This weekend, Spike TV ran the Video Game Awards. All in all it was a pretty tepid affair, but it did give studios a chance to show off their forthcoming titles with a slew of exclusive trailers. We gathered all of them up and were just going to present them to you, gentle reader, but the embedded videos looked so lonely there, and we figured we were as qualified as anyone to have opinions on the Internet, so we added our compressed thoughts about each trailer into a single sentence. (Most of the time.)

Beavis and Butt-Head returned last night after its last episode aired fourteen years ago. For many, Beavis and Butt-Head were icons of a generation, symbolizing slacker culture. What non-viewers didn’t know, however, is the show is a lot more clever than it may seem. Much like South Park, the show started off crude and simple, getting shock value and lowbrow laughs, but it grew up with its audience, becoming one of the most clever comedies television has seen in quite a while, but somehow still being able to serve the initial lowbrow, shock value audience. The return of Beavis and Butt-Head, with the two still wearing their iconic AC/DC and Metallica shirts above their ridiculously short shorts, means a great deal to a lot of us — both because it symbolized our youth, and because, man, that show is hilarious.

Rather than a review, which would end up being one sentence long, “The show is still funny, go watch it,” we present a running diary while watching the episode written by someone who has a stack of Beavis and Butt-Head comics kept in great condition in a drawer, and can also draw Beavis in about fifteen seconds, but can’t draw anything else.

Hacking has been around for a long time, but now with social networking, publicized hacking groups with quirky personalities, and the increasing importance of the internet, we’ve been hearing a lot more about it recently. Hackers hacking this organization, threatening that organization, taunting each other, opening or closing up shop. As interesting as it is, it’s all a bit much to follow and sometimes it’s not even clear who’s who. If you find yourself in that boat, attached is a brief, approximate and abridged family-tree/timeline of recent hacker groups and activity summarizing who came from where and worked with whom on what. Events are listed in unscaled, but roughly chronological order from top to bottom. Take a look at the full size image after the jump and impress your friends and family with facts that they probably won’t understand.

“Thats all well and good Billy, but what on Earth is a Lulzsec?”

As our readers know, we here at Geekosystem love Minecraft. We write about it, we discuss it amongst ourselves at Geeko HQ, we have our own private server, and we even have the occasional Minecraft get-together. Much of what we discuss, however, starts with the qualifiers, “I wish” or “You know what would be cool?” So, we decided to transcribe a conversation between two of our many Minecraft alums, James Plafke and Max Eddy, for your reading pleasure. Head on past the break to see how our Minecraft-related brains work, and what we’d most like to see added or changed about Notch’s blocky masterpiece.