We've got lots of good stuff from the Bitmob community this week, as usual! Read on after the break for a reimagining of Braid in text and music, more than one post about franchises Bitmobbers would like to see revived (including multiple Sega classics, and the unexpected Space Hulk: Vengeance of the Blood Angels), humor articles by Luke McKinney, Chukwuma Morah, and Max Besong, and much more.

Video Game Celebrity Autographed Cards are the Next Big Thing
By Juan Martinez
Juan's got kind of a crazy idea for the baseball card-ification of video game industry heaveyweights. I dunno. A signed Miyamoto rookie card, maybe, but I think he should axe the video game journalists from his hit-list. Now if he can get the whole Twin Galaxies Superstar Players line-up on board, I'm there. I will not sell you my gem mint former Gorf champ Todd Rogers at any price.

20th Century Spud: The Case Against Digital Distribution
By Daniel Feit
This is actually less of an anti-digital distribution rant and more a love letter to Japanese game store Super Potato. Needs pics though! Hot pics of game racks, all on wanton display.

Gaming Made Me
By Reed Brown
Inspired by the Gaming Made Me series over at Rock, Paper, Shotgun, Reed makes his own list of games that inspired his love of the medium, and politely requests that you list yours.

Don't Oversimplify Game Stories
By Jeffrey Sandlin
Jeff if is a strong believer in directed narrative in games, and not a fan of silent protagonists. It's an interesting contrast to Omar Yusuf's post, Between Scripting and Silence, which basically argues the complete opposite point. Stick around for the comments!

Xbox Live Cheating and Controller Mods
By Jasmine Maleficent Rea
Jasmine considers Microsoft's laissez-faire attitude towards Xbox Live cheaters, and a popular auto-fire controller mod all the young jerks are using these days.

Advertising on the Xbox 360
By Rob Savillo
Have you heard about this 'advertar' thing? Rob's got the scoop on the corporate AI bots that may be infiltrating your games and flogging their crap. Maybe.

The Improbably Located Merchant Presents: The Savemaker!
By Luke McKinney
It's like the ShamWow guy and the Resident Evil 4 'whaddya sellin'?' guy joined forces. "Hiding with my inventory under the staircase in Dracula's Castle of Evil leaves me with a lot of time to ponder economics, and I realized: Maybe the pit of instant death spikes -- not to mention the thousands of undead between my reasonably-priced wares and even the closest major trade route -- might be why I have so few customers. So I got together with Merchant-hidden-behind-a-breakable-wall and Merchant-selling-weaponry-in-an-otherwise-idyllic-pastoral-village, and we set up one of these website things!"

Jim
By James DeRosa
James links to a track from Braid and then compiles quotes from the game, outlining the story of a broken relationship...it's kind of like reinterpreting the game into another medium.

Guitar Hero's Fatal Flaws
By Jeffrey J. Wilson
A former Guitar Hero fan lists his grievances, throws his lot in with the Rock Band camp.

Four Ways to Justify Buying the Modern Warfare 2 Prestige Edition
By Chukwuma Morah
Chukwuma takes a humorous look at possible uses for the night vision goggles included in the $150 Modern Warfare 2 Prestige Edition.

What Will Gamers do with StarCraft 2?
By Matt Armstrong
Matt's concerned that SC2 won't live up to the original, for various reasons. I think it'd be tough for any game to live up to a legacy like StarCraft's...but I'd be plenty happy if it just turns out to be the best RTS in years. That's not so hard, is it?

Five Things Nintendo can do to Improve the Wii Experience
By Kenneth Johnson
You had me at universal friend code system.

It's Not Tiny, It's Special
By Cody Winn
Although I have to admit I don't quite get the title, I do understand Cody's defense of Wii Sports Resort from those haters of bowling and throwing frisbees to dogs who would claim that it's not a substantial game.

Mediums Through the Ages
By Lance Darnell
Lance takes a look at the evolution of entertainment, from storytelling up to video games to Lawnmower Man.

The Disgruntled Vegetable: Local Man Thinks Game is Terrible
By Max Besong
Local Bitmobber Max Beson's homage to the Onion.

Sega: A New Golden Age?
By Kevin Vong
Is Sega on the verge of a renaissance? Kevin says yes.

My Fantasy Zone: Reviving Classic Sega Franchises
By Patrick Bonk
Patrick and Kevin should hang out sometime. Patrick outlines the Sega franchises he thinks the company should revisit, including Panzer Dragoon (below)...and he's right; if done well, these series could be big again. But that's what they said about Golden Axe.

1984 and Video Game Sequels
By Brian Petro-Roy
Brian hates to love to hate game sequels. And loves George Orwell's 1984.

We Want More vs. Enough Already!
By Brian Petro-Roy
Following up on the topic of sequels, Brian outlines the series he'd like to see revived (Okami? Keep dreamin'), and those that should take a break. He also reveals that he spent three years working on a fanfic prequel to the original Final Fantasy, which was ballsy. Add your own to the comments, and be gentle about the fanfic thing.

One Classic I'd Like to See Remade
By Rob Savillo
I bet you didn't think Rob's classic would be Space Hulk: Vengeance of the Blood Angels for PlayStation. I missed this one the first time around; seems kind of like Gears' Horde mode or Left 4 Dead but in the Warhammer universe, with a helping of Aliens.

The Worst Games I've Ever Played
By Rob Savillo
This is an interesting question, and one that everyone can answer. I never played Rob's (UFO: Extraterrestrials, Overblood), but I'm prepared to take his word for it.

OCRemix: Essential Gamer Audio
By Luke McKinney
Luke links to a few of his favorite pieces on Overclocked Remix, a site where users upload video game music covers.