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The singing....so bad.......

NHL Arcade is tons of fun. It's basically like a cartoon version of EA's usual NHL franchise, with things like powerups, the ability to check a player over the boards, and of course no penalties.

Correction: Danny Bilson isn't the CEO of THQ.

The mother with the 10-year-old son (early in the video) is what this is all about. She is a parent who takes an interest in what her son is doing, and doesn't leave it up to the government to raise her children for her. Parents need to take responsibility for their own children, and pay attention to what they spend their time on. We don't need more laws on violent video games, we need more laws on bad parents.

As a parent and a developer of violent video games, I am strongly against this legislation. We make mature games for mature players, and it's up to us as parents to determine what is appropriate for our children. My child will not play any of the games that I make until I determine that he is mature enough to separate games from reality. That is my job. That is what I signed up for when I decided to procreate. In the meantime, I have every right to play mature games while my son is out of the house or in bed, and there is no reason that my publisher, my studio, or myself, should be hindered in our expression of art and free speech for fear of government penalties.

@trefactor I believe you mean Rick Astley. Anyway, Rick-Rolling Stones is where they get the Rolling Stones to do a remake of Rick Astley's "Never Gonna Give You Up" specifically for this Easter Egg, culminating in the most monumental Rick-Roll ever: Rick-Rolling Stones.

Would be worth it if it were Rick-Rolling Stones.

"Never gonna give you up, never gonna let you down..."

I think the part that makes me happiest about all this is that I bought a house with a very open floor plan, so I have more than enough room to play Kinect without moving any furniture...but I have no plans of buying Kinect. I'm not sure why, but something about the (subtle?) irony of all this just puts a smile on my face.

@bittermang Because it was cheaper to just let Hulk flash his beefcake.

@luce1sw I'd tell you where he keeps the third one, but you probably won't like it...

@thisredengine I would doubt it. Think about it: if someone makes a video that honors the memory of something you made, are you really going to try to shut them down?