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- Harvey Birdman: Attorney At Law the video game will be coming out for Wii, as well as PS2 and PSP, on November 13.
- Your Guitar Hero updates for today: according to Billboard magazine, Aerosmith is working closely with the makers of Guitar Hero IV, and the game just might be all Aerosmith music. We don't mind a little Aerosmith now and then, but... man. We hope that's not true. Oh, and here's some more bad news: Guitar Hero III won't have online play at launch on the Wii, although the feature might be added later.
- Uh oh - the gamer geeks are pissed at Nerd World's Lev Grossman for his article on Halo 3 in Time. Read it here. He seems to be talking like Halo isn't mainstream - but isn't it at this point? Maybe we're just out of touch with what mainstream is anymore...
- Speaking of Lev, you can read his post about a top secret U.S. nuclear submarine propeller showing up on Microsoft's Live Earth (link here). We also rather enjoyed Lev's link to the Achewood comic featuring an alternate epilogue to the final Harry Potter book (don't worry, it doesn't spoil the book for you).
- Microsoft has granted would-be directors a license to use their games as the basis of machinima films. Apparently this license gives machinima filmmakers even more protection than Fair Use already gave them.
- Scientists have already developed technology that allows disabled people to control computer interfaces with just their minds. But now the technology might be coming to the consumer gaming world in 2008. The idea of controlling a video game using your mind alone is pretty awesome, but some scientists say such controllers could have negative effects on the brain, by forcing users to slow down their brain waves, leading to trouble focusing attention. One scientist says you could theoretically crash your car if you tried to drive in such a state. Will we in the future have to be pulled over and ticketed for driving under the influence of video games?!
- Joystiq takes a look at some recent trademarks registered by Nintendo in Japan and speculates on what they might refer to.
- Married to the Sea recently switched over to using some slightly more recent vintage illustrations as the basis of their comics. Check out this timely one.
- An ad debuting on on September 9 in the Los Angeles Times for the upcoming film Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium will be the first ever to feature scented ink. In fact, it'll be "scratch-and-sniff ink scented like a frosted cake."
- Rumor is that "Disney is campaigning heavily to win broadcast rights to George Lucas' proposed computer-animated Star Wars series Clone Wars."
- Tron writer/director Steven Lisberger has managed to sell a new film project: "Soul Code, an SF movie about a tech pioneer who has perfected a way to download and transfer a person's memory." Lisberger will direct.
- Sci Fi Wire has details about the future of the Doctor Who series on the BBC. The biggest news it that it'll be back for a fifth season in spring 2010. Oh, and did you hear the David Bowie will be featured in a two-part episode next year as an alien who clashes with the Doctor?! Sweet! (Via Mike V)
- The creators of Robot Chicken - Seth Green and Matthew Senreich - are teaming with rap star Master P to create a sort of hip hop RPG called Play the Industry.
- Rumor is that Nicolas Cage is the frontrunner to play the title role in the long-planned Magnum P.I. movie.
- Larry Wachowski has officially completed his full sex change, and is now Lana Wachowski. So we won't be calling them the Wachowski brothers anymore. Maybe just the Wachowskis?
- Ridley Scott declared the sci-fi film dead at the Venice Film Festival. Actually, he said they're "as dead as westerns...there's nothing original. We've seen it all before." Maybe he's got a point, but that's also a bit harsh.
- Apparently Corey Haim might not be getting that cameo in Lost Boys 2 after all. Awww!
- In honor of the impending release of Shoot 'Em Up, Cinematical has put together a list of Seven Uber Cool & Quotable Gun-Toting Antiheroes.
- We're convinced that every day is the official national day of a food of some kind, which is pretty lame, but despite that, we still rather like the idea of celebrating National Cheese Pizza Day. (Via Sarah)
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