John Belushi played 
several memorable roles in his too-short life: Blues Brother, killer bee, samurai short-order cook, frat house legend.
But he never played a character in a video game.
Social game maker Entertainment Games is changing that, as the man many remember as Bluto has been revived as a playable avatar in ‘Retro World’, a free-to-play game that lets players walk in the shoes of their favorite celebrity icons.
As Walter Isaacson’s 
fascinating biography of late Apple CEO Steve Jobs continues to dominate best seller lists, PBS is offering its own take on the tech and new media mogul.
“Steve Jobs – One Last Thing” will premiere on the network Nov. 2 (10pm ET), featuring interviews with a number of people who knew him well.
Scoff all you 
want at the fact that this app is a blatant marketing ploy; you still have to give developer Halfbrick credit for making Fruit Ninja: Puss in Boots worth the money. The gameplay is just as fun as it was in the original, and the new Bandito mode — which pits players against 12 random challenges — is a fun new gameplay style. Like the original, you can unlock new blades, but there aren’t many. And the actual Puss in Boots elements feel very tacked on. That doesn’t detract from the game, though. It’s still as fun as it was — only this time, it comes with some heavy commercial elements.
Even if you have the 
grace of a spastic camel, you can’t help but have fun with Dance Central 2. The game is forgiving for beginners, challenging for experts, and features a terrific lineup of songs (ranging from Lady Gaga to Justin Bieber to Usher to Sir Mix-a-lot). This year’s inclusion of co-op and multiplayer challenge modes adds more depth to the game and is guaranteed to make it more of a party standard.
The game introduces plenty of new moves and is loaded with 44 new songs. Players of the original game can import that game’s original 32 songs in as well for 400 Microsoft points (about $5). The original Dance Central was a must-have game last year. This sequel is miles ahead of its predecessor — and could well be the best Kinect game on the market.
Richard Kerris, 
the former chief technical officer of Lucasfilm who hopped over to Hewlett-Packard in February, is on the move again.
Kerris, who was head of worldwide developer relations at the Silicon Valley firm, “has decided to leave HP to pursue an opportunity outside of the company, effective immediately,” according to a company spokesperson.
Get ready to 
play in Rockstar’s sandbox once again.
The developer has formally announced that Grand Theft Auto V is coming, though in true Rockstar fashion, that’s about all it has to say so far.
Shares of Take-Two 
Interactive Software surged Tuesday as the company confirmed the long-rumored next installment in its hit “Grand Theft Auto” series is on the way.
The logo for “Grand Theft Auto V” festooned the Website of Rockstar Games, the developer of the series, teasing a Nov. 2 release for the first trailer for the game. And despite the lack of a release date, plot information or any other details about the title, the publisher’s stock was up nearly 7 percent in midday trading.
Ending months 
of speculation, Take-Two Interactive Software and Rockstar Games have finally confirmed that ”Grand Theft Auto V” is on the way.
The developer teased the game on its website Tuesday, announcing it would release a trailer for the game on Nov. 2.
The supposed war 
between EA’s Battlefield 3 and Activision’s Modern Warfare 3 is not a zero-sum game — both publishers can come out as winners, says Gamasutra editor-at-large Chris Morris.
And so it begins. After months of sniping, posing and stare downs, Electronic Arts and Activision officially went to war Tuesday, with Battlefield 3 hitting store shelves, hoping to knock the Call of Duty series from its king of the hill position in the action shooter genre.
That’s how the story has been set up, at least. The battle of titans makes for a great headline, after all. And as we all learned from the movie Highlander, there can be only one, right? Poppycock.
There has never 
been a lot of love lost between Activision and Electronic Arts. The two video game publishers fight over just about everything.
But with Tuesday’s launch of EA’s “Battlefield 3,” the clash is taking on a particular sense of importance. At stake: The supremely profitable shooter genre – and possibly the fate of EA’s long-in-the-making turnaround.
Chris Morris: Journalist 