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Do you know what’s a bad idea? Free, all-you-can-drink Absinthe. Your night becomes a scene out of a Prodigy video. But, hey, we were drinking on Microsoft’s dime! And it’s not our fault they rented out the Edison for like a week. Damn you, Green Fairy and your intoxicating elixirs.

What were we talking about? Oh, E3, where all the new games coming out in the next year are assembled — and you get to play them TODAY. The best way to enjoy E3 is to have zero responsibilities, and to be like a kid in a candy shop. But it’s a lot of work setting that up! Strategically used sick days, and calls to your well connected friends in the business. Only then can you fully enjoy the top-shelf Tanqueray martini in your hand as you watch zombie pole dancers gyrate seductively at the Dead Rising 2 party.

But what about the games? Honestly, I don’t remember playing any. I’m even having trouble remembering the name of the band I saw pictured below, but I do remember liking them. I’m sure some other sites have some excellent quality gaming coverage, but again I have this thing about having zero responsibilities during E3. Welcome back, E3, you big, overblown, crazy spectacle you!

Check out our E3 2010 gallery on our Facebook page.

We got your weekend planned! UGTL and Capcom Fight Club LA!

Seth Killian warns that you should wear something you don’t mind getting “trashed”.

Place: Casitas Studios
3229 W. Casitas
Glendale, CA
Time: Friday, 8PM-12AM

Ono-san is going to be there, along with Japanese SF champion Daigo Umehara! There are even rumors of a rematch with Justin Wong!

Die Antwoord is blowing up. First Boing Boing, then Vice Magazine, now The New Yorker?!

If you don’t know about Die Antwoord, your inner zef is in need of some serious refreshing. Waddy Jones (a.k.a Ninja) and Yo-landi Vi$$er (the pixie crack-baby with the space mullet pictured below) can take care of that in a heart beat-boy.

Oh, and they just landed in LA. Enter the Ninja!

Soaked from the rain, and ears still ringing — awesome night! Got to see Nosaj Thing for the first time. Wow. Last time I heard sounds like that, Mike and I were at Womb in Shibuya.

Nosaj followed a great set by Jogger (who have an equally great shirt designed by kozyndan), and the evening was capped off by the always impressive Daedelus (who still has my copy of the Oblivion strategy guide).

kozyndan also illustrated the Magical Properties Tour poster. Way too cool.

It’s worse than I could have possibly imagined.

I think the comments say it all:

I just died a little when Kurt Cobain said “YEAH BOYYYYY”

Courtney I’d expect… but Dave? Dave I used to like you… how could you sign off on this?

i’m pretty sure Kurt, in a freebase-induced dream state, saw into the future and watched this video. then he wrote his suicide note.

What is so upsetting is that while Harmonix was “terrified” with getting the Beatles right, it appears Activison couldn’t give a flying fuck.  Imagine Paul McCartney in the clip above, then imagine the shit storm he would rain down with his legal team.

But I guess that’s what happens when your estate is left in such competent and capable hands.  At least the executors of my estate know I am to be represented digitally as a female wood elf druid upon my passing.

Actually, he wasn’t.  Wesley Willis only said that because it rhymed.  He also said suck a male camel’s dick with Hoisen sauce.  And he headbutted me.  Mike was there, and can confirm this is 100% true.  But I’m getting off topic.

Kurt Cobain is in Guitar Hero 5.  Think about that for a second.  Here’s a guy who had trouble buying himself a “fancy” new car  (it was a Lexus if you’re wondering, and he returned it two days later when his friends made fun of it) after he became rich, and now he’s fronting Activision’s 5th installment of their dying cash cow they milked one too many times.

If Kurt knew he’d be polygonally immortalized wearing a cardigan and a shirt drawn by Daniel Johnston,  I’m pretty sure he would have never touched either ever in his life.  Maybe it would have been something a little less ESRB friendly.

So who’s really behind this commercial betrayal of everything Kurt?  Frances Bean?  I doubt it.  I’m looking at you, Courtney.