role as the baddy in the Green Latern film.

The full trailer for the Russian film Black Lightning is up - directed by the man behind Wanted and other visual spectacles of films.

In game news, the first reviews for Borderlands are screaming out of the gate - generally quite positive!

And a couple more early reviews for Dragon Age, Bioware's spiritual successor to the Baldur's Gate franchise - these out of Europe, and also very positive.

Like the Thief series?  Still own a copy of Doom 3?  Then this is for you!

Yep.

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Joe here with all the latest.  Well, most of the latest.  Some.

The comedy Couple Retreat took tops at the Box Office this weekend, earning $34.3 million.  The rest?  As follows:

2) Zombieland: $14.8 million

3) Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs: $11.5 million

4) Paranormal Activity: $7.9 million

5) Toy Story/2 3D: $7.7 million

Now for the strange, wacky world of Hollywood decision making:

Fox is going to re-tell the story of Moses...300 style.  Because, you know, that totally makes sense.

Bryan Singer gets closer to maybe turning X-Men back into a kick-ass franchise.

The "very really good great" idea for ID4 v2 has been stalled by Fox not wanting to give all their money to Will Smith.

Because you all - over there, you guys - asked for it: Batman.  Versus.  Blade.

In gaming news, tis a good week to be a console gamer.  Uncharted 2 - currently running a staggering 97/100 on Metacritic - comes out on Tuesday.  Steve and I are all over that one.  Brutal Legend also comes out, and IGN, at least, likes it.

Steam is running a week-long special with different deals every day.  Check 'er out.  Of course, Direct2Drive had the same deal that Steam has today for $5 less a couple weeks ago...but still.

Retrogaming...remember the goodness that was Dark Forces II: Jedi Knight?  If you never played - or if you did play but never made a strangely huge custom map because you paid no attention to scale - they you were missing out.  Great stuff...but was it this great?

And: land sharks.  Beat that.