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Faith No More Announces East Coast Tour
After a decade away, Mike Patton and the Faith No More crew will return to the US after a European tour in 2009, RollingStone.com reports. The tour starts April 12th in San Francisco and visit Brooklyn, New York on July 5th. As proof that they're as weird...
Leonardo da Vinci: the Unknown Action Hero
Famous painter and inventor Leonardo da Vinci will be transformed into an action-adventure hero in film to be created by Warner Brothers, TheMovieBlog.com reports. The movie will be titled Leonardo da Vinci and the Soldiers of Fortune and will be produced...
Green Day: Rock Band Scheduled for June 8 Release
The new installment in the Rock Band game series Green Day: Rock Band will be released on June 8th, Joystiq.com reports. The game will be available on PS3, Xbox 360 and Wii and will feature 47 Green Day songs including "American Idiot" and "Brain Ste...
OK Go Leaves Their Record Label
OK Go is officially leaving their record label EMI to form their own label known as Paracadute (pronounced "pah-rah-kah-doo-tay"). The band previously was not able to embed their music videos which caused a dispute between them and their label....
The PlayStation Move
Last night at the Game Developer's Conference, Sony finally spilled the beans regarding their motion-tracking controller, which has officially been dubbed the PlayStation Move. If the set-up above looks awfully familiar, well, it should. And despite numer...
Screw God Of War 3, It’s All About First Of The North Star
God Of War 3 comes out next week, and seriously, I could care less. I've just never been into the franchise, mostly due to the ass ugly aesthetics. Sure the latest installment has tits (sorry, but I've got the internet for that) and biting the genitals o...
Quite Possibly The Manliest 2D Platformer Ever: Shank
Making its grand debut earlier this week at the Game Developer's Conference; when you think of 2D platformers, even these days, much of it is still on the cartoony side, PG rated at best. Not this one:...
Wall Street 2 Pushed Back to Fall 2010
The Wall Street sequel was supposed to hit theaters on April 23rd, 2010. Now it's being pushed back to September 24th, HollywoodReporter.com reports. Shia LaBeouf stars opposite Michael Douglas. The film is directed by Oliver Stone and also stars Charlie...
Slash, Cypress Hill and Fergie “Paradise City” Remix
Ugh. Consider yourself warned. It's a remix of "Paradise City" with Cypress Hill and... Fergie. I mean, this is like when Aerosmith, N'Sync and Britney Spears showed up on stage during the Superbowl halftime (okay. Maybe not that bad. But check an i...
Guy Ritchie Directing King Arthur Film
Guy Ritchie (director of Snatch and Sherlock Holmes) has agreed to direct a movie based on the story of King Arthur. John Hodge, who wrote The Beach screenplay, will help Ritchie write the script, Variety reports. Although the film will be a re-imagining o...
Lost Boys Star Corey Haim Dead at 38
Corey Haim died early today of a possible drug overdose, CNN reports. Haim starred alongside Corey Feldman in The Lost Boys and seven other movies together and the two struggled with drug abuse. Recently, Haim appeared in Crank: High Voltage....
Let There Be Greenlight for Genesis in 3D
Prepare yourself. Paramount Pictures will create a movie that will put Genesis, the first book of the Bible, in a 3D format. Titled In the Beginning, the film will be directed by David Cunningham and was written by John Fusco (Young Guns 1 and 2), Comingso...
New EA Sports MMA Screenshots
EAsports.com released new screenshots of their new mixed martial arts video game EA Sports: MMA. There is no release date determined yet for the game which will be released on PS3 and Xbox 360. More images after the jump: You'll probably never see this...
DMX Arrested for Violating Parole
Rapper DMX (a.k.a. Dark Man X, a.k.a. Earl Simmons) was arrested on Tuesday for violating his parole by using illegal drugs in Phoenix, Arizona, Reuters.com reports. Arresting officer Joe Arpaio said they've arrested the rapper five times before and that...
The Final Face To Be Revealed In Super Street Fighter 4
His name is Hakan and... his moves involve getting all oiled up? Well, he's original, I'll give Capcom that....
Halo Reach’s “Multiplayer Madness” Trailer
Since it has yet to make its way here, and for those who haven't seen it yet, some recent footage from Halo Reach:Good God. I don't even like FPSs all that much and even I'm drooling over this vid. And remember, the multiplayer beta starts on May 3rd (y...
Rock Band 3 Finally Announced
Via Twitter comes word at long last of Rock Band 3. Many, myself included, have begun to wonder if there was actually going to be a third installment of the franchise proper (well, fourth if you include the Beatles games, fifth if you include the PSP outin...
An Early Sign Pointing Towards Batman: Arkham Asylum II Possibly Sucking
Via Kotaku comes possible news of Robin co-starring in the upcoming sequel to Batman: Arkham Asylum. There are MANY reasons why the game has been universally applauded, and will it's not up there with the superb gameplay and eye-popping graphics, one cann...
3 Year Old Accidentally Kills Self With Wii Peripheral That Legit Looks Like A Real Gun
When I first head the story of three year old Cheyenne Alexis McKeehan, and the circumstances that led to her death, which was basically how she confused a real gun that her stepfather had stupidly left unattended with a Wii peripheral, numerous thoughts c...
Now Dane Cook Might be Captain America?
Alright. We're being yanked all over the place. Last week, we heard rumors that a number of actors were being considered for the role of Captain America (John Krasinski, Michael Cassidy, Patrick Fluger, Scott Porter, Mike Vogel and Chace Crawford). But no...
New Beastie Boys Album Delayed
Beastie Boys member Adam "MCA" Yaunch has been recovering from salivary gland cancer which has slowed the production of the band's new album, RollingStone.com reports. The album has been titled Hot Sauce Committee Pt. 1 and was supposed to be released...
Next Stop: HOBOKEN!
Simply genius:Too bad it's just a Photosphop job, but hey, it would be impossible to pull something like that off for real. Good enough for me! Via Jalopnik ....
Jonah Hill to Star Alongside Brad Pitt
Superbad's Jonah Hill is stepping in to play the role of Paul DePodesta in Moneyball, replacing Demetri Martin (Taking Woodstock). The film will be directed by Bennett Miller (Capote) and tells the story of the Oakland A's and their general manager Billy...
Tom Morello Scoring Iron Man 2
Rage Against the Machine and Audioslave guitarist Tom Morello admitted to working on the Iron Man 2 score via Twitter on Saturday. He wrote "Is that really me in Iron Man? Of course. Iron Man kicks my ass...
New Guitar Hero-esque Game… Now With Strings!
Seven45 Studios may be new to the video game market, but they're wasting no time in taking musical video games to the next level. The studio plans on releasing Power Gig: Rise of the Sixstring this fall, Kotaku.com reports. The game requires a controller...
Anna Faris to Star in New R-Rated Comedy
There's a new R-rated comedy on the horizon, Comingsoon.com reports. Anna Faris (Scary Movie) and Chris Evans (Fantastic 4) will star in What's Your Number? which is based off a book by Karyn Bosnak. The film will begin production in May and will be dire...
Two New Red Riding Hood Movies Under Way
There are two movies being made based on the story of Little Red Riding Hood MTV reports. Amanda Seyfried (Jennifer's Body) will star in The Girl With the Red Riding Hood to be directed by Catherine Hardwicke (director of Twilight). When asked about the f...
Ed Helms Talks Hangover 2
Ed Helms didn't reveal too much on the sequel to hit comedy The Hangover at the Spirit Awards on March 5th, MTV reports. But he did reveal a few new details. "It's gonna star Bradley Cooper, Zach Galifianakis - I have a part apparently, which I'm excit...
Full Release: Games
Get ready for another week filled with multiple trips to the game store: Final Fantasy XIII (PS3, 360) - It's finally here, the latest installment of Square-Enix's flagship franchise. By now you've probably heard all the complaints, like how absurdly l...
Portal Game Sequel Coming Christmas
Portal 2, the sequel to the hit 2007 space and time-altering game, will be released by Christmas 2010 Wired.com reports. Game creator Valve released a few ad parodies with popular Valve characters combined with classic Apple ads which may mean that Mac use...
