Microsoft is doing a 360 after a poor showing at E3, where Sony publically called out the company on its console's abundant restrictions. Today, Microsoft revealed the Xbox One will no longer require an internet connection to play games or block used games. In addition, games will be region free. Don Mattrick, President of Interactive Entertainment Business, begrudgingly announced the ... [Read More]

Highschool of the Dead and Lollipop Chainsaw are both published by Kadokawa Shoten so it's no wonder that there was an official crossover in the video game via unlockable costumes: Rei Miyamoto and Saeko Busujima. Artist Ito Eight took it to the next level with a hentai doujinshi (adult fan comic). Lollipop of the Dead: Saeko and Takashi are overwhelmed by zombies and he gets bit. ... [Read More]

Good news, everyone! Futurama is back. Bad news, everyone! It's the final season. Wednesday's mid-season premiere will feature 2 episodes: "2-D Blacktop" in which the Professor joins a gang and takes street racing to a whole new dimension. "Fry and Leela's Big Fling" in which the couple take a romantic trip to what turns out to be an alien zoo. Expect more relationship themed ... [Read More]

Men's Room Mayhem takes the traditional urinal video game out of the bathroom. As janitor, it's your job to direct traffic in this quirky line drawing game for a different kind of handheld device. Keep patrons from crossing streams and colliding or a fight will break out and you'll get piss and blood on floor, which other characters will step in and track everywhere (eww). Get bonus points ... [Read More]

Cloud City is finally out for the PC version of Angry Birds Star Wars, nearly 3 months after all other platforms. The update includes the first 20 levels of Cloud City, 10 Boba Fett missions (unlocked after finding jetpacks) and 2 bonus missions. PC gamers consistently get updates last, despite charging 5x as much! That's unlikely to change any time soon. Rovio Entertainment simultaneously ... [Read More]

In a new 30 second PSA by Common Sense Media called "Alfonso," an adorable little girl plays pretend with her stuffed animals, one of which is rat! She stomps her little feet and tells Louie the dog to "take him out!" The narrator asks "Are your kids watching the right movies?" Ironically, this cute commercial seems more like a recommendation for the next family movie ... [Read More]

Record temperatures in Sweden have male train drivers showing more skin but Martin Akersten and his coworkers weren't allowed to wear shorts so they literally skirted the dress code. "We have always said that when summer comes, we will get some skirts and wear them," Akersten told the BBC. "It's very warm weather here so we would like to wear shorts but if we can't then we have skirts for ... [Read More]

Bacon is the perfect Father's Day gift for the man who's always bringing it home. That's the idea behind a new Oscar Mayer campaign called "Say It With Bacon." Tom Bick, Oscar Mayer’s senior marketing director, said in a press release: “Before, I was a statistic on Father’s Day. Like everyone else, I was showered with ties, coffee mugs and after shave over the years. But really, who ... [Read More]

From beyond the grave, Michael Jackson gave thrilling testimony in his own wrongful death lawsuit against AEG Live. The company is being sued for employing Dr. Conrad Murray, who was convicted of administering a lethal dose of propofol to Jackson. However, Murray is innocent according to an email by AEG Live CEO Randy Phillips, who represented singer Lionel Richie’s ex-wife Brenda. “I ... [Read More]

Ulitmate Spider-Man gets downsized in the super-sized season premiere. Spidey and his friends encounter an Asgardian Norn Stone and are transformed into children in second episode: Itsy Bitsy Spider-Man. Spider-Baby insists size doesn't matter but Nick Fury assigns them to the Daily Advanced Youth Character And Regimented Education center (D.A.Y.C.A.R.E.). It's supposedly never been used ... [Read More]

Sword Art Online will air on Adult Swim's Toonami programming block this August. The series has a similar premise to the .hack series. It features a virtual reality system known as "Nerve Gear" that completely immerses players in "Sword Art Online," an MMORPG where dying in the game means dying in real-life. This will be the first airing of the English dub by Aniplex but the entire series ... [Read More]

If the History Channel program Ancient Aliens has taught us anything it's that all of man's greatest achievements are the work of aliens... even Iron Man's achievements. Iron Man #11 reveals that Tony Stark AKA Iron Man is the product genetic manipulation by aliens! In fact, he wouldn't have been born at all without the help of an alien robot named 451. It repaired a fatal genetic defect ... [Read More]

Turkey has broken out in full-blown civil unrest after police used excessive force in response to peaceful protests over the demolition of Gezi Park. It seems that Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan still hasn't learned his lesson about trying to suppress freedom of speech. Erdogan has ordered a media blackout of all protest coverage in the interest of national security. Article 3 of ... [Read More]

In the Flesh isn't your typical zombie story. The 3-part series takes place four years after a zombie outbreak dubbed "the rising." It's not contagious and only affected those who died in 2009. The "rotters" are functionally cured of their condition diagnosed as Partially Deceased Syndrome (PDS). It's treated with a regimen of drugs that restore their faculties and cosmetics like makeup and ... [Read More]

As soon as Matt Smith announced he was hanging up his bow tie, speculation began about who would replace him. Some fans are hoping for a black Doctor or female Doctor, others are fearing the possibility and threatening on IMDB: "I'll stop watching if The Doctor becomes a woman..." Those fears are likely to intensify with the news that casting for the role is open to all. “All actors, no ... [Read More]

The Doctor Who Christmas Special will be the last appearance for Matt Smith as the Time Lord. "When ya gotta go, ya gotta go and Trenzalore calls," Smith said referring to the prophecy about "the fall of the Eleventh." In the season finale, "The Name of the Doctor," the Doctor went to Trenzalore and visited his own grave, a destroyed TARDIS from an apparently not-so future war. The ... [Read More]