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Guitar Hero World Tour 'Bike Hero' clipTake a gander at the video above, and you'll see what appears to be one fan's obsession with Guitar Hero personified in an impressive combination of chalk, a bicycle, The Living End's "Prisoner of Society," and astonishingly well-timed LEDs. The setup is so elaborate we doubted its legitimacy when it first appeared, suggesting, "It could be a viral video released by Activision or a marketing company that works for them" in our GameVideos description.

Whether your psyched or skeptical, a new Terminator film -- Terminator Salvation -- is coming in 2009, and now it sounds like we'll be getting a videogame spin-off as well. On Thursday, Warner Brothers announced that developer GRIN will be creating a Terminator Salvation game that will be released on May 22, 2009, the same day that the film hits theaters.

Undoubtedly the highlight of this week's PlayStation Store update (which, once again, ignores PSP owners altogether) is the release of the long-awaited BioShock challenge rooms. For $10, you'll be able to work your way through three separate scenarios: Rescuing a Little Sister from a carnival, killing a Big Daddy without any weapons, and tackling a series of rooms containing wave after wave of enemies.

As someone who's closely followed the bizarre, often tragic trajectory that Sonic the Hedgehog's mascot career has taken, I approach each successive Sonic release with a heart full of dread. With his edgy, art-deco Sega Genesis glory days now long behind him, Sonic's recent platforming efforts have feebly attempted to recapture the well-crafted 3D prowess demonstrated by Dreamcast launch hit Sonic Adventure. Regrettably, every post-Adventure outing has garishly gilded the proverbial lily, screwing up the formula with the addition of extraneous playable characters (crocodiles, bees, robots -- you name it), misguided new gameplay styles (like Shadow the Hedgehog's guns-n-cars nonsense), and laughable narrative excess (I'm still trying to forget the sick cross-species romance that defiled Sonic's previous eponymous effort). Somehow, the kiddies have remained loyal throughout Sonic Team's decade of desperately grasping for relevance, but many of his more discerning fans have long since jumped ship. If Sega were to pull off something akin to Super Mario Galaxy -- a mainline franchise reboot that augments classic gameplay with clever new concepts -- he could once again be a contender. Sadly, Sonic Unleashed is not such a title.