Halo Players Hate Gays

Here’s a video I came across on Cyberspace of an openly homosexual gamer (xxxGayBoyxxx) on Xbox Live getting abuse from various different players. Although he admits that not all the comments were not necessarily hateful it is pretty interesting to hear how many meatheads there are in the gaming world. What’s even more interesting is [...]

Talking your way to the top

 
Who thought the South Bank centre would be ones to get down with it? It being the freestyle oral workouts of modern one man bands, beatboxing. They’ve hired beatboxer meister Shlomo as their new artist in residence, after seeing the multi-talented motormouth combine beatboxing through a loop sampler, beatboxing and drumming simultaneously. He’s set to [...]

BATTING ON THE SAME SIDE

The unlikely worlds of sports and arts collide as Addictive TV and Adidas join the same team on the Sportive exhibition which will tour China from this week, in the lead up to the Shanghai Olympics. Opening at the Shanghai Museum of Contemporary Arts, Addictive TV’s AV installation was created using only the sounds [...]

Piste Off

So the world’s officially largest, and unofficially messiest snowboarding festival has set out the perimeters for next year’s carnage. Happening in Mayrhofen, Austria between 31 March – 6 April. Snowbombing is the only snowboarding event where you possibly have to pack a larger suitcase for the fancy dress than you do the warm snow gear. [...]

Audi to move into the mobile phone market?

This may only be a pipe dream, and if an Audi mobile does actually make it into production it will be as an accompaniment for your Audi vehicle. Outside of it having an mp3 player, Wi-Fi, 3G and sat nav the phone will take pictures on any fuckface who tries to steal your car and [...]

Music industry continues to do stupid shit

Due to upcoming changes in the UK chart rules, the 29th of October will see the widespread selling of singles on USB keys. This move according to Brian Rose (Commercial Director at Universal UK) is aimed at “12 to 24 year olds, who no longer believe that the CD is as cool as it used [...]

Napster to drop stand alone app for web based store

Napster U.S. announced yesterday that it plans to drop it’s standalone application subscription model in favour of a new web based subscription model.
Christopher Allen, Chief Operating Officer at Napster, said, “With this new platform, Napster can easily be integrated into consumer electronics devices or integrated into other Web sites such as social networking sites.”
What this [...]

Has Sony BMG/MySpace deal just opened up the flood gates?

In addition to the deal announced with Honda this day last week, Sony BMG have just announced that they’ve set up an ad supported deal with MySpace. The interesting point here is that unlike the deal with Honda who were essentially paying Sony to have a bit of stardust rub off on their car, MySpace [...]

Google ads YouTube function to Google Earth

Ater news that Google will be aggressively rolling out YouTube across its adsense partnerships they ahve now added YouTube functionality to Google Earth.  You will now be able to watch videos of the place you are going to visit.
It will now not only be the most awesome Atlas ever made but will now ad ‘encyclopedia’ [...]

Bravia Play-Doh Ad: more news

Sony has just released behind the scenes footage of the making of the new ‘Play-Doh’ Sony  Bravia ad. The footage can be seen on the European Sony Bravia site here. It’s bloody interesting.
As you may have heard already the production team behind it are being accused of ripping off ideas from the L.A. based married [...]