Celebrity

Paris Hilton, Carmen Electra Invade SingStar Lounge

[Bijou Phillips, Nicky Hilton and Paris Hilton at the T-Mobile Sidekick Tone-Def After Party at a private airport hanger in Coachella Valley ]

Last night famously famous folks like Carmen Electra, Paris Hilton, Benjia Madden and Danny Masterson descended on the T-Mobile Sidekick Tone-Def After Party during the Coacehella Festival in Southern California to drink (a lot) and play SingStar on the Playstation 3 (a little). The place was, I'd bet, pressure washed afterwards with a mix of bleach and acid. Still won't do any good, but they do try.

4:00 PM on Mon Apr 28 2008
By Brian Crecente
4,134 views, 47 comments

game with fame

Zoey 101 and Roxy Hunter Get Their Guitar Hero On

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 »

12:00 PM on Sun Mar 30 2008
By Brian Crecente
12,433 views, 90 comments

contest

Predict Spears' Death, Win a PS3

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.

Take for instance this site: When Is Britney going to Die? Sure, they don't know how to use capitalization in a headline, and their design is essentially a picture, a graph and a form, but hey, they're giving away a Playstation 3 if you can predict the exact time of Britney Spears' death, down to the minute. Classy.

4:00 PM on Wed Jan 9 2008
By Brian Crecente
12,406 views, 159 comments

Latest by mferrari: @Shindokie (psn and xbl): why? she wants the attention. its not like she shaves her head, shows off her downstairs, and acts like a hillbilly to have fun. She is an attention (and regular) whore. She's old news that no one more »

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UPDATE: NBA's Arenas a Big, Fat Halo Cheater

It's one thing to cheat at blogging, but quite another to cheat at Halo 3.

While we're not certain Gilbert Arenas is cheating to up his in-game stats, it certainly looks that way and a whole bunch of Bungie forum-goers agree.

Look at all his games that he gets 1st place in. He joins up with a friend and has his other account quit out so he gets 1st place every time. How can this be allowed?

Checking out his stat page you can see that he does play an awful lot of Social Doubles and always ends in first place. Oh and that the lifespan of many of his "matches" is under five seconds.

Hey Arenas, I hate to break it to you, but matching and dumping just pumps up your experience, it doesn't do a thing for your Rank. To boost that you're going to have to actually play a game. Hit me up at Gamertag Crecente anytime so I can show you what a teabag is.

NBA player Gilbert Arenas cheating at Halo 3 [Bungie Halo 3 Forums]

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1:46 PM on Thu Oct 11 2007
By Brian Crecente
26,326 views, 126 comments

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Hideo, Igarashi, Doak Gather

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 »

11:00 AM on Mon Aug 27 2007
By Brian Crecente
2,238 views, 18 comments

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TRL Germany Live from GC07

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.

I was only able to catch a chunk of it, but the audience seemed to love checking out the day's top videos while getting a chance to be on live MTV. At some point the host brought Tony Hawk up onto the stage to talk about video games and his propensity to injure himself. The segment was short, but in it we learned that Tony Hawk has four sons, that they love video games. They can kick Hawk's ass at Guitar Hero but not at his namesake video game. He also said that only one of his sons seem to display the same blatant disregard for self-preservation that helped propel Hawk's career to superstardom. That son, Hawk said, needs to have be watched closely.

Hawk ended the segment by hopping up on a skateboard and propelling himself off the stage and through the crowd, a small crowd of body guards running in his wake. About ten feet away from the stage Hawk popped off the board, talked to a fan and walked from the hall.

12:40 PM on Thu Aug 23 2007
By Brian Crecente
759 views, 5 comments

Latest by Faradin: " Dad, want to play Guitar Hero!?" "Naa kids how about some Project 8?" "But you always win that" "That's what makes it fun! don't do that, that's dangerous... you'd get at least 300 style points for that!" more »

celebrity

49ers Play Halo 3

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 »

12:14 PM on Sat May 12 2007
By Brian Crecente
2,148 views, 38 comments

mii

Cnet Jumps On The Mii Bandwagon

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 »

12:00 PM on Sat May 12 2007
By fdemarco
1,314 views, 13 comments

Latest by number40one: maybe they're trying to get people to cut it with the ugly mutton chops! more »

360

The Russell Crowe Charity 360

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 »

12:24 PM on Thu Mar 29 2007
By Mike Fahey
1,248 views, 22 comments

guitar hero

Celebrity Customized Guitar Hero Guitars

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 »

1:00 PM on Sun Mar 18 2007
By fdemarco
11,759 views, 6 comments

Latest by Search Engines: Hopefully this great idea will spread, could you imagine how much money could be raised if more top Rock acts and Top Celebrities got involved$$$$ more »

sims

Britney Shaves: Gamers React

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 »

1:08 PM on Mon Feb 26 2007
By Brian Crecente
1,553 views, 13 comments

original

Nintendo Does Pebble Beach

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 »

8:02 AM on Fri Feb 9 2007
By Brian Crecente
111 views, 3 comments

ps3

Sony's Super Bowl Pimped PS3s

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 »

5:00 PM on Tue Feb 6 2007
By Brian Crecente
1,046 views, 16 comments

world of warcraft

Celebrity Women of WoW

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 »

11:00 AM on Tue Jan 23 2007
By Brian Crecente
5,371 views, 21 comments

wii

Mii Celebrity How To: Part Two

The guys at Game Videos are back with part two of their celebrity Mii creation video. This time around we get such illustrious personalities as Osama Bin Laden, Hulk Hogan, Charlie Brown, Satan, Ugly Betty, Chuck Norris, The Beatles and even Sony superstars Parappa the Rappa and Un-Jammer Lammy. More »

12:00 PM on Sat Dec 16 2006
By fdemarco
23,431 views, 15 comments

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AP on the VGAs

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 »

2:00 PM on Thu Dec 14 2006
By Brian Crecente
188 views, 25 comments

kottke

The Celebrity Mii Contest

Kottke is having a little celebrity Mii contest. More »

Kotaku

Interview: Frontier Hopes LostWinds Breezes In More WiiWare Innovation

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