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Street Fighter Live Action Movie, Take 2
By Will Bartos
Capcom announces a partial cast for their new Street Fighter live action movie.

EA wants Take 2
By Will Bartos
And it's turning to the shareholders to get it.

The Master of Dungeon Masters Passes On
By Will Bartos
Gary Gygax, creator of Dungeons and Dragons, has passed away at the age of 69.

Time to get a blu-ray player
By Will Bartos
Netflix, Best Buy, and Wal-mart hammer the possibly final nails into the coffin of HD-DVD.

Vivendi & Activision to Merge
By Will Bartos
New company dubbed "Activision Blizzard" may possibly be the biggest video game company in the world.

The State to reunite?
By Tim Den
Comedian Michael Showalter has revealed that his beloved '90s troupe The State will reunite "after a 10 year break to make a comedy movie about our country's history." Rejoice!

Celebrity WoW Commercials
By Will Bartos
Mr. T and William Shatner helm World of WarCraft commercials.

Japanese Wii to get Super Famicom controller
By Will Bartos
BASTARDS!!!!!!!!

360 to Download XBox Titles
By Will Bartos
Halo, Psychonauts, and Crimson Skies first in line.

Judge Judy says "What the hell is that" about WoW
By Will Bartos
Famous TV judge gets confused over MMORPG. Flamers are assumed to pursue.

Okami to Wii
By Will Bartos
The PS2 gem from Clover Studios gets a Wii-makeover.

Street Fighter IV Surfaces!
By Will Bartos
The timeless fighting game from Capcom counts to four.

Bionic Commando Returns!
By Will Bartos
New entry in twenty years comes to PC, XBox 360, and PS3.

Super Smash Bros. Brawl Delayed
By Will Bartos
Mario Vs. Sonic no holds barred fighting won't happen until next year.

A Dream has been Cast!
By Will Bartos
Sonic the Hedgehog confirmed for Super Smash Bros. Brawl.

Bungie And Microsoft Part Ways
By Will Bartos
Halo franchise creator splits from the big Microsoft, Microsoft to have minority stake in company.

Hulk Hogan to Host Updated American Gladiators
By Will Bartos
Wrestling legend Hulk Hogan named to host revamp of 1990's American Gladiators.

U.S. Wii VC support for imports!
By Will Bartos
Entry titles include Sin and Punishment and Super Mario Bros. The Lost Levels.

Halo 3 Breaks Entertainment Record
By Will Bartos
Microsoft's and Bungie's system seller grosses $170 million in the first 24 hours.

Activision Buys Up Bizarre Creations
By Will Bartos
The creators of Project Gotham Racing and Geometry Wars is now under the umbrella of Activision.

THQ Announces Warhammer 40,000 Dawn Of War Expansion
By Will Bartos
New expansion expects two new armies as well as air units.

Square-Enix looking for U.S. Publisher
By Will Bartos
The Big Squenix Hoping to Boost Sales With Partner in U.S.

Colin McRae Dead At 39
By Will Bartos
Former World Rally champion and cover driver for several games died in a helicopter crash.

Neo Geo coming to U.S. Wii!
By Will Bartos
Fatal Fury, Art of Fighting, and World Heroes start us down Neo Geo memory lane.

Microsoft Confirms Ninja Gaiden 2, Various XBLA Titles
By Will Bartos
Get ready to slash stuff, shoot stuff, and...uhm...be musically inclined. With stuff.

Michael Showalter to release album
By Tim Den
Comedian / writer Michael Showalter, most known for his involvement with The State and Stella, will release his first album on November 13th.

The Comedians of Comedy punch the masses in the stomach
By Tim Den
The Comedians of Comedy – featuring Patton Oswalt, Maria Bamford, Zach Galifianakis, Eugene Mirman, and Brian Posehn – are hitting the road once again in anticipation of their upcoming DVD Live at The Troubadour.

ESRB Defends Manhunt 2 Rerating
By Will Bartos
They also tell parents and organizations to actually pay attention to the damn box.

Press Release: Sequels on Wii VC
By Will Bartos
It's a really good week for retrogaming on the Wii.

The Metal of Metroid
By Will Bartos
And I'm talking about the music...not the suit.

MOTHER BRAIN REVEALED?!?
By Will Bartos
New movies on Metroid Prime 3 Preview Channel brings light of "Aurora" units.

Virtual Console + Shining Force = RPG Goodness
By Will Bartos
Finally - an RPG on the Virtual Console that doesn't involve Mario...and it's a good one!

How to Pronounce "pwn"...
By Will Bartos


Fallout 3
By Will Bartos
The surprise from Bethesda Softworks takes the series in a very new direction. But war never changes.

STARCRAFT 2.
By Will Bartos
SERIOUSLY.

Virginia Tech Shooting
By Will Bartos
Just what we need...another idiot setting gamers back 20 years again.

StarCraft...2?!?!?
By Will Bartos
The sound you hear is the entire country of South Korea fainting.

Gamespot interviews Optimus Prime and Megatron
By Will Bartos
The website sits down with two damn good voice actors.

RESIDENT EVIL 4. WII.
By Will Bartos
Another chance for me to get Resident Evil on a Nintendo system.

NIGHTs 2 Confirmed for Wii
By Will Bartos
Beloved Saturn game gets the sequel it deserves.

GTA IV Trailer Released!
By Will Bartos
It leaves us wanting more. At least it gives a release date.

Bioshock Collector's Edition?
By Will Bartos
Online Petition Seeks Collectors Edition of Upcoming Game.

GDC 2K7 - No More Overtime?
By Will Bartos
Gas Powered Games' Chris Taylor asks for less crazy hours for crazy programmers.

PS3 Shortages To Ease in Spring
By Will Bartos
Not that anyone can't find the thing now...

Neo Geo Comes To Wii Virtual Console!
By Will Bartos
If Metal Slug wasn't enough...

Power Suckage
By Will Bartos
Web site runs amateur test to find which next-gen system is the most "green".

Konami Announces Dracula X For PSP!
By Will Bartos
Finally, a reason to own the thing.

Games for the people by the people
By Kenneth Glenn
All you game developers look out, Microsoft is opening the floodgates.

iPod Shuffle Has Five Colors
By Will Bartos
People who bought the thing during Christmas get VERY pissed off.

Square Gets Unreal
By Will Bartos
SquareEnix will create epics using Epic's Unreal Engine 3.

Exercise with your Wii!!
By Will Bartos
Sickos...I meant the system, not...never mind...

SquareEnix Announces Wii Titles!
By Will Bartos
RPG gamers, put your pants back on...you're making a mess.

Microsoft's Press Conference
By Ian Wilson
Microsfot delivers upcoming news.


By Ian Wilson
Rockstar Games announces Grand Theft Auto IV for the Xbox 360™ and PLAYSTATION®3 computer entertainment system

Nintendo's Press Conference
By Ian Wilson
First look at upcoming stuff from Nintendo

Sony's Press Conference
By Ian Wilson
Sony showed off some of the stuff to be expected in the near future...

World's best skylines
By Tim Den
Chicago's #2, bitches!

Simpsons movie: it's coming
By Nathan Blaney
The dysfunctional yellow family of the hit animated television series The Simpsons will explode onto the big screen in July 2007, 20th Century Fox studios has announced.

Harold Hunter, dead at 31.
By Nathan Blaney
Harold Hunter, whose skateboarding prowess and outsize personality led him to modeling and movie roles, celebrity friendships and prominence in the downtown Manhattan scene, was found dead on Feb. 17 in the East Village housing project where he grew up. He was 31.

God bless the U.S. of A!
By Tim Den
Isn't this place wonderful? (courtesy of Celeste)

Ladies and Gentlemen, I give you the greatest rhetorical question of all time
By Trey Perkins
Since the beginning of time, human beings have pondered many things. When the first human was able to consciouly think, he or she might've wondered why they were here. As time went on and civilization progressed, the human race arrived at even more complex questions. The wisest of sages asked whether or not a tree falling in the woods would make a sound, even if no one was there to hear it. Ladies and Gentlemen, in that similar vein, I present to you an equally troubling and consternating question: Who is sillier: Ren & Stimpy or President Bush?

Bush White House tries to silence top scientist re global warming
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January 29, 2006
Climate Expert Says NASA Tried to Silence Him
By ANDREW C. REVKIN
NEW YORK TIMES The top climate scientist at NASA says the Bush administration has tried to stop him from speaking out since he gave a lecture last month calling for prompt reductions in emissions of greenhouse gases linked to global warming.

NSA eavesdropping much more extensive than reported
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December 24, 2005
Spy Agency Mined Vast Data Trove, Officials Report
By ERIC LICHTBLAU and JAMES RISEN
NEW YORK TIMES
WASHINGTON, Dec. 23 - The National Security Agency has traced and analyzed large volumes of telephone and Internet communications flowing into and out of the United States as part of the eavesdropping program that President Bush approved after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks to hunt for evidence of terrorist activity, according to current and former government officials.

Street Fighter vs. Mortal Kombat 2
By Eric Chon
Wow, this shit is EPIC!

R.I.P. Working Designs
By Will Bartos
One of the greatest RPG importers closes its doors.

Richard Pryor R.I.P.
By Tim Den
As everyone probably knows by now, monumental comic Richard Pryor died yesterday. Instead of trying to sum up such a life, I'll let the much better informed BBC do it.

David Cross vs. Larry The Cable Guy
By Tim Den
Awesome letter. Read on.

Kate Moss makes me laugh
By Trey Perkins
Cocaine Kate goes to town.

Tenacious D in "The Pick of Destiny"
By Brian Anderson
This could be the greatest movie to ever be made. Check out the website for The Pick of Destiny with updates from Satan who is producing. Yes, Satan can offer more then damnation!

Games teach kids that humans taste good!
By Ian Wilson
You read the title right. It seems that the National Institute on Media and the Family has sited 12 games that may teach children cannabalism. After you are done laughing, read the full story here.

Who's your daddy?
By Tim Den
If you're Chinese, then maybe this guy.

Massachusetts to dump Microsoft
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Massachusetts has begun to move away from Microsoft Office and programs with proprietary formats. Microsoft responds: Go ahead and use your inferior open source garbage, you commies. You'll come back crying when you want to embed streaming video in your spreadsheets!

Texas: Sorry, We're Full
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Governor Rick Perry says that Texas is bursting like a Soft Taco Grande full of evacuees and perhaps couldn't some other state that doesn't have so many football teams take a few?

Andy Dick, presidential speech writer
By Brian Anderson
Says so here.

Utilitarian Comics!
By
Actually, Dinosaur Comics. With a greater breadth of existential musings than the mere discussion of Utilitarianism. Although those are funny, too.

Are you an fan of Video Games AND Music?
By Ian Wilson
I might have posted about these sites before, but I dunno...

4-Star General Relieved of Duty
By
The commander in charge of training our troops, no less. Potentially for sexual misconduct. Go figure.

What I'd Say to the Martians
By
By Jack Handey.

Bush Successfully Visits Boy Scouts
By
On his third try. After four Scout leaders electrocute themselves at a jamboree. And after 300 attendees fainted from the heat while waiting for him.

WWII as an RTS
By
Hitler[AoE]: america hax, u had depression and now u got a huge fockin army

Liberality
By
Sean Hannity, G. Gordon Liddy, and Oliver North have teamed up to save America from ultra-leftist oppression in 2021. Hooray!

A Ringtone Orange
By
Those wacky kids at MIT have unearthed a treasure trove of social data by studying volunteers' cell phone habits. And have been able to predict some future behaviors with 85% accuracy.

Borat soundboard
By Tim Den
You will choke yourself laughing.

Pick Your Poison
By
Has America always been this fucking depressing?

McGrory on Santorum
By
Boston Globe homeboy Brian McGrory comments on Pennsylvania Senator Rick Santorum's "incredible wisdom" regarding Boston's depraved, pedophile-harboring culture, and how it's all MIT's fault.

Abandonia
By
Where old games go to die.

Interview with an Ecoterrorist
By
Burn some SUVs, get 22 years in jail. Give or take six months.

Plame Leak
By
...and the winner is... Karl Rove! Congratulations, Karl, you may be just one witness away from being charged with perjury.

The Lost Liberty Hotel
By
Looking for a relaxing vacation that will also stick it to The Man?

Presidential Address Tonight
By
Is 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW Washington, DC 20500 But seriously...

Current obsessions
By Tim Den
The Perry Bible Fellowship is the funniest cartoon EVER. So fucking twisted it's beyond comprehension. Terry Tate: Office Linebacker will deliver you a special slice of pain cake if you don't play right in his world, baby! Wooooooo!!!

Hoedown wedding
By Tim Den
Just got back from a weekend in Western MA. Saw two friends exchange vows, met up with Peter and my boy Phil, chatted with a lot of new friends, got tons of mosquito bites all over my body, and participated in a gigantic hoedown / authentic square dancing melee.

I only sleep with Republicans
By
Gettin' drunk with Tom DeLay.

Obscenity Now
By
Farewell, ratemyboobies.com. So long, civil liberties.

The joy of having a PC
By Ian Wilson
I'm writing this little blog entry on my brother's PC, and not my own...

First Nagasaki Reports Uncovered
By
The initial reports from George Weller, the first American reporter to tour the devastation in Nagasaki after U.S. forces dropped atomic bomb, "Fat Man," over the city, have been uncovered and published in Japan.

Your ISP as Net Watchdog
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Only Hoodlums wear hoodies, right?
By Nathan Blaney
From TIMES NEWS NETWORK [ FRIDAY, MAY 13, 2005 07:38:20 AM ] LONDON: Never mind the attractive hooded sweatshirts on sale around the world as the shapeless uniform of urban noughties youth. The message from the political catwalks of London, straight from the mouths of grizzled political bears such as three-term PM Tony Blair and deputy prime minister John Prescott: wear a hoodie at your peril; it's anti-social and you might find yourself breaking the law.

Clear Channel Will Eat Itself
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Who is the champion of the little people? Who will stand up to Clear Channel's omnipresent menace? Who is the brash, dashing, daring, handsome rogue who has danced a fencing glove across Clear Channel's sneering countenance? Our hero has arrived, and it is Clear Channel itself.

Sun poisoning
By Tim Den
Okay, so after having gone to the beach the entire week (beautiful, beautiful Balboa Is., CA), I all of a sudden decide to NOT wear sun block on the last excursion. What does my body feel like right now? Comparable to the uncomfortability, itchiness, and constant PAIN of scarlet fever. My shins feel like someone's stabbing me with a knife every time I put too much pressure on 'em. I'll post pics soon... I'm seriously as swollenly pink as a roasted pig right now. THIS SUCKS.