Showing posts with label GAMING. Show all posts
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Monday, February 14, 2011

WEEKEND WRAPUP: JUSTIN BEIBER COULDN'T MAKE NUMBER ONE, THE BORING GRAMMYS WERE ON, NO MORE GUITAR HERO, HERE ARE THE GRAMMY WINNERS


Just Go With It beat Beiber fever to winn the number spot this weekend earning $31 million at the box office. But Beiber did make it to number two with $30 million. Not bad for someone who will probably be as irevelant as boy bands in the next few years.  But here are the weekenfd totals.


Weekend Box Office Estimates (U.S.)
Feb 11 - 13 weekend


1 - Just Go With It Columbia TriStar Motion Picture Group $31,000,000 TOTAL: $31,000,000
2 - Justin Bieber: Never Say Never Paramount Pictures $30,260,000 TOTAL: $31,003,000
3 - Gnomeo & Juliet Touchstone Pictures $25,500,000 TOTAL: $25,500,000
4 - The Eagle Focus Features $8,589,219 TOTAL: $8,589,219
5 1 The Roommate N/A $8,400,000 TOTAL: $26,000,000
6 4 The King's Speech The Weinstein Company $7,412,000 TOTAL: $93,857,000
7 3 No Strings Attached Paramount Pictures $5,645,000 TOTAL: $59,866,000
8 2 Sanctum N/A $5,131,760 TOTAL: $17,505,130
9 8 True Grit Paramount Pictures $3,770,000 TOTAL: $160,340,000
10 5 The Green Hornet Sony Pictures Releasing $3,600,000 TOTAL: $92,300,000 


The rest after the jump


-AL

Who the hellis Arcade Fire? Whoever Arcade Fire is they pulled in enough votes to topple megastars like Eminem, Lady Antebellum, Lady Gaga, and Katy Perry for Album of the Year. But they did it, right after a very strobe-light-heavy performance of "Month of May" featuring BMX bikers, and before a performance of "Ready to Start" featuring the biggest grin we'd ever seen cross frontman Win Butler's face.


Cee Lo. Gwyneth. Puppets.
One of the night's most mind-blowing moments came from Cee Lo Green -- dressed as a colorfully strange hybrid of Stevie Wonder, Elton John, and a giant peacock -- who performed "(The Song Otherwise Known as 'Forget You')" as the Grammys kept referring to it. He got a little second-verse help from Gwyneth Paltrow, who didn't sound out of place in the least on Music's Biggest Night. One complaint: The fake Muppets. We would've loved to have seen Animal on drums.


Mick Jagger Teaches a Master Class in Rock Stardom
The performance of the night was reserved for Mick Jagger, making his live Grammy debut. Even at the ripe old age of 67, Jagger proved he's still exponentially more the showman that anyone else at the Grammys by absolutely wowing with a lethal rendition of "Everybody Needs Somebody to Love" during his tribute to Solomon Burke. We hope Gaga, Rihanna, and everyone else at the Staples Center was taking notes and watching his hips. That is how you do it. Please, Stones, tour soon.


Intergalactic Soul God Janelle Monáe Lands on Earth
Monáe, Bruno Mars and B.o.B. performed on each others songs, but Janelle closed their mini set with a star-making take on "Cold War." She rose from beneath the stage, tossed aside her cape, and made the magic happen -- belting, stage diving, and dancing her way to a standing ovation, ultimately demonstrating that all a great Grammy performance really needs is pure, raw talent and a singer willing to leave it all on the stage.


Lady Gaga Gives Totally Unshocking Performance
Maybe Lady Gaga has reached the point where the most shocking thing she can do it not shock us. Because her super-hyped performance of "Born This Way" was lacking any of the usual Gaga stage tricks -- pyro, giant sets, blood, fire, body parts, special guests. She crawled out of the giant opaque egg womb she'd been "incubating" in on the red carpet, then just sang and danced like all the other mere mortals in the Staples Center. By the end of the night, her performance wasn't one of the most memorable -- which will have everyone talking for the wrong reasons tomorrow.


All Hail the Queen, Aretha Franklin
Christina Aguilera managed to make it through her part of the Grammys' tribute to Aretha Franklin unscathed -- save for a literal stumble at the very end of the performance. She did an impressive job belting out a few of the Queen of Soul's signature songs alongside Jennifer Hudson, Martina McBride, Yolanda Adams, and Florence Welch, but the highlight of this segment was a taped message from Franklin herself, looking fit, sharp, and on the mend.


Justin Bieber and Usher Reenact Their Bromance
Bieber's performance with Usher began with the following exchange, tracing the beginnings of the pair's very fruitful partnership. We weren't sure whether to react with an "aww" or a call to child protective services:
Usher: "I saw you in a parking lot, and you did not sing for me the first time. But I did tell you something, and what was that?"
Bieber: "You told me, if it was meant to be, we'd meet again."
Usher: "That's right, and now's your time."






Esperanza Spalding (Who?) Wins Best New Artist
In a night full of stunners, jazz bassist Esperanza Spalding had one of the biggest surprise victories, beating out Drake, Mumford & Sons, and the heavy favorite Justin Bieber to take home the Best New Artist award. Spalding's victory was a huge surprise to everyone watching the show and to a big blow to Bieber Nation, who quickly ran over to her Wikipedia page to do some mean-spirited damage. Despite being a major underdog, Spalding is the kind of talent Grammy voters flock to, and we're kicking ourselves we didn't bet a small portion of our paycheck on her victory -- with her pre-Grammy odds, we'd be booking a tropical vacation right now.






Nicole Kidman's Enthusiasm Upstages Katy Perry
The talk of Twitter during Katy Perry's two-song performance wasn't Katy's sparkly outfit or her swing routine or even the gauzy footage of her and Russell Brand's wedding that played on a screen behind the stage -- it was the two seconds the cameras caught the usually stiff Nicole Kidman absolutely rocking out and singing along with "Teenage Dream." Get Kidman a role on "Glee," ASAP.


The Bard Schools The Bieb
Dylan's voice was at its most gravely as he and two of folk rock's biggest up-and-coming bands, Mumford & Sons and the Avett Brothers, shared the stage for a rollicking performance of Dylan's "Maggie's Farm." Sure, Dylan sounded like he was gargling Bourbon, nicotine, and turpentine backstage, but it's always a treat to see music's greatest poet educate an audience of Bieber fans about rock's acoustic past.


Seth Rogen Gets High With Miley Cyrus (In His Mind)
"This is my first time at the Grammys, I'm having a spectacular time so far," the actor said before introducing Eminem's performance. "I've seen things I've never seen before, I've heard things I've never heard before. And that wasn't even watching the show, that was just backstage getting high with Miley Cyrus."


Eminem Sneaks Dr. Dre Out of the Lab
Technically, Dr. Dre shouldn't be permitted to leave his studio until we have confirmation "Detox" is really, really finished. But after a shouty version of "Love the Way You Lie (Part 2)" with Rihanna and Maroon 5's Adam Levine, Eminem coaxed his mentor on the Grammy stage. Wearing practically matching outfits of leather jackets and dark jeans (how cute!), the pair went head to head on "I Need a Doctor." Would it have killed them to throw in "Forgot About Dre"?


Rihanna and Drake Turn Up the Heat
There was a bonfire burning at the center of the stage, but that wasn't what had Drake rhyming, "It's getting hot/Crack a window, air it out" when the pair performed "What's My Name." If folks were gossiping about the pair's relationship in the past, this Grammy team-up is going to have tongues wagging for a long, long time.


All this info and more can be found on Yahoo's website.



Activion is dropping Guitar hero like it haqs a bad cold. No more air guitar players.


Here is also a quick list of grammy winners
Record Of The Year

Need You Now — Lady Antebellum


Best Rap Album
Recovery — Eminem


Best New Artist
Esperanza Spalding


Song Of The Year
Need You Now — Dave Haywood, Josh Kear, Charles Kelley & Hillary Scott, songwriters (Lady Antebellum)


Best Country Album
Need You Now — Lady Antebellum


Best Pop Vocal Album
The Fame Monster — Lady Gaga


Best Rock Album
The Resistance — Muse


Best Pop Performance By A Duo Or Group With Vocals
Hey, Soul Sister (Live) — Train


Best Female Country Vocal Performance
The House That Built Me — Miranda Lambert


Album of the Year
The Suburbs — Arcade Fire

Tuesday, February 8, 2011

TECH TUESDAY: GAMING CELLPHONE


Now not only can you waste your time with Facebook you can waste more with a gaming cell phone. Now you will never finish that project at work on time.


-AL

Monday, November 29, 2010

COOL IF YOU LIKE THE OLD SCHOOL


I like old school pinball machines so this is cool. The machine takes its cues from the popular James Cameron movie with images of the planet of Pandora and the Na’vi people. The machine has a 3-D backglass with beautiful images of the mythical planet. The machine’s sound effects include an original voiceover by Stephen Lang, who plays Colonel Miles Quaritch. As the player you are Jake Sully, when you capture the pinball in the the transporter link that reveals a Jake Sully figurine thereby transforming you into his avatar. The game takes you on a journey through scenes from the movie including escaping the Thanator, fighting the Viper Wolves, and riding the Leonoptyrix. After a fierce battle with the RDA in the bumpers you face Colonel Miles Quaritch in his mechanical AMP Suit (check out a video after the jump for a look at the machine in action). Each machine will be numbered with a plaque and a certificate of authenticity. The Avatar Limited Edition machine is $5,499.

-AL

Wednesday, November 3, 2010

WOULD YOU WASTE MONEY ON THIS


Solid gold edition of the famous finance and real estate game Monopoly. The game is made of 18 karat gold and numerous gemstones, with 165 gems decorating the property squares, photo-etching on the “Chance” and “Community Chest” cards, and 42 full-cut diamonds marking the number dots on the die. The game has an estimated overall value of $2 million, with the set of dice alone worth $10,000.

The gold and jewel-encrusted Monopoly board was created by artist Sydney Mobell and is listed in the Guinness Book of Records as the world’s most expensive. It’s not for sale but is on loan from the Smithsonian Institution National Museum of Natural History for two years, and will be on display through October 2012.
Of all the things to waste money on this will not be one of them.

-AL