When I think of a new Xbox, my groin swells and I get lightheaded. Xbot!, reporting for duty. Newest rumor? Microsoft is seeing Nintendo a Kinect, and raising them a new touchscreen controller.

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[Caff Edit: First video was taken down. Pratfalls of queuing posts! Added new video, jump to 21:25]

When the motherfuckers at Bethesda were done putting the wraps on Skyrim, they were given a task: spend one week doing whatever they want, putting whatever they want in the day. The results? Pure awesomeness. Dragon mounts. Building your own home. Pitch black dungeons. Adoption. Seasonal  foliage. Plus more. They’re noncommital as to whether any of it will actually make the game, but man. To dream.

Hit the jump to check out the staff’s dream conjurings.

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It’s the end of the year. News is slow. Leisure has temporarily supplanted effort for a majority of people within the comfy confines of the Western world. By the time the gift certificates have been burned and the clothes returned and the sales capitalized upon, we realized it’s no longer Christmas but it is almost assuredly New Year’s Eve. So since everything is but a trickle out of the Echo Chamber’s anus for the past week, I figured it’d be worth mentioning the most notable thing that happened upon my writhing gaming ass in 2011. This was the year spectacle gaming died for me.

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I don’t know why I feel pumped and proud that Skyrim is crushing it on the UK charts, but I am. I know it’s another huge installment of a huge franchise, but seeing it trounce more rote experiences like Uncharted 3 and Modern Black Fare 3: Covert Operations gives me a tickle in the taint.

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I never played the Sega Master System. It’s one of the few consoles my childhood spoiled ass never touched. Now is my chance! I can taste it. For $5,000, I can own the whole fucking schbang.

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Last November, the Supreme Court heard a case regarding video game sales in the state of California. It was kind of a big deal, possibly affecting how other forms of media were treated in regards to rules and regulations. Today the Supreme Court gave their decision, which smote the law with the power of a thousand Judicial Leg Drops.

At least that’s how it looks in my mind.

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I absolutely love Chez-Its. Nothing relaxes me more than popping down on the toilet mashing a handful of Chez-Its into my gullet while checking my Tumblr on my iPhone. One of the other things I absolutely love is the use of adverbs. Hemingway fucking hates me. On top of those two pure, unadulterated loves of mine is my unremitting love for video games.

That’s why I write this column. Press Start!, the post where I run down five things that happened in the world of video games this week. I’m covered in Chez-It crumbs and ready to vomit verbose into your eye-mind-mouths.

Let’s party, guys!

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Here’s one way to encourage your nation to develop a gaming industry. Pass a thick ass donkey of a tax break for the industry, high-five everyone, and let them drink Foster’s. Right? Right!

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We’ve got that post-E3 swerve going on, don’t we? This is Press Start!, the weekly gaming column. Being broadcasted out of my brainstem into a document, onto the satellite-netter-webs conduits for your unpleasant consumption.

What caught your eyes in the world of gaming this week? I am a free-flowing cavalcade of non-sense. My interests may not reflect your own. Hit me with your own list or findings or nuggets of glorious gleaming gaming developments.

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Imagine Rigney is a Lego sculptor. Who has taken BioShock’s Rapture and recreated it with plastic brick and much love.

Hit the jump to check it out.

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