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Has "the fat lady" finally sung for the Independence Day sequel? In an interview with Empire, director of the original film, Roland Emmerich may have effectively peed in the Cheerios of fans who have been anxiously awaiting the follow-up to the 1996 big-budget explosion-laden summer crowd-pleaser. The director sat down to discuss his plans for his upcoming Elizabethan-set film, Anonymous, which focuses on the age-old controversy of exactly who really wrote Shakespeare's great works? (My guess: It was either Christopher Marlowe or Wesley Willis.) However, when Emmerich was asked about the rumor-filled return to the Independence Day (or ID4) franchise, the director was oddly unambiguous with his answer. And that answer, unfortunately for fans, did not yield good news.

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Once again, our "friends" at TheFeed have ladled up a steaming pile of links that represnts the "best" of their work for this week. We, as their dutiful co-workers, are bound to share them with you, so, without further adieu, here's what they've done for themselves this week.

• G4's DICE Coverage
  
• Red Faction: Armageddon story, enemy, and weapons preview
  
• Duke Nukem Forever Hands-On Titty City Preview
  
• The MMO Report

Enjoy!

You'll recognize our friends at TheFeed for their slightly-above-average work at writing news about all things gaming. We recognize them as "those guys who sit over there." Regardless of how you think about them, we're pleased to share with you some of the best work they've done this week. Yes, this is the best they can do.

• What Makes A Game Scary?
• Yakuza 4 Preview
• Sentinel And Hsien-Ko Have Been Added To Marvel vs. Capcom
• PlayStation NGP Announced
• FeedBack: Dead Space 2 Edition

As he has since ancient days, this morning, Tsulvoth, The Mighty God of Hollywood, opened his gargantuan throat and vomited the list of nominees for the 2011 Academy Awards. (All hail Tsulvoth!) As usual, this year’s nominees are mostly flicks that are pretty good and made money, spiced up with a few movies that are very good and didn’t.

Other than the surprisingly solid Toy Story 3 tie-in game, none of the movies nominated this year have accompanying video games, but it’s still possible to “play” them, with a little imagination. We got together with our sister blog, Attack of the Blog, and compiled the following list of games that are equivalent to this year’s academy award nominees.

The Fighter: This film tells the story of "Irish" Micky Ward, an amateur boxer from Boston who eventually went pro. Though no game exactly captures Ward's difficult struggle with repeated disappointment and the turmoil caused by his brother's tragic drug addiction, in Punch-Out!! for the Wii, you do get to play as a white guy (Little Mac) who beats up cartoonish characters based on harmful, racist stereotypes. No game is truer to both the spirit of Boston and professional boxing.

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The Feed is one of the most stimulating things we see all day, and the Bikini Feed is even more titillating, not because it features hot girls in bikinis, or because we now have hot bikini pictures on Attack of the Blog, but because it dares to present reports on the stuff that we really care about, like the discovery of a new subspecies of crawdad. Now that's news!

See video of the first installment of The Bikini Feed right here!

TheFeed, G4tv.com's gaming blog, brings you the best in gaming every day, with previews, reviews and features that highlight all the best that world has to offer. We thought we'd honor our big brother with some links to the best of the week on the blog, in case you happened to miss it.

• Mortal Kombat gets a release date.
  
• Duke Nukem Forever has an official release date. In other news, Hell has frozen over.
• More developments in the Fall of Duty scandal. Activison accuses EA of plotting to delay Modern Warfare 2 DLC.
• Find out what the G4 staff thinks of the 3DS's price.
• This week on Feedback the team takes on LittleBigPlanet 2.
  

So, there you have it, friends. Make sure you go and check out TheFeed, and then come back to Attack of the Blog for all things AOTS and pop culture-related. Make your G4 experience complete!