Oct 25

And How They Ruined the Jimmy Kimmel Experience


If you live in the LA area, you know there are plenty of opportunities to go to live tapings of sitcoms, late-night TV, and other video recording shenanigans.

One of the better diversions, especially for latecomers, is the “Jimmy Kimmel Live” taping where you could park atop the TV Guide parking structure and witness bands rock out across the way. We found out last night — while setting up to see Smashing Pumpkins perform — that the Jonas Brothers ruined that experience. Or, at least, their fans did: Continue reading »

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Sep 01

We were so jealous when we found out that record-breaking Gold-medal U.S. swimmer, Michael Phelps, got an early copy of Call of Duty: World at War a few months early, that any gamer watching likely spit out most of whatever they were eating at an unsuspecting television in front of them.

MTV got to the bottom of the story recently to let us know that, in fact, Mr. Phelps received nothing but an EMPTY box. The game, apparently, hasn’t even gone gold yet! Now, the swimmer only has his share of gold medals AND records to gloat about in our faces. No wonder he seemed unfazed at the end of the following video, he knew he was being lied to all along!


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All hating aside, though, Activision did promise to send him a copy of the game, free of charge, when it’s actually released.

Via MTV Multiplayer Blog (found through Kotaku)

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