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Olivia Munn Not Nude, Not For A Lack Of Effort

2:00AM Owen Good | No matter what was discussed, agreed, or signed, when you’re in front of a Playboy lens, the nudity negotiation never ends. Olivia Munn learned that after two days with one of their more persistent stylists. More »

Watch The Game Developers Choice Awards On G4 Tonight

8:20AM Michael McWhertor | Don’t forget, like I did, that G4 will be airing the 2009 Game Developers Choice Awards tonight, giving the cable-subscribing masses a chance to hear great Tim Schafer jokes and watch awards being accepted. More »

You Too Can Watch The Game Developers Choice Awards

11:40AM Michael McWhertor | One of the highlights of next week’s Game Developers Conference will be the show’s annual awards ceremony. Tim Schafer will host. Sides will be split. Everyone will be happy. And you can watch it. More »

Vin Diesel Begged For Dark Athena Multiplayer

5:20AM Mike Fahey | The Chronicles of Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena might have been a purely single player affair, if not for the begging of a large, muscle-bound bald man. More »

Cuts Hit X-Play, Show Drops to Thrice Weekly [Update]

8:40AM Brian Crecente | Deep cuts have hit G4’s flagship show X-Play, sources tell us, and the five-day-a-week program has been cut back to three times a week. More »

AJ on X-Play – Yes, I’m a Girl, You Can Stop Speculating

11:20AM AJ Glasser | A couple of weeks back, I climbed on a soapbox about the media frenzy surrounding video games in connection with real life violence or tragedy.

Watch The First Four Minutes Of Assault On Dark Athena

6:20AM Mike Fahey | G4 got their hands on the first four minutes of Starbreeze’s Chronicles of Riddick follow-up, Assault on Dark Athena, featuring our favourite psychotic killer doing what he does best – lurking in shadows. More »

G4 Says ‘No’ To Xbox 360 Relaunch Rumour

12:30PM Michael McWhertor | While we’re waiting to hear back from Microsoft on the VGChartz forum-sourced Xbox 360 “relaunch” rumour and speculation, one allegedly involved party has given us denial. G4 reps told us that the 5-hour special’ rumoured to air on the cable network is “fake”. “We currently do not have anything planned in conjunction with Microsoft for September 25″, the rep added. “I can’t speak for Microsoft but can say we do not have anything planned”. Nothing planned, they say. Perhaps G4 is blissfully unaware of Microsoft’s plans to hijack its broadcast, as Weird Al Yankovic was notorious for doing to MTV in the mid 1980s. Damn you, Weird Al! If you do this one more time even with the aid of Microsoft, there will be hell to pay, free games or not! More »

G-Phoria Awards 2008 Air Tonight

3:20AM Mike Fahey | It’s here, it’s here! It’s finally here! Tonight at 8PM Eastern time, X=Play presents G-Phoria 2008, the only video game awards show where the gamers vote for their favourite titles. Adam Sessler and Morgan Webb will be putting their personal opinions aside and let the viewers decide which games deserve the awards, from the lowly Best Downloadable Content to the possibly highly coveted Game of the Year. They’ve even got a Game Most Deserving of an Uwe Boll Movie Adaptation award! Hilarity ensues. You can head over to the G-Phoria website to cast your vote, or they’ve got an option to vote via text message in case you don’t have access to the internet or just really enjoy typing with your thumb. Hit the jump for the full list of award categories. More »