My name is Toyooooooooooooooooooota Jeeeeeeenkins!

Some bits to help us start the work week, since school is back in and working is a reality I have to face again.

• Want to play Halo 2 with your Wiimote?
• The top 25 best selling games of all time; no shock that Pokemon, Mario and GTA dominate.
• iPSP? PSPhone? What will they call "it"?
• A beautiful bit of history up for auction: the whole Atari marketing materials deadstock.
• A totally badass Korean Jet Set Radio PC knockoff game that I want.
• I don't care how much you love you Wii, DON'T get this tatoo.
• Arm-wrestling arcade game is so good, it breaks people's arms. Now that's a champ right there.

This episode of Gamehead talks with Epic Games, wherein they casually drop that Unreal Tournament and Gears of War are both coming to Mac on OSX. Whoa. This ain't just rumortown, since it's been confirmed by Epic, and interestingly both are being developed as native apps, neither using Cider. Man. The Mac just went from zero to GoW in under 60 seconds.

Add to this to the fact that Gametap just added their long-awaited Mac client to their service (albeit the lite version), so now Mac users have an access to their excellent archive of nostalgia-inducing classics as well. Hit the jump for a Joystiq video giving a tour of the client.

iPhone iSchmone. Mac games!!! Who woulda thunkit.

More cross-platform, open source 3D games today. Today, on spooky Friday the 13th, I wanted to share one of my favorite simple pleasures.

Remember when you saw Tron as a kid and spend the next 3 years on the little metal dolphin with the handlebars at the local playground pretending it was a light cycle? Do you remember your heart sinking through your toes playing the totally limp-dicked Tron arcade game light cycle mode? The dissonance! The terrible, terrible dissonance! How could it look this good:

...and be that crappy when simulated?!?

Well, those days are over. Mac, PC, Linux - we're all part of the same happy family now, because any and all of us can fire up the grid and play GLTron!

The game is amazing - the visuals are perfect (and skinnable!), the sounds are top-notch, the experience is über-fun, and you can very workably play 4-players locally on the same machine (it's only 3 keys to control it). Plus, there's a whole slew of options to customize the experience to match what you wanted so badly as a kid. It's far from new, but I've used it as a nice 10-minute break since grad school (been playing it off and on for almost 4 years!), and it's still super fun.

So download the damn thing, and get to time killin'! You've only got 7 hours to go till the weekend! You can do it!

This kicks off a new series/topic on GFR - multiplatform, open-source gaming gems. Like trillions of Americans, my wife and I were all goosebumped-out and yowling in protest when the season finale of Battlestar Galactica (no, not Battlestar Galactica - what rock have you been under?) ended. In addition to being an amazing episode and the most jaw-dropping cliffhanger of a season finale since everyone got shot on the West Wing finale, it also presents the problem of having no BSG fix until 2008.

2008?!? What the frak?

So what's a nugget to do? Well, hop into your own Viper and frag some toasters! Thanks to an open-source, fan-powered total conversion of Freespace, GFR is happy to tip you off on the best free flight sim ever: Beyond the Red Line.

You can download the game demo for Mac, Linux or PC, and get to fragging right away. It's amazingly well done, and reminds me of Wing Commander before that series got all crappy.

Get downloading! Get shooting! Get happy!