Recently, we reported on the revelation of Heath Ledger as the Joker in the upcoming Batman movie. The site that once showed the defaced Harvey Dent campaign poster and then the frightening image of Ledger in character, IbelieveinHarveyDentToo.com, has been updated once more. The page shows a message of “Page Not Found.” However, if you highlight the entire page, you see hidden text. Essentially its HA HA HA over and over and over again in varying font sizes and capitalization. Interspersed among the H’a and A’s are randomly inserted letters. Being the lazy person I am, I copied the entirety of the hidden text into Textpad, my text editor of choice, and did a search for H, A, a and h and replaced with a null (“”).

The results: Pgenotfound.seeYOuInDECeMbER

Who remembers Mystery Science Theatre 3000?

Ok, I don’t think I honestly need to ask that question, seeing as how if you don’t know what MST3K is, you should just surf away from this site right now. (err, no wait…come back) Anyway, for those who do remember the syndicated television show where one man and 2 robots would constantly rip on older horror and science fiction flicks like a in-film perversion of Siskel & Ebert, but regret the fact that the show no longer runs featuring some newer films to dump on, you’re in luck!

RiffTrax.com features MST3K’s Michael J. Nealson doing various movie critiques of some of the field’s more recent cinema, such as the the morse recent Star Wars Trilogy, Eragon, Casino Royale, and The Matrix – all in Mystery Science Theatre format of halarity. All you have to do is download the MP3 commentary that goes with your movie of choice, and play it at the same time as the DVD!

http://www.rifftrax.com/

Of course, there is a downside – you have to pay. Each movie MP3 is about $2-$3

So, if you’re feeling bored some night and have the money to spend for some tried-and-true funny times, then this might be right up your alley. Otherwise, you may just want to get your friends liquored up and pop in Army of Darkness or Happy Gilmore.

What do you do with the discontinued 20GB PS3? Cram it on top of the 60GB model, of course!

MSNBC reports that the new model will go on sale in South Korea this June.

Coming only days after Starcraft II was unveiled at the Blizzard Worldwide Invitational, it is completely unlikely that this ill-timed news will make a dent in the current euphoria.

There are presently no announced plans to bring this model to US shores, so for those of you extremely jealous of the Korean peninsula this week, relief will not be immediately forthcoming.

Source: MSNBC – Sony may sell 80-GB Playstation 3 in US

Today, Garbage.com posted the details of their newly announced first ‘Best Of’ album. The album will feature 17 of the bands best songs from their four album discography, in addition to a brand new single made just for the album, “Tell Me Where It Hurts”. The song will be released as a single on July 9th, with the album coming the following week. The album will feature a second cd full of remixes from some well known DJs.

In addition, Garbage will be releasing a DVD collection of 15 of the band’s music videos with behind the scenes footage, interviews and more.

The album is set for release on July 16th, 2007, while the DVD collection is set for release on July 17th, 2007.

Continue reading after the jump for the various track listings of the cds and dvds!
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Now that we’ve got a release date, Nintendo just released a new batch of screens for Metroid Prime 3: Corruption. We’ve got a new logo, some random arm shots using that grapple beam, and one group shot of the other hunters.

Hopefully some new gameplay video will show up soon.

Criminal #6
written by Ed Brubaker, art by Sean Phillips

Captain America #26 comes out this week, following up on his almighty death from last issue. Last week was the closing (of sorts) to the year-long “Rise & Fall of the Shi’ar Empire” in Uncanny X-Men. Daredevil dares to be a devil. Or so I presume. What do all of those books have in common with Criminal? Writer Ed Brubaker.

This guy is in the absolute top tier of comic writers today, and while he’s banging out some popular hits on the mainstream Marvel titles, what’s slipped under too many radars is that he’s been writing one hell of a book in Criminal. The first five issues were a single storyarc, and they were simply fantastic. The story started about a heist that went bad, and then it went worse, and then it went even worse. I cannot recommend these issues enough, and if you haven’t read them, you can buy them now for real cheap in trade paperback.

This week, we begin a new storyarc with a new main character. Phillips and Brubaker are starting (almost) over from scratch, so if you skipped the first 5, then forget it, it’s fine – you have a second chance to start fresh with this book. Here’s the promo text:

Twenty years ago, Tracy Lawless traded the crime-ridden streets of the city for a life in the military, and it’s a decision he’s rarely regretted. But now he’s walking out of the deserts of Afghanistan and Iraq and back into the world he grew up in, to find out who killed his brother Rick, and why. But truth is one of the few things uglier than family history, and the only thing Tracy has in his favor as he unravels the twisted strands of the criminal life his brother led, is that no one knows who the hell he is. And what they don’t know, just might kill them

Remember the days of oldschool games, when you just got *the game*; the regular edition as an only option, and none of these fancy frills and extra features or crazy box art and different colors – just the game?

Yeah, that doesn’t happen anymore.

Seems Rockstar announced that Grand Theft Auto 4 will also be getting a gussied-up version of the game as well. GTA: IV Special Edition will come in a safety deposit box-like cover, with a special art book and production art all bundled in, along with a CD sampler of music from the game and a Rockstar keychain. Aaaaand, dun dun dun….a duffle bag. Pre-ordering for the special edition has already commensed, at a retail value of $89.99

Grand Theft Auto 4 releases this October 16th in North America & October 19th in Europe for both PS3 and Xbox 360.

I seriously doubted they could get the game out before fall, and was betting we’d see a November release.
Now the long awaited 3rd installement in the Metroid Prime series has a release date: August 20th. Which means I better get a Wii by August 19th.

Also on August 20th, Nintendo will publish a sequel to Brain Age on DS, and many more DS and Wii titles are on the way beyond that. Sadly the list has many licensed games from movies or cartoons, but on the bright side there are only 3 Megaman games!

Keep reading for the full release list!
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