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Facebook Founder Teams Up With Bill Gates For Charity

December 15th, 2010 By Kris Silver

Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg is apparently a really nice guy. Him and some of his nerdy mates have pledged to give all their stupidly vast fortunes away to noble causes either during their lifetimes or after their death.

Presumably this is so we all forget all the data and privacy problems Facebook has been plagued with recently, plus the way Zuckerberg was portrayed as the world's biggest bell-end in David Fincher?s film, The Social Network.

Bill Gates, the lord of the geeks and former one man bank came up with the scheme to get the obscenely wealthy to say they?ll give their billions away at some point down the line to benefit the less fortunate, with his wife Melinda and some fella named Warren Buffett (who we're reliably informed is some sort of investment banker, you know, like Chris Bates from the Apprentice).

Halo Developers Bungie Are No Slackers When It Comes To Piracy

September 8th, 2010 By Kris Silver

Bungie, the developers behind games such as Halo, Halo 2 and? erm, Halo 3 have made an announcement to all the people playing the leaked version of their latest game, Halo 4? I mean Halo: Reach.

Halo: Reach for the Stars is a first person shooter set somewhere in outer space and requires the player to climb various mountains higher and ultimately follow their heart?s desire. Okay, I may have confused the plot of the game with a song by S Club 7, but to be honest the plot is so ridiculously complex I genuinely can't be bothered going into it. In its most basic form it works like this: Man has gun, man has space suit, man go into space and shoot evil alien for arbitrary reason that serves as a plot device.

Hecklerspray At E3 ? Winners And Losers From E3

August 5th, 2012 By David Schwartz

With E3 over with for another year, I thought it was time to take stock.

Well, I have had a great time and really enjoyed trying out lots of new games.

The highlight of the trip was meeting McLovin from Superbad, but really, I have to say, my celebrity quota has been quite poor ? maybe they have actually heard of us.

In fact, the only thing I've probably caught is pig flu.

Anyway, I thought now was the time to reflect and being the bloke who does most of the lists on this site, I thought I would go through the biggest winners and losers from E3.

Hecklerspray at E3 ? Snubbed by the Beckhams

June 8th, 2009 By David Schwartz

Victoria Beckham was the last person I expected at a video games conference.

Before yesterday, I would have thought the chances of it happening were on a par with Susan Boyle doing kids? TV and Jordan saying anything out loud that doesn’t immediately make me want to hurl myself under a train.

But in she trotted with her small army of publicists and scary-looking bodyguards to have a look around the centre with her kids Brooklyn, Romeo and the other one.

Hecklerspray at E3: Rock Band: The Beatles

August 5th, 2012 By David Schwartz

Fancy playing the drums as badly as Ringo Starr?

Well, now you can, thanks to a new video game which allows you to sing, strum and drum along to your favourite Beatles tracks ? and Octopus?s Garden.

The Beatles: Rock Band was officially launched by Sir Paul McCartney and Starr at the start of E3 in Los Angeles and will be released in September.

They were even joined by Yoko Ono and Olivia Harrison, the wives of the dead half of the Fab Four, John Lennon and George Harrison.

Hecklerspray at E3: Microsoft’s New Motion Controller

August 5th, 2012 By David Schwartz

If your idea of fun is talking to your TV and jumping around your room like an arthritic monkey with an itchy bum then we have some very exciting news.

Microsoft has come up with a way to play console games without controllers.

Compatible with any Xbox 360 system, the ?Project Natal? sensor was finally given its first public outing by Microsoft at a celebrity-packed press conference, prior to E3, in which they also unveiled a strategy for making the company?s game console a gateway for movies, television and social networking.

So what does it do? Well, it's basically a piece of kit that tracks your full body movement in 3-D.

Hecklerspray At E3: Our E3 Predictions

August 5th, 2012 By David Schwartz

This week, erstwhile hecklerspray listmaker extraordinaire David Schwartz has flown out to California to cover the E3 expo. Here’s the first instalment of his E3 diary…

Five minutes in LA and I am stalking someone already ? Snoop Dogg.

He was in the same passport control queue as us and almost made the several days we spent in it worthwhile. Of course, we tried to have word with him but were soon scared off by his bodyguard, who is officially the biggest person I have ever seen (take note Norris McWhirter).

I think he ate the last journalist who had the temerity to ask Snoop a question and then flossed with his photographer.

VIDEO: Darth Vader Terrorises Microsoft

March 25th, 2009 By David Schwartz

Microsoft workers are not exactly the sharpest tools in the box.

How else can you explain why one of their customer service staffers failed to recognise someone ‘pretending’ to be Darth Vader?

The guy on the end of the phone is not even pretending to be the Dark Lord of the Sith, he’s simply playing parts of the Star Wars trilogy to him, and he still does not get it. Even the heavy breathing does not give him away.

Where has this guy been? Has he never heard of Star Wars?

Jerry Seinfeld Removes His Last Flake of Credibility. The Cost? $10 Million.

August 7th, 2012 By Ian Dransfield

Jerry Seinfeld hasn’t really had to do much since his sitcom finished all those years ago.

Still ranked by many as the ‘funniest thing ever’ and ‘really, really good’ and earning a hell of a lot of money for the people involved in it, Jerry Seinfeld obviously thought he could rest easy.

At least until a movie about a bee came about, which was clearly what he’d been waiting for all his life.

But now it seems the star of the sitcom with the bloke who drops the ‘N’ bomb on stage wants some more money – that has to be the reason, as agreeing to star in adverts for Microsoft isn’t something you do for integrity’s sake.