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more about #gawker Sarcasmancer: Okay now I've got a clearer idea about what's going on. At first I thought Love had nothing to do with Kurt's appearance in the game and that she saw ... more » guitarheroguru: Whoa, so I just read an article with a new development in this situation. Apparently, Courtney Love is now blaming Dave Ghrol for what happened and th... more » fleshribbon: Yeah, I agree they should only have Cobain singing Nirvana songs otherwise it's just creepy. more » LordMoon: Everyone is sooooo upset over Kurt Cobain being misused in GH5, yet everyone conveniently forgets that you can do the same damn thing with Johnny Cash... more » searanox: I'm sorry, but this is a load of shit. They used vague language in their agreement with Activision. Apparently, having Kurt perform songs other than... more » OgdenCarter: While their may well (and should!) be an anti-denigratioin clause, your claim that his avatar preforming other songs is denigration has a weakness. ... more » rainofwalrus: coffin break was better than nirvana more » Billkwando: Courtney may not have needed to pull the trigger. Maybe she inverted /b/tardation and told him to "Go kill urself"? more » donopolis: If Cobain's likeness were used for Mortal Combat games...His finishing move would be a shotgun and would only work on himself...his opponent would the... more » hodayathink has not forgotten about the 70s RnB: Thank you for finally using a good Courtney pic. more » ThisCharmingMan: Is nothing sacred? more » dowingba: I don't even understand why they needed to sign a contract in order to use Cobain's name and likeness. Did Robot Chicken have to get permission for t... more » Dark_Mirage: So, I guess the only thing to now is wait and see if Johnny Cash's estate feels the same way about his use in the game. more » Deegs: Wow, talk about splitting hairs here. "You can use Cobaine for songs he wrote but not for every song in the game its demeaning to his name!" Cobaine... more » Insomnia Bob: Screw it. I say we all just dance on his grave. The man's dead. And this whole situation is profoundly weird on so many levels. Here's a question: Wh... more » WildKB: Whoo-wee, so much hatred on both sides. The complaint is poorly phrased and I don't know anything about Courtney Love, so it's possible she really is... more » Koztah: That womans lawyer is a fucking clownshoe. more » superberg: I can't understand why anyone would want to be her lawyer. Is the frustration really worth it? more » casualgamingapocalypse: Am I the only one who had to crack open a dictionary to check the existence of "irrupted"? Btw: it does exist and they used it correctly. more » DeadMertz: Any attorney worth his/her weight in sharkskin would have noticed if the agreement allowed such a huge license in how Cobain's likeness could be explo... more » -
#guitarhero5
Cobain Attorney Calls For Activision To Limit Musician's Use in GH5
Earlier this week the appearance of a digital Kurt Cobain in Guitar Hero 5 irrupted into controversy with Courtney Love and former Nirvana band members calling for Activision to patch the title. Now Love's attorney is involved. More » -
#politicalfrauds
Purported Palin-Autographed 360 Listed for a Cool Million [Update]
President Obama tells us to "put away the Xbox." Sarah Palin? She'll sign it! This Xbox 360 allegedly autographed by the alleged Alaska governor is allegedly on eBay, for $1.1 million. Allegedly. Suspicious? You betcha.
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#badvertising
Bill O'Reilly: Moral Barometer or Guitar Hero Shill?
Once more Bill O'Reilly finds himself attacking a video game ad during his show. And by attacking I mean allowing the sexy advertisement to play on his show, while he watched. More » -
#tv
Jimmy Fallon Brings Love of Gaming From SNL To Late Night
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.
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#e32009
Nintendo Thinks Conan O'Brien Mario Homage Is "Great"
Now that we've seen how Super Mario World's level design has helped shape Conan O'Brien's Tonight Show backdrop, we had to get Nintendo's reaction. We did.
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#bioniccommando
Paul McCartney's Ex-Wife vs. Capcom
Heather Mills, the one-legged ex-wife of Paul McCartney, was apparently approached by Capcom to appear in Bionic Commando. Mills, prime UK tabloid fodder, reportedly asked for a six-figure-sum and demanded to be the game's star. More » -
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#columbineatruecrimestory
New Columbine Book Touches on Gaming Connections
Columbine: A True Crime Story offers a fresh perspective on the Columbine shooting, digging into the intricate web of Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold's lives, from video games to team sports, and how they went from cub scouts to killers. More » -
#iphone
Blagojevich Corruption Strategy Game Coming to iPhone
One of the visual effects team members for the Watchman movie just finished their first iPhone game, a title that has gamers selling off bits of Illinois government, Blagojevich-style, in Dope Wars-esque gameplay.
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#politics
A View of the Inauguration From a Devastated Washington, D.C.
Today Barack Obama will be sworn in as the 44th president of the United States. It certainly didn't escape Stephen Totilo's notice who's created quite an ode to the event. More » -
#deathofcriticism
The Death of (Video Game) Criticism
Famed movie critic Roger Ebert has a fascinating piece up on his Sun-Times website about the death of film criticism and rise of the “CelebCult”.
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#gamesconvention08
Space Invaders Attack World Trade Center At Games Convention
Let's file this one under "Too Soon." Seen at the "Invaders!" booth, tucked away in Hall Four of the Games Convention being held in Leipzig, Germany right now, was thisnon-interactive installation featuring the classic Taito space faring aliens laying waste to the Twin Towers. It was projected on a massive screen in the vicinity of lots of classic Space Invaders goods, as the game is celebrating its 30th anniversary this year. It was... it was weird. More »
