By Mike Krumboltz, Yahoo! Buzz Log

Apple has long had a reputation for its hipper-than-thou supporters, who believe the company can do no wrong. Rival Samsung is poking fun at Apple's fanboys and fangirls  with a new string of ads.

One of the ads features urban-dwelling 20-somethings standing in line outside a shop that looks a lot like a typical Apple store. The customers (who rock the white earphones, natch) appear excited about their upcoming purchase until along comes a person with a Samsung. This outsider shows off the speed of his Samsung phone, which Apple can't match. The Apple fans look dejected. Cue the sad trombone.

After a surprisingly sluggish 2011 for the video game industry, all eyes are focused on a promising 2012.

GTA V (Rockstar Games)We posed that very question -- "What game are you looking forward to the most in 2012?" -- in our last Yahoo! Games reader poll, and the result was a runaway (driveaway?) winner in Grand Theft Auto V.

Rockstar's upcoming counter-culture gangster paradise took in a whopping 4879 votes, good for 30% of the 16,383 total votes cast.  A distant second was Halo 4 with 3274 (20%), followed by Diablo III with 2616 (16%) and Mass Effect 3 with 2431 (15%).

The U.S. military has a problem.

Getty ImagesWorking out the bugs in the software that controls modern weapon systems is proving too complex, too difficult, and worst of all, too expensive. In short, the top Pentagon brass needs help. But they're not reaching out to the usual teams of academics, programmers, or engineers.

Instead, they're asking gamers.

The U.S. military's Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is about to embark on a multi-million dollar project to investigate whether the skills of today's gamers can be tapped to improve the reliability of military equipment, reports NextGov.

Bridge hand (Getty Images)Counting figures as diverse as Warren Buffet, Martina Navratilova, and Dwight D. Eisenhower among its millions of fans, bridge is one of the world's most intricate and rewarding games. To succeed, you'll need strategy, memory, intuition, logic, guile, and no small amount of luck.

Small wonder it has a reputation as being hard to learn. Don't let that put you off: follow these simple steps, and you'll be ready to lay down with the best of them.

There aren't many video games upon which the mass market consumer and core gamer can agree, but when it comes to football, there's plenty of love on both sides.

Madden (based on legendary coach and broadcaster John Madden) is the undisputed king of the video game football hill, but there are plenty of other titles that have captivated players throughout the years. Most of them are no longer around, due to industry consolidation, licensing deals or pure bad luck. But each of them can still bring a smile to the face of virtual gridiron fans.

While most cops protect and serve, former East St. Louis police chief Michael Baxton apparently likes to play.

Michael BaxtonBaxton pleaded guilty Thursday to stealing four Xbox 360 consoles from the FBI, reports St. Louis news station KSDK.

To be clear, the 360 is not standard issue equipment for the Feds these days. Officials had them in the car as part of a sting operation after suspicions arose about the chief's conduct.

Baxton, who faces up to 15 years in prison and a fine of up to $500,000, came under suspicion of offering preferential treatment to some suspects and stealing/selling items from the evidence locker. That's when the FBI decided to test him.

You like your eyes, right?  We certainly like ours.  Most of the time they work awfully well -- despite a massive design flaw that any first-year engineering student would have caught.

It's called the punctum caecum, an area at the back of the eye that the optic nerve passes through, obscuring the light-sensitive photoreceptor cells that make vision possible.

Each Friday, we'll be blasting out free game codes on the Yahoo! Games Facebook page. Don't want to miss out? Then make sure to "Like" us!

Sick of being pestered by the undead hordes? Good news: this week we're giving away 10 free codes for the XBLA and PSN download All Zombies Must Die! Seriously, they MUST.

Take on hundreds, er, thousands, er, hundreds of thousands of rotting baddies in this downloadable twin-stick shooter. Modifiable weapons add some depth to the action-packed slaughter, which Game Informer awarded a 7.5/10.