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MMA News

• Huerta confirms his next fight is for a title shot
• Joanne of MMAGirls interviews Mayhem Miller
• GSP in Brazil to train jiu-jitsu full time
• Crocop vs Ralek Gracie in a special rules submission grappling match

Gaming News

• Footage of Darth Vader in Soul Calibur 4
• South Korea once again proving its gaming prowess: Wii not selling well there
• Racial mounts added to Vanguard!!
• Game reviewer gets the following memo:
  • “If the review is 9.0 or higher you can post immediately. Lower than 9.0, could you please hold until launch day, November 19th? Thanks.”

Other News

• Amazon.com’s summer blu-ray sale
• John Bolton, the former US ambassador to the United Nations, faces a citizen’s arrest when he addresses an audience at the Hay Festival in Wales
• Dunkin Donuts pulls Rachel Ray ad because someone thinks a scarf she’s wearing makes her look like an Arab
• Music piracy lands 25-year old New Yorker in jail
• International Space Station has a clogged toilet
• Miley Cyrus (Hannah Montana) continues world’s longest striptease

MMA News

• Arlovski could sign with Affliction as early at May 19th if the UFC doesn’t match the offer
• Shogun wants Liddell to wait for him
• Vote for tournament matches you want to see in DREAM
• Liddell’s trainer picks Jardine, Rampage, and Machida (all fighters that can beat Chuck, what a coincidence)
• Kenny Florian to host MMA show on ESPN.com
• Gina “The Hamburglar” Carano

Gaming News

• EA posts a net loss of $454 million for the 2008 fiscal year
• Nearly 20 million Xbox 360s sold worldwide

Other News

• Pictures from China earthquake
• The number of crimes committed by girls in England and Wales has gone up by 25% in three years
• While giving a speech in Israel, Bush compares Obama to Nazi appeasers
• California Supreme Court overturns gay marriage ban

MMA News

• Transcript of EliteXC conference call
• Roger Huerta training with George St. Pierre
• Fightmetric scoring goes over BJ Penn vs Lyoto Machida fight, stats give the fight to Penn
  • BJ Penn is fucking ridiculous

Gaming News

• Screenshots of Battlefield: Heroes
• Age of Conan passes 1 million beta signups
• A character in Age of Conan reportedly takes an average of 250 hours to hit level 80
• Guitar Hero 4 drums revealed

Other News

• Another storm headed for Myanmar 
• China earthquake death toll at 15,000; up to 26,000 believed to be buried
• Creator of Curious George reportedly upset over t-shirts referring to Obama as a monkey
• 8 year old Iraqi girl blows up in suicide attack
• John Edwards endorses Obama

MMA News

• Matt Hughes action figure: FINALLY
• Tito begins rushing to burn every bridge possible
• Some video with Gina Carano in it, I’m not going to watch it at work but whatever maybe it’ll show her eating a lot of food since I imagine that’s what she loves doing
• Ben Rothwell vs Andre Arlovski to most likely be added to the Fedor/Sylvia card in July
• Frank Mir and Big Nog officially named coaches for Ultimate Fighter

Gaming News

• New Left 4 Dead preview talks about 4v4 multiplayer
• PC game sales charts for April 20-26
• Blizzcon 2008 announced for October

Movie News

• Another comic book movie: Witchblade
• Iron Man reaches $342 million worldwide
• Master and Commander coming out soon on Blu-Ray!!

Other News

• 15 year old Miley Cyrus (Hannah Montana) offered a photoshoot for Playboy
• China gets hit by a giant damn earthquake, up to 9000 dead
• Polls show Hillary leads in West Virginia and Kentucky; polls also indicate Protoss will beat Zerg; conductors of poll quoted as saying “durr”

MMA News

• sean sherk you’re dead

Gaming News

• Tons of Wrath of the Lich King details trickle out; my notes follow!
  Other links: Curse, Gamespy, Eurogamer
  • Flying mounts usable at level 77
  • Death Knight unlocked at level 55, no level 80 unlock quest anymore
    • Death Knights get their own mount quest
    • No mana or rage, runes will refresh a la rogue energy
    • Secondary ability of Runic Power that works like rage, goes up as you do damage, abilities using this will work like Execute (use all available power, effect differs depending on how much power you have)
    • Abilities called “Presence”, basically self-only auras
  • Raiding changes: all raid instances will have both a 10 man and 25 man version, so that everyone will be able to experience all content
    • 25 man loot will be roughly half a tier better
    • 10 man raids tuned around the idea that a group will have at least 1 tank and at least 2 healers (25 man tuned for at least 3 tanks)
    • 25 and 10 versions will have different lockout timers
  • New faction: Druids for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (lol)

Movie News

• BioShock movie announced, coming from director of Pirates
• Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li to be released in February 2009

Other News

• Myanmar allows UN plane to land, then siezes all the supplies; this is what happens when you name your country after the sound a cat makes
• Myanmar death toll could be as high as 500,000
• Hezbollah declares war on Lebanon
• Nuclear missiles parade across Red Square in Russia as some fiddlefuck dictator wannabe spouts off Soviet-era rhetoric and no one cares

MMA News

• Big John McCarthy unretires, announces Diablo 3 with character classes including Iceman, Da Spyda, and Muscle Shark
• Nick Diaz is fighting this weekend!
• IFL plans to unveil a six sided ring (called “The Hex”) as their new fighting surface; sadly, this is not a joke
• Chris Leben sentenced to 35 days in jail

Gaming News

• New X-Com game likely in the works from the people who did Bioshock
• Selected Rock Band tracks on sale thanks to MTV and McDonalds
• New Starcraft 2 interview/video
• !!!BREAKING NEWS: video of Age of Conan character select screen!!!
• Lord of the Rings meets Battlefield

Movie News

• First official trailer up for Wolverine And The X-Men 

Other News

• McDonald’s same-store sales jump 5% in April; I take credit for at least 1%
• Russian parliament confirms Putin as Prime Minister; I confirm lol
• Josef Fritzl has blamed the Nazis for fostering the twisted morality which led him to imprison his daughter in a cellar for 24 years

MMA News

• UFC videogame gets tentative release date of Spring 2009

Gaming News

• Doom 4 announced
• 3 as-of-yet unannounced songs to come free with South Park Season 11 DVD
• GTA IV makes $500 million in sales in its first week

Other News

• Russia’s Medvedev takes power, pledges “freedom”
• Bullet casings linked to Marvin Harrison’s gun, someone get this scrub off the field
• Police caught on camera dragging suspects out of a car and kicking the shit out of them. Police commisioner says he doesn’t “want to rush to judgement”

MMA News

• Josh Barnett vs Pedro Rizzo at Affliction’s first show (same card as Sylvia vs Fedor)
• Nick Diaz off the DREAM 3 card this weekend
• Tito Ortiz tested for drugs and is clean; I guess he’s not trying

Gaming News

• Semi-professional Portal map pack with 40 new maps

Other News

• Myanmar cyclone death toll could reach 50,000
• Barack Obama pwning it up already and he’s not even president (YET): possible ceasefire negotiated for rebels in Niger who like attacking oil facilities
• A big shitty warmongering superpower (haha I could be talking about USA here but no), Russia, decides to start more shit in neighboring Georgia
• US criticizes Russia for their provocative actions; criticism often works well with these kinds of disputes. (see: Germany v. Poland, 1939)

MMA News

• KJ Noons thinks he’s hot shit and talks shit on Nick Diaz
• Oscar de la Hoya pulls out of his company’s deal with Affliction to co-promote MMA shows (including the Sylvia vs Fedor event)
• Mandy Moore <3 George St. Pierre
• Tito vs Machida hype video
• Miguel Torres vs Yoshihiro Maeda (WEC 34) hype video
• Tito Ortiz: “I feel like a slave.” Aww, being a millionaire must be hard!
• UFC cuts three more fighters: Din Thomas, Tommy Speer, Kuniyoshi Hironaka

Gaming News

• Rogue tanks Black Temple boss (Mother Shahraz)
• EA announces online fantasy RTS with virtual collectible cards (basically, Magic: The Gathering: The RTS)
• City of Heroes adds user generated content: player created missions, story arcs, etc
• Good news/bad news for Rock Band fans:
  Good news: Aerosmith is exclusive to Guitar Hero!
  Bad news: Aerosmith still exists

Movie News

• Iron Man does $100.75 million in ticket sales for its opening weekend
• Marvel announces a number of other comic book movies:
  Iron Man 2 (April 2010)
  Thor (June 2010)
  Captain America (May 2011)
  The Avengers, featuring Iron Man, Thor, Captain America, and the Hulk (July 2011)
  Ant-Man (no release announced)
  They also reminded everyone about The Incredible Hulk, which will be released June 13th this year.

Other News

• Spacecraft monitors storms on Saturn with lightning that is 10,000 times more powerful than on Earth
• Volcano explodes in Chile (with awesome picture)
• Approved in the 1960s by the Pentagon Joint Chiefs, Operation Northwoods even proposed blowing up a US ship, hijacking planes and killing innocent people as a false pretext for war.
• Death toll estimated between 4000 - 10,000 in Myanmar cyclone
  What is a cyclone, exactly? Pretty much just really powerful hurricanes; they are capable of generating 10 times as much energy as the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima.
• History’s Most Overlooked Mysteries
• The new mayor of Rome has promised to purge the Italian capital of 20,000 illegal immigrants and to raze 85 gypsy camps.