If you were alive in the 80s then I’m sure you’ve seen at least one iteration of the Poltergeist movies since your birth. If you remember the psychic lady from the first movie who urged Carol Anne “Don’t go into the light!” then you might be a little saddened to learn that Zelda Rubenstein shuffled off this mortal coil yesterday at the age of 76.

Well, my expectations of the VGAs weren’t even high to begin with. A respectable video game award show is far from happening, the closest we have being the videogame BAFTAs over here in Blighty. However, lapdog Geoff Keighley was claiming that there were 12 exclusive reveals at the show, such as the first look at Halo Reach and Prince Of Persia: The Forgotten Sands as well as games we hadn’t even seen yet. So with that, I just had to watch it out of morbid curiosity at least. The only difference being that I was watching this at 1-3am instead of 8-10pm like in America. Hit the jump for my impressions on this  ”awards” show.

Surprisingly enough, Tony Hawk: RIDE, the latest in the obsolete skateboarding series, hasn’t been going down to well with most of the gaming press. Right now, the game across all platforms comes out at an average of 52 on Metacritic, which as we pros on the Internet all know, is the ratings equivalent of cock size. Now Mr.Hawk isn’t too happy about this, telling The Sudbury Star that he doesn’t think game reviewers have given the game a fair chance.  He made the point that “They were ready to discredit it before they even tried it, and if it didn’t play exactly how they imagined it… then they passed it off,”. Well I can’t exactly imagine how game reviewers must have imagined the game to be like, what with if it being controlled by a piece of plastic more gimmicky than any Guitar Hero guitar or Rock Band drum kit, so I guess they had all the more reason to pass it off. Not only that, but the game is $130, and since you can’t play it without the “skateboard”, then not everyone is going to be so happy to drop that much money on what is essentially an experiment.

Of course, I don’t exactly know what people were going to expect about Tony’s reaction to the reviews. Even if the game had fared well, it’s not as if he’s going to speak negatively about the game. Otherwise, how is he going to carry on rolling around in the money that he gets for letting Actiblizzard use his name? Still, it just goes to show how irrelevant the Tony Hawk series has become. Who knows, maybe Tony Hawk Hero would fare better.

Source:The Sudbury Star

I’ve heard people take many different stances on Tucker Max. I’ve heard people say he’s a douchebag, that he makes shit up, that he’s a mysoginist, you get the picture. And I don’t know about all that, but I do know one thing. The motherfucker is funny, and that’s his job and he does it well.

Of course, not everyone is going to agree on what’s funny. This is why the Chicago Transit Authority recently pulled 250 ads for Max’s movie adaptation of his best-selling book, I Hope They Serve Beer In Hell, from its buses. And what was so horrible about these posters? The fact that they touted the line “Strippers will not tolerate disrespect (just kidding)”. First off, if strippers really valued respect, they wouldn’t have become strippers in the beginning. But I digress.

Yeah, I broke down and watched the MTV VMAs the other night…and besides talking about all the bullshit that is surrounding the Kanye West fiasco (which I’m half-convinced) was staged, I was smitten with the performace of everyone’s favorite ‘possible’ hermaphrodite, Lady Gaga.

She showed up wearing some crazy-ass attire, and even brought Kermit the Frog with her to the red carpet. I was at a loss for words when I watched Lady Gaga perform, it was crazy…she’s a pop artist, but had guys wearing thongs on their faced, did a leg up on the piano solo, and managed to even work some GWAR showmanship into her routine by bleeding all over herself. Fucking yay!

Thanks to the wonders of Ebay, morbid people like me can take pleasure in seeing other , more morbid people attempt to sell of the worldly remains of now dead celebrities. This isn’t exactly that, but there really is an auction going on right now in which a man is attempting to sell off his signed PlayStation…were talking ORIGINAL PlayStation, you know, the one with the bottleneck ram and the penchant to overheat.

The guy isn’t willing to part with his PS1 that has “I Love You” and is signed with a seemingly real MJ signature for anything less than 1.5 million dollars. I’d love to see the auction sniping that would have happened if he had started it $0.01 and had no reserve.

Over on Olivia Munn’s website, she is promising to sign her Playboy cover issue if you send it to her (well not really to her, to G4). And if you send her multiple issues, she’ll personalize it and write whatever you want. If I was going to send an issue to Olivia, I would want her to sign it with a picture of her tits. Because, ya know, that’s what’s supposed to be in Playboy when you appear in it.

I know I’m not going to win any medals for taking this stance, but look. You celebrities really need to cut this dying shit out. At first it wasn’t a big deal. Old man McMahon was 86, and Farrah Fawcett had been battling cancer for years. Not to say either of those deaths weren’t tragic, as they both were, but they were both at least understandable. Then Thursday things started to get wacky when Michael Jackson died from a heart attack, and now Billy Mays dies today from unknown causes. What the fuck?

I know it’s not the celebrities’ fault that they are dying, but they really need to understand their greater responsibility. When you are a celebrity, you are a role model, people look up to you. So what kind of a message does that send when you start dying in droves? That it’s OK to die? That it’s “hip” to die, that all the cool people are doing it? That is unacceptable, and the rest of you celebrities need to think about the big picture next time you think about biting the bullet.

This won’t mean a lot to most of our American readers, to our British readers who are fans of comedy, this is pretty good news. Comedian Steve Coogan stopped by at Radio 1 this weekend an in an interview with Edith Bowman, possibly to plug Night At The Museum 2 (which he plays a role in), the question was brought up of whether if he would do an Alan Partridge film. Coogan’s response was “Yeah, we are planning on making a movie. We’re talking at the moment. What it is we’re not quite sure. But yes, there are plans afoot to make a film.” As soon as I read that I shit bricks and came. I’m Alan Partridge is one of my favourite British comedies of all time, a series which follows a cynical, luckless presenter who is trying to reclaim his place in entertainment as he is surrounded by who he feels are idiots. If you’ve never seen it, the two series of the comedy are pretty cheap and you should definitely pick them up if you like dark and cynical humour. Now on the one hand it could be a disaster, since it’s generally hard to transfer a TV show to  a movie but just the fact that we know that Coogan is at least thinking about making more stuff involving Alan Partridge is something to be excited about. You gave us a second series, so giving us more would be great Mr.Coogan.

Source: Slashfilm

There’s times when I’ll go to well known forum Neogaf’s off topic discussion board because I’m…..bored and I want to amuse myself, so finding this in one of the threads today was great. According to the teenage/jailbait star, she was only a few dressing rooms away from well known UK and my personal favourite band Radiohead, who were performing 15 step at the Grammy Awards that night. Apparently she “loves” Radiohead, calling them “my rock god”, so she told/whined to her manager to arrange a meeting between the two. Unfortunately for Miley, Radiohead declined to meet with her, with the band’s representatives telling her “we don’t really do that”. Little did they know that they’d just unleashed the thunder. This enraged Miley so bad that she has vowed to ruin “stinkin’ Radiohead!” Careful there jailbait, you nearly swore to the grown ups there.

I don’t exactly know Miley was expecting. Firstly, everyone knows that Radiohead aren’t the kind of band who embrace the glitz and glamour of the rock n roll lifestyle. Secondly, it’s not as if they told her to fuck off. Finally, they’d also snubbed Kanye West so It’s not as if they’re going to want to meet a mediocre, no talent, piece of jailbait like Miley Cyrus? I’m looking forward to her attempts of ruining them that’s all I can say. I’m guessing she’ll be converting all of the 4-7 year old Radiohead fangirls then.

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At 12 years old, most of us are just getting out of our toy phase and beginning our attempts to try and be “cool”. For some of us, puberty had started to kick in and we were wondering why the wee wee bank in our pants is going hard whenever we see those cootie carriers. Most of us were probably enjoying our fair share of video games too. From this article however it seems that puberty hit music star Kanye West a little early, or at least the sudden sexual thoughts did.

You see, while we were trying to stop these sudden appearence of “spots”, Kanye West was unleashing the horny little fuck inside him by making “video games” of all things. In an interview with some US magazine I assume, West reveals that he once made a “very sexual” game that was “like Mario Brothers, but the ghosts were, like, vaginas.” He also says that his character was a “giant penis” and that it had “little feet, and eyes“. Sounds like one of the worms then from the game of the same name, just as a sidescroller with enemies. Either way, it made me laugh and cheered my day up a bit. However I doubt that West is being completely truthful claiming that he was programming games at 12 years old.

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Well, looks like another celebrity racist has come out the woodwork eh? The above pic was taken recently of Miley Cyrus and friends and she is apparently being sued to the tune of $4 billion total. Lucie J. Kim claims to represent more than 1 million Asian Pacific Islanders who live in L.A. County, and is asking for damages of $4,000 per potential plaintiff.

Wow, just wow. I get that Miley is famous and is going to get plastered all over the news, tabloids, etc, but hasn’t every single kid out there done something like this before? This has to be a bit damn extreme a punishment for something I see as being trivial and that could be solved with a simple apology. Maybe Miss Cyrus just got a little confused and thought getting an oriental kid to take part made it all A-Ok?

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Yes, today is Christian Bale’s birthday. Now, if we did a post on every celebrity’s birthday, we would never be able to keep up, but Christian Bale is not every celebrity, hell, he’s not even a celebrity. He is our Lord, He is the great He Is. This is because only a holy being could turn around the Batman series the way He did, only a holy being could have made American Psycho, and for His next miracle He will revive the Terminator series after Terminator 3 and the Sarah Connor Chronicles.

God I fucking hate writing about this shit. Why do I do it to myself? I swear I’m a masochist. Anyways, it seems “rapping” “sensation” Soulja Boy has made another YouTube video about gaming. He has made some previous ones, including a “review” of Braid, but now he is calling your, and my, and everyone else’s ass out on Xbox Live. Mr. Boy says he will “beat yo ass” on Xbox Live, specifically on Halo 3, Gears of War, Call of Duty 4, and Grand Theft Auto IV. I love how he so eloquently refers to multiplayer modes as “player versus player”. No words, should have sent a poet.

Soulja Boy then goes on to show all the 360 games he owns, and proceeds to throw them all on the ground. What an ungrateful bastard. Gamers around the world are busy taking impeccable care of their games, and this fucker just tosses his shit around like they’re yesterday’s sluts. He owns a PlayStation 3, but after showing it off he shows his obvious fanboyism by screaming “Fuck PlayStation 3!” and “Nobody plays no god damn Playstation!”. Soulja Boy is a MicroBot CONFIRMED!

The last interesting thing I noticed in the video is that Mr. Boy owns an Xbox 360 Chatpad Messenger for his controller, which is fucking amazing to me, cause I was under the impression the man was illiterate. Hm, learn something new everyday. If you want to play Soulja Boy, or send him a hate message, or want to avoid him desperately like the black plague, his GamerTag is souljaboytellem. I’ll let you take it from here.

My friends and fellow music lovers, I come before you with a heavy heart to report that one, Gary Lee “LeRoi” Moore, passed away yesterday afternoon after some complications related to an ATV accident.   Hey!!  Stop snickering!!