Whiz of the Web: Friday Fried Onions

• Even Bungie staffers are not immune to getting their Xbox Live accounts hacked.
• Brett Ratner says he'd love to do a Guitar Hero movie.
• Critically acclaimed Team ICO will be revealing their next project soon.
• It's anti-iPhone day at Download Squad.
• Google says it will have an App Store for its Android mobile platform, similar to the one for the iPhone, but the Android Market will require only a simple three-step process for uploading content.
• Sci Fi Wire offers some possibly spoiler-laden info about the early hours of this season of Heroes.
• An intriguing publicity photo from the upcoming syndicated fantasy series Legend of the Seeker, produced by Sam Raimi and based on the work of Terry Goodkind.
• We weren't quite sure what to make of yesterday's announcement about Virgin Comics being "restructured," but this article makes it pretty clear that the doors are shut and we can't expect any more comic books from the company. We are sad now.
• A listing in the European rating organization's database seems to suggest that we can soon expect a game called Indiana Jones and the Staff of Kings to be released for DS and PSP.
• Game|Life has some fun coverage of this year's Penny Arcade Expo. And it sounds like next year we can expect it to come to the East Coast! Woo hoo!
• Alex Walker, the director of the Australian World Cyber Games Tournament, said he's personally seen professional gamers use drugs so they could play better at national tournaments.
• Nerd World names an amusing commercial for Mercenaries 2 the greatest video game ad of the year.
• Video of a pretty impressive explosion on the Transformers 2 set. We're assuming it was on purpose. Beware, some expletives are used on the soundtrack.
• Aww, look at these cute little Metroid cakes.
• Some amusing video game-ized pics from the Olympics. (Via)
• Woah. They're putting out a DVD-ROM next month that will contain nearly every Star Trek comic ever—that's 500 books!
• In honor of the release of Babylon A.D., Underwire lists other film projects that got mangled by Hollywood.
• A pretty hilarious sweded version of the Dark Knight trailer, starring an all-kid cast.
• Hackers have wormed their way into Super Smash Bros. Brawl and given the characters new costumes. Snazzy.
• Heh heh heh. The food pyramid of video game power-ups.

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