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Snoop Dogg and Zac Efron spent last night at the H.O.M.E. Foundation's STIKS Celebrity Video Game Challenge in Hollywood, where Efron battled fellow actor Michael Strahan in Madden NFL 11 for the I'm Too Young For This! Cancer Foundation. More »
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Artist Tyler Shields brings together the Backstreet Boys' Aj McLean, Madmen's Michael Gladis, an attractive naked woman, and Halo in a twisted tale of love, friendship, betrayal, and murder. Check out Shield's website for some NSFW stills from the shoot. More »
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Telltale Games are hard at work on their new Back to the Future games with the help of Christopher "Doc Brown" Lloyd and Back to the Future screenwriter Bob Gale. More »
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When they're not making Disney television shows about living in suites located in hotels and cruise ships, the Sprouse brothers are busy hawking goods. In this case, Nintendo goods. More »
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In a recent interview with Surfer magazine, pro-surfer Bruce Irons proudly told the mag that he's a gamer, just not a World of Warcraft gamer. More »
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Spotted at last week's Bulletstorm party, Saturday Night Live cast member Kenan Thompson hangs out with former All That co-star and current Kotaku columnist Lisa Foiles. More »
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Overheard asking a Microsoft rep if they'd like his son to playtest games for them, Sinbad was seen wandering the Microsoft booth at CES this weekend. More »
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Tonight on his NBC late night show, Jimmy Fallon will talk video games with Microsoft. It won't be the first time that gaming has cropped up on the show, and Fallon promises it won't be the last either. More »
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As seen on Twitpic. [Thanks Tom] More »
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The guys from UK site Gamer ran into Grammy-winning rapper Coolio in the elevator on the way to a Guitar Hero World Tour demo at a hotel recently. Of course they invited him along to check the game out. More »
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We often hear from insiders that a still-in-development game is good, only to discover later that it's not so much. More »
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Tonight publishers and celebrities will descend on the Mandalay Bay Convention Center in Las Vegas to talk games with the country's GameStop employees. More »
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It is a truth universally acknowledged that Stephen Fry is Best at everything. Actor, writer, director, comedian, poet, documentary maker, blogger, etc. etc. and bloody etc. again. In the UK we consider him a national treasure on a par with Excalibur, the Koh-i-noor Diamond and Queen Victoria's secret pr0n stash. More »
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[Bijou Phillips, Nicky Hilton and Paris Hilton at the T-Mobile Sidekick Tone-Def After Party at a private airport hanger in Coachella Valley ] More »
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On Friday Roxy Hunter's Aria Wallace and Zoey 101's Victoria Justice spent the day playing Guitar Hero III on the Xbox 360 with fans during a Game with Fame event. The two were in Los Angeles to celebrate the upcoming Nickelodeon Kids' Choice awards. I wonder if they realize the game's a lot easier if you face the screen? More »
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Today's media scum don't write for newspapers, or magazines, or tabloids, they don't even write for blogs or websites, no they just create one-off, single page tablogs that feature a prominent Digg button and morbidly titillating content. More »
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One of the big draw backs of Games Convention is that it is virtually impossible to get a direct flight here. To get to the Leipzig airport you pretty much have to fly to either Munich or Frankfurt. I flew into Frankfurt and then had a leisurely seven hour lay-over that I killed by blowing ungodly amounts of money on robotic roulette, reading and posting on the site. More »
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MTV's TRL Germany took over Sony's booth today at the Games Convention, playing live videos on a giant screen overlooking Sony's pool area to a live crowd with Germany's version of Carson Daly. More »
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I thought there were an awful lot of really tall, really big guys playing during last night's Halo 3 premiere event in San Francisco's Foreign Cinema on Mission Street. Turns out they were a bunch of players from the 49ers football team. More »
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For a tech news site, this seems a little late in coming, but Cnet.com is currently hosting a gallery of celebrity Mii images culled from around the web. Some of these I had seen before, but others were new to me and the majority of them are dead on. Some celebrities of note include Chuck Norris, Laurel & Hardy, Jack Black, Peter Jackson and Woody Allen. Also featured is Dave Curry's prize winning Zach Braff Mii (pictured) which took the grand prize in Kottke.org's Celebrity Mii contest. Curry was awarded with a little statue of his winning Mii which is also featured in the gallery. More »
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If you live in Australia and have been wanting to buy a 360 but couldn't find one with a prominent cultural icon from your country airbrushed onto it, you're in luck. The Konsoles for Kids charity is auctioning off a one-of-a-kind Xbox 360 console featuring the rugged likeness of Russell Crowe, signed by the actor himself. All proceeds from the auction are going to the Make-A-Wish-Foundation of Australia. More »
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Customized everything is all the rage these days as evidenced by the sweet Wii mod posted earlier. The South by South West festival has used this to their advantage and gotten celebs to do their painting magic on some Guitar Hero guitars. The custom controllers will be put up for auction in April with proceeds going to the charitable MusiCares Foundation. Among the luminaries to grace the GH controllers with their talent are Jack Black, My Chemical Romance, Tony Hawk, Dashboard Confessional, The Spill Canvas, The Rocket Summer (their offering is pictured here) and many more. You can check out a couple more shots of this guitar and the one made by the Spill Canvas here. Flynn De Marco More »
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The only thing sadder than Britney Spears shaving her head in some misguided attempt at regaining, I don't know, something, are the hundreds of Sims created to gimmick the new, balder Britney. More »
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No, they're not making a game about the Pebble Beach Pro-Am, golf tournament to the stars, at least not that I know of. More »
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Color me jealous. Not only did N'Gai Croal get to hang with a Playboy Playmate but it appears he made his way into Sony's Playstation Oasis at the Raleigh Hotel in Miami's South Beach. More »
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Game Daily put together a silly little look at the woman of World of Warcraft. Specifically, they grabbed shots of all of the females from the game's different races and matched them up with lookalike celebrities. More »
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ASAP Staff writer Ryan Pearson just shot me a link to his excellent write-up of last night's Video Game Awards show on Spike TV. More »
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Kottke is having a little celebrity Mii contest. More »
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The genie is out of the bottle and I'm liking what I'm seeing. Brian Crecente More »
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I've been playing a lot of Rainbow Six: Vegas lately. Mostly because it just plain-out kicks ass. But what initially drew me to the game was the cool little face-mapping feature it has built into it. More »
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Pudding pop loving Scrubs co-star Zach Braff (that totally has to be a fake name), is a die-hard Sims fan. A co-worker pointed me to his self-named blog. Skimming through posts about Mel Gibson hating jews and Fletch making his nipples hurt I came across a this item about Braff's sim, Arnold. More »
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Error Macro takes a look at the one consistent feature that showed up in every issue of Nintendo Power without fail: The contests. More »
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Nutjob Tom Cruise has banned his two older children from playing computer games and watching television. More »
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50 Cent hit up E3 with not a single G-Unit in sight, but he did bring his own booth babes. It looks like he's wearing one of those swag medallions from last year's show. More »
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AP snagged a photo of The Panic Channel's Dave Navarro, Steve Isaacs, Stephen Perkins and Chris Chaney playing a little 360 during the big show last week. More »
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When last we saw Steven Spielberg he was huffing through West Hall headed toward the Wii with a phalanx of bulky bodyguards spearheading his charge. More »
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Nintendo was on hand at Sundance in Utah to shmooze with the hot and famous. The developer set up their kit at Motorola's Moto on Main Celebrity Lounge and let the photogenic peeps play around with the DS, Micro and GameCube. More »
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