TRANSFORMERS MASHUP: ROBOT-ON-ROBOT MEGAWARS

Here’s a start-of-the-week break from serious science, or even serious science fiction. Watch the Autobots and Decepticons crash and collide in this well-made mashup of video gaming on various platforms that include Nintendo DS and Wii, Sony PlayStation 3 and PSP, PC, and XBox 360.

Video gaming - officially known as interactive entertainment - is serious stuff financially, with the value of the international gaming industry running at more than $1 billion USD every month. Launch sales can be enormous - Grand Theft Auto IV took more than $500 million USD in its first weekend on sale, beating the previous record-holder, the epic sci-fi game Halo 3.