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Kurt Cobain Parody Vid Taken Down On Activision’s Request

1:40PM Owen Good | Remember the video of Kurt Cobain singing Bon Jovi’s hits, and shrieking “yeah, boyeee!” in “Bring the Noize?” The compilation that hung the game with its own rope for its treatment of Cobain is gone from YouTube, on Activision’s demand. More »
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This Akihabara Electronic Billboard Is For Gaming

8:00PM Brian Ashcraft | YouTube users vs. cell phone owners, FIGHT! Recently in geek paradise Akihabara, electronics giant Toshiba tested an interactive billboard game. More »
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Around The World In 80 Sackboys

12:40AM Mike Fahey | Sony Computer Entertainment has launched the official LittleBigPlanet YouTube page, and are celebrating with a contest that could send one lucky UK resident around the world. More »
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Play Street Fighter With Toys Via YouTube

1:40AM Mike Fahey | Patrick Boivin is a French Canadian autodidact director who does amazing things with toys, and amazing things with YouTube as well, using their annotations feature to create an interactive YouTube Street Fighter game. More »

Boom Blox Does 8-Bit

6:20AM Stuart Houghton | LittleBigPlanet may be the stunt-modder’s level design palette of choice these days, with some truly spectacular creations, but its not the only game in town. Speilbergian Wii favourite Boom Blox comes with a nifty level editor too, and someone has spent a lot of time waggling that WiiMote to create Boom Bloxified recreations of 8-bit classic including Galaga, Duck Hunt, Pac-Man and Donkey Kong. 8 Bit Games Recreated in Boom Blox [GoNintendo] More »
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PixelJunk Monsters Updates Next Week

1:40AM Mike Fahey | Remember that PixelJunk Monsters update Ash told you about that would make the game a bit easier? Well it’s almost here, and over at the official PlayStation blog associate producer at SCEA Santa Monica Matt Morton has all the details. Not only will the update introduce three different difficulty levels adjustable as you progress through the islands, it adds the tower balancing from the Encore update to both islands, tweaks the tower menu, and adds support for YouTube uploads and XMB custom soundtracks. Oh yes, and trophies. Almost forgot to mention those. Well I did forget to mention those, but thanks to the magic of editing…Lovely! More »
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Finally, We Can Buy Games From YouTube

6:30AM Luke Plunkett | Yup, Google (who own YouTube) want some more money. They’ve today announced a new feature to be implemented on YouTube that will let you buy games. And proper, real games to boot. They’ll be rolling out Amazon buttons underneath certain game videos. Like, you watch a Spore trailer on YouTube, and if you like the cut of its gib, you can buy it straight away. Ah, modern commerce. Gotta love it, no? More »