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Method Man Is Rapping About Sour Patch Kids For A Video Game

Wu-Tang Clan member Method Man is genuinely rapping about Sour Patch Kids in this video, “World Gone Sour (The Lost Kids)”. Why would the man who played “Cheese” on The Wire and starred in Soul Plane rhyme about Sour Patch Kids?

September 10, 2011
PC

EVE Online Now Just One Fashionable Degree Of Separation From Lady Gaga

What do Lady Gaga and CCP Games, maker of massively multiplayer online role-playing game EVE Online, have in common? They’ve both worked with fashion director Nicola Formichetti and his muse, the model with a full body corpse tattoo, Rick Genest.

June 2, 2011
Xbox

When Online Gaming Goes Wrong, You Don’t Need To Get SWAT Involved

A disagreement over an Xbox Live Indie game has resulted in what may be the ultimate grief, with one gamer sending a SWAT team to another gamer’s home after phoning in a bogus murder-suicide call to police.

June 1, 2011
News

Well, Look Who’s Making Video Games Now… Mad Catz!

Mad Catz, perhaps best known now for its fighting game joysticks and flight sim controllers is getting into the game development game, aiming high with the creation of Thunderhawk Studios. The newly formed studio’s first product is… an MMO flight sim.

May 21, 2011
In Real Life

So-so PSP Game Gangs Of London Is Unexpectedly Coming To The Silver Screen

Remember Gangs of London? You’re forgiven if you don’t, because it’s a 2006 PSP game from Sony’s Team SOHO—The Getaway guys!—that very few people actually liked. But one British filmmaker was a fan and has since optioned rights to make a movie based on the game.

April 5, 2011
Nintendo

ESRB Describes Pro Jumper Chimaki’s Hot Spring Tour Guilty Gear Tangent!?

More weirdness is coming to Nintendo’s DSiWare platform from the people who make Guilty Gear and Blazblue games. Following up on cutesy fighting game spin-off BlayzBloo: Super Melee Brawlers Battle Royale comes Pro Jumper Chimaki’s Hot Spring Tour Guilty Gear Tangent!? And just what the hell is that?

March 19, 2011
Nintendo

In Russia, Raving Rabbids Make Your Salads, Not Mischief

Who would want to co-opt Ubisoft’s bothersome mascots, the Raving Rabbids? Russian salad maker Belaya Dacha, apparently, who have swiped the leporine mischief makers – or a very, very close approximation – to shill their pre-packaged salad greens.

January 15, 2011
Xbox

Did You Know There Was Crazy Duck Racing In Shenmue II?

Why did Sega’s beloved and ambitious Shenmue series fail to progress beyond its second game? Because Sega never really promoted one of Shenmue II’s most spectacular features: underground duck racing.

January 14, 2011
In Real Life

Pac-Man Finally Getting His Own ‘Reality’ Series

Because you demanded it, Namco is finally bringing the 1980 arcade sensation Pac-Man to unscripted television. Think Wipeout (the pratfall-soaked game show) or the Amazing Race, not so much Jersey Shore, for Pac-Man’s “reality” TV outing.

January 11, 2011
In Real Life

Arizona Shooter Pegged As ‘Big Video Gamer’ By Classmates

Here we go. Jared Lee Loughner, the Tucson man accused of attempting to kill Arizona congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, has been identified as a “big video gamer” by former classmates. Oh, and he really enjoyed reading Mein Kampf.

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